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IN PICS: News of the world Aug 5
US President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attend a joint press conference at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea. Bush is on an Asian tour visiting South Korea and Thailand before attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. (Getty Images)
Customers shop at a TJ Maxx store in La Canada, California. The Justice Department has charged 11 people with stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers of customers shopping at TJX Companies, which owns the Marshall’s and TJ Maxx chains, and other major retailers by hacking into their computers. The information was then allegedly sold to people who used it to steal tens of thousands of dollars at a time from accounts through automated teller machines in the US and Europe. It is one of the biggest identity-theft cases on record. Charges against the suspects, who are from the US, China, Ukraine, Belarus, and Estonia, include computer fraud, wire fraud, access-device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy. (Getty Images)
Bernann Mckinney, a pet owner holds her pit bull terrier cloned dogs at the Seoul National University, South Korea. RNL Bio Co. announced that the firm had successfully cloned pet dog ‘Booger’ which died in April 2006. Five clones were born from the cells of the ‘Booger’. (Getty Images)
Patrick Petkus works to remove a fallen tree branch from a friend’s van in Chicago, Illinois. A powerful thunderstorm downed trees, damaged homes and left 250,000 people without power as it moved through the Chicago area. (Getty Images)
A man retrieves loaves of bread from an oven at the Bread Factory in London, England. Many bakeries are feeling the pinch with the rising cost of wheat being a major factor. (Getty Images)
The body of Russian dissident writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn lies in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow, Russia. Russia is mourning Solzhenitsyn whose critical literature drew on his eight years in the Soviet Gulag prison system and provoked the totalitarian authorities to withdraw his citizenship. (Getty Images)
People look for jobs as they visit the Nabisco booth set up at a job fair put on by Jobing.com at the Broward County Convention Centre in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent in July, its highest level in more than four years. (Getty Images)
Fire officers guide a stretcher during an exercise at Heathrow Airport’s fire station in London. The newly opened facility will house some of the airport’s 108 dedicated fire officers. It replaces a 30-year-old station which will be demolished to enable the construction of the new Heathrow East terminal. (Getty Images)
Peter Gotti leaves his brother John ‘Junior’ Gotti’s trial at the Federal Court House in New York City. John ‘Junior’ Gotti is facing federal conspiracy charges including murder, according to authorities. (Getty Images)
