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November 29th - December 5th, 2008
Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmsir in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, May 18, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (AFGHANISTAN) )
Men dressed as 'Krampuss' take part in a parade at Munich's Christmas market, December 7, 2008. Young single men will wear the traditional attires known as 'Krampusse', consisting of animal skins and masks, with large cow-bells to make loud and frightening noises and parade through the city. They follow 'Saint Nicholas' from house to house in December each year to bring luck to the good and punish the idle. (Photo credit REUTERS/Michael Dalder (GERMANY) )
Buffalo Bills fan Chris Potter takes in a pre-game tailgate party as the Buffalo Bills get ready to play the Miami Dolphins in NFL action in Toronto on Sunday, December 7, 2008. (Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette )
O.J. Simpson speaks during his sentencing hearing at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Simpson was sentenced Friday to at least 15 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." (Photo credit AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, Pool )
Erica Estrada, 8, cries outside the hospital where her father and grandfather were admitted for gunshot wounds in Guatemala City December 7, 2008. Police and witness say the victims were both riding on a motorcycle when they were shot from a moving car. The family was returning in several vehicles from a day at a waterpark when, according to police, assassins may have mistaken the two for someone they were hired to kill. Recently Sergio Morales, Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman, reported a 10 per cent increase in violent deaths in Guatemala. (Photo credit REUTERS/Daniel LeClair (GUATEMALA) )
President George W. Bush, center, kisses Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Marc E. Olson, right, of Coal City, Ill., after talking to Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Patrick Paul Pittman Jr., left, of Savannah, Ga., after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, on returning from the United States Military Academy at West Point,N.Y.. Olson and Pittman were injured when a suicide bomber attacked their entry control point in Ramadi, Iraq. The two were serving with Company A, 2nd Amphibious Assault Battalion attached with the 2nd Batallion, 9th Marines. (Photo credit (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) )
Two white lion cubs are seen in their enclosure at Belgrade Zoo, Serbia, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. The cubs, an extremely rare subspecies of the African lion were born December 9, in Belgrade Zoo, that now has five white lions. White lions are unique to the Timbavati area of South Africa and are not albinos but a genetic rarity. (Photo credit AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic )
Hall of Fame inductee actress Bea Arthur, left, and actress Angela Lansbury pose together at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 2008 Hall of Fame Ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Matt Sayles )
Chinese U.N. peacekeepers perform martial arts techniques, during a medal ceremony at their base in the southern village of Henniyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari )
Cornel Zueger of Switzerland crashes in the men's World Cup Super-G ski race in Beaver Creek, Colorado December 6, 2008.(Photo credit REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES) )
A man enters a burned-down shop in search of loot in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki as rioters smashed, burned and looted buildings in several Greek cities on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Demonstrators protested the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens Saturday night. The circumstances surrounding the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a police special guard in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia are still unclear. But the death triggered extensive riots in cities around the country overnight, with youths burning shops, setting up flaming barricades across streets and torching cars. (Photo credit AP Photo / Nikolas Giakoumidis )
A woman delivers a bouquet of flowers to a residence damaged by a landslide in Kuala Lumpur December 6, 2008. A landslide occurred early Saturday in a housing estate in Kuala Lumpur and police confirmed three people killed, according to Malaysia's official Bernama news agency. (Photo credit REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim (MALAYSIA) )
Labourers work on the construction of a water tank in Jammu December 8, 2008. Economists now expect the economy to grow at 7 percent this year, compared with 9 percent or more in recent years. (Photo credit REUTERS/Amit Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) )
Britain's Prince Harry (L) meets brokers Andy Strickland (C) and Jay Aaronson (R) at the offices of city traders ICAP in London December 10, 2008. Prince Harry was attending the 16th Annual ICAP Charity Day, where all global revenues from ICAP trading are donated to 100 charities, including Sentebale, of which Prince Harry is a patron. (Photo credit REUTERS/ Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool (BRITAIN) )
Steam pours off Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth in the first quarter of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
November 22nd - 28th, 2008
Jordanian boy Hazem Hawamdeh sits on a scale to show his weight at his home in Jerash December 3, 2008. Hawamdeh, an 11-year-old boy from the northern city of Jerash, could be the smallest boy in the world, weighing 5.6 kg (12 pounds) with a height of nearly 70 cm (28 inches) as his family struggles to solve the mystery of his small size. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN) )
Children play with toy guns as they are silhouetted against the setting sun in Managua December 2, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA) )
Jonas Brothers singer Nick Jonas plays the half-time show during NFL football action between the Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks in Irving, Texas November 27, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES) )
Relatives mourn the death of Harish Gohil, who was killed by a gunman's bullet at Nariman House, during a funeral in Mumbai November 29, 2008. Commandos ended a three-day rampage by Islamist gunmen in Mumbai on Saturday, killing the last of the militants after nearly 200 people died in attacks that struck at bastions of the Indian financial capital's elite. (Photo credit REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA) )
Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford (14) is flipped as he is knocked out of bounds short of the goal line in the third quarter against Oklahoma State defender Patrick Lavine (4) during their NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Oklahoma November 29, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Bill Waugh (UNITED STATES) )
Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller of Switzerland, reacts after Chicago Blackhawks' Patrick Sharp scored a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, in Chicago. (Photo credit AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
A Congolese boy jumps in to the Ishasha River that separates Uganda and Congo as refugees bathe and collect drinking water at the shared frontier border town of Ishasha, November 28, 2008. A U.N. special envoy began a fresh bid on Friday to set up peace talks between Congo's government and Tutsi rebels, but the two sides seemed far apart on how to end their festering conflict in the country's east. (Photo credit REUTERS/T.J. Kirkpatrick (UGANDA) )
An Israeli police officer drags two Jewish settlers during the evacuation of a disputed house in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Israeli security forces stormed a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron on Thursday, dragging out some 250 settlers who barricaded themselves inside and hurled rocks, eggs and chemicals at their evictors. It was the first major West Bank evacuation since a violent 2006 confrontation that injured hundreds. (Photo credit AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe speaks to media in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday Dec. 4, 2008, reacting to the governor general's decision to prorogue parliament. (Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick )
An Israeli mourner attends the funeral for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka Holtzberg in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv December 2, 2008. Rabbi Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, were among the five hostages killed at the Jewish center and more than 144 people dead in Mumbai after the attacks by Islamist militants on luxury hotels and other sites in India's financial capital. (Photo credit REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (ISRAEL) )
German comedian Michael 'Bully' Herbig jumps during the 60th Bambi media awards ceremony in the south-western German town of Offenburg November 27, 2008. Each year, the German media company 'Hubert Burda Media', honours celebrities from the world of entertainment, literature, sports and politics with the Bambi awards. (Photo credit REUTERS/Alex Grimm (GERMANY) )
Richard Whitehead, a British disability activist who was born without legs, competes as he runs past a Lebanese soldier during the annual Beirut Marathon in Beirut, November 30, 2008. Thousands of people took part in the run which started in the Lebanese capital. (Photo credit REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON) )
A woman holds a baby as a bus leaves for Ishasha refugee transit camp on the Congo-Uganda border for a new settlement camp November 30, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Peter Andrews (UGANDA) )
The former church tower of the Village of Graun in South Tyrol sticks out of the partially frozen Lake Reschen reservoir in Northern Italy November 29, 2008. The village was destroyed and the valley flooded in 1950, due to damming up the Etsch river to produce electricity. (Photo credit REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (ITALY) )
This image provided by NASA Thursday Nov. 4, 2008 shows layers of similar thickness repeating dozens to hundreds of times in rocks exposed inside four craters in the Arabia Terra region of Mars in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Three dimensional analysis based on stereo pairs of images confirmed the regularity of repetition in the thickness of the beds. In the left half of this image, some of the rhythm is apparent as a series of bundles of about 10 individual layers per bundle. By corresponding to a known 10-to-one pattern in changes in the tilt of Mars' rotation axis, this pattern suggests the periodicity in the rock layers results from cyclical changes in the planet's tilt. Sedimentary rocks appear pink. (Photo credit AP Photo/NASA/JPL)
November 15th - 21st, 2008
Motherless orphans and lost children rest at the Don Bosco Ngangi center in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday Nov 13, 2008. Fighting in Congo intensified in August and has since displaced at least 250,000 people despite the presence of the largest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world. U.N. officials say both the rebels and government troops have committed crimes against civilians. (Photo credit AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
The father of one of the killed mining rescue workers is comforted by a relative in Petrosani, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008, following two underground explosions that killed at least 12 miners Saturday afternoon. The first explosion which killed at least 8 miners was followed by a second which killed 4 mining rescue workers. (Photo credit AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Government troops ride a vehicle while leaving the town of Kanyabayonga in eastern Congo, November 17, 2008. Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo have overrun a government army base, advancing despite their leader's pledge to respect a ceasefire and engage in U.N.-backed peace talks, witnesses said on Monday. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) )
Japan's Seibu Lions manager Hisanobu Watanabe is tossed into the air in the celebration of his team's winning the the Asia Series 2008 baseball final game against Taiwan's Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions at Tokyo dome in Tokyo November 16, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN) )
A Navy midshipmen is thrown in the air after Navy scored against Notre Dame during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, in Baltimore. Notre Dame won 27-21. (Photo credit AP Photo/Rob Carr)
A air tanker flies over the edge of a wildfire in Yorba Linda, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Former VIP Bank chairman Alexei Frenkel stands behind an armored glass in a court room in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. A Russian court has sentenced Alexei Frenkel to 19 years in prison for organizing the murder of a top Central Bank regulator. (Photo credit AP Photo)
President George W. Bush winks before speaking at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
A Palestinian smuggler moves a goat through a tunnel from Egypt to the Gaza Strip under the border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. Israel kept the crossings into Gaza sealed for a tenth straight day Friday in response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants that followed an Israeli army raid. The U.N. suspended its food aid distribution to 750,000 Gaza residents because its warehouses have run out of food, said John Ging, head of Gaza operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. (Photo credit AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A Sandinista supporter uses a sling-shot to throw a stone against supporters of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party, PLC, and riot police during clashes in Leon, 90 km. northwest of Managua, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Clashes erupted after President Daniel Ortega's Sandinistas were declared winners in most mayoral races celebrated last Sunday. The opposition party says it won many of those posts, including Managua mayor. (Photo credit AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, confers with Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, during a function in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. A summit of Tibetan exiles is turning into a clash of generations over the direction of their struggle with China. (Photo credit AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
Furah carries wood and her eighteen-month-old daughter Shukyru, on the road linking Rupango to Sake, eastern Congo, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2008. Furah walks the 16 kms every day, crossing from the CNDP rebel controlled area to the government held town of Sake to sell wood. (Photo credit AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks while attending the opening of the first Asian Mayors Forum in Tehran November 19, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN))
The University of Kentucky's Darrius Miller (R) battles the University of North Carolina's Bobby Frasor for the ball during the first half of the teams' NCAA basketball game in Chapel Hill, North Carolina November 18, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ellen Ozier (UNITED STATES) )
Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (Photo credit AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
November 8th - 14th, 2008
The coffin of eight-month old Alexandrine Kabitsebangumi, who died from cholera, is lowered into a grave in a banana grove at Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 12, 2008. Recent fighting has contributed to a heightened risk of cholera, with poor sanitation, lack of clean water, the constant movement of people into squalid and crowded camps. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) )
A general view shows a "solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, November 6, 2008. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a 100 metre (300 foot) tower where it produces steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. (Photo credit REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN) )
President-elect Obama, right, hugs Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, director, Illinois Department of veterans Affairs, following a wreath laying ceremony at the Bronze Soldiers Memorial in honor of Veteran's Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008, in Chicago. (Photo credit AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Russia's Oskana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin skate during the free dance program competition at the ISU Grand Prix Figure Skating China Cup 2008 in Beijing, China, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
A 94-year-old wooden lighthouse is moved by a flatbed truck to its new home in Five Islands, N.S. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Shoreline erosion along Minas Basin, home of the world's biggest tides, has forced the community to move the little lighthouse several times over the last century. (Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan)
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is surrounded by soldiers at his base in Tebero,, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 north of Goma in eastern Congo. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east, the U.N. said. (Photo credit AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A spider monkey tries to get a banana from a tourist visiting the Santafe Zoo in Medellin November 9, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera (COLOMBIA))
Cadets in historical uniforms take part in a military parade in the Red Square in Moscow, November 7, 2008. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War II. (Photo credit REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) )
Students touch a gas filled glass ball creating a plasma sphere during a visit to the exhibition 'Weltmaschine' (Worldmachine) works, in Berlin November 7, 2008. The exhibition explains the scientific background how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) runs till November 16, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) )
A would-be immigrant rests after arriving at the port of Los Cristianos on Spain's Canary island of Tenerife November 6, 2008. Some 67 would-be immigrants were intercepted aboard a make-shift boat on their way to European soil from northern Africa, according to authorities. (Photo credit REUTERS/Santiago Ferrero (SPAIN))
U.S singer Pink (C) performs during the MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in Liverpool, northern England, November 6, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Phil Noble (BRITAIN) )
An ibex jumps over sheep as they simulate with stockbreeders a transhumance in the streets of Marseille, November 9, 2008. Sheep farmers of south eastern France demonstrate denouncing the crisis of the ovine sector and to increase public awareness of the fate of the stockbreeders.(Photo credit REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier (FRANCE))
Soldiers in historical uniforms take part in a military parade in the Red Square in Moscow, November 7, 2008. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War II. (Photo credit REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) )
Raindrops cling to the fingertips of a dead Congolese government soldier lying on the road at the frontline near Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 12, 2008. Two soldiers, both shot through the head, were killed in a sharp exchange of artillery, mortar, rocket and machine gun fire late on Tuesday a few kilometres from a refugee camp at Kibati sheltering 80,000 civilians displaced by violence. This is the tense frontline in the simmering war in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, where Tutsi rebels and government troops face each other just 200 metres apart from positions in the verdant bush and fields. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) )
A puppy sleeps under a U.S soldier's hat and rifles in Baquba, in Diyala province some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad November 6, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (IRAQ) )
November 22nd - 27th, 2008
Wearing a traditional Peruvian poncho, President George W. Bush gestures as Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso stands below before the official group photo of the 16th summit of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, in Lima, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
A snow-covered sheep stands on a meadow during snowfalls near the Albispass mountain pass south of Zurich November 22, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND) )
T-Pain arrives at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Beyonce performs during the 2008 American Music Awards in Los Angeles November 23, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES))
New Zealand's Issac Luke performs a traditional haka after defeating Australia in the Rugby League World Cup final in Brisbane November 22, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Mick Tsikas (AUSTRALIA) )
Jeremy Abbott, of the United States, performs his men's short program at the Cup of Russia figure skating ISU Grand Prix event in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Antwan Barnes (50) tackles Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook (36) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008, in Baltimore. Baltimore won 36-7. (Photo credit AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Connecticut guard Tiffany Hayes (3) sends BYU forward Kristen Riley flying to the court during the second half of the NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008, in Provo, Utah. Connecticut defeated BYU 96-47. (Photo credit AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Hungary's Julia Sebestyen competes in the Ladies Short Programme at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Cup of Russia in Moscow November 21, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA))
New police officers demonstrate their martial arts skills during a graduation ceremony at a police academy in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad, November 20, 2008. About 969 police trainees graduated on Thursday from the police academy in Najaf after two months training, police said. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish(IRAQ))
Visitors walk past a sculpture by British artist Anthony Gormley, entitled "Close I", at the Museum of Contemporary Art, MARCO, in Monterrey, northern Mexico November 20, 2008. Gormley's exhibition will open at the MARCO on November 21. (Photo credit REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO))
A man transports furniture on a wooden scooter near Goma in eastern Congo, November 24, 2008. Civilians on both sides of the front lines in eastern Congo are being killed, raped and abducted by both Tutsi rebels and government troops despite a lull in fighting, human rights campaigners said on Monday. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO))
A policeman walks with an elderly man after shootings by unidentified assailants at a railway station in Mumbai November 26, 2008. At least 80 people have been killed in a series of attacks in Mumbai, police said. (Photo credit REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA))
A whale fossil is seen near to the Commandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Station located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island on the Antarctic continent November 25, 2008. The whale fossil was constructed by French explorer Jacques Cousteau in 1979. (Photo credit REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker (ANTARCTICA))
A general view shows a flooded farm near Itajai in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina November 25, 2008. Isolated towns in southern Brazil appealed for medicine and other supplies on Tuesday as the death toll from landslides and floods rose to 65 and many areas remained cut off from clean water and power. Days of heavy rain have devastated areas of Santa Catarina state, the heartland of German and Italian immigrants in Brazil, burying houses and their residents in rivers of mud, collapsing roads and leaving 52,000 people without shelter. (Photo credit REUTERS/SECOM/Jonathas Cesario /Handout (BRAZIL))
"Pumpkin", the National Thanksgiving Turkey, is surrounded by hands moments after U.S. President George W. Bush pardoned him in the Rose Garden of the White House, November 26, 2008. Pumpkin will travel to Disneyland later today to participate in the Thanksgiving Day Parade in California. (Photo credit REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES) )
November 15th - 21st, 2008
Motherless orphans and lost children rest at the Don Bosco Ngangi center in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday Nov 13, 2008. Fighting in Congo intensified in August and has since displaced at least 250,000 people despite the presence of the largest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world. U.N. officials say both the rebels and government troops have committed crimes against civilians. (Photo credit AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
The father of one of the killed mining rescue workers is comforted by a relative in Petrosani, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008, following two underground explosions that killed at least 12 miners Saturday afternoon. The first explosion which killed at least 8 miners was followed by a second which killed 4 mining rescue workers. (Photo credit AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Government troops ride a vehicle while leaving the town of Kanyabayonga in eastern Congo, November 17, 2008. Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo have overrun a government army base, advancing despite their leader's pledge to respect a ceasefire and engage in U.N.-backed peace talks, witnesses said on Monday. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) )
Japan's Seibu Lions manager Hisanobu Watanabe is tossed into the air in the celebration of his team's winning the the Asia Series 2008 baseball final game against Taiwan's Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions at Tokyo dome in Tokyo November 16, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN) )
A Navy midshipmen is thrown in the air after Navy scored against Notre Dame during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, in Baltimore. Notre Dame won 27-21. (Photo credit AP Photo/Rob Carr)
A air tanker flies over the edge of a wildfire in Yorba Linda, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Former VIP Bank chairman Alexei Frenkel stands behind an armored glass in a court room in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. A Russian court has sentenced Alexei Frenkel to 19 years in prison for organizing the murder of a top Central Bank regulator. (Photo credit AP Photo)
President George W. Bush winks before speaking at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
A Palestinian smuggler moves a goat through a tunnel from Egypt to the Gaza Strip under the border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. Israel kept the crossings into Gaza sealed for a tenth straight day Friday in response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants that followed an Israeli army raid. The U.N. suspended its food aid distribution to 750,000 Gaza residents because its warehouses have run out of food, said John Ging, head of Gaza operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. (Photo credit AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A Sandinista supporter uses a sling-shot to throw a stone against supporters of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party, PLC, and riot police during clashes in Leon, 90 km. northwest of Managua, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Clashes erupted after President Daniel Ortega's Sandinistas were declared winners in most mayoral races celebrated last Sunday. The opposition party says it won many of those posts, including Managua mayor. (Photo credit AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, confers with Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, during a function in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. A summit of Tibetan exiles is turning into a clash of generations over the direction of their struggle with China. (Photo credit AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
Furah carries wood and her eighteen-month-old daughter Shukyru, on the road linking Rupango to Sake, eastern Congo, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2008. Furah walks the 16 kms every day, crossing from the CNDP rebel controlled area to the government held town of Sake to sell wood. (Photo credit AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks while attending the opening of the first Asian Mayors Forum in Tehran November 19, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN))
The University of Kentucky's Darrius Miller (R) battles the University of North Carolina's Bobby Frasor for the ball during the first half of the teams' NCAA basketball game in Chapel Hill, North Carolina November 18, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ellen Ozier (UNITED STATES) )
Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (Photo credit AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
November 8th - 14th, 2008
The coffin of eight-month old Alexandrine Kabitsebangumi, who died from cholera, is lowered into a grave in a banana grove at Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 12, 2008. Recent fighting has contributed to a heightened risk of cholera, with poor sanitation, lack of clean water, the constant movement of people into squalid and crowded camps. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) )
A general view shows a "solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, November 6, 2008. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a 100 metre (300 foot) tower where it produces steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. (Photo credit REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN) )
President-elect Obama, right, hugs Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, director, Illinois Department of veterans Affairs, following a wreath laying ceremony at the Bronze Soldiers Memorial in honor of Veteran's Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008, in Chicago. (Photo credit AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Russia's Oskana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin skate during the free dance program competition at the ISU Grand Prix Figure Skating China Cup 2008 in Beijing, China, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
A 94-year-old wooden lighthouse is moved by a flatbed truck to its new home in Five Islands, N.S. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Shoreline erosion along Minas Basin, home of the world's biggest tides, has forced the community to move the little lighthouse several times over the last century. (Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan)
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is surrounded by soldiers at his base in Tebero,, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 north of Goma in eastern Congo. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east, the U.N. said. (Photo credit AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A spider monkey tries to get a banana from a tourist visiting the Santafe Zoo in Medellin November 9, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera (COLOMBIA))
Cadets in historical uniforms take part in a military parade in the Red Square in Moscow, November 7, 2008. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War II. (Photo credit REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) )
Students touch a gas filled glass ball creating a plasma sphere during a visit to the exhibition 'Weltmaschine' (Worldmachine) works, in Berlin November 7, 2008. The exhibition explains the scientific background how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) runs till November 16, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) )
A would-be immigrant rests after arriving at the port of Los Cristianos on Spain's Canary island of Tenerife November 6, 2008. Some 67 would-be immigrants were intercepted aboard a make-shift boat on their way to European soil from northern Africa, according to authorities. (Photo credit REUTERS/Santiago Ferrero (SPAIN))
U.S singer Pink (C) performs during the MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in Liverpool, northern England, November 6, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Phil Noble (BRITAIN) )
An ibex jumps over sheep as they simulate with stockbreeders a transhumance in the streets of Marseille, November 9, 2008. Sheep farmers of south eastern France demonstrate denouncing the crisis of the ovine sector and to increase public awareness of the fate of the stockbreeders.(Photo credit REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier (FRANCE))
Soldiers in historical uniforms take part in a military parade in the Red Square in Moscow, November 7, 2008. Moscow marked the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War II. (Photo credit REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) )
Raindrops cling to the fingertips of a dead Congolese government soldier lying on the road at the frontline near Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 12, 2008. Two soldiers, both shot through the head, were killed in a sharp exchange of artillery, mortar, rocket and machine gun fire late on Tuesday a few kilometres from a refugee camp at Kibati sheltering 80,000 civilians displaced by violence. This is the tense frontline in the simmering war in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, where Tutsi rebels and government troops face each other just 200 metres apart from positions in the verdant bush and fields. (Photo credit REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) )
A puppy sleeps under a U.S soldier's hat and rifles in Baquba, in Diyala province some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad November 6, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (IRAQ) )
November 1st - 7th, 2008
A child marches with policemen in celebration of Panama's independence from Colombia 105 years ago, in Panama City November 3, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Alberto Lowe (PANAMA) )
A Hindu devotee worships the Sun god in Ghaghar river during Chhat Puja festival in the northern Indian city of Panchkula November 5, 2008. Hindu devotees worship the Sun god and fast all day for the betterment of their family and society during the festival. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA) )
Riot police detain a protester during clashes with pro-Kurdish protesters in Istanbul November 2, 2008. Riot police clashed with stone-throwing Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) supporters in an attempt to march towards the city's main square of Taksim as they claim mistreatment against Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the outlawed PKK Kurdish rebels, in Imrali island, where he serves a life sentence. (Photo credit REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY) )
US Cardinal John Patrick Foley collects his thoughts during a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for cardinals and bishops deceased over the year, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
Police officers inspect a wagon with a Porsche car after a collision of two cargo trains in Dillenburg near the western city of Siegen, November 5, 2008. One vehicle's driver was injured and three railway carriages with Porsche cars inside, were damaged, officials said. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ina Fassbender (GERMANY) )
Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east. (Photo credit AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
People take photographs of a Maaz Al Shami (Damascene goat), which won the "Most Beautiful Goat" title, during the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh October 31, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed (SAUDI ARABIA) )
World War Two veteran Jordan McElroy of Tennessee walks through the Korean War Memorial in Washington November 5, 2008. McElroy served 18 months in Europe and is visiting Washington for the first time since his deployment in 1944. (Photo credit REUTERS/Mitch Dumke (UNITED STATES) )
A line of voters extends out the door and across the porch of the Rabbit Hash General Store as the polls open at six o'clock in Rabbit Hash, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
20-year-old panda Qi Hao, a survivor of the May Sichuan earthquake gets a thorough physical examination in Fuzhou, southeastern China's Fujian province Thursday Oct. 30, 2008. Qi Hao was transferred to the southern province four months ago after its home the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in Sichuan was devastated by the earthquake. (Photo credit AP Photo)
Al Sparks and his son Alex celebrate President-elect Barack Obama’s victory on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, in Oakland, Calif. Several hundred people filled closed off streets to cheer and dance. (Photo credit AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Firefighters try to extinguish fire from the South Korean air force F-5E fighter jet that crashed into a rice field during training in Pocheon, about 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Seoul November 4, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Pocheon Fire Station/Handout (SOUTH KOREA). )
Borussia Dortmund's Kuba eyes the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match against Bochum in Dortmund November 2, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Ina Fassbender (GERMANY). )
Young men attend a medical examination for enlistment in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Wuhan, Hubei province November 4, 2008. The PLA started its annual recruitment campaign from Saturday November 1, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Photo credit REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) )
President-elect Barack Obama kisses wife, Michelle, after his acceptance speech at his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago, Tuesday night, Nov. 4, 2008. (Photo credit AP Photo/Morry Gash)
October 24th - 31st, 2008
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (R) reaches out to greet supporters at a campaign rally in Durango, Colorado October 24, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
Sportsmen compete during the 2008 Wheelchair Dance Sport World Championships in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. One hundred and thirty five athletes from seventeen countries take part in this event, which is held every two years. (Photo credit AP Photo / Sergei Grits)
Britain's Prince Charles smells a mushroom during his visit to Afan Forest in Shinano, central Japan October 30, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Issei Kato)
Philadelphia Phillies Brett Myers celebrates on the mound after his team defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win Major League Baseball's World Series in Philadelphia, October 29, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Mike Segar)
Members of the New Orleans Saints'cheerleading squad perform during the first half of the NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers at Wembley Stadium in London October 26, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Eddie Keogh)
U.S soldiers patrol Baquba in a vehicle, in Diyala province, some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, October 29, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)
Survivors of an earthquake sit near their collapsed houses in Ziarat, one of the main tourist spots in Baluchistan, October 29, 2008. About 175 people were killed when the powerful earthquake hit the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, flattening about 1,500 mud-walled homes and triggering landslides, officials said. (Photo credit REUTERS/Athar Hussain)
This recent undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken earlier this month by the Messenger space probe, shows a portion of Mercury. Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in in shaping itself than scientists had thought with volcanoes spewing "mysterious dark blue material." New images from NASA's Messenger space probe should help settle a decades-old debate about what caused parts of Mercury to be somewhat smoother than it should be. NASA released photos Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008 from Messenger's fly-by earlier this month, that gave the answer: Lots of volcanic activity, far more than signs from an earlier probe.(Photo credit AP Photo/NASA)
Palestinian militants march during a rally organised by the Islamic Jihad movement in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 24, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Suhaib Salem)
The artist couple Eva and Adele visits the FIAC 2008 contemporary art show in Paris October 22, 2008. The 35th edition of FIAC presents 189 modern and contemporary art galleries and is held from October 23 to 26. (Photo credit REUTERS/Charles Platiau)
Ireland's Simon Finnigan looks out through the legs of Tonga's Manase Manuokafoa during their Rugby League World Cup match at Parramatta Stadium in Sydney, October 27, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Daniel Munoz)
A fan sits in the stands under plastic as rain falls at Citizens Bank Park before Game 3 of Major league Baseball's World Series in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 25, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Mike Segar)
Meghan McCain (L), daughter of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Linda Ramone (C), the widow of the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone, and Chuck Heath Jr. (R), brother of Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visit phone bank volunteers at McCain's West Regional Headquarters in Henderson, Nevada October 27, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)
Actor Josh Brolin sticks his tongue out as he arrives at the 12th annual Hollywood Awards gala in Beverly Hills, California October 27, 2008. (Photo credit REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)
October 16th - 23rd, 2008
In this image made available by Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London, Wednesday Oct. 22, 2008, clay head moulds of US presidential candidates Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, are displayed at Madame Tussauds' Studios in London, on Monday Oct. 20, 2008. The artists have been studying hundreds of photos and watching hours of video footage to create the clay head molds, and will use their research to ultimately finish the figures as well. The figure creation process is incredibly intricate, with artists inserting each strand of hair individually, creating just the head of the wax figure can take up to five weeks alone. Materials such as red silk are used to create the veins on the eyeballs and knotted rope is used to create the look of veins. (Photo credit Madame Tussauds/CP)
Cindy McCain, wife of US Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), passes candy to the crew during a campaign flight from New York to Miami October 17, 2008. (Photo credit Carlos Barria/REUTERS)
An animatronic chicken watches two robot chicken nuggets in a window art installation, by the artist Banksy in New York October 20, 2008. (UNITED STATES) (Photo credit Lucas Jackson/REUTERS)
The hand of the assistant referee is seen as AS Roma head coach Luciano Spalletti (L) reacts during their Champions League soccer match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in London October 22, 2008. (BRITAIN) (Photo credit Eddie Keogh/REUTERS)
A U.S soldier shakes the hand of an Iraqi boy during a patrol in Baquba, in Diyala province some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, October 21, 2008. (Photo credit Goran Tomasevic/REUTERS)
Jeremy Hibbin, headmaster of the British International School in Ljubljana, makes a funny face at students next to Britain's Queen Elizabeth during a workshop called "Jungle-Jangle" October 21, 2008. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are on a two-day official visit to Slovenia. (SLOVENIA) (Photo credit Tina Kosec/Pool/REUTERS)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures as he attends a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008. President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested Tuesday that European nations should set up their own sovereign wealth funds to prevent European companies falling into foreign hands during the economic crisis. "I don't want European citizens to wake up in several months and find European companies belonging to non-European capital, which bought at the share price's lowest point," he told the European Parliament. (Photo credit Christian Lutz/CP)
Liberal leader Stephane Dion discusses his future as leader at a news conference in Ottawa, Monday Oct. 20, 2008. Dion says he will resign as Liberal leader, clearing the way for a leadership contest as the party struggles to recover from an election battering. (Photo credit Tom Hanson/CP)
Forensic archaeologist Esma Alicehajic of Manchester, England, of the International Commission for Missing Persons ICMP, inspects human remains at a mass-grave site in remote mountain area in the village of Kamenica near Eastern-Bosnian town of Zvornik, 80 kms north east of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. The mass grave is considered to be a secondary mass-grave, where bodies were moved to from another original site. Most of the remains are believed to be those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during fall of Srebrenica, and will be identified by DNA. (Photo credit Amel Emric/CP)
Students prepare for the National Examination for the Entrance of University at a middle school in Hefei, Anhui province, October 14, 2008. Of major events in China over the past three decades, most Chinese would list the resumption of National Examination for the Entrance of University as number one, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken October 14, 2008. (CHINA) (Photo credit Jianan Yu/REUTERS)
Sunni Muslim women gesture during a protest at the Riad Solh Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. Women supporters of Islamist groups demanded the release of scores of prisoners suspected of plotting or carrying out militant attacks. There are about 300 suspects held in Roumieh prison east of Beirut on terrorism-related charges, including members of al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam group which fought the Lebanese army for three months last year. (Photo credit Bilal Hussein/CP)
Chinese soldiers struggle against the wind as they hold flags during the official welcoming ceremony for The Netherlands Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 23, 2008. Dozens of Asian and European leaders, representing half the global economy, have gathered in Beijing this week at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) starting Friday. The 27 EU member states and the European Commission will trade views with Japan, China, India and 13 other Asian countries on the global downturn, climate change and international security. (CHINA) (Photo credit David Gray/REUTERS)
U.S. actress Anne Hathaway arrives for The Times BFI London Film Festival screening of 'Rachel Getting Married' at a cinema in central London, a film directed by Jonathan Demme, Monday Oct. 20, 2008. (Photo credit MJ Kim/CP)
Colin Powell, center, dances onstage with Nigerian hip-hop group Olu Maintain at the Africa Rising Festival at the Royal Albert Hall Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008. The retired General and former U.S. Secretary of State is the key speaker in the final leg of the international Africa Rising Festival, which has been to Nigeria, Washington and now in London. (Photo credit Joel Ryan/CP)
US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacts to almost heading the wrong way off the stage after shaking hands with Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the conclusion of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 15, 2008. (Photo credit Jim Bourg/REUTERS)
