A
boy touches an ice sculpture of a polar bear as it melts to reveal a
bronze skeleton in Copenhagen, Denmark, host city of the 15th United
Nations Climate Change Conference, on December 8, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob
Strong) #

Smoke
from the Station Fire rises over downtown Los Angeles Monday, Aug. 31,
2009. The Station Fire (caused by arson) lasted over a month, burning
over 250 square miles, destroying 200 structures, and cost over $100
million (USD) and the lives of two Los Angeles County Firefighters. (AP
Photo/Jon Vidar) #

Spot fires glow after the Station Fire burned through August 30, 2009 in Acton, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) #

War-orphan
Faustin Mugisa, 8, who has machete scars on his head and body, stands
at the Kizito orphanage in Bunia in northeastern Congo February 24,
2009. Mugisa was left for dead in a pile of corpses when ethnic Lendu
militiamen hacked to death his mother and seven siblings in 2003.
Mugisa"s father discovered him alive and took him to the bush to
recover, but his father was later hacked to death by the same militia
group. Ethnic violence has simmered for years in northeastern Congo,
part of broader civil and regional conflict currently uprooting hundreds
of thousands of Congolese fleeing massacres and reprisal killings by
various armed groups roaming the country"s vast and lawless wilds.
(REUTERS/Finbarr O"Reilly) #

A
burning Su-27 jet from the Russian air force elite aerobatic team
Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights), dives just seconds after the
aircraft collided with a two-seat Su-27, not seen, not far from the
Zhukovsky airfield, east of Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. Two Russian
air force jets rehearsing aerobatic maneuvers collided Sunday near
Moscow, killing one stunt pilot and sending one fighter crashing into
nearby vacation homes, a military official said. The Su-27 fighters were
part of the elite Russian Knights flying group preparing to perform at
the MAKS-2009 air show, the largest and most important showcase for
Russia"s aerospace industry. (AP Photo/Dmitry Karpov) #

Snow-covered
pine trees sit in flood water March 31, 2009 near Moorhead, Minnesota. A
snowstorm slowed recovery efforts as residents of Moorhead and
neighboring Fargo, North Dakota tried to return to their homes as the
flooded Red River slowly receded. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #

A
bushman from the Khomani San community stands on a dry pan, in the
Southern Kalahari desert on October 15, 2009 in the Kalahari, South
Africa. One of the largest studies of African genetics by an
international team from the University of Pennsylvania, published in
April 2009, revealed that the San, the last indigenous people of South
Africa, are the most genetically diverse on earth, and that the San
homeland could be the spot where modern humanity began. (Dan
Kitwood/Getty Images) #

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Spanish
matador Israel Lancho is gored by a Palha"s ranch bull during a
bullfight at the San Isidro"s fair in Las Ventas bullring in, Madrid, on
May 27, 2009. Lancho was hospitalized with an eight-inch wound below
his ribcage. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) #

Pakistani
men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the compound of
radical Lal Masjid or Red mosque as the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz,
not seen, talks to his supporters during Friday prayers, in Islamabad,
Pakistan, on April 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) #

Gigantic
puppets The Big Giant and the Little Giantess, part of France"s Royal
de Luxe street theatre company production titled "The Berlin Reunion".
The two sleep, reunited once again, in each others" arms in front of the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya
Hitij) #

Romain
Grosjean (left) and Adam Khan (right) test Renault F1 cars in the
desert in Dubai, April 9, 2009. The testing was part of the Renault F1
Roadshow taking place in Dubai. (REUTERS/ Eric Vargiolu) #

Chinese
military singers take part in a chorus performance of patriotic songs
involving 10,000 participants held at a gym in Beijing, China, Wednesday
Aug. 26, 2009. More than 80 chorus groups from various units in
Beijing sang patriotic songs to celebrate China"s 60th national day. (AP
Photo) #

Pakistani
Imran Zargul, 71, from the tribal region of Bajur wait to get donated
food during a distribution at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar,
Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) #

Stars
in the night sky rotate above the distinctive chimney stack on the top
of Cape Cornwall near St Just on April 12, 2009 in Cornwall, England.
The landmark, originally built for the Cape Cornwall Mine in 1850 and
was recently damaged when it was struck by lightning, was bought, along
with the rest of Cape Cornwall, for the nation by Heinz in 1987 and
given to the National Trust to mark Heinz"s centenary. (Matt Cardy/Getty
Images) #

A
boy suffering from malnutrition is cradled in the arms of his mother at
a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) on the outskirts of
Mogadishu, Somalia on July 11, 2009. More than 200,000 people had been
displaced in the previous two months, while hundreds of civilians were
believed to have been killed and wounded, according to the UN Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights. In an effort to escape the
fighting, thousands of families relocated to refugee camps outside the
city where they faced extremely harsh living conditions. (MOHAMED
DAHIR/AFP/Getty Images) #

People
sunbathe as Ferrari Brazilian"s driver Felipe Massa drives at the
Monaco racetrack on May 21, 2009 in Monte Carlo, during the second free
practice session of the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix. (PASCAL
GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images) #

An
old car dropped in an industrial trash bin advertising the Cash for
Clunkers program at Battlefield Ford in Culpepper, Virginia, August 1,
2009. "Cash for Clunkers", or the Car Allowance Rebate System was a $3
billion U.S. federal scrappage program to allow U.S. residents to trade
in older cars for newer, more fuel-efficient models. Nearly 700,000 cars
were traded under the program. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) #

Pro-democracy
protesters carrying a mock coffin try to cross a police line during a
demonstration demanding China improve its human rights record, outside
the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong October 1, 2009 as China
celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People"s Republic
of China. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) #

Norway"s
Anders Jacobsen competes in the first jump during the third stage of
the Four Hills FIS ski jumping championship (Vierschanzentournee) on
January 04, 2009 in Innsbruck. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images) #

Michael
Jackson"s daughter Paris (center) is comforted by family members at a
memorial service for the music legend at the Staples Center in Los
Angeles on July 7, 2009. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) #

From
20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini"s wide angle camera shot 75
exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a
few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the
sun"s disk was exactly overhead at the planet"s equator. The images were
taken on Aug. 12, 2009, at a distance of approximately 847,000 km
(526,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #

A
leopard walks with a tranquilizer dart hanging from its neck, in the
residential area of Jyotikuchi in Guwahati, the capital city of the
northeastern state of Assam, India on March 15, 2009. Three people were
mauled by the leopard after the cat strayed into the city before it was
tranquilized by forestry department officials. The full grown male
leopard was wandering through a part of the densely populated city when
curious crowds startled the animal, a wildlife official said. (BIJU
BORO/AFP/Getty Images) #

The sun sets behind the London eye on March 16, 2009 in London, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

Palestinian
civilians and medics run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN
school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip early on January 17, 2009. A
woman and a child were killed early today in the Israeli strike on the
UN-run school in northern Gaza where civilians were sheltering from the
fighting, medics and witnesses said. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) #

Thousands
of scrapped taxis are abandoned at a yard in the center of Chongqing
city on March 4, 2009. Traffic congestion and pollution have worsened
dramatically in Chinese cities as the country"s long-running economic
expansion has allowed increasing numbers of consumers to make big-ticket
purchases such as cars. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

Bengal
Tiger Kingda Ka smashes pumpkins during Fall at Six Flags Great
Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, November 8, 2009. (REUTERS/Six Flags
Great Adventure) #

A
Palestinian demonstrator uses a tennis racket to return an empty tear
gas canister at Israeli soldiers during a protest against the
controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near
Ramallah October 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis) #

Ultra-Orthodox
Jews belonging to the Vishnitz Hassidic sect dance on their benches as
they celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim late on March 9, 2009 in
Bnei Brak, a religious town near Tel Aviv. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty
Images) #

A
ring of water vapour is created around pilot Lt. Justin Halligan (left)
and Lt. Michael Witt (right) as they fly their F/A-18F Super Hornet
airplane while performing at New York Air Show at Jones Beach in
Wantagh, New York, May 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Christopher Pasatieri) #

SC
Braga"s goalkeeper Eduardo Carvalho pulls his shirt over his head at
the end of their Portuguese First league football match against FC Porto
at the AXA Stadium in Braga, on September 19, 2009. Braga won the match
1-0. (MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images) #

Supporters
of former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun gather during a funeral
ceremony in downtown Seoul on May 29, 2009. Thousands of weeping
mourners packed the streets to pay their last respects to former
President Roh Moo-Hyun amid a massive outpouring of grief and tight
security. (KOREA POOL/AFP/Getty Images) #

Belgian
milk producers pour about 3 million liters (793,000 gallons) of milk
onto a field near the Belgian city of Ciney September 16, 2009 in
protest over a growing industrial dispute over low prices. Support is
growing among European Union member states for a new regulatory set-up
for milk farmers struggling with depressed prices, France"s agriculture
minister, Michel Barnier, said on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Yves Herman) #

Russia"s
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse in southern Siberia"s Tuva
region August 3, 2009. Putin, a judo black belt who has flown in a
fighter aircraft and shot a Siberian tiger in the wild, plunged into the
depths of Lake Baikal aboard a mini-submersible on Saturday in a
mission that added a new dimension to his macho image. (REUTERS/RIA
Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin) #

Debris
hangs on a destroyed building next to a giant statue and restaurant
boat swept away along the Marikina river on September 29, 2009, outside
Manila. Hundreds of thousands of exhausted Philippine flood survivors
endured squalor in schools, gymnasiums and other makeshift shelters on
September 29 as the death toll from Typhoon Ketsana (known in the
Phillippines as "Ondoy") eventually climbed to over 650. (TED
ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
strange light phenomenon is sighted in the night sky above parts of
northern Norway early December 9, 2009. Russia"s new submarine-based
intercontinental missile suffered the latest in a series of test
failures, newspapers reported on Thursday, as unusual lights were
spotted in Norway across the border from the launch site. (REUTERS/Anita
Olsen/Scanpix Norway) #

A
local performer dressed in traditional costume sings during the
celebrations for the lantern festival in the city of Tianjin, located
100 km (62 miles) east of Beijing February 9, 2009. The lantern festival
marks the last day of the two-week Chinese lunar new year celebrations.
(REUTERS/David Gray) #

An
empty wheelchair belonging to quadriplegic Patrick Ivison, 15, sits
idle on the beach while Ivison, his mother, and friends prepare for
another surf ride at the Cardiff State Beach in San Diego, California on
October 6th, 2009. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) #