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Saturday May 13, 2006 as seen from Bebung village about 20 km (12 miles) outside Yogyakarta, the provincial capital of Central Java province Indonesia. Officials raised the alert status of the Merapi volcano to the highest level, meaning that an eruption is imminent, and thousands began evacuating from its slopes. (MORE PHOTOS->34       

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Spanish matador Miguel Abellan performs a pass as a bull does a somersault after getting its horns stuck in the sand during a bullfight a the Maestranza bull-ring in Seville April 29, 2006.

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A Greenpeace activist holds up a sign to protest against pulpmill pollution after the family photo of the heads of states of European Union, Latin American and Caribbean at the ‘IV Summit of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean’ in Vienna May 12, 2006.

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Indonesia’s Merapi volcano releases a huge cloud of hot gas Sunday, May 14, 2006 as seen from Pekam village on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, the provincial capital of Central Java province, Indonesia. Villages on Mount Merapi were left virtually empty, although some residents returned to its slopes Sunday to tend their animals and crops after officials raised the alert status of the Merapi volcano to the highest level, meaning that an eruption is imminent,

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Indonesia’s Merapi volcano throws up lava and hot gasses Saturday May 13, 2006, as seen from Bebung village about 20 km (12 miles) outside Yogyakarta, the provincial capital of Central Java province, Indonesia. Thousands fled the slopes of Indonesia’s most dangerous volcano Saturday as it spewed burning ash, rock and molten lava, signaling a major eruption is imminent.

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A mother, Beatrice Watt, poses with her daughter Whitney Watt behind a heart shape decoration assembled by 1,000 carnations as celebrating the upcoming mother’s day in Hong Kong Thursday May 11, 2006

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Spanish bullfighter Eduardo Gallo barely misses a bull’s horn during San Isidro’s bullfighting fair at Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring May 11, 2006. Madrid celebrates its patron saint San Isidro every year with a fair which includes cultural events and concerts, as well as three weeks of bullfights.