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People in Kazakhstan have posted more than 1,500 images of bad parking on city streets on the website oselparking.kz, including SUVs parked snugly in the middle of narrow streets or left on sidewalks, saloons stretched out to block in three parked cars at once, and a stretch limousine jutting out across an entire lane of traffic. (oselparking.kz)

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People in Kazakhstan have posted more than 1,500 images of bad parking on city streets on the website oselparking.kz, including SUVs parked snugly in the middle of narrow streets or left on sidewalks, saloons stretched out to block in three parked cars at once, and a stretch limousine jutting out across an entire lane of traffic. (oselparking.kz)

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Officials stand underneath a bridge where part of a CSX freight train derailed on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, in Ellicott City, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Panama border police load boats with equipment and supplies to begin patrolling in the Darien province on the border with Colombia. Panama's Public Safety Minister Jose Murillo says that the movement of people from Asia and Africa has tapered off but that hundreds of Cubans are now taking the arduous Darien Gap route toward the United States. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

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Baby alligator gather on a log in a holding tank minutes after they were hatched at Gatorama's "Alligator Hatching Fesitval" . The animal park got 3,233 alligator eggs from this year's harvest of more than 37,000 eggs gathered by state sponsored hunters. In the wild only two percent of the gators will mature but at the park 98% will mature. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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A baby alligator emerges from its shell, minutes after it was hatched. The animal park got 3,233 alligator eggs from this year's harvest of more than 37,000 eggs gathered by state sponsored hunters. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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A baby alligator merges from its egg shell as it is hatched at Gatorama's "Alligator Hatching Festival" Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 near Palmdale, Fla. Gatorama officials said it was a very good year for eggs. Visitors to the park can hold a egg in their hands and watch the baby gator being hatched. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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Breanna Smith holds a baby alligator minutes after it emerged from its shell at Gatorama's "Alligator Hatching Festival" Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 near Palmdale, Fla. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas throws during practice Aug. 7, 2012, in Blacksburg, Va.(Associated Press via The Roanoke Times)

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Customers look over local weekly journals at a shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, the day the government abolished direct censorship of the media. The move allows some freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation, but it does not leave reporters and editors free from reprisals. (Associated Press)

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A tow truck operator slowly removes a Ride On bus that crashed into a home in the 9400 block of Avenel Road in Silver Spring, Md. on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. No one in the home was hurt. Nine people from the bus, including the bus driver, are being evaluated for injuries. Homeowner Femi Olamide, who was arriving home at the time, says he saw that the bus was not going to stop at the stop sign and got back into his car. The bus sped past him and crashed into his home. "I grabbed my Bible [which was on the seat of my car,] and said, 'Thank you, God,' " he says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)