French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (L) addresses deputies as Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (R) and Minister of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (2drow C) listen during the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 4, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris. Getty Images logo Getty Images 3 weeks ago

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (L) addresses deputies as Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (R) and Minister of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (2drow C) listen during the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 4, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.

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  1. French Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (L) and Industry minister Christian Estrosi leave the Elysee palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris on November 10, 2009.

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  1. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) sits with Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (L) and Laurent Wauquiez (R), junior minister for employment, before delivering his speech to managers of French unemployment centres, during a meeting of Pole Emploi (Employment Hub) in Paris November 23, 2009.
  2. French Junior Minister for Relations with Parliament Henri de Raincourt (L) chats with Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux as Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez (3rdL) talks with Minister for Town and Country Planning and Rural Affairs Michel Mercier (2ndR) while Health, Youth, Sport Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin (R) looks on at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting on November 16, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
  3. French Junior Minister for Family and Solidarity Nadine Morano (C) French Junior Minister,for Relations with Parliament Henri de Raincourt (L) and French Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez leave the weekly cabinet meeting on November 16, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
  4. French Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (L) and Industry minister Christian Estrosi leave the Elysee palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris on November 10, 2009.
  5. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (L) addresses deputies as Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (R) and Minister of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (2drow C) listen during the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 4, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.
  6. (1st row LtoR) French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Prime Minister Francois Fillon, (2d row from L) Minister of State for the Green Technology Valerie Letard, Minister of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez and Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux attend the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 4, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.
  7. French Employment junior Minister Laurent Wauquiez (L) and French national soccer team coach Raymond Domenech attend a meeting "But pour l'emploi" (A Goal for Jobs) in Lyon, October 19, 2009.
  8. French Economy, Industry and Employment Minister, Christine Lagarde and Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez leave the weekly cabinet meeting on October 14, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
  9. France's Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (R) and Employment Junior Minister Laurent Wauquiez attend the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris October 13, 2009.
  10. A member of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, writes on a board the 2008 French President Nicolas Sarkozy' promises as the workers prepare a symbolic meeting with the president. In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  11. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalists as they wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  12. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalists as they wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  13. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, answer to journalits wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, preparing a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  14. Members of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, wait for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy where they prepare a symbolic meeting (with President's chair vacant). In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  15. French Junior minister for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (L) and Interior minister Brice Horetfeux attend the weekly session of the questions to the government on October 6, 2009 at the National Assembly in Paris.
  16. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (2ndR), flanked by French Junior Minister for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (4thR) listens to the explanations of a student as visiting the Technology University Institute in Avignon, southern France, on September 29, 2009. Sarkozy is to present today in Avignon series of measures for 16-25 year-old youngs on housing, vocational training, job and health.

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  1. BHOPAL, INDIA - NOVEMBER 30: Fifteen year old Sachin Kumar suns himself outside his home in a slum near the site of the deserted Union Carbide factory on November 30, 2009 in Bhopal, India. Twenty-five years after an explosion causing a mass gas leak, in the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, killed at least eight thousand people, toxic material from the 'biggest industrial disaster in history' continues to affect Bhopalis. A new generation is growing up sick, disabled and struggling for justice. The effects of the disaster on the health of generations to come, both through genetics, transferred from gas victims to their children and through the ongoing severe contamination, caused by the Union Carbide factory, has only started to develop visible forms recently. Sachin Kumar lives with his parents Suresh and Sangita, his 3 sisters, Jyoti, Arti and Punam and his brother Ravi, in a slum where a number of people affected by either water contamination or poison contamination have been relocated to. Sachin was born with a birth defect rendering his legs practically useless. Sachin had been receiving physical therapy treatment and education from the Chingari Trust rehabilitation Centre for victims of the 1984 gas tragedy, for which he has been registered for. However Sachin's health has turned for the worse and his legs, now covered with open sores, restrict him from travelling to the major road where the Chingari Trust bus can pick him up for daily treatment. The oldest of four, Sachin spends his days playing board games with his friends and a rare game of cricket, which he sees as the fulfilment of his dreams of becoming a professional cricket player.
  2. BHOPAL, INDIA - NOVEMBER 30: Fifteen year old Sachin Kumar watches television in his home located in a slum near the site of the deserted Union Carbide factory on November 30, 2009 in Bhopal, India. Twenty-five years after an explosion causing a mass gas leak, in the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, killed at least eight thousand people, toxic material from the 'biggest industrial disaster in history' continues to affect Bhopalis. A new generation is growing up sick, disabled and struggling for justice. The effects of the disaster on the health of generations to come, both through genetics, transferred from gas victims to their children and through the ongoing severe contamination, caused by the Union Carbide factory, has only started to develop visible forms recently. Sachin Kumar lives with his parents Suresh and Sangita, his 3 sisters, Jyoti, Arti and Punam and his brother Ravi, in a slum where a number of people affected by either water contamination or poison contamination have been relocated to. Sachin was born with a birth defect rendering his legs practically useless. Sachin had been receiving physical therapy treatment and education from the Chingari Trust rehabilitation Centre for victims of the 1984 gas tragedy, for which he has been registered for. However Sachin's health has turned for the worse and his legs, now covered with open sores, restrict him from travelling to the major road where the Chingari Trust bus can pick him up for daily treatment. The oldest of four, Sachin spends his days playing board games with his friends and a rare game of cricket, which he sees as the fulfilment of his dreams of becoming a professional cricket player.
  3. BHOPAL, INDIA - NOVEMBER 30: Fifteen year old Sachin Kumar looks at his knees as he is carried to play cricket with his friends in a slum near the site of the deserted Union Carbide factory on November 30, 2009 in Bhopal, India. Twenty-five years after an explosion causing a mass gas leak, in the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, killed at least eight thousand people, toxic material from the 'biggest industrial disaster in history' continues to affect Bhopalis. A new generation is growing up sick, disabled and struggling for justice. The effects of the disaster on the health of generations to come, both through genetics, transferred from gas victims to their children and through the ongoing severe contamination, caused by the Union Carbide factory, has only started to develop visible forms recently. Sachin Kumar lives with his parents Suresh and Sangita, his 3 sisters, Jyoti, Arti and Punam and his brother Ravi, in a slum where a number of people affected by either water contamination or poison contamination have been relocated to. Sachin was born with a birth defect rendering his legs practically useless. Sachin had been receiving physical therapy treatment and education from the Chingari Trust rehabilitation Centre for victims of the 1984 gas tragedy, for which he has been registered for. However Sachin's health has turned for the worse and his legs, now covered with open sores, restrict him from travelling to the major road where the Chingari Trust bus can pick him up for daily treatment. The oldest of four, Sachin spends his days playing board games with his friends and a rare game of cricket, which he sees as the fulfilment of his dreams of becoming a professional cricket player.
  4. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 30: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a photo-op prior to their meeting at the State Department November 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Rudd was in Washington for a one-day working visit.
  5. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 30: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) speaks during a photo-op with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prior to their meeting at the State Department November 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Rudd was in Washington for a one-day working visit.
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  7. U.S. actress Cameron Diaz (L) waves next to a bodyguard as she leaves the set of "Knight & Day" after filming in Seville, southern Spain November 30, 2009. Actors Diaz and Tom Cruise are currently in Seville to act in the film directed by James Mangold.
  8. A general view taken during heavy snow fall shows the chalet 'Milky Way', which according to Swiss newspapers, is where Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski is staying in, in the Swiss mountain resort of Gstaad, November 30, 2009. A Swiss court last week approved the release of Roman Polanski on bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.49 million) while the film director fights extradition to the United States over a 1970s child sex case. Polanski was arrested at the request of the United States when he arrived in Switzerland on September 26 to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival.
  9. A general view taken during heavy snow fall shows the chalet 'Milky Way', which according to Swiss newspapers, is where Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski is staying in, in the Swiss mountain resort of Gstaad, November 30, 2009. A Swiss court last week approved the release of Roman Polanski on bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.49 million) while the film director fights extradition to the United States over a 1970s child sex case. Polanski was arrested at the request of the United States when he arrived in Switzerland on September 26 to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival.
  10. Mel Karmazin, Chief Executive Officer of Sirius XM Radio, speaks at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York, November 30, 2009.
  11. In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, listens to a question during a joint press conference with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, unseen, during their visit to the Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, just outside the southern port city of Bushehr, Iran, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Iran's nuclear chief on Monday said U.N. criticism pushed his country to retaliate by announcing ambitious plans for more uranium enrichment. Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi told state radio that Iran's decision to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities was necessary to respond to the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution Friday demanding that Iran halt all enrichment activities.
  12. In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko left, poses for a photo with deputy chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Saeedi, prior to a press conference during a visit to the Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, just outside the southern port city of Bushehr, Iran, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Russia will contribute to a constructive dialogue between the Sextet and Iran, and between the IAEA and Iran on Tehran's nuclear programme, Shmatko said, according to the Tass news service.
  13. Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma delivers his speech during the plenary session of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.
  14. Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming delivers a speech during the plenary session of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the International Conference Center Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. China rejected Monday the charge that it was keeping the yuan artificially low against the dollar, but rather blamed another "major economy" for keeping its own currency weak.
  15. A general view of assembly hall during the plenary session of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.
  16. Chinese Minister of Commerce, Chen Deming, delivers his speech during the plenary session of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.