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2 College students watch a cheerleader at a rally in Tokyo February 8, 2011. About 1,500 students from business schools attended the rally to boost their morale ahead of their job hunt. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

3 Anti-government protesters take part in Friday prayers at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 4, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

4 Visitors wearing rabbit ear headbands watch a night parade held to celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong February 3, 2011. The Lunar New Year began on February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

5 People enjoy the frozen Lac de Joux lake at Le Pont in the Jura region in western Switzerland, January 30, 2011. The lake, when completely frozen, is among the largest natural ice rinks in Europe. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud

6 Shinmoedake volcano erupts between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, in this aerial view taken January 28, 2011. REUTERS/Kyodo

7 Swiss acrobat Freddy Nock balances onthe cable of a funicular on Mount Corvatsch (3,303 m/9,908 ft) near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz January 29, 2011. Nock walked down over a distance of some 1,600 metres (5,249 ft) from the mountain station of the cable car in 3,303 metres (10,836 ft) altitude to the middle station (2,702 metres/8,865 ft altitude). REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

8 Performers on stilts rest near a row of portable lavatories before the dress rehearsal for the Chingay parade in Singapore January 22, 2011. The word Chingay means the art of masquerade in Chinese Hokkien dialect. Chingay parade is an annual street and floats parade held during the Chinese new year period in Singapore. REUTERS/Tim Chong

9 Switzerland's photographer Denis Balibouse files his pictures under a full moon from Mont-Cenis Pass road in Lanslebourg during the Grande Odyssee sled dog race January 19, 2011. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

10 Carlos Sainz of Spain drives his Volkswagen Touareg during the fifth stage of the third South American edition of the Dakar Rally 2011 from Calama to Iquique January 6, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

11 Tsiuri Kakabadze, 80, performs during the Super Grandmother and Super Grandfather contest in Tbilisi January 5, 2011. Twenty-four participants aged over 70 from all over Georgia competed. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

12 Army soldiers display their skills as they glide on ropes during a military parade to celebrate the 68th anniversary of Lebanon's independence day in downtown Beirut November 22, 2011. REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir

13 An aerial view shows vehicles with their headlights on converging on the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft carrying ISS crew members, U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, after the spacecraft landed near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan, November 22, 2011. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

14 New vehicles are submerged in flood waters at the Honda factory in Ayutthaya province November 14, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

15 A polar bear swims underwater in the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec October 31, 2011. According to Environment Canada, Canada is home to around 15,000 of the estimated 20,000 polar bears in the world. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger

16 Sex workers wearing skeleton masks, which represent the Day of the Dead, participate in a procession in Mexico City October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

17 A woman looks at an art installation named Forever Bicycles by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei during a media preview of the Ai Weiwei Absent exhibition in Taipei October 28, 2011. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

18 A baby moves his arms inside the pediatric unit at Escuela hospital in Tegucigalpa October 21, 2011. According to Honduras' health authorities, about 220,000 babies are born in Honduras each year and the cost of having a baby delivered at the public hospital is $10. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

19 Triathletes start their 2.4 mile (3.9 km) swim at the Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii October 8, 2011. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry

20 Sambeg Shakya, 6, is carried on a chariot during the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu September 16, 2011. Sambeg Shakya was hailed last year by Buddhist priests as Ganesh, or the god of good fortune, since when he has led several processions of Nepal's better-known living goddesses, also known as Kumari. The centuries-old ritual, once used by now-toppled kings who thought it would make them stronger, was the climax of the annual Hindu festival of Dasain, which lasts for two weeks and has become a major tourist attraction in Nepal. Sambeg will continue in his supporting role until he is big enough to fit in a chariot pulled by men, after which he must return to real life. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

21 Revellers enjoy a thrill ride at the opening of the world's biggest beer fest, the Munich Oktoberfest, in Munich, September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

22 Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province September 3, 2011. The university set out mats for some 600 parents accompanying new students on their first day of school, local media reported. Picture taken September 3, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily

23 Gliders from the aerobatic group Ocovski Bacovia (Shepherds from Ocova Village) perform during the Slovak International Air Fest in Sliac August 28, 2011. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa

24 A woman is seen at the Modern Moma commercial and residential complex in Beijing, August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Lee

25 A meteor streaks though the night sky over the village of Kuklici, known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones which resemble human beings, near Kratovo, August 13, 2011. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

26 A student reads the Koran before morning prayers during the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Solo, Indonesia Central Java province, August 2, 2011. The Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school, founded by Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir in 1972, has 231 teachers and houses 1,503 students, both males and females, between the ages 12 to 18. REUTERS/Beawiharta

27 Above & Beyond, an art exhibit comprised of 58,000 imprinted dog tags, one for every person who died in the Vietnam War, is seen at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago July 20, 2011. The museum houses more than 2,000 pieces of art by veterans from World War II to the current conflicts in the Middle East. The museum faces the risk of complete shutdown unless they can raise millions of dollars just to survive. REUTERS/Jim Young

28 Two-year-old chimpanzee Do Do bottle feeds milk to Aorn, a 60-day-old tiger cub, at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok July 30, 2011. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

29 A diver surrounded by sardines performs Taekwondo during a promotional diving performance for summer vacation visitors at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul July 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak

30 An Asian elephant sprays sand in its enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Alex Domanski

31 Workers use electric irons to smooth out a Communist Party of China flag on a table at the Beijing Jingong Red Flag factory located on the outskirts of Beijing June 28, 2011. The factory has made more than 30,000 flags over the last three months for the upcoming celebrations to mark the 90th anniversary of China's Communist Party on July 1. REUTERS/David Gray

32 Visitors ride a merry-go-round at the 'Wunderland Kalkar' (Wonderland Kalkar) amusement park in Kalkar June 20, 2011. Wunderland Kalkar was a nuclear fast breeder, which was completed but never taken online, and in 1995 Dutch investor Hennie van der Most bought it and transformed into an amusement park attracting some 600,000 visitors per year. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

33 Divers from the Prefectura Naval Argentina inspect the Rio Limay covered with ash from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain at the mountain resort of San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina's Patagonia June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Chiwi Giambirtone

34 The International Space Station is seen with the docked space shuttle Endeavour in this May 23, 2011 handout photo courtesy of NASA. The photo was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking and is the first-ever image of a space shuttle docked to the International Space Station. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

35 Lightning flashes around the ash plume of the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos June 5, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez

36 Space shuttle Endeavour lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida June 1, 2011. Endeavour touched down at its Florida home base early on Wednesday, capping a 16-day mission to deliver a premier science experiment to the International Space Station on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

37 Novice Buddhist monk Kyaw Thiha plays during a heavy rainfall at the Shin Ohtama Tharya monastery in Yangon May 31, 2011.REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

38 A farmer walks past a terrace of codonopsis pilosula, a traditional Chinese medicine also known as dang shen, in Min county, Gansu province May 31, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

39 Lightning strikes the CN Tower during a thunderstorm in Toronto May 29, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

40 People watch as Spanish soldiers of the Marine infantry brigade simulate an assault on La Malagueta beach during a military operational exhibition, on the eve of celebrations to mark Spanish Armed Forces Day in Malaga May 28, 2011. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

41 A newborn baby listens to music played through earphones in a hospital in Kosice, May 25, 2011. The hospital uses music as therapy for babies when they are separated from their mothers. REUTERS/Petr Josek

42 Racegoers are seen at the bar on Ladies Day, the third day of the Royal Ascot race meeting in southern England June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

43 A Buddhist monk joins others in a ceremony for Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at Wat Dharmmakaya on the outskirts of Bangkok May 17, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj