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A man works in the ruins of a building in Port-au-Prince damaged by an earthquake. The government is giving wage earners access to credit at a preferential rate for 10 years to enable them to buy or construct a home. (Associated Press)
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Rescue team members work at the site of a pleasure boat sinking in Moscow on July 31, 2011. (Associated Press)
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A float plane sits on the side of the runway at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage Alaska after making an emergency landing on July 30, 2011. The plane collided mid-air with a Cessna 180 in the Trapper Creek area. The Cessna 180 crashed to the ground and burned, killing at least two people on board, authorities said. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** More than seven months after being put on the season-ending injured reserve list, Washington Redskins safety LaRon Landry (30) remains on the sidelines with his Achilles' tendon injury. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano inspects the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear-power plant in northeastern Japan earlier this week. Mr. Amano, on a weeklong trip to Japan, said that the nation's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant is steadily making progress to recover from the March disaster triggered by an earthquake. (Associated Press)
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Adam Ibrahim from Somalia is comforted by his father, Abdulle Ibrahim, after treatment at the International Rescue Committee in Kenya on Thursday. Al-Shabab militants have killed men who tried to escape famine with their families.
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D.C. United will play the San Jose Earthquakes on the road Saturday. The team has a 3-3-3 record on the road and a 2-3-5 one at home. (Associated Press)
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The main level of the Carnegie Place model can have a family room in the rear of the home. The model has 2,413 feet and is priced from $359,990.
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NVHomes is building 81 town homes at Fairwood in Bowie. The homes have 2,222 to 2,413 finished square feet, with base prices from $299,990 to $359,990.
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The Carnegie Place model at Fairwood has a choice of a country kitchen or a kitchen and family room at the back of the main level. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two full baths and a laundry room.
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The kitchen in the Kent model has a 7-foot center island, 42-inch birch cabinets and a pass-through to the family room.
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** FILE ** This is a Thursday, May 26, 2011, file photo of people walking by Sony Building in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company reports fiscal first quarter earnings Thursday, July 28, that are expected to reflect a gradual recovery, despite the damage from the March earthquake and an embarrassing online security breach. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
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Hassan Mohamud (left) and Mohamed Hassan are spearheading a relief effort in the Minneapolis area for drought-stricken Somalia. The two men are part of an ad hoc committee that is working with the American Refugee Committee to raise money and collect supplies. "Because of my relationship to the people of Somalia back home ... I cannot afford to sit back and watch people go through these experiences," Mr. Hassan said. (Associated Press)
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South Korean soldiers remove mud on the street after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Seoul, South Korea, on July 27, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Washington Redskins safety Oshiomogho Atogwe (center) enjoys a light moment working out with former St. Louis Rams safeties Corey Chavous (left) and Aeneas Williams at a high school in St. Charles, Mo. (Sid Hastings/Special To The Washington Times)
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Associated Press Lawyer Hector Pineiro holds a photograph of a Kahr Arms handgun in Worcester, Mass., at the Aug. 15, 2002, announcement of a lawsuit against the gun maker in connection with the December 1999 fatal shooting of Danny Guzman. A settlement of the case was announced Tuesday.
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A New York magazine claims New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Roger Ailes "have a relationship" and dined together. (New Jersey Governor's Office)
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Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (center) talks at a hotel in Sundvolden, Norway, with survivors and grieving relatives of the victims of a horrific killing spree on an idyllic island retreat. (Associated Press)
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Firefighters try to estinguish flames at Tiburtina station, one of Rome's railway stations, Sunday July 24, 2011. A blaze forced cancellation or long delays for trains along the nation's major north-south routes passing through the capital. (AP Photo/Angelo Corconi)
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Emergency workers and people work to help passengers from the wreckage of train after two carriages from a high-speed train derailed and fell off a bridge in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Saturday, July 23, 2011. (AP Photo)
