Kahanamoku Beach, Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii

Almost everyone has heard of Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, which is surely one of the world's most beaches, with a location just steps from Honolulu's busy streets. Waikiki is actually a two-mile stretch with nine individually named beaches. Kahanamoku Beach is at the north end, near the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort.

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Spotlight on Democrats' nominee

Sen. Barack Obama walks toward daughters Malia and Sasha and wife Michelle after accepting the party's nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28, in Denver.
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McCain concedes to Obama

Swirl of optimism for Clinton

Sen. Hillary Clinton celebrates in Columbus, Ohio, on election night after winning Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island on March 4. In the end, Clinton was not able to overcome Barack Obama's lead in delegates.
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Future voters in South Carolina

Close call in Afghanistan

Casualty of Iraq buried in Texas

The casket of Cpl. Joshua Alexander Molina, 20, is taken from St. Matthews Episcopal Church to Houston National Cemetery on April 8. Molina died five days before in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds from an explosion. He was assigned to the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.
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Lehman Brothers executive heckled

Debris jams bridge in Iowa flooding

Fire strikes before storm hits Texas

Tears of pain for quake survivor

Rubble reveals China quake victim

A body lies in the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, China, on May 13. About 70,000 people were killed by the May 12 earthquake and its aftershocks, and millions of people were left homeless.
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Family mourns China's dead

Student killed in China quake

The body of a student is carried from the debris of the collapsed Juyuan Middle School on May 13, in Juyuan Township, in Dujiangyan in southwest China's Sichuan province. Tens of thousands of people were killed in the May 12 quake, many of them children who died in collapsed schools.
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Chinese flee landslide in quake

People flee a massive landslide during an aftershock on May 17, in Lixian County in China's Sichuan province. The aftershock occurred five days after the country's worst earthquake in 58 years; about 70,000 people were killed in the May 12 quake and its aftershocks.
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Shaking up a Quebec zoo

A polar bear sends water droplets flying as it shakes at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec, Canada, on March 6.
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Bird meets its double in Germany

A blue tit comes beak to beak with its reflection through raindrops in a car's rearview mirror in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Feb. 29.
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Indian villager collects lily seeds

Volcano lights up southern Chile

Festival is a Bucharest blast

Kansas barn stormin'

Goslings cuddle up in Oregon

Tossed to safety in Germany

Surrender in Comoros battle

An injured man is arrested by Comoran soldiers and African Union soldiers from Tanzania after the soldiers shot rockets into his house in Mutsamudu, the second-largest city in the Comoros islands, on March 25. The soldiers were battling rebels on the island of Anjouan.
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Congolese face desperate journey

A man and two children head north from the city of Kibati to their village in Congo on Nov. 2. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced in fighting between rebels and government troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Brazilian peasants evicted

A woman tries to resist Amazonas state policemen who expelled her and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from privately owned land on the outskirts of Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon on March 11. The peasants fought with bows and arrows against tear gas and trained dogs.
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Bloody seal hunt in Canada

A blood trail from a harp seal is left after sealers loaded carcasses from an ice floe off the coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia on March 31. Canada's fisheries agency estimated the harp seal population at 5.9 million, more than triple what it was in the 1970s.
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Hostages held in Venezuelan bank

Hostages inside a branch of the Banco Provincial in Altagracia de Orituco, Venezuela, plead for help Jan. 29. After a botched robbery the previous day, four armed men held more than 30 people for more than 24 hours. They surrendered after fleeing the bank in an ambulance.
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Deadly jet crash in Congo

People rush for water to fight a blaze started when a plane crashed in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 15. Nearly 50 people died when the DC-9 plane plowed into a market, but almost all the casualties were on the ground.
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Flood fun follows tropical storm

Lena Davis, 5, swims in the water surrounding her home in Chauvin, La., on Aug. 4. The storm surge from Tropical Storm Edouard put almost 2 feet of water in her front yard. Storms caused substantial damage along the U.S. Gulf Coast during the 2008 hurricane season.
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Turf war?

A vicious fight for dominance between two Cape grey squirrels is seen at a campground at Etosha National Park in Namibia on Dec. 5. A colony of the squirrels, which are poor tree climbers so tend to live below ground in burrows, ventured to the surface to forage for food.
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Dutch children vaccinated

Hurricane casualties in Texas

Dead fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters from Hurricane Ike recede in West Orange, Texas, on Sept. 15. Ike killed more than 80 people in the United States and caused severe damage in Galveston and nearby towns and cities.
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Striking a pose in Ukraine

Big chill: Snow hits Jordan

Jordanians take advantage of a rare snowfall to have some fun in Amman on Jan. 31. A heavy snowstorm blanketed Jordan the night before, closing schools and stores, halting public transportation and turning men into kids for the moment.
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Hooping it up in Florida

Brief pause in Gaza border tension

This Israel soldier was among those deployed Feb. 25, in a wheat field along the border with Gaza. Israel deployed thousands of police and troops against the threat of a mass penetration of Palestinian protesters from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
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Violence breaks out in Kenya

A man suspected of trying to vandalize a store is held after being beaten by private guards in Nakuru, Kenya, on Jan. 26. Hundreds of people were killed and hundreds of thousands were left homeless by rioting and tribal killings sparked by a disputed presidential election.
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Palestinian protesters gassed

Tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers on May 27, envelops Palestinian protesters taking cover behind an olive tree in the West Bank village of Nilin. The protest was over the separation barrier that Israel is building and says is necessary for security. Palestinians call it a land grab.
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Russian bombing kills 5 in Georgia

A Georgian man holds the body of a relative after a Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in Gori, 50 miles from Tbilisi, on Aug. 9. At least five people were killed. In August, Georgia and Russia fought a short war over the region known as South Ossetia.
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