The Russian SOYUZ TMA-13 rocket is moved to the launch pad of the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on Oct. 10, 2008. U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott is set to blast off for the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz TMA-13 rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Michael Fink of the United States and Russia's Iouri Lonchakov on Oct. 12.

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An overview of Ground Zero on Oct. 2 in New York City. The owners of the World Trade Center site have announced that the World Trade Center memorial can be opened on Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack. It was also revealed in a 70-page report on Ground Zero's tortured rebuilding process that the rail hub will cost $3.2 billion, $700 million more than planned, and will not open until at least 2014.

The Freedom Tower won't be finished until the end of 2013.

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Yesterday, my esteemed colleague Josh said a lot of world leaders may not learn much about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin other than what she looks like. It turns out that ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel may not learn even that much.

The ultra-Orthodox do not publish photos of women in their newspapers due to concerns about feminine modesty. And newspapers are a prime source of information for them because they generally don't tune into television, the Internet, and most radio stations.

The prohibition on women's photos is posing a challenge for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Reuters reports. In the wake of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation, she has been asked to form a governing coalition. Securing support from the ultra-Orthodox could be tough if she remains faceless to them.

If Livni wants to reach out to the ultra-Orthodox, it looks like she'll have to meet with leaders face to face.

Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy last Monday, obviously made some bad bets. But whoever designed the company's building in Manhattan obviously had the type of keen foresight its CEO Richard Fuld lacked.

Here's Lehman Brothers on Sept. 14:

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And here's the same building now, seen from a different angle:

Guess Barclays didn't want to wait too long to put its stamp on its new purchase, huh?

Despite the usual comments about the need to keep comments short, the senators are still bloviating. Meanwhile, the first pictures of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke are now dribbling in. Do these look like men who are happy to be sitting in front of the Senate Banking Committee this morning?

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On a day when financial markets again reeled, this image seems especially timely:

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President Abraham Lincoln presenter Jim Rubin of Prosperity, West Virginia, addresses the unveiling ceremony for the new 2009 Bicentennial One-Cent coin redesign at the Lincoln Memorial September 22, 2008 in Washington, DC. The coin redesign will highlight four phases of the 16th president's life: birth in Kentucky, formative years in Indiana, professional life in Illinois and finally Washington.

A colleague passed along the following tube of Iranian toothpaste, hilariously designed to look like Crest:

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"Improve your dental hygiene," it reads on the front. "For long lasting tooth."

On the back, it explains that Crend "helps your dentist to fight against tooth decay and cavity. Crend can help improve your oral hygiene significantly." The sodium flouride content is 0.32 percent.

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Heritage Officer Nick Herepath views the remains of a Roman hypocaust hidden beneath a Spud-U-Like outlet on September 11, 2008, in Chester, England. The Roman hypocaust heated part of a Legionary bath house above the streets of Chester. The hidden treasure is one of hundreds of sites opened for Heritage Open Days, an event that celebrates England's architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission.

UPDATE: Here's what the shop looks like above.

Last night, you may have noticed something odd in the background of John McCain's acceptance speech. Roughly a minute into the Arizona senator's remarks, a fancy-looking building with a nicely groomed lawn popped up on the jumbo screen behind him.

I remember thinking: What's that? His spread in Sedona? Why would they possibly want to show that? Turns out, it was a photograph of the Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California:

Whoops. An image that was probably meant to underscore McCain's support for veterans has become a hilarious blooper that will no doubt end up as fodder for late-night talk show hosts and the Democratic Party.

Walter Reed Middle School's principal, Donna Tobin, posted the following statement Friday on the school's official blog:

It has been brought to the school’s attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention. Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school’s picture an endorsement of any political party or view.

What the McCain team likely meant to show was D.C.'s Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which treats wounded soldiers and was the subject of a damning Washington Post investigation in 2007.

The most amazing part about this debacle is that whatever poor intern or tech dude got the wrong photo had at least three plausible chances to get it right. Below is a shot of Walter Reed General Hospital on the WRAMC campus on Georgia Avenue:

Walter Reed Society

That building in the background is a newer facility, the Heaton Pavilion:

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And here's the Walter Reed National Military Center, a new building in Bethesda, Md., that President Bush inaugurated on July 3:

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I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake:

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The house, in the town of Trassenheide on Germany's Baltic Sea island of Usedom, is appropriately named "The World Stands on its Head." It opens today as a tourist attraction.

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Here's what it looks like inside:

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The only thing that's right-side up? The stairs.

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Angel Valodia Matos (L-red) of Cuba lands a kick on the referee Chakir Chelbat (R) of Sweden after he lost his bronze medal contest in the men's +80 kg taekwondo competition against Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 23, 2008.

Story here.

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People walk past a half-body statue in Shibuya, Tokyo's main shopping area, on August 22. Online Game Company NHN Japan has set up a series of these statues to promote the mobile game site hange.jp. When people touch the statue's arm with their mobile phone, the application site will automatically open and a lucky winner will be rewarded 10,000 U.S. Dollars.

It seems increasingly clear that Russian troops are not, in fact, pulling all the way out of Georgia:

Russian units said they had orders only to fall back as far as South Ossetia and some platoons were still dug in near roads outside Gori, while Russian troops bearing new peacekeeping badges dominated the main east-west highway, a key trading artery. A senior Russian official said Russian military checkpoints ringing South Ossetia would be permanent.

Moreover, it seems the Russian high command hasn't put much thought into the whole public diplomacy thing. Here are two more shots of Russian peacekeepers flipping Getty photographer Uriel Sinai the bird:

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If Dmitry Medvedev is trying to looking tough, these kinds of photo ops won't help him change his image:

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev drives in a buggy at the presidential residence in Sochi on August 20, 2008.

Iraqis are painting the security walls in Sadr City:

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I have to admit, the Bird's Nest looks pretty cool all lit up at night:

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Chinese policemen try to save a boy from being crushed by the crowd near a ticket booth at the Olympic Green on July 25 in Beijing, China. Starting today, the remaining 820,000 Olympic tickets, of which 250,000 are for competitions held in the capital city, became available for purchase by individuals at the Olympic venues.

Be sure to check out the National Aquatics Center and more of China's Olympic architecture rendered in Lego at the Hong Kong Lego blog.

(Hat tip: Gizmodo)

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U.S. Army soldiers carry shotguns as they walk along a corridor separating what they deem to be the most extreme and dangerous detainees held inside the Camp Bucca detention center located near the Kuwait-Iraq border on May 19, 2008.

Here's a photograph from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's recent trip to Iraq. What do you think was on his mind? Who do you think he wants to see on the receiving end?

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UPDATE: And the winner is... nycbrian, with "do you think i can mow my backbenchers into submission w/ this?"