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A domesticated tortoise, which lost the use of its hind paws after being hit by a stray bullet in Rio de Janeiro shanty-town, August 6, 2002. The 20-year-old animal was learning to walk, or roll, using its front paws and a pair of wheels from a television rack, attached to the bottom side of its shell with adhesive bandage.

By Mike Collett-White

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Tuesday she would defy a ban on her participation and contest Pakistan's general elections in October -- even if it meant doing so from a prison cell.
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