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UK: Storm Bert Triggers Severe Flooding Across England And Wales

Storm Bert struck England and Wales on Saturday, November 23, bringing heavy rain, power outages, and traffic disruptions, while triggering severe flooding in multiple regions. Over 100 flood warnings were issued across the UK.

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(SP)FRANCE-MARSEILLE-2024 PARIS OLYMPIC FLAME-LANDING

(240509) -- MARSEILLE, May 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Torch carrier Florent Manaudou, France's 2012 Olympic men's 50m freestyle swimming champion, carries the Olympic flame of Paris 2024 on the three-masted ship Belem at the Vieux-Port (Old Port) during a ceremony in Marseille, southern France, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Julien Mattia/Xinhua)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 29, 2024 shows an interior view of the Experience Center of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A worker moves goods at the Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A worker loads goods onto a truck at the Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 29, 2024 shows a storehouse at Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary . Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A worker loads goods onto a truck at the Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A man shops at the Experience Center of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) in Budapest, Hungary, on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 29, 2024 show a storehouse at Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 29, 2024 shows the Experience Center of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A worker moves goods at the Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member is about to enter the office building at Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary, on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A worker operates at the Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 29, 2024 shows a storehouse at Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary . Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman shops at the Experience Center of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) in Budapest, Hungary, on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRADE & LOGISTICS COOPERATION ZONE

(240508) -- BUDAPEST, May 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Workers move goods at the Csepel Freeport Logistics Park of the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 2024. Founded in 2012, the Central European Trade and Logistics Cooperation Zone (CECZ) is a major trade hub that facilitates trade cooperation between Hungarian and Chinese companies and also between China and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC). (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)

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Australian cash rate hits record-high 3.6 pct since May 2012

STORY: Australian cash rate hits record-high 3.6 pct since May 2012 DATELINE: March 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sydney 2. various of the Reserve Bank of Australia STORYLINE: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided to lift the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 3.6 percent, while the interest rate on Exchange Settlement balances jumped by 25 basis points to 3.5 percent. This is the 10th consecutive rate hike since May of last year when the RBA announced the first 25-basis-point increase. The central bank's new decision for a 25-basis-point lift also took the cash rate to its highest level since May 2012. Following an RBA board meeting on Tuesday, the bank's Governor Philip Lowe said in a statement that high inflation makes life difficult for people and damages the functioning of the economy. "And if high inflation were to become entrenched in people's expectations, it would be very costly to reduce later, involving even higher

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - A bus believed to be carrying Naoko Kikuchi arrives at the Tokyo District Court on May 8, 2014. The trial of Kikuchi, one of the three former AUM Shinrikyo cult members arrested in 2012 after being on the run for 17 years, began that day at the court.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (L) and Nobuyori Kodaira, an executive vice president, attend a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toshiba's profit rises 10%

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kubo, senior managing director of Toshiba Corp., releases the company's earnings report for fiscal 2012 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013. Toshiba's group net profit for the year to March 31, 2013, rose 10.7 percent from the previous year to 77.53 billion yen despite a 4.9 percent fall in sales to 5.8 trillion yen.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda ends a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, held to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, held to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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Matsuzaka wins 1st game of season, 50th in bigs

BOSTON, United States - The Boston Red Sox's Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches during a game against the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park in Boston on Aug. 27, 2012. Matsuzaka returned to the majors in style, working seven innings in the Red Sox's 5-1 win. The victory was Matsuzaka's 50th in the big leagues and his first since May 8, 2011.

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Oki's Spanish subsidiary pads accounts

TOKYO, Japan - Hideichi Kawasaki, president of Oki Electric Industry Co., holds a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2012. Oki said the same day it may be unable to release its consolidated results for the April-June quarter by the legally set deadline after finding its Spanish subsidiary running a printer business, Oki Systems Iberica S.A.U., has padded sales figures.

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China's consumer prices up 2.2% in June

BEIJING, China - Customers buy bargain sale vegetables at a supermarket in Beijing on July 8, 2012. Government data showed on July 9, 2012, that China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.2 percent in June from the same month a year earlier, slowing from 3.0 percent in May.

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Kiribati people in fear of submergence

TARAWA, Kiribati - A revetment to prevent submergence is seen around the ruins of an 8-inch cannon abandoned by the former Japanese military in Tarawa, Kiribati, in May 2012. The South Pacific island nation is considered particularly vulnerable to global climate change.

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'Faster-than-light' claim for subatomic particles withdrawn

KYOTO, Japan - A researcher of the international team OPERA gives a presentation of verification experiments at an international conference in Kyoto on June 8, 2012. The research group retracted its claim that subatomic particles known as neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light, following its own verification experiment in May which did not support the assertion.

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Ultraman-themed convenience store

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese convenience store chain operator Lawson Inc. on May 31, 2012, unveils to the press a new "Ultraman" superhero-themed outlet in Shanghai, China, ahead of its opening on June 8. The Japanese superhero is popular in China where the "Ultraman" TV program was broadcast.

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Iwakuma picks up 1st career save

ARLINGTON, Texas - The Seattle Mariners' Hisashi Iwakuma pitches during a game against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on May 30, 2012. Iwakuma recorded the first save of his professional career in the game, when he allowed three runs in the final three innings of his team's 21-8 win.

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Iwakuma picks up 1st career save

ARLINGTON, Texas - The Seattle Mariners' Hisashi Iwakuma pitches during a game against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on May 30, 2012. Iwakuma recorded the first save of his professional career in the game, when he allowed three runs in the final three innings of his team's 21-8 win.

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Aoki goes 1-for-3, scores two runs in Brewers win

MILWAUKEE, United States - Norichika Aoki of the Milwaukee Brewers hits an infield single to first during the second inning of a game against the San Francisco Giants at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 23, 2012. Aoki recorded a single, a stolen base and scoffed twice in his team's 8-5 win.

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Nikkei ends lowest since Jan. 18

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the Nikkei Stock Average finishing at 8,556.60 on May 23, 2012, its lowest closing since Jan. 18, when it ended at 8,550.58.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:31 a.m. on May 22, 2012, shows Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, prior to its opening the same day.

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Tokyo Skytree opens

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:31 a.m. on May 22, 2012, shows Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, prior to its opening the same day.

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Solar eclipse

TOKYO, Japan - A sequence of photos taken in Tokyo's Sumida Ward between 6:31 a.m. and 8:27 a.m. on May 21, 2012, show the occurrence of an annular solar eclipse. An annular solar eclipse was observed in many areas of Japan the same day.

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Kyokutenho wins summer basho

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian-born Kyokutenho (back) sends Tochiozan sprawling with a smackdown in a playoff at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 20, 2012, the final day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. The No. 7 maegashira became the oldest wrestler in the modern era to win his career first title at 37 years, 8 months.

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Kyokutenho wins summer basho

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian-born Kyokutenho (L) sends Tochiozan sprawling with a smackdown in a playoff at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 20, 2012, the final day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. The No. 7 maegashira became the oldest wrestler in the modern era to win his career first title at 37 years, 8 months.

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London Olympic torch relay starts at Land's End

LAND'S END, Britain - British Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie carries a torch for the London Olympics as the starter of about 8,000 torchbearers at Land's End, Britain, on May 19, 2012.

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Tokyo stocks nosedive

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard at a securities company in Tokyo's Yaesu district shows May 18, 2012, the closing level of the day of the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average at 8,611.31, down 265.28 points, or 2.99 percent, from the previous day. Amid global stock sell-offs, the Nikkei index dropped to its lowest level in about four months, posting its largest single-day percentage decline this year.

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Kisenosato retains lead at summer basho

TOKYO, Japan - Ozeki Kisenosato (R) beats rival ozeki Kotoshogiku on the ninth day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 14, 2012, and remains tied for the lead with rank-and-filer Tochiozan with 8-1 records.

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Syria unrest

HOMS, Syria - Members of a U.N. truce-monitoring team exchange greetings in front of a hotel in Homs, Syria, on May 8, 2012.

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Syria unrest

DAMASCUS, Syria - Cars carrying members of a U.N. truce-monitoring team leave a U.N. office in Damascus, Syria, on May 8, 2012.

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Syria unrest

HOMS, Syria - Members of a U.N. truce-monitoring team await their departure in front of a hotel in Homs, Syria, on May 8, 2012.

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, a Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8.

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows the outside of an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8.

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Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - Photo taken on May 9, 2012, shows the outside of an apartment building where Koichiro Morita, Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lived in Santiago, Chile. Morita was found collapsed on May 7 outside the building and later confirmed dead at a hospital, the NAOJ said on May 8.

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SYRIZA leader Tsipras

ATHENS, Greece - Alexis Tsipras (2nd from L), leader of Greece's radical left coalition SYRIZA, walks out of Greek President Karolos Papoulias' office after their meeting in Athens on May 8, 2012.

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4 homers in a game

BALTIMORE, United States - Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton hits his fourth home run during the eighth inning of a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 8, 2012.