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Looters take electrical goods after breaking into a store during the second night of civil disturbances in central Birmingham, England. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)

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This undated image provided by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts shows a Faberge 1912 gold-and-lapis lazuli Imperial Tsesarevich Easter Egg which is part of an exhibit titled "Faberge Revealed" at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

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Professor Aren Maeir of Bar Ilan University says the findings at Tel el-Safi support the idea that the Goliath story faithfully reflects the often violent interaction of the powerful Philistines of Gath with the kings of Jerusalem.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Volunteers and archaeologists work at the excavation site in Tel el-Safi, Israel, where they have unearthed the remains of an ancient metropolis. The city of Gath, where this year's digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites.

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The depiction of Thylane Loubry Blondeau, 10, on the cover of French Vogue has been slammed as unsuitable for one so young. (Vogue)

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Specialists Donald Vaneck (center) and Robert Tuccillo work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 9, 2011. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A small memorial sits next to a mailbox post near the scene of Sunday's shooting deaths in Copley, Ohio, on Monday. A man shot two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead, including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said.

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"Contrary to what the FOP asserts, the ruling was not a directive to discontinue All Hands on Deck. The decision is limited to the 2009 AHODs and thus has no impact on any of the other AHODs." - Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier in a statement issued Monday.

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The race between Jaime Areizaga-Soto (shown) and Barbara Favola to succeed state Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple is increasingly heated. (Photograph provided by Jaime Areizaga-Soto)

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Talia Jackson, 6, of the District, gets some air as she shoots out of the water slide at the Rollingcrest-Chillum Splash Pool, in Hyattsville on Monday. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, widely seen as a potentially successful French presidential candidate before his May 14 arrest, was pulled off a plane and detained hours after Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo reported she was attacked.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A statue of the Jedi master Yoda at Lucasfilm Ltd.'s headquarters in San Francisco is one of many special sites visited by "Star Wars" fans from around the globe. Other locations include a desert in Tunisia and a Tuscan lakefront villa.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Ed Artis, program director of First Tee of Prince George's County, addresses new member at Enterprise Golf Course, in Mitchelville, Md. Below left, Artis works with Nicholas Babb, 12, of Mitchelville on swing technique. At right, life skills, including confidence, responsibility and sportsmanship are stressed to the members, whose ages range from 7 to 18.

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In this CD cover image released by Capitol Records Nashville, the latest release by Luke Bryan, "Tailgates & Tanlines," is shown. (AP Photo/Capitol Records Nashville)

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** FILE ** Warren Jeffs (center) is taken into the side entrance of the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/San Angelo Standard-Times)

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Local inhabitants view the shell of a burnt-out car in Enfield, north London, on Aug. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at the annual Fancy Farm Picnic, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in Fancy Farm, Ky. (AP Photo/Daniel R. Patmore)

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Members of the Akron Police Department talk to an unidentified woman who claimed to be a relative at the scene of a multiple fatal shooting Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 in Copley, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7. 2011. A family argument in the Akron suburb ended in the shooting deaths of eight people in two places, including an 11-year-old, and two more people were wounded, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Akron Beacon Journal, Karen Schiely)