A
reveler of Leandro de Itaquera samba school parades at the Sambadrome,
as part of Carnival celebrations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, late on February
21, 2009. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images) #

Supporters
of ousted Honduras" President Manuel Zelaya clash with soldiers near
the presidential residency Tegucigalpa, Monday, June 29. 2009. Police
fired tear gas to hold back thousands of Hondurans outside the occupied
presidential residency as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez
appealed to Honduras to reinstate Zelaya as president. (AP
Photo/Esteban Felix) #

Ted
Kennedy Jr. kisses the casket of his father in Our Lady of Perpetual
Help Basilica during a funeral mass in the Mission Hill neighborhood of
Boston on August 29, 2009. President Barack Obama, three former
presidents and a nation"s elite gathered in the rain to attend a grand
Catholic funeral for Ted Kennedy, America"s legendary political
patriarch. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
Hindu woman devotee offers prayers after taking a holy dip in the
waters of river Ganga in the northern Indian city of Allahabad May 4,
2009. (REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash) #

A
young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family
wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a
town on edge of the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Thursday,
Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan.
Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in Waziristan, a
militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming
early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the
country"s battle against extremism. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad) #

An
eruption of Mt. Redoubt seen at sunset from the cockpit of a DC-6
flying over Cook Inlet near Anchorage, Alaska on March 31, 2009.
Photograph kindly provided by Bryan Mulder - pilot and photographer. (© Bryan Mulder) #

Delhi
Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) employees work on the last-pre cast
segments (rings) of the Phase-II underground tunneling project between
neighborhoods Jangpura and Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi on October 12,
2009, part of a larger project to have metro lines to cover the entire
National Capital Region for the 2010 Commonwealth Games (MANAN
VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
local couple canoes through Atlanta"s famous Krog Tunnel on September
21st, 2009, after flooding followed heavy rains throughout the region.
(© Caroline Smith) #

A
US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments
after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in
Afghanistan on July 13, 2009. Two US Marine soldiers were killed when
the explosion occurred as they tried to clear a route into the Taliban
heartland of southern Helmand province. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty
Images) #

A
US Marine from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines rests as his
platoon finishes searching houses for the day during day two of
Operation Germinate into the restive Bhuji Bhast Pass in Farah Province,
southern Afghanistan, on October 8, 2009. The Bhuji Bhast Pass is
effectively a Taliban corridor, mined with IEDs from one end to the
other, and lined with villages that are hostile to the Western troop
presence. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images) #

Virgin
Galactic"s SpaceShipTwo is unveiled in Mojave, California December 7,
2009. Billionaire Richard Branson on Monday unveiled the first
commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that
represents an expensive gamble on creating a commercial space tourism
industry. (REUTERS/Phil McCarten) #

A
North Korean woman carries water she collected from the Yalu River in
the North Korean city of Hyesan, which borders China"s Changbai county,
April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) #

A
competitor crosses the Start/Finish line during the Northern Ireland
Bog Snorkeling Championships in Peatlands Park, Dungannon, County Tyrone
July 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton) #

Dwight
Howard of the Orlando Magic watches a shot during Game 1 of their NBA
Finals basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles,
June 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson) #

Wadee
Daoud, a five-year-old visually impaired Palestinian boy, reacts to
light after a teacher opened the window blinds in his classroom at the
Helen Keller Center for blind and visually impaired children in the East
Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina September 10, 2009. The Center
was founded as a home for blind girls by English missionary, Mary
Lovell, in the 1890s. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis) #

A
local woman on a crutch shouts at Chinese soldiers wearing riot gear as
a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the
city of Urumqi in China"s Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 7, 2009.
Hundreds of Uighur protesters clashed with riot police in the capital of
China"s Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic
unrest left 156 dead and more than 800 injured. (REUTERS/David Gray) #

Owen
Rabago (left) wipes a tear from the face of his father, Specialist
Sheldon Rabago, as his mother Nancy wraps her arms around both of them
during a candlelight vigil at Hood Stadium on the Fort Hood Army Post in
Fort Hood, Texas November 6, 2009. The day before, An Army psychiatrist
opened fire at the post, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others.
(REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi) #

A
scene from the annual Cooper"s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake was held
near Gloucester, England. After this notoriously dangerous race for the
cheese, the man upside down was taken away to the hospital. (© Will De Freitas) #

A
section of the Rocky Mountain News newsroom sits empty on February 27,
2009 in Denver, Colorado. The edition on Friday the 27th was the last
one for the nearly 150-year-old daily, Colorado"s oldest newspaper. The
owner E.W. Scripps Co. announced the day before that the paper was
closing down after efforts to sell the money-losing newspaper failed.
(John Moore/Getty Images) #

Miss
USA, Kristen Dalton, applies lipstick while posing for photographers on
the "Top of the Rock" observation deck at the Rockefeller Center in New
York September 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) #

Chinese
parents gather to sleep at an auditorium after they accompanied their
children to a university to start their first semester in Wuhan, central
China"s Hubei province on September 7, 2009. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

An
injured girl cries during an evacuation after an earthquake hit Padang,
Indonesia"s Sumatra island September 30, 2009. A 7.6 magnitude
earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia"s Sumatra island
on September 30, 2009, killing at over 1,000 people and trapping
thousands under rubble. (REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper) #

Burnt
out trees outside Kinglake that were destroyed by fire are viewed from
this aerial shot on February 8, 2009. Over 170 people were killed and
entire towns razed in one of the worst wildfire disasters in Australian
history, sending thousands fleeing in scenes Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
compared to "hell". (MARK SMITH/AFP/Getty Images) #

Maldivian
Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Ibrahim Didi signs a declaration
calling on countries to cut down carbon dioxide emissions ahead of a
major U.N. climate change conference in December, in the Maldives,
October 17, 2009. The Maldivian president and ministers held the world"s
first underwater cabinet meeting, in a symbolic cry for help over
rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago"s existence.
(REUTERS/Maldives Government) #

A
rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the northern Gaza Strip
flies towards an Israeli target Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat
Armangue) #

An
Israeli boy takes cover under a desk in a bomb shelter at a school in
Jerusalem June 2, 2009, after a siren was sounded during a nationwide
civil defense drill simulating a rocket attack. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun) #

A
Jewish settler (right) and a Palestinian demonstrator shout at each
other during a protest against an illegal outpost near the Israeli
settlement of Kharsina in the West Bank city of Hebron on May 22, 2009.
(HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images) #

The
NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in
silhouette, side by side during solar transit on May 13, 2009, from west
of Vero Beach, Florida in this image released by NASA May 14. The two
spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km (375 miles) and they zipped
across the sun in only 0.8 seconds during a risky but successful mission
to rescue the Hubble telescope. (REUTERS/Thierry Legault/NASA/Handout) #

A girl dives in a lake 100 km (62 miles) west of St. Petersburg, Russia, in this Aug. 7, 2009 photo. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) #

Scientists
at CERN"s control center celebrate after the successful restart
operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on November 20, 2009 near
Geneva, Switzerland. The world"s biggest atom-smasher had shut down
after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, and
restarted on November 20, 2009. CERN spokesman James Gillies said the
injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for "a half or even a
complete circuit" of the Large Hadron Collider built in a 27-kilometer
(17-mile) long tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
(STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) #

Seven-time
Tour de France winner and Kazakh cycling team Astana (AST)"s Lance
Armstrong of the United States rides in the pack under heavy rains on
July 17, 2009 in the 200 km and thirteenth stage of the 2009 Tour de
France cycling race run between Vittel and Colmar. Armstrong went onto
finish the tour in third place, behind winner Alberto Contador. (JOEL
SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
car plows into a parade that included Queen Beatrix and the royal
family on the national Queen"s Day holiday in the Dutch city of
Apeldoorn April 30, 2009. Ten people were injured and eight killed in
the attack, including the 38-year-old driver, who narrowly missed the
open-top bus carrying Queen Beatrix and the royal family. (REUTERS/Robin
Utrecht/Pool) #

A
gymnast balances on the beam during a practice session for the World
Gymnastics at the O2 arena in London, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. (AP
Photo/Alastair Grant) #

Militants
from Hizbul Islam haul the bloodied body of Mohamed Ibrahim, 48, from a
chest-deep pit after stoning him to death for illicit sexual
intercourse with a woman in the Afgoye district, Somalia on December 13,
2009. Ibrahim was sentenced to death by a local Islamic court after he
was found guilty of infidelity. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

A
hunter holds his hawk during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy
Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty, Kazakhstan on December 5,
2009. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) #

U.S.
Navy Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta replaces an official picture of
outgoing President George W. Bush with that of newly-sworn-in U.S.
President Barack Obama, in the lobby of the headquarters of the U.S.
Naval Base January 20, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Brennan
Linsley-Pool/Getty Images) #

Supporters
cheer during the opening ceremony of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in
Alexandria, Egypt on September 24, 2009. Host Egypt played against
Trinidad and Tobago in the opening soccer match, winning the match 4-1 .
(REUTERS/Marko Djurica) #