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Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld released a large cache of unclassified documents relating to his decades-long government career. (Associated Press)
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Actress Lindsay Lohan (center) arrives Wednesday at the LAX Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles to be arraigned on a felony grand theft charge over a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from an upscale jewelry store. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this March 30, 2010, file photo, Khaled el-Masri waits for the verdict in a courtroom of the court in Memmingen, southern Germany. In the years since the Sept. 11 attacks, CIA officers who committed serious mistakes that left people wrongly imprisoned or even dead have received only minor admonishments or no punishment at all, according to an Associated Press investigation. (AP Photo/dapd, Felix Kaestle, File)
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The court sits in a lawsuit filed by Khaled el-Masri against Macedonia, in Macedonia's capital Skopje on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. El-Masri, a German man who says he was snatched by the CIA in Macedonia and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan after being mistaken for a terrorism suspect, begun a legal battle against Macedonia Friday to demand official recognition of his ordeal. El-Masri was not present at the court. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
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Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a press conference following a cabinet meeting at Rome's Chigi palace, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Italian prosecutors requested Wednesday that Berlusconi stand trial over accusations he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan and then used his influence to try to cover it up. He called the action against him "disgusting'' and "a farce.'' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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This Feb. 8, 2011, photo provided by the Greenville (S.C.) County Detention Center, shows Jessica Blackham, the Easley, S.C., woman arrested Tuesday and charged with child abuse after authorities say her newborn infant was found in the toilet of an arena in downtown Greenville, S.C. The baby had hypothermia and was taken to a hospital, where he was listed as improving late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Greenville County Detention Center)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 9, 2011, file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Los Angeles Lakers New York Knicks NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. Prosecutors say they plan to charge Lohan on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, with felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File)
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FILE- This file photo dated Nov. 10, 2010, showing Miriam O'Reilly as she arrives at her employment tribunal in London where she claims she was a victim of sex and age discrimination by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). O'Reilly went on to win her ageism case against the BBC and they have apologized and said it would introduce new guidance procedures for its presenters. One colleague offered O'Reilly hair dye, another told her "it's time for botox." and a third said her wrinkles could be a problem in this new era of high-definition TV, as she presented the rural affairs BBC TV show Countryfile and was dropped from the show so she decided to fight the BBC for her job. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES
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Sled dogs pull tourists through the Soo Valley north of Whistler on Jan. 31 during a ride by Howling Dog Tours. Police are investigating the April killing of 100 of the company's dogs. (Associated Press)
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A march through the village of Whistler, British Columbia, on Saturday protests the slaughter of 100 sled dogs owned by Howling Dog Tours Whistler. The owner's claim that the dogs were old and sick is challenged. (Associated Press)
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An empty gurney gives a condemned inmate's view of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in California. A federal judge who shut down the death chamber five years ago returned Tuesday with officials, reporters and photographers to inspect it again. (Associated Press)
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Carlos Mario Gonzalez, 16, who was a sophomore at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas, was one of three U.S. students who were killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, outside a car dealership across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Cathedral High School)
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** FILE ** Luis Posada Carriles talks to a reporter in Miami in November 2010. Mr. Posada, 82, is accused of lying under oath to federal officials during immigration hearings in El Paso and faces 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his war crimes trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)
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Pakistani villagers carry the body of Shumaila Kanwal, the widow of a Pakistani man allegedly shot and killed by a U.S. official, for burial in Chak Chumra, near Faisalabad, Pakistan, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Mrs. Kanwal committed suicide by taking insecticides, saying she was driven to act by fears that the American would be freed without trial. (AP Photo/Khalil-ur-Rehman)
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An Afghan policeman runs to the scene of an explosion in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Police say the bomb exploded in a crowded intersection, but there were no reports of any fatalities. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 file photo of convicted murderer Amanda Knox from the US as she is escorted by penitentiary police officers during a break in the trial at the court in Perugia, central Italy, The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher is criticizing a U.S. television re-enactment for depicting alleged scenes of his daughter's murder in the Italian city of Perugia. The Lifetime movie is based on the trial that followed Meredith Kercher's stabbing death on Nov. 1, 2007 a killing for which Kercher's roommate, University of Washington student Amanda Knox, was found guilty, along with two men. They have all proclaimed their innocence. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
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In this unndated handout photo provided by US channel Lifetime Entertainment Services on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, actress Hayden Panettiere portrays US student Amanda Knox in the made for TV film about the murder of British student, Meredith Kercher. A trailer for the film will air on US channel Lifetime on Feb, 21. 2011. The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher is criticizing a U.S. television re-enactment for depicting alleged scenes of his daughter's murder in the Italian city of Perugia.The Lifetime movie is based on the trial that followed Meredith Kercher's stabbing death on Nov. 1, 2007 a killing for which Kercher's roommate, University of Washington student Amanda Knox, was found guilty, along with two men. They have all proclaimed their innocence. (AP Photo/Lifetime Entertainment Services. PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE EDITORIAL USE ONLY - PHOTOGRAPH CAN NOT BE STORED OR USED FOR MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION
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FILE - This is an undated file photo released by the Italian Police of 22-year-old murdered British university student Meredith Kercher, The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher is criticizing a U.S. television re-enactment for depicting alleged scenes of his daughter's murder in the Italian city of Perugia. The Lifetime movie is based on the trial that followed Meredith Kercher's stabbing death on Nov. 1, 2007 a killing for which Kercher's roommate, University of Washington student Amanda Knox, was found guilty, along with two men. They have all proclaimed their innocence. (AP Photo/Italian Police, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Pakistanis demonstrate in front of the presidential residence in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, to condemn a U.S. Embassy employee suspected in a shooting incident that killed two Pakistanis. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
