FAIRFAX, VA - JANUARY 08: US President-elect Barack Obama delivers remarks on his economic recovery plan at George Mason University January 8, 2009 in Fairfax, Virginia. Obama outlined his plan to save or create over 3 million jobs while investing in American infrastructure. Getty Images logo Getty Images 10 months ago

FAIRFAX, VA - JANUARY 08: US President-elect Barack Obama delivers remarks on his economic recovery plan at George Mason University January 8, 2009 in Fairfax, Virginia. Obama outlined his plan to save or create over 3 million jobs while investing in American infrastructure.

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  1. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  2. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  3. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  4. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  5. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  6. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  7. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Kathrina Norris (L) and Matt Cross (R) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  8. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  9. George Mason's Andre Cornelius, left, goes up for a shot over Indiana's Daniel Moore during a college basketball game at the Puerto Rico Tip-off tournament in San Juan, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009.
  10. Indiana's Christian Watford, left, pushes past George Mason's Kevin Foster during the first half of a college basketball game at the Puerto Rico Tip-off tournament in San Juan, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009.

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  1. A Mumbai police officer looks at the bullet scarred wall on the street outside Nariman House, the Jewish center where the attackers killed a rabbi and his wife in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 on the eve of the first anniversary of terror attacks. 10 militants with assault rifles fanned out across Mumbai last Nov. 26, attacking a train station, hotels, and other targets, paralyzing India's financial capital and shocking the country killing 166 people. Text reads We condemn the Terror Attacks.
  2. Children stand outside the Cinema Park theater, under a poster of Afghan film 'Orphan's life' in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
  3. A woman walks out of the Tiffany & Co store on Fifth Avenue in New York in this file image from October 8, 2009. Tiffany & Co. reported a larger-than-expected quarterly profit on November 25, 2009 and raised its forecast for full-year earnings on the strength of its overseas sales and a solid start to the holiday season, sending the upscale jeweler's share up nearly six percent.
  4. Belgium's newly appointed Prime Minister Yves Leterme (L) receives flowers from Employment Minister Joelle Milquet (C) as he presides over a first Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels November 25, 2009.
  5. Students hold candles during a vigil to commemorate victims on the eve of the first anniversary of the Mumbai militant attacks, in Chandigarh November 25, 2009.
  6. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: Roger Federer of Switzerland poses with the ATP World Tour Champion Trophy during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on November 25, 2009 in London, England. Federer was crowned ATP World Tour Champion for the fifth time, after becoming just the second player in the history of the ATP Rankings to regain the year-end No. 1 ranking. Federer clinched the 2009 ATP World Tour Champion title by beating Andy Murray at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on November 24.
  7. Tibetan monks take part in a religious gathering inside the Tashihunpu monastery at Shigatse Tibet Autonomous Region November 25, 2009.
  8. WESTON-SUPER-MARE, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: Waves break beneath the new steel framework of Weston-Super-Mare's Grand Pier on November 25, 2009 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. Although the recent bad weather has temporarily halted construction, contractors have managed to install approximately 1,100 tonnes of steel in the new structure with the framework lifted into place by a 180-tonne crane that operates from a barge floating next to the pier. Owners of the pier are confident that the 51 million GBP reconstruction of the pier will be completed by the summer of next year and will be a huge boost to the economy of the region. Reconstruction began shortly after the original pier burnt down in July 2008.
  9. WESTON-SUPER-MARE, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: Boats are moored in front of the new steel framework of Weston-Super-Mare's Grand Pier on November 25, 2009 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. Although the recent bad weather has temporarily halted construction, contractors have managed to install approximately 1,100 tonnes of steel in the new structure with the framework lifted into place by a 180-tonne crane that operates from a barge floating next to the pier. Owners of the pier are confident that the 51 million GBP reconstruction of the pier will be completed by the summer of next year and will be a huge boost to the economy of the region. Reconstruction began shortly after the original pier burnt down in July 2008.
  10. Mumbai police officers patrol past a bullet pocked wall of Nariman House, the Jewish center where the attackers killed a rabbi and his wife in Mumbai, India, on the eve of the first anniversary of terror attacks Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Ten militants with assault rifles fanned out across Mumbai last Nov. 26, 2008 attacking a train station, hotels, and other targets, paralyzing India's financial capital and shocking the country killing 166 people.
  11. ROME - NOVEMBER 25: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) shakes hands with Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov (L), after a meeting in Palazzo Chigi, on November 25, 2009 in Rome, Italy. Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov is on an official visit to Italy, with the aim to broker commercial agreements between the two coutries.
  12. Switzerland's Roger Federer shows off his 2009 ATP World Tour Champion trophy presented to him during the ATP World Tour Finals tennis at the 02 Arena in London, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Roger Federer has reclaimed his spot at the top of the tennis world, securing the year-end No. 1 ranking for the fifth time in his career.
  13. Switzerland's Roger Federer shows off his 2009 ATP World Tour Champion trophy presented to him during the ATP World Tour Finals tennis at the 02 Arena in London, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Roger Federer has reclaimed his spot at the top of the tennis world, securing the year-end No. 1 ranking for the fifth time in his career.
  14. FILE - This is a May 14, 2008 file photo of Yves Rossy as he is seen flying over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland. Rossy went down in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009 while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings . A rescue helicopter pulled him from the water and he appeared to be unhurt. Rossy took off from Tangiers but halfway through an expected 15-minute flight he went down into wind-swept waters.
  15. WORKINGTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: A woman hangs out belongings to dry in the wake of last weeks devastating floods in Cumbria on November 25, 2009 in Cockermouth, England. An army of contractors and utility workers have descended on Cumbria to rebuild the infrastructure after last weeks unprecedented floods. Prime Minister Gordon Brown today told MP's that the government is doing all it can to help flood victims in Cumbria to return home as quickly as possible.
  16. MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 25: Lavinia Borromeo Elkann attends the 2010 Torino World Figure Skating Championship: Press Conference on November 25, 2009 in Milan, Italy.