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BANGALORE INDIA : Former captain of the Indian cricket team, Kapil
Dev (L), hits a tennis ball as young cricketers look on during a training
camp in Bangalore, 17 August 2002. Dev, elected the Wisden Indian
Crickter of the Century, was in the city to promote a street cricket
competition called "Gully Cricket". AFP PHOTO |
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| KHEDAITOLA,
WEST BENGAL INDIA : An Indian man holds a smaller snake with his teeth
to charm a cobra during the "Goddess of Snake" Festival in Khedaitola,
17 August 2002, some 100 kms north of Calcutta. Indian police seized
more than 5,000 snake skins in the southern city of Madras from a
dealer who is known as one of the kingpins of the illegal trade of
animal parts. AFP PHOTO |
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BUDAPEST HUNGARY : The flood water is running at the bank of the Danube
river in 13rd district of Budapest, near downtown, 17 August 2002
as German, Austrian and Slovakian rivers to break its banks by a current
water level of 800 cms. (On background: Buda Castle with Fisher bastion,
Matthias church). AFP PHOTO |
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| CAIRO
EGYPT : An Egyptian nurse stands near to newly born quintuplets at
a Cairo hospital 17 August 2002. Egyptian Schoolteacher Amal Yussuf
Tulba (31), a mother of eight and six-year old sons, gave birth to
three boys and two girls named Dai, Dina, Abdulrahman, Mustafa and
Yussuf. (FILM) AFP PHOTO |
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MANILA PHILIPPINES : A commuter travels in a home-made Easy Rider-type
motorcycle, powered by a recycled outboard boat motor along a street
in Manila, 17 August 2002. Many Filipinos find ways of improvising
with second-hand or cast-off materials. AFP PHOTO |
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