Swedish Crown Princess Victoria (L) presents the International Honorary Prize to Jeffrey Sachs, an adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, during The Knowledge Awards gala in the Stockholm City Hall, October 19, 2009. The Knowledge Awards, established in 1982 by the Swedish National Encyclopedia, are conferred annually to individuals who stimulate knowledge in others. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Swedish Crown Princess Victoria (L) presents the International Honorary Prize to Jeffrey Sachs, an adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, during The Knowledge Awards gala in the Stockholm City Hall, October 19, 2009. The Knowledge Awards, established in 1982 by the Swedish National Encyclopedia, are conferred annually to individuals who stimulate knowledge in others.

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  12. Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, left, presents the International Honorary Prize to U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs, right, during The Knowledge Awards gala at City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009.
  13. US- and Canadian-based Tamils protest near the US Capitol in Washington on November 20, 2009 to bring attention to the end of the 180-day period promised by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for the release of an estimated 300,000 Tamils held in government camps in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has released more than half of the thousands of displaced civilians held in the camps after the end of the country's ethnic conflict earlier this year, Human Rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said Friday. He said 136,328 men, women and children still remained inside camps across the island's north, down from some 280,000 at the end of the fighting in May with the defeat of Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
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  15. United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon gives a joint press conference at the end of the first day of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
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