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World
Feb 24, 2010

News in pictures on Wednesday



Rescuers search for landslide victims in Ciwidey district, West Java. Days of heavy rain prompted the landslide Tuesday afternoon at the mountainous tea plantation, killing over a dozen people and destroying scores of homes. -- PHOTO: AP




Piotr Pawlak, 12, poses with Poland's President Lech Kaczynski (left) and First Lady Maria Kaczynska after playing compositions by Frederic Chopin in the Polish presidential palace in Warsaw. At the age of eight, on Feb 24, 1818 child prodigy Frederic Chopin played his first public concert in the same palace, then belonging to the Radziwill family. -- PHOTO: AFP




A policeman directs traffic while standing in front of campaign posters of Malik Shakeel Awan in Rawalpindi. Elections for the national assembly representative from Rawalpindi were held today on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital Islamabad. -- PHOTO: REUTERS