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Paul Simon attenda benefit in May 2009 in New York City. Paul ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:39:38 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Paul Simon attenda benefit in May 2009 in New York City. Paul Simon praised the joys of Kodachrome in his 1973 hit of the same name. "They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the greens of summers. Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah. I got a Nikon camera. I love to take a photograph. So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away," Simon sang.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Andrew H. Walker)

A Continental Airlines jet. US airlines are postponing or reducing ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:48:14 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Continental Airlines jet. US airlines are postponing or reducing services to China as air travel slumps due to the global economic slowdown, state media reported(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)

Graphic shows some of the key victims of Wall Street swindler ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:37:07 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Graphic shows some of the key victims of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. Madoff faces a federal judge Monday who could sentence him to as much as 150 years in prison, even if experts predict he will get far less.(AFP/Graphic)

A general view of an oil refinery in the southern Rumaila area. ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:57:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - A general view of an oil refinery in the southern Rumaila area. Foreign energy companies snubbed Iraq on Tuesday by rejecting all but one deal to develop the country's oil and gas sector, in what had been the first such opportunity in nearly four decades.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured, has warned ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:54:45 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured, has warned lawmakers against trying to raise taxes to plug the state's budget deficit, vowing to veto any proposed tax increase.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to order or take firm options ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:46:32 GMT

(AFP/File) - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to order or take firm options on up to 300 new aircraft from Boeing or Airbus by the end of the year, its boss Michael O'Leary, seen here in 2008, said in an interview to be published Monday.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)

A PetroChina service station in Beijing on June 28. China has ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - A PetroChina service station in Beijing on June 28. China has announced its second gasoline and diesel price hike in a month, reflecting more expensive crude prices internationally.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

A man pushes his bicycle past an advertising hoarding for China's ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:52:12 GMT

(AFP/File) - A man pushes his bicycle past an advertising hoarding for China's largest steel producer in Beijing. Australian producers and Chinese buyers have missed a deadline to set benchmark iron ore prices, signalling the end of a 42-year-old system and risking new friction between the key trading partners.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

An Indian vegetable vendor weighs produce at a wholesale market ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:03:29 GMT

(AFP/File) - An Indian vegetable vendor weighs produce at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Hyderabad in April 2009. The OECD and the UN's agriculture agency said in a report that world food prices will rise over the next 10 years but are unlikely to hit the peaks seen during the food crisis in 2007 and 2008.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)

Nigeria's oil hub is located in the Niger Delta. Royal Dutch ...

(AFP Graphics) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:04:52 GMT

(AFP Graphics) - Nigeria's oil hub is located in the Niger Delta. Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a $15.5 million payout to settle a lawsuit alleging complicity in murder, torture and other abuses by Nigeria's former military government.(AFP Graphics/Er-Gil)

Map of Iraq showing oil and gas fields and pipelines covered ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:57:28 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Map of Iraq showing oil and gas fields and pipelines covered by the first bidding round. Foreign energy companies snubbed Iraq on Tuesday by rejecting all but one deal to develop the country's oil and gas sector, in what had been the first such opportunity in nearly four decades.(AFP/Graphic)

Fishermen slaughter a 10metre-long bottlenose whale in Minami-Boso ...

(AFP/File) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:12:13 GMT

(AFP/File) - Fishermen slaughter a 10metre-long bottlenose whale in Minami-Boso City, Japan, as schoolchildren watch. Despite being officially illegal, the international trade in whale meat between the whale-hunting nations of Japan, Iceland and Norway is quietly picking up again, say enviromental campaigners.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

The Eurofighter performs its flying display at the 48th international ...

(AFP) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:15:56 GMT

(AFP) - The Eurofighter performs its flying display at the 48th international Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport. The Paris Air Show yielded only a handful of big sales with airlines in no mood to shell out billions of dollars in the midst of global recession.(AFP/Pierre Verdy)

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic planes at London's Heathrow ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:22:55 GMT

(AFP/File) - British Airways and Virgin Atlantic planes at London's Heathrow airport. The world's airlines are expected to lose $9 dollars this year, industry body IATA has said, describing the current crisis as worse than the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.(AFP/File/Max Nash)

Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, seen here in March 2009, ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:51:44 GMT

(AFP/File) - Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, seen here in March 2009, will face a federal judge who could sentence him to as much as 150 years in prison, even if experts predict he will get far less.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)