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Hello up there Jude Law waves to Japanese fans on the red carpet before the premiere of the film "Sherlock Holmes" in Tokyo on Thursday, Feb. 18. Law plays Dr. Watson, assistant to Arthur Conan-Doyles' legendary London detective Sherlock Holmes, in the film directed by Guy Ritchie. from msnbc.com

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Is my tongue red? A reveler performs during the traditional carnival of Barranquilla, Colombia on Feb. 14. Barranquilla's festivities are second in size to Rio's and paralyzes the city with street dances, parades and musical masquerades. Dripping with diamonds A reveler of Beija Flor samba school performs at the Sambadrome, Rio de Janeiro on Feb.15, 2010. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35407818/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

Dalai Lama 'very happy' with Obama meeting President met with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader over China's warning Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama appeared in public at the White House Thursday and said President Barack Obama was "supportive" in a meeting that drew angry protests from China.                   WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has ended his more than hourlong meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House, and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said afterward "I am very happy." The Dalai Lama told reporters on the White House driveway Thursday that he spoke to Obama about the promotion of human values, religious harmony and the concerns of the Tibetan people. Obama was "supportive," he said. Obama's largely symbolic meeting with the Dalai Lama was kept low-key in deference to Chinese anger. Beijing considers the Buddhist monk a separatist, and Obama wanted to void angering China at...

Decoded DNA Reveals African Diversity Some Africans living within walking distance of one another are more genetically diverse than a European and an Asian living a continent apart. Wed Feb 17, 2010 03:01 PM ET content provided by Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press THE GIST: •Decoded DNA of southern Africans has revealed unexpected genetic diversity. •Two bushmen living within walking distance show more genetic variation than a European compared to an Asian. •The study also found 1.3 million tiny variations that hadn't been observed before in any human DNA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientists who decoded the DNA of some southern Africans have found striking new evidence of the genetic diversity on that continent, and uncovered a surprise about the ancestry of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They found, for example, that any two bushmen in their study who spoke different languages were more different genetically than a E...