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An underwater Indonesian spectacle, a volcanic plume over Chile, an emergency surgery in Gaza, and more in the week's best news photos.

Partial solar and lunar eclipses will occur in Hong Kong in the first month of the Lunar New Year for the first time in nearly 30 years. Computer products have always been popular gifts during this Christmas and New Year festive season. The Environmental Protection Department invites people who are about to discard old products to use the free collection services provided under the Computer Recycling Programme instead.

AP - President Barack Obama is expected to pick a Republican senator, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, as his commerce secretary soon. But officials expect the state's Democratic governor, John Lynch, to fill Gregg's Senate seat with another Republican.

A rail-tunnel project has led to the discovery of artifacts proving that an ancient city is much older than originally believed.

HP today announced that its entire line of thin clients is now certified for VMware ViewTM, making the products even easier for customers to deploy in VMware environments.