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World in Pictures: October 2008

Striking images from around the world

In Pictures: Oktoberfest

In Pictures: Oktoberfest -Sixteen-day festival in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Sixteen-day festival in Munich, Germany

Heading Out In Northern Ireland

  • Barbara Barry, Aine Matthews & Alison Finnegan pictured at the Apartment.
  • Brian Byrne and Matthew Barry in Laverys
  • Danielle Ross, Ciara Keenan and Caron O'Neill in The Parlour

Northern Ireland Nightlife in Pictures

In Pictures: Belfast Telegraph 8k Run

BELFAST TELEGRAPH 8K RUN ORMEAU PARK

Sunday 5th October at Ormeau Park

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In Pictures: Fashion and Beauty

Fashion and Glamour

Latest styles from Belfast to Hollywood

Family Notices

War in the Caucasus

  • Russian armored vehicles enter a tunnel, moving toward the border with Russia's North Ossetia, 70 km (43 miles) north of Tskhinvali, the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia's capital, on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Russia pulled the bulk of its troops and tanks from Georgia on Friday after a brief but intense war but built up its forces in and around two separatist regions and left other positions deeper in the former Soviet republic.
  • Smoke rises from a fire in the Georgian village of Kekhvi, some 15 km (9 miles) north of Tskhinvali, in Georgia's breakway province of South Ossetia on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. Many ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia and Georgia have been looted and burned down after Russian troops entered Georgia.
  • Fire fighters extinguish a fire on a train carrying oil products after it hit a mine about 10 km (6 miles) east of Georgia's strategic central city of Gori on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said the blast hit near the end of the train and one third of its 30 tanker cars were on fire.

A conflict in pictures

Columnist Comments

hamish_mcrae

• Hamish McRae: So will anything shift the economic gloom?

It is a classic financial crash. Another week of mayhem in the markets, another week of despair among bankers, another week of rising concern for the rest of us. The world's monetary powers sought to reassert their authority last week by cutting interest rates, while individual governments, in particular our own one, continued to unwrap national rescue packages. Their aim was to restore confidence – and they failed.

robert_fisk

• Robert Fisk: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is much the same

All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's the mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass.

laurence_white

• Laurence White: Will we have any cash left after world market crash?

The financial turmoil currently gripping the world is of such a magnitude that it is over-shadowing what until a couple of months ago was the biggest story in town — the race for the White House. Now Barack Obama and John McCain find themselves a side-show.

david_healy

• David Healy: I want a Northern Ireland win

Every Northern Ireland game is big, but tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier in Slovenia is really BIG.

eamon_mccann

• Eamonn MCann: Was it fair to jail Shahra Marsh but let greedy bankers go free?

Nobody is immune from this banking crisis. Not Shahra Marsh. Not Mother Teresa.

frances_burscough

• Frances Burscough: How being a mum can take me from good times to verse

If you didn’t already know it, you will now: today is National Poetry Day and we are marking the event by waxing lyrical and celebrating our heritage as a nation of lyricists, balladeers and poets.

lindy_mcdowell

• Lindy McDowell: Might Mandy prove handy for Labour after all?

Peter Mandelson — they don’t call him the Prince of Darkness for nothing. Politically it’s been harder to put a stake through his heart than to decommission Dracula with garlic. He’s had more comebacks than Tina Turner.

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Northern Ireland Troubles

In Pictures: The Northern Ireland Troubles

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Miss Universe

  • Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza is crowned Miss Universe 2008 on stage during the 57th Annual Miss Universe Competition at the Crown Convention Centre on July 14, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
  • Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza one of the top 15 semi finalists performs on stage during the final of the 57th Annual Miss Universe Competition at the Crown Convention Centre on July 14, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
  • Miss Vietnam Lam Thuy Nguyen one of the top 15 semi finalists performs on stage during the final of the 57th Annual Miss Universe Competition at the Crown Convention Centre on July 14, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

Nha Trang, Vietnam

In Pictures: Tyrone bring Sam home

Tyrone bring Sam home

Triumphant footballers return with trophy

In Pictures: London Fashion Week

In Pictures: London Fashion Week

Fabulous photos from the catwalk