(AFP) – US President Barack Obama smiles as he makes a statement on his birth certificate at the White House. In an extraordinary and surreal live television appearance, he slammed conspiracy theories that he was not American-born as carnival-style silliness.(AFP/Jewel Samad)

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(AFP/Getty Images/File) – Brooke Mueller Sheen walks into court in 2010 in Aspen, Colorado. Charlie Sheen was arrested in 2009 for domestic violence after an alleged attack on his wife Brooke Mueller.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Riccardo S. Savi)

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(AFP/NASA/File) – This image released by NASA in 2009 shows an image of Mercury taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft during its third fly-by. The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER is poised to enter the orbit of Mercury later Thursday, and it will circle for one Earth year in an unprecedented study of the tiny, hot planet that is closest to the Sun.(AFP/NASA/File)

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