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The light of a police helicopter illuminates the work of activists after they stopped work for the night on covering up the iconic 450-foot-long Hollywood sign during an effort to prevent the building of houses there in Los Angeles, California. The message will read Save the Peak. The Trust for Public Land is draping the sign as it campaigns to raise enough funds to buy Cahuenga Peak and stop developers from purchasing the 138-acre parcel to build mansions around the Hollywood sign. -- PHOTO: AFP



This image provided by Nasa shows the Solar Dynamics Observatory, designed to make important discoveries about the sun and space weather launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida atop an unmanned Atlas V rocket. -- PHOTO: AP



This file photo shows two giant pandas from China, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, displayed in their new enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Muzha. Taiwan's top animal attraction will be given some privacy over the Lunar New Year -- in the hope they will finally breed. Taipei Zoo is to put the pandas, who have attracted more than three million visitors since their arrival from China in late 2008, in the same enclosure after the female panda, Yuan Yuan, recently went into heat. -- PHOTO: AFP