Bostan Khanr, who is fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, waits for a medical check up, at the Army Field Camp Hospital for internally displaced persons (IDPs), in Dera Ismail Khan, located in Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

A 32-metre (105 feet) statue of late Chairman Mao Zedong in his youth is seen under construction in Changsha, Hunan province, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

A member of the Philadelphia 76ers “Hare Raisers” grabs the ball to dunk in between periods of the Philadelphia 76ers versus the Boston Celtics NBA game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer

A man wearing a mask is reflected in the mirror window as he leaves a shop in the centre of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

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