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A Haitian man's shadow is cast as he walks past graffiti ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:26:12 GMT

(Reuters) - A Haitian man's shadow is cast as he walks past graffiti in Port-au-Prince, January 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/Files

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an impromptu news conference ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:32:32 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an impromptu news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown in central London ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:07:14 GMT

(Reuters) - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown in central London February 2, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Winning/Files

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Paris January 29, ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:40:42 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Paris January 29, 2010. Clinton will visit Qatar and Saudi Arabia next week for talks that a U.S. official said on Tuesday would likely focus on Iran, Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

U.S. President Barack Obama gives an impromptu news conference ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:34:22 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama gives an impromptu news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is pictured as she speaks about ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:28:56 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is pictured as she speaks about the release of a paper by the Surgeon General on the public health challenge posed by the rise in obesity, at a Washington DC metropolitan YMCA in Alexandria, Virgina, January 28, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed/Files

Cooling towers are demolished in an attempt to save energy and ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:21:22 GMT

(Reuters) - Cooling towers are demolished in an attempt to save energy and reduce emissions, at a power plant in Xinxiang, Henan province, October 28, 2009. A senior U.S. official on Tuesday criticized China and other leading developing countries for trying to weaken the Copenhagen Accord. REUTERS/Donald Chan/Files

Armed forces' chief of general staff General Nikolai Makarov ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:17:23 GMT

(Reuters) - Armed forces' chief of general staff General Nikolai Makarov in Moscow June 3, 2008. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Pool/Files

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R) participates in a meeting ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:09 GMT

(Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R) participates in a meeting that the North's KCNA news agency said was with a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led by Wang Jiarui (not pictured), in this photo released by KCNA in Pyongyang early February 9, 2010. REUTERS/KCNA

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) visits the Natanz ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:44:11 GMT

(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran in this April 8, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Presidential official website/Handout/Files

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his first State of the ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:29:52 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his first State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010. Obama said on Tuesday a new push toward international sanctions against Iran is moving along fairly quickly and should be completed in the next few weeks. REUTERS/Tim Sloan/Pool/Files

Abraham Alberto stands in his neighborhood grocery store he ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:35:20 GMT

(Reuters) - Abraham Alberto stands in his neighborhood grocery store he owned with his deceased wife, Guadalupe Alberto, who was killed in 2008 when the 2005 Toyota Camry she was driving crashed, in Flint, Michigan February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa gestures during ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:04:11 GMT

(Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa gestures during a meeting with the international media in Colombo January 27, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Files

People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers wave a Chinese national ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:58:41 GMT

(Reuters) - People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers wave a Chinese national flag during a rehearsal of celebrations for the upcoming National Day, at a stadium in Beijing September 25, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Zhao/Files

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:44:41 GMT

(Reuters) - EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Former government minister Behzad Nabavi (R) and former government spokesman Abdullah Ramazanzadeh (C) sit as defendants in a courtroom in Tehran August 25, 2009. REUTERS/Fars News/Hasan Ghaedi

U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:37:06 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing

A mechanical part of the Ethiopian Airlines plane, which crashed ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:23:58 GMT

(Reuters) - A mechanical part of the Ethiopian Airlines plane, which crashed into the Mediterranean sea on January 25, is seen after it was recovered off the coast of Lebanon February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Lebanese Army website/Handout

Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:10:56 GMT

(Reuters) - Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Files

A worker drives a Toyota Motor Corp's newly assembled Prius ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:59:03 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker drives a Toyota Motor Corp's newly assembled Prius hybrid vehicle near the company's plant in Toyota, central Japan February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Electoral workers tally ballots after the end of voting in a ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:59:01 GMT

(Reuters) - Electoral workers tally ballots after the end of voting in a polling station in Baghdad, July 25, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen/Files

A Somali girl and a boy walk in al-Basateen slum neighbourhood ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:58:59 GMT

(Reuters) - A Somali girl and a boy walk in al-Basateen slum neighbourhood of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Indonesia's Attorney General Hendarman Supandji gestures ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:58:46 GMT

(Reuters) - Indonesia's Attorney General Hendarman Supandji gestures during an interview at his office in Jakarta February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Dadang Tri

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) addresses ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:58:44 GMT

(Reuters) - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) addresses the European Parliament to present his team of commissioners-designate ahead of the European Parliament's vote on the team in Strasbourg February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in Jerusalem ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:45:05 GMT

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in Jerusalem in this February 24, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/Files

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers an address ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:18:10 GMT

(Reuters) - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers an address on social and personal care in London February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Lefteris Pitarakis/Pool

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:11:45 GMT

(Reuters) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/Pool

Iranian flag is pictured in front of Iran's Foreign Ministry ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:41:29 GMT

(Reuters) - Iranian flag is pictured in front of Iran's Foreign Ministry building in Tehran November 23, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/Files

Girls walk past portraits of former South African President ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:33 GMT

(Reuters) - Girls walk past portraits of former South African President Nelson Mandela, painted by O.J. Zwane, in Soweto January 27, 2010. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/Files

Muslims attend Friday prayers under a snowfall at the Central ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:21:01 GMT

(Reuters) - Muslims attend Friday prayers under a snowfall at the Central mosque in Almaty February 5, 2010. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

Workers walk between newly assembled Prius hybrid vehicles near ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:08:05 GMT

(Reuters) - Workers walk between newly assembled Prius hybrid vehicles near Toyota Motor Corp's plant in Toyota, central Japan February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Philippine presidential candidate Senator Benigno "Noynoy" ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:56:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Philippine presidential candidate Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, the son of late former President Corazon Aquino, attends a mass at the Immaculate Concepcion church in Concepcion town, Pampanga province, north of Manila February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Skiers are seen in Tesero January 9, 2010. Italy's government ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:37:40 GMT

(Reuters) - Skiers are seen in Tesero January 9, 2010. Italy's government has proposed punishing skiers and snowboarders who trigger deadly avalanches with jail terms, after eight deaths on Italian slopes over the weekend. REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito/Files

A Vietnamese shoe vendor waits for customers in Ho Chi Minh ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:36:31 GMT

(Reuters) - A Vietnamese shoe vendor waits for customers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 23, 2003. REUTERS/Guang Niu/Files