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A German woman wearing a traditional Black Forest costume casts her ballot during the country's general election (Bundestagswahl) at the polling station in Gutach, in the southern German Black Forest region September 27, 2009. Germans began voting on Sunday in an election that looks likely to return Chancellor Angela Merkel to power but may deny her the centre-right government she says is needed to revive Europe's largest economy.South Korean Kim Won-sook, left, gives food to his North Korean son Kim Soo Il during a luncheon meeting on the Diamond Mountain in North Korea, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. More than 120 South Koreans, most in their 70s or older, arrived in Saturday the Diamond Mountain resort on North Korea's east coast on Saturday for the reunions, according to the Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean affairs.Soldiers from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 3rd brigade of 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, New York, search for IEDs (improvised explosive device) laid by the Taliban near the village of Sha Mazar in Logar province September 26, 2009. Picture taken September 26, 2009.Hiroko Sadakane (53), Ayuko Ito (51) and Biba Sakurai of Japan celebrate their silver medal after the women's 3000 metres relay final race at the ISU World Cup Short Track speed skating competitions in Seoul September 27, 2009.Patriarch Abuna Paulos, the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, attends the Meskel Ethiopian Orthodox Churches' annual religious celebration to commemorate the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (Saint Helena) in the fourth century, in Addis Ababa September 26, 2009. The Meskel festival commemorates what the church believes is the finding of the True Cross on which Jesus Christ of Nazareth was crucified in Gologotha. Church chronicles has it that the Ethiopian monarch Zara Yacob brought the remains of the cross to Ethiopia in the 15th century. The Meskel festival is one of the landmark events in the Ethiopia culture and spiritual life. Picture taken on September 26, 2009.Rehabilitated African Penguins in boxes await their release at Boulders beach breeding colony in Cape Town September 26, 2009. The release formed part of a national 'African Penguin Day' event organised by SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). SANCCOB specializes in the conservation and rehabilitation of endangered birds that are either abandoned chicks, injured birds or birds that have been affected by oil spillages. Picture taken September 26, 2009.Rehabilitated African Penguins in boxes await their release at Boulders beach breeding colony in Cape Town September 26, 2009. The release formed part of a national 'African Penguin Day' event organised by SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). SANCCOB specializes in the conservation and rehabilitation of endangered birds that are either abandoned chicks, injured birds or birds that have been affected by oil spillages. Picture taken September 26, 2009.Members of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party clad with T-shirts bearing a white star and fighting peacock, a trademark of the NLD, as they line up to welcome guests during the party's 21st founding anniversary celebration at the party's headquarters Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009, in Yangon, MyanmarMembers of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party, sell the portraits of Suu Kyi, during the celebration of the party's 21st anniversary, at their headquarters Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009, in Yangon, MyanmarTOKYO - SEPTEMBER 27: Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and Ai Sugiyama of Japan celebrate after their doubles match against Vania King of the USA and Jie Zheng of China during day one of the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on September 27, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan hits a return to Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain during their final match at the Korea Open Tennis championship in Seoul on September 27, 2009. Date Krumm won 6-3, 6-3 to take home the title.SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Dave Dennis of Sydney University looks to pass as he is tackled during the Shute Shield Grand Final match between Sydney University and Randwick at Sydney Football Stadium on September 27, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.New Zealand's Jesse Ryder waits as umpire Ian Gould calls for medical assistance after the batsman injured himself while running between wickets during their ICC Champions Trophy cricket match against Sri Lanka in Johannesburg, September 27, 2009.SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Sydney University players celebrate with the trophy after the Shute Shield Grand Final match between Sydney University and Randwick at Sydney Football Stadium on September 27, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.Residents cross a flooded highway in the town of Cainta in Rizal province, east of Manila, on September 27, 2009 to reach their homes a day after tropical storm Ketsana lashed the area around the capital. At least 51 people were killed and more than a quarter of a million displaced after tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rainfall on capital Manila in more than four decades, officials said. Manila and surrounding areas were lashed with heavy rains for nine hours, leading to flash floods that inundated about 80 percent of the capital of more than 12 million inhabitants.A visitor shows his photo to an armed Chinese police officer, who is standing guard in front of a shopping mall near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. Security has been tighten in the capital city ahead of China's 60th anniversary celebrations on Oct. 1.Women accompany their children to school on the first day of the new academic year, in Baghdad September 27, 2009. Iraqi schools opened its doors for students on Sunday, the first day of the new academic year.North Koreans walk near Kumgangsan hotel, a venue for the inter-Korean family reunion, at a North Korean resort of Mount Kumgang, September 27, 2009. Ninety-seven South Koreans crossed a heavily armed border on Saturday to meet family members in the communist North in fleeting reunions arranged by the rivals split by war and ideology more than half a century ago.Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister and candidate for chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and his wife Elke Buedenbender leave a polling station in Berlin, September 27, 2009, after casting their votes in the general election. Germans voted in the general election (Bundestagswahl) on Sunday.Pope Benedict XVI leaves the Spanish hall after the concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on September 26, 2009 in Prague. Pope Benedict XVI arrived for a three-day visit to the Czech Republic, shortly ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the non-violent coup that toppled the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia. Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass at the Turany airport in Brno, Czech Republic, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. The Pontiff arrived to the Czech Republic on Saturday Sept. 26, 2009 for a three day visit.credit photo: Gettyimages, Ap photo, Reuters picture