Pictures of the Year 2009

A male polar bear carries the head of a polar bear cub it killed and cannibalized in an area about 300 km (186 miles) north of the Canadian town of Churchill in this picture taken November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Iain D. Williams

A student receives a H1N1 vaccine injection at a hospital in Suining, Sichuan province November 11, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

Military and forensic experts inspect the body of a man who was killed outside a nightclub in the border city of Ciudad Juarez August 31, 2009. A man was handcuffed to a fence and shot several times by drug hitmen outside a nightclub, according to local media. The assailants also left a warning message, known as "narco mensaje", at the site of the shooting. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas

Manchester United's goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar makes a save against West Ham in their English Premier League soccer match at Upton Park in London February 8, 2009. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

Swimmers prepare to participate in the opening ceremony of the UK Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Bec Lido in London January 24, 2009. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

President Barack Obama takes the Oath of Office as the 44th U.S. President with his wife Michelle, daughters Malia (2nd R) and Sasha (R) by his side at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 20, 2009. Obama became the first African-American president in U.S. history. REUTERS/Chuck Kennedy/Pool

A worker is seen at the top of a power-generating windmill turbine in a wind farm in Fruges, near Saint Omer, northern France January 9, 2009. The wind farm, which has 70 power-generating 2 megawatt windmill turbines, is capable of producing 140 megawatts of green energy. That is enough to power some 150 000 households. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

An Israeli woman and her two children take cover during a rocket attack near Kfar Aza, just outside the northern Gaza Strip January 7, 2009. The woman came to meet her husband, an Israeli army officer currently serving on the Gaza border. Rockets exploded as they were waiting for him. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Passengers stand on the wings of a U.S. Airways plane as a ferry pulls up to it after it landed in the Hudson River in New York, January 15, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

A competitor runs through a burning field during the Tough Guy event in Perton, central England, February 1 2009. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

A child dances during a community function celebrating the upcoming Lantern Festival in Shanghai February 6, 2009. REUTERS/Aly Song

Sasha Obama runs down the colonnade as she returns from a weekend visit to Chicago with her father, U.S. President Barack Obama, to the White House in Washington, February 16, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A vehicle is seen near the remains of a house destroyed by bushfires is seen in the town of Kinglake, 55km (34 miles) northeast of Melbourne February 8, 2009. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes (L) keeps both feet in the end zone as he beats Arizona Cardinals safety Aaron Francisco to catch the game winning touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter of the NFL's Super Bowl XLIII game in Tampa, Florida, February 1, 2009. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Miley Cyrus is positioned by her publicist at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed

A young fan dances as he waits to enter the Apollo Theater for a public memorial for pop star Michael Jackson in New York June 30, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

A gold miner scoops mud while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 100 km (62 miles) from Bunia in north-eastern Congo, February 23, 2009. Civil conflict in Congo has been driven for more than a decade by the violent struggle for control over the country's vast natural resources, including gold, diamonds and timber, most of which is exploited using hard manual labor. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

A demonstrator is seen holding a placard outside the Total Lindsey refinery during a protest over the use of foreign workers in Lincolnshire, northern England, February 2, 2009. REUTERS/Phil Noble

A Palestinian girl reacts after an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip January 8, 2009. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah

Kuwait City airport employees wipe the sand from the red carpet during a sand storm before the arrival of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy in Kuwait February 11, 2009. REUTERS/Remy de la Mauviniere/Pool

Traders stand outside the New York Stock Exchange, March 27, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

A man is surrounded by a fire at the poor district of El Sharabia in Cairo, March 30, 2009. At least 13 people were injured, according to local police. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Smoke rises during Israeli's offensive in Gaza January 8, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

A Brazilian policeman arrests a suspected drug trafficker during an anti-narcotics raid in the Rocinha shantytown of Rio de Janeiro March 25, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos

A child holds her doll in front of her house at a slum area near Tanjung Priok harbor in Jakarta March 25, 2009. REUTERS/Beawiharta

Britain's Queen Elizabeth boards a scheduled train at the Kings Cross station in London to go to Kings Lynn in Norfolk, December 17, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool

A woman with albinism (C) stands in a crowd waiting to catch a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI as he travels along the street in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, March 19, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Women stand with their Afghan Hound before going into the parade ring during the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, central England, March 5, 2009. REUTERS/Darren Staples

A soldier runs while holding a weapon after two tanks backed by troops forced their way into a presidential palace in Antananarivo March 16, 2009. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

A Haitian woman gestures as she walks in a street in Port-au-Prince March 8, 2009. REUTERS/ Eduardo Munoz

U.S. pop star Michael Jackson gestures during a news conference at the O2 Arena in London March 5, 2009. Jackson said he will hold a series of final concerts in Britain later in the year. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

An army soldier cries as he carries the coffin of a Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) officer in Dhaka March 2, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (2nd R) and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales (R) walk after participating at the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen, December 17, 2009. REUTERS/Daniel Caballero/Bolivian Presidency/Handout

Children play, as forensic officers carry out searches, in the Drumbeg housing estate in Craigavon, Northern Ireland March 16, 2009. Police in Northern Ireland said they had arrested two more people in relation to the killing of one of their officers last week by a republican splinter group. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

A Sri Lankan Muslim boy (R) performs during a Muslim religious festival the instant a bomb exploded in Akuressa March 10, 2009. A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed 14 people and wounded 35, including Sri Lanka's telecommunications minister, during a Muslim festival in the island's south, officials said. REUTERS via Reuters TV

Kong Siu-kau, 63, a cage home resident for several years relying on government pension, sits in his cage bed in Hong Kong March 20, 2009. The monthly rent of a caged-bed, the lowest standard for a shelter in Hong Kong besides sleeping on the street, costs $150. Hong Kong's unemployment rate has risen to five percent, the highest level since June 2006, government said. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

A man wears a gas mask during a live action role-playing game based on the computer game "Stalker", near the village of Sengileyevskoe in Russia's southern Stavropol region March 21, 2009. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko

Concert goers wait for the performance by My Bloody Valentine at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California April 19, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Barbie dolls are lined up on the wall at a Barbie's 50th birthday party at the Barbie's real-life Malibu Dream House in Malibu, California March 9, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Firemen touch the marble statue of Madonna after removing from the top of the church in Paganica, near Aquila, April 13, 2009. REUTERS/Max Rossi

Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Alex Mashavisky at a cemetery in Beersheba January 7, 2009. Mashavisky was killed during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

The shadow of Spanish bullfighter Daniel Luque is cast onto the barrier as he performs a pass to a bull during a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville April 29, 2009. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

A migrant worker from Bangladesh shows his empty wallet to the camera as workers gather near a government office in Singapore February 16, 2009. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

A boy practises handstand during a training session at a local acrobatic school in Zhengzhou, Henan province April 24, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Zhao

An Afghan boy falls off his donkey as it fights with another outside the German armed forces Bundeswehr camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Tourists take pictures after they covered their bodies with black mud on Jordan's side of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, April 15, 2009. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Buddhist devotees wait to offer gold to the Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda, also known as the Golden Rock Pagoda, in Mon State April 13, 2009. Built on a granite boulder precariously balanced on the edge of a rock mountain over 3000 feet (0.9 km) above the sea level, the pagoda is a complete mystery to visitors from home and abroad. The pagoda is estimated to weigh 19.5 tons (17,645 kg), and the granite boulder weighs 611.5 tons (554, 704 kg). REUTERS/Aung Hla Tun

Demonstrators charge through a street in London during protests to coincide with Thursday's G20 summit meeting April 1, 2009. Demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed bank windows in Britain's financial centre ahead of a G20 meeting in protest against a system they said had robbed the poor to benefit the rich. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

A worker replaces a pane of glass in the vandalised home of former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Fred Goodwin in Edinburgh, Scotland,March 25, 2009. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

A ring of water vapour is created around pilot Lt. Justin Halligan (L) and Lt. Michael Witt (R) as they fly their F/A-18F Super Hornet airplane within 200mph of breaking the sound barrier while performing at New York Air Show at Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York, May 23, 2009. REUTERS/Christopher Pasatieri

Deer graze on a frosty morning in Richmond Park in London, December 23, 2009. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Cast members Rossy De Palma arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film "Los Abrazos Rotos" at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2009. Twenty films compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or which will be awarded on May 24. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

Angel Cabrera (R) of Argentina is presented his green jacket by Trevor Immelman (L) of South Africa after winning the 2009 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 12, 2009. REUTERS/Shaun Best

Myanmar nationals living in Thailand hold portraits of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and shout slogans during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok May 31, 2009. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

A woman walks on the beach at Coney Island past an AH-1 Cobra helicopter in New York May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

In this photograph released by the Sri Lankan military on May 18, 2009 shows what the army says are government troops walking near burnt or burning vehicles in the area inside the war zone near the town of Mullaittivu. REUTERS/Sri Lankan Government/Handout

Cape Town residents watch as a plume of sea spray blows out of a stormwater drain on the city's Sea Point beachfront May 17, 2009. The geyser like effect was created by large wave pushing the spray up the pipe, as the city experienced the first of the winter storms. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

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 riot policeman tries to arrest a student after a march in Santiago May 13, 2009. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero

Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James claps a handful of powder into the air before the start of Game 2 of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal playoff basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks in Cleveland, Ohio May 7, 2009. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk

A person dressed as a Star Wars character travels on the Santiago subway May 7, 2009, during "Star Wars: The Exhibition". The exhibition displays over 250 original items from the Star Wars movies. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero

A survivor of an acid attack attends a rally with her child in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 12, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

Pro-Tamil demonstrators scuffle with police after blocking a road in front of the Houses of Parliament in London May 18, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Germany's Steffi Graf (L) reacts after Andre Agassi of the U.S. accidentally hit Belgium's Kim Clijsters (C) with the ball during their mixed doubles match under the newly completed Centre Court roof at Wimbledon in London May 17, 2009. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

Michael Phelps speaks with reporters after losing in the finals of the 100 meter freestyle during the Charlotte UltraSwim Grand Prix at the Mecklenburg Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina May 17, 2009. REUTERS/Chris Keane

A member of the Hidalgo County Gang Enforcement Unit boosts his partner into an attic space as they search for a hand gun used in a gang related murder on an evidentiary search warrant in Edinburg, Texas, April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

A U.S army soldier from Task Force Denali 1-40 CAV prays during a Christian worship service at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Clark in Khowst province, Afghanistan, December 13, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

U.S. actress Pamela Anderson enters the stage during the opening ceremony of the 17th Life Ball in Vienna May 16, 2009. Life Ball is Europe's largest annual AIDS charity and the organisers this year hope to raise more than 1 million euros (about $1.6 million) to help people living with HIV. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

A town official accompanying visiting journalists sends a text message on his phone in the slum of Kachuf in the Masaka district of southern Uganda March 24, 2009. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reacts during a game of bridge with Billionaire financier Warren Buffett (L) during the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Ricky Hatton of Britain goes down in a TKO in the second round during his fight with Manny Pacquiao of the Phillippines in a 12 round Super Lightweight World Championship bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 2, 2009. At right is Pacquiao's trainer Buboy Fernandez. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Alejandra Maria Torres stands topless on a street after being beaten, doused with gasoline and lit on fire during a lynching in Guatemala City December 15, 2009. Passengers of a public bus accused Torres and three men, who escaped on foot, of participating in an armed robbery. According to local media, 219 people were lynched so far this year and 45 of them died. Torres was taken into custody after police arrived on the scene. REUTERS/Rodrigo Arias

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish child holds a bottle during a protest against the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem June 27, 2009. Ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting the opening of the parking lot on the Jewish sabbath clashed with police separating them and secular demonstrators who held a counter protest in support of the move. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

An injured man is helped in Tehran in this photograph made available June 21, 2009. REUTERS via Your View

Garda Damian Mulkearns answers his mobile phone whilst pushing the ballot box from the harbour to the polling station in a wheel barrow, Inishfree, Ireland, June 4,2009. Inishfree is a small island situated of the coast of Donegal with only one permanent resident, Barry Pilcher, who's house doubles as the polling station for the other voters who make the trip from the mainland to cast their vote.REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

A boy displays boiled rats for sale on the main highway in Malawi's capital Lilongwe June 20, 2009. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

The horn of a bull breaks off before a bullfight at the Plaza de Acho bullring in Lima December 6, 2009. The bull, which broke its horn after crashing into one of the wooden walls of the bullring, was then replaced by another bull for the fight. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

President Barack Obama wears a classic explorers hat as he tours the Egyptian Great Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in this handout photo taken June 4, 2009 outside of Cairo and later released by the White House. REUTERS/Pete Souza/The White House/Handout

A four-year-old girl plays during the "Coca" celebration in Redondela in rural northeastern Spain June 11, 2009. The tradition of dancing with daughters on the shoulders is taken from a local legend which is believed to have its origins in the Middle Ages about two women being saved from a dragon by dancing in the said manner. The children are dressed in traditional costumes called "Penlas". REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

Gay couple Ethan Collings (L), 32, and his spouse Stephen Abate, 36, hug as they celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary in West Hollywood, California, June 16, 2009. The couple were married when same-sex marriages were first allowed last year. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

A Roma woman gestures in front of her burning home at a Roma settlement in Sarajevo's suburb of Butmir June 3, 2009. The community set their homes on fire as they were forced to move to new houses provided by the local government. REUTERS/Stringer

U.S. army soldiers dance during their time off at Kandahar Airfield June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

A supporter of former presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi holds a placard upside down while attending a rally in Tehran, June 15, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel works on his mural of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker, painted on a segment of East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin June 22, 2009. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Boxer Miguel Cotto from Puerto Rico stares bloodied during the fourth round of a WBO World Welterwight Title fight against Joshua Clottey from Ghana at Madison Square Garden in New York June 13, 2009. Cotto won the fight by a split decision. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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

Doves sing in cages hung on the top of poles during a bird singing competition in Singapore July 12, 2009. Bird singing competitions have become a tradition mainly observed in Southeast Asian countries in which birds, particularly a variety of doves known as peaceful doves, can fetch prices of up to $340,000, the organizer of the event said. REUTERS/Pablo Sanchez

Relatives of a passenger on the Tupolev aircraft arrive at the crash site 150 km (93 miles) west of Tehran July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi

Serena Williams of the U.S. holds her trophy after defeating Venus Williams of the U.S. in their Ladies' Singles finals match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, July 4, 2009. REUTERS/Toby Melville

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor (L) takes her seat for her U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, accompanied by Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), on Capitol Hill in Washington July 13, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin travels in Russia's first high speed train Sapsan in Leningrad Region December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin/Pool

A child stands near a new apartment complex in Jakarta July 9, 2009. REUTERS/Beawiharta

Janet Jackson (L-R), Paris Michael Katherine, LaToya Jackson, Jermaine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson attend a memorial service for their brother and father, music legend Michael Jackson, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, July 7, 2009. Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Usher led an emotional public memorial for Michael Jackson on Tuesday as the music world, the Jackson family and thousands of fans bade farewell to the "King of Pop." REUTERS/Gabriel Bouys/Pool

A resident shows the water she gets at her home in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City December 17, 2009. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte

Sadaf, a six-year-old internally displaced girl from Swat, holds her two-year-old brother Ali as they stand outside their family tent at the UNHCR ( United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, located about 120 km (75 miles) north west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad July 12, 2009. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Real Madrid's new Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo walks onto the stage during his presentation ceremony at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, July 6, 2009. REUTERS/Juan Medina

A rescuer holding a two-year-old tries to close a window on the girl's suicidal father who is trying to jump from the eighth floor of an apartment block in Chengdu, Sichuan province, July 7, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

A worker pulls a publicity cut-out of a Bollywood movie in Mumbai December 16, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah sits on a carpet while interacting with the media at the end of an election rally in central Bamiyan province July 29, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Australian athletes Samantha Lily (R) and Erica Peter hug during the swimming competition at the World Dwarf Games in Larne Leisure centre, twenty miles north of Belfast, July 28,2009. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

A Palestinian youth practises his parkour skills in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 31, 2009. Parkour, or "the art of moving", involves moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible while overcoming obstacles using mainly the capabilities of the human physique. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

People sunbathe on a beach of Pinheiro da Cruz August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

Joint Terminal Attack Controller SSgt Clinton J. Herbison, a U.S. Airman from the 817 Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron (EASOS) takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province August 12, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Empress Michiko tries to get a bee out of the hair of Japan's Emperor Akihito during a tour at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Victoria, British Columbia, July 12, 2009. REUTERS/Todd Korol

A mob of internally displaced men, complaining of not receiving food and supply rations, ransack the administrative offices of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad July 13, 2009. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

American university student Amanda Knox's mother Edda (L) and her sister Deanna (L) take pictures in the courtroom during Knox's murder trial in Perugia December 3, 2009. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Shop owner Gong Chui Zhen, 47, fixes trousers at the entrance to her shop in an old quarter of Shanghai August 12, 2009. REUTERS/Nir Elias

A Camp for Climate Change demonstrator sits on a tent frame as they set up their protest site at Blackheath in south London August 26, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Wolfsburg's Obafemi Martins performs a somersault to celebrate a goal against FC Cologne during the German Bundesliga soccer match in Cologne August 15, 2009. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

Antonia Adebambo (R) and Rebecca Wynn react after opening their A-level exam results at Withington Girls School in Manchester, northern England August 20, 2009. REUTERS/Darren Staples

Aston Villa's John Carew heads the ball clear during their English Premier League soccer match against Liverpool at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, December 29, 2009. REUTERS/Darren Staples

Covaughn Billington, 9, plays in a pool at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, a luxury golf resort in the northern part of San Diego, California August 16, 2009. The Billingtons took advantage of a deal the inn is offering where visitors can reserve rooms for $19-per-night with no bed, toilet paper, towels, air-conditioning or "honor bar," and only a single light bulb in the bathroom for safety. The room comes with a tent where the beds normally would be. REUTERS/Fred Greaves

An elderly woman walks in front of a forest fire in Varnava village, northeast of Athens, August 22, 2009. A large wildfire raged out of control on the outskirts of Athens on Saturday, burning several homes and thousands of acres of forest. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis

A Muslim prays in a mosque in Makassar in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province August 31, 2009. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad

Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline (L) and Kauan Fernandes (R) play with their cousin Taina (C) outside their home in the V9 slum of Olinda, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, August 25, 2009. Three of five of the Fernandes family's children are albinos, which according to genetics professor Valdir Balbino of the Federal University of Pernambuco is a very rare occurrence considering the parents and two children are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians. REUTERS/Alexandre Severo-JC Imagem

Brianna Glenn of the U.S. competes in the women's long jump final during the world athletics championships in Berlin August 23, 2009. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

A worker cleans a glass window in the Eden Garden stadium as Sri Lankan cricket players train in the ground in Kolkata December 23, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta

Men watch a demonstration against the British National Party's Red, White and Blue event in Denby, central England August 15, 2009. REUTERS/Darren Staples

Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates after winning the women's 800 metres final during the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin August 19, 2009. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler

Eric Lipps, 52, waits in line to enter the NYCHires Job Fair in New York December 9, 2009. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

People enjoy a steam in the mobile Russian baths in the village of Bobrovka, about 400 km (249 miles) north of the Siberian city of Omsk December 27, 2009. REUTERS/Alexei Malgavko

The Mitsubishi car driven by Federico Villagra hits a horse during one of the stages of the Argentine Rally in General Roca, in the Patagonia August 16, 2009. REUTERS/DyN-Prensa Rally Argentina

Visitors watch the sunrise from Mount Moses in the Sinai Peninsula August 10, 2009. According to the Bible, this was where Moses received the ten commandments from God. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A cemetery is seen during a hot air balloon flight near Bristol in western England August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Members of a mortar team attached to the U.S. Army's Dagger Company, 2-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade return fire with a 120mm mortar during an attack by militants on Michigan Base in the Pesh Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

Lyvonne Lightfoot (R), mother of U.S. Army SPC Anthony M. Lightfoot of Riverdale, Ga., looks up as she holds the folded flag that draped her 20-year-old son's casket after it was presented to her during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia August 4, 2009. He was killed while in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. REUTERS/Larry Downing

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 in a mission that added a new dimension to his macho image. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin

The casket (L) of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy is carried out of the family complex by members of a United States military honor guard in Hyannisport, Massachusetts August 27, 2009. Kennedy died August 25 at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer. REUTERS/Mike Segar

A hat belonging to a tourist lies on the spot of a traffic accident near Hurghada December 14, 2009. REUTERS/Tarek Mostafa

The body of a stranded pilot whale is seen on a beach in the coastal region of Bustamante Bay in the Argentine Patagonian province of Chubut September 14, 2009. REUTERS/Maxi Jonas

Kanye West (L) interrupts the acceptance speech from best female video winner Taylor Swift (R) at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, September 13, 2009. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

A woman sits between carriages as the train travels to Mymensing from Dhaka September 20, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

Martin Fortunato, the son of slain Italian captain Antonio Fortunato, cries he touches a coffin of one of the six Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan during a funeral service at Saint Paul Basilica in Rome September 21, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is helped by police after he was attacked in downtown Milan December 13, 2009. Berlusconi was taken to hospital with blood smeared over his face after Massimo Tartaglia hurled a small model of Milan cathedral at him at a political rally, police said. REUTERS/Livio Anticoli/Italian Prime Minister's Press Office/Handout

John Casas, 15, prepares to go for an athletics training session in Medellin September 17, 2009. Casas, who lives in the violent Comuna 13 neighborhood in Medellin, lost his legs in a car accident. The Casas family were displaced by civil war from their home in Uraba, Antioquia province. John is being helped by a rehabilitation center and dreams of participating in the Paralympics in London 2012. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi sits in a wheelchair in his room at a hospital in Tripoli September 9, 2009. The dying Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and freed on compassionate grounds despite U.S. objections was met by African parliamentary deputies in an apparent public show of support. REUTERS/Ismail Zetouny

A victim is taken away from the site of a bomb blast in Kabul December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

A man on a partially submerged bus waits to be evacuated on a highway in Istanbul September 9, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

A man takes a photo of his wife in the area opposite Tiananmen Square in Beijing on an early morning visit September 30, 2009. China will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding on October 1. REUTERS/Nir Elias

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya sleeps inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

A campsite at a homeless tent city in Sacramento California March 15, 2009. Sacramento's tent city has seen an increase in population as unemployment numbers grow in the US. REUTERS/ Max Whittaker

Belgian milk producers pour about 3 million litres (793,000 gallons) of milk on a field near the Belgian city of Ciney September 16, 2009 in protest over a growing industrial dispute over low prices. REUTERS/Yves Herman

A horse from the Kings Troop, the Royal Horse Artillery, swims in the sea near Blackpool, northern England, September 16, 2009. The regiment have brought the horses to the Lancashire seaside resort as a break from their usual ceremonial duties in London. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Mohamed Ibrahim, 48, testifies before being stoned by militants from Hizbul Islam for illicit sexual intercourse with a woman in the Afgoye district, December 13, 2009. Ibrahim was sentenced to death by a local Islamic court after he was found guilty of infidelity. REUTERS/Stringer

Police officials detain a suspected militant from the site of a shooting at a police training centre in Lahore March 30, 2009. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

Villagers react as a helicopter landed for aid distribution at Lima Koto Timur district in Padang Pariaman, Indonesia's West Sumatra province, October 7, 2009. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi

Ground crew members assist Canadian circus billionaire Guy Laliberte after he returned in the Russian Soyuz space capsule near the town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan, October 11, 2009. REUTERS/Yuri Kochetkov/Pool

A woman peers out from a car window as she is driven past the earthquake-destroyed Ambacang Hotel in Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province October 9, 2009. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

A delegate sleeps during a break in an all-night plenary meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Bob Strong

A television sits at the water's edge at the tsunami destroyed village of Saleapaga on Samoa's southern coast October 2, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

An illegal immigrant boy from Myanmar collects plastic at a rubbish dump site near Mae Sot December 22, 2009. Despite terrible living conditions and the fear of being sent back to their country, several hundred illegal immigrants from Myanmar live and earn an average of $1 per day collecting plastic at the rubbish dump near the border town of Mae Sot. Myanmar's long-standing political crisis has forced millions of people to cross the border for a better and safer life. The first refugees arrived and set up camps in the Myanmar-Thailand border in 1984. Now, there are over 140,000 refugees in nine official camps along Thailand's western border. Many more are expected to be in unofficial settlements. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie checks the living conditions of an Iraqi refugee family living in Jaramana, a suburb in southern Damascus October 2, 2009. REUTERS/S.Malkawi/UNHCR/Handout

A woman screams for help from police as she gets crushed against a metal barrier at Sri Lanka former army chief General Sarath Fonseka's first political rally for his presidential campaign in Kandy, 72 miles (116 km) from Colombo, December 18, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

Undercover Israeli police officers scuffle with a Palestinian as his son is being detained during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud October 9, 2009. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Smoke and flames billow from Indian Oil Corp's fuel depot as a body of a victim lies in Sitapura industrial area in the outskirts of Jaipur October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

A mental patient named Totok reacts as he is given a shower at the Galuh foundation house in East Bekasi, outskirt of Jakarta October 23, 2009. The Galuh foundation house has housed more than 285 underprivileged mental patients since it was founded in 1982 by Gendu Mulatip. REUTERS/Beawiharta

Rescue workers carry an injured man to an ambulance at the scene of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, October 28, 2009. REUTERS/K.Parvez

Evangelical pastor Marcos Pereira da Silva embraces a prisoner as his missionaries stand around, at the 52nd Police Station jail in Nova Iguacu, near Rio de Janeiro, October 29, 2009. Pastor Marcos and missionaries from his Assembly of God of the Last Days church regularly visit Rio's prisons and slums to evangelize prisoners and dwellers of some of the most violent neighborhoods in Brazil. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

A man in a protective mask hugs a woman at the train in western Ukranian town of Rovno, October 31, 2009. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Residents look at a body found inside a supermarket cart in the Morro dos Macacos slum in Rio de Janeiro October 20, 2009. The man is suspected to have been killed by rival drug gangs, residents say. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Medical officers review a conscript at a military training centre, the biggest in the former Soviet Union, in the village of Oster, some 90 km from the capital Kiev, October 29, 2009. Around 19,500 recruits were called up to the Ukrainian army this autumn. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A coroner examines the body of a man killed by gunmen in Medellin, Colombia,, September 26, 2009. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera

Patrons of a fast food restaurant peer through the window at the scene of a bus driver's murder in Guatemala City October 22, 2009. In an on-going battle between organized gangs of extortionists and private bus companies, hundreds of drivers, assistant drivers, owners and passengers have been murdered over the last two years. on average there is one driver killed every other day in Guatemala. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair

Lourdes, daughter of U.S. pop star Madonna, visits the Mphandula Child Care Centre, about 47 km (29 miles) west of Lilongwe, October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Performers from a group called Nomad Dance do somersaults during a training session at Yoff beach in Senegal's capital Dakar, November 14, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

A Cuban sackcloth-dressed worshipper crawls as he pushes a rock to pay homage along a road leading to the shrine of Saint Lazarus in the town of Rincon, some 30 km from Havana December 17, 2009. The annual pilgrimage to one of Cuba's most sacred icons drew thousands of both Roman Catholic believers, and followers of the Afro-Cuban Santeria faith for whom Saint Lazarus also symbolizes the deity of Babalu-Aye, introduced by African slaves brought to Cuba when it was a Spanish colony. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

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 Centre for blind and visually impaired children in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina September 10, 2009. The Centre was founded as a home for blind girls by English missionary, Mary Lovell, in the 1890s. Dr. Helen Keller visited the school in the 1950s and agreed to have her name adopted by the school. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

A Palestinian demonstrator places a Palestinian flag atop the controversial Israeli barrier during a protest marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the West Bank village of Nilin November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

A diver dressed as Santa Claus swims with dolphins at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Ice skaters from the Lee Valley Ice Rink and Olympic gold medallist Jayne Torvill (FRONT LEFT) perform at the media launch of the Somerset House Ice Rink in London November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

President George W. Bush puts on his raincoat as he departs after a visit with Air Force One crew members, called the Presidential Airlift Group, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, January 10, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A local woman on a crutch shouts at Chinese paramilitary police 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. REUTERS/David Gray

A relative reacts as he looks at the remains of his loved ones that were killed from the floods brought on by the continuous rains of Typhoon Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, inside a morgue in the town of Tanay, Rizal east of Manila September 28, 2009. REUTERS/John Javellana

A boy stands stands in front of the main headstone in the Lockerbie memorial garden in Lockerbie, south west Scotland August 13, 2009. REUTERS/David Moir

A worker sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the close of the final trading session of 2009 December 31, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Segar