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A woman looks at clashes between protesters and riot police from a hotel balcony during a 48-hour general strike in Athens on June 29, 2011. The controversial plan passed by the Greek parliament is not an "austerity" program, the IMF said Wednesday, as protests turned violent in Athens and fire broke out at the Greek finance ministry. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
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An Emperor penguin, now nick-named "Happy Feet" is seen on Peka Peka Beach of the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand before he was rescued. Emperor penguins typically spend their entire lives in Antarctica and almost never make landfall near humans, with the last sighting in New Zealand being more than 44 years ago. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
"Happy Feet" the emperor penguin that washed up on the Kapiti Coast last week, undergoes a medical examination at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. The young penguin landed on NZ shores last week, after traveling over 3,000 kilometres from the antarctic. The ill penguin was operated on at Wellington Zoo several times this week to remove sand and sticks from its stomach with hopes it will recover fully. A team of experts is likely to decide today, whether the bird will remain in captivity in New Zealand, or be transported back the the antarctic. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" the emperor penguin that washed up on the Kapiti Coast last week, has a cotton bud held on its flipper after a needle was removed at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" undergoes a medical examination while Wellington Zoo staff Lydia Uddsrtom (L) and Dr Baukje Lenting look on at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" is anaesthetised before a medical examination at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" the emperor penguin that washed up on the Kapiti Coast last week, undergoes a medical examination at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" the emperor penguin that washed up on the Kapiti Coast last week, undergoes a medical examination while Wellington Zoo staff member Lydia Uddsrtom looks on at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" the emperor penguin that washed up on the Kapiti Coast last week, undergoes a medical examination at Wellington Zoo on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
An X-ray image of "Happy Feet", the emperor penguin that washed up on the Kapiti Coast last week, is seen on June 29, 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. The ill penguin was operated on at Wellington Zoo several times this week to remove sand and sticks from its stomach with hopes it will recover fully. A team of experts is likely to decide today, whether the bird will remain in captivity in New Zealand, or be transported back the the antarctic. (Photo by Pacific Radiology Ltd via Getty Images)
"Happy Feet" is shown in New Zealand, some 3,000 kilometres (1,900) from his Antarctic home. The penguin, a juvenile male, arrived at a beach on the Kapiti Coast, 40 kilometres north of the capital Wellington on June 20, the Department of Conservation (DOC) said. (Richard Gill/AFP/Getty Images)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths peer from a window as thousands gather next to the body of Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, Lithuanian-Orthodox leader, head of the Ponevezh yeshiva, during his funeral, June 28, 2011 in Bnei Brak, Israel. Lefkowitz died at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Monday night, two days after collapsing. He was 97. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Long-tailed mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) dance around each other in large groups on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszafured, 150km east of Budapest, early evening on June 13, 2011. The larvae live under water for three years, and then millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours during 'Tiszaviragzas' or Tisza blooming season from late spring to early summer every year. The species was once widespread across Europe, but now have disappeared on the a large part of the continent. AFP PHOTO / PETER KOHALMI
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Staff biologist Andy Goldfarb feeds one of two endangered clouded leopard cubs born Tuesday, June 14, 2011, at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, in Tacoma, Wash. Point Defiance says the birth of these cubs brings the total number of clouded leopard cubs born this year in the United States to eight. (AP Photo/Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Seth Bynum)
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