Bangladeshi economist anf Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus listens to a speech during the 10th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the Rotes Rathaus (City Hall) in Berlin, on November 10, 2009. The two-day summit is attended by 22 Nobel Peace Laureates. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 week ago

Bangladeshi economist anf Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus listens to a speech during the 10th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the Rotes Rathaus (City Hall) in Berlin, on November 10, 2009. The two-day summit is attended by 22 Nobel Peace Laureates.

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  1. Bangladeshi economist anf Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus listens to a speech during the 10th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the Rotes Rathaus (City Hall) in Berlin, on November 10, 2009. The two-day summit is attended by 22 Nobel Peace Laureates.
  2. Nobel Prize winner and managing director of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus attends a news conference in the Berlin City Hall November 9, 2009. As the highlight of a 5-million euro ($7.4 million) celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, a 1.5-km (one-mile) long segment of the Wall will stand for two days along its original route in front of the Brandenburg Gate to the Potsdamer Platz. The row of 1,000 20-kg dominos standing 1.5 meters apart -- painted in bright colors by school children and rising 2.5 meters high -- will be toppled at the end of a gala ceremony as a symbolic tribute to the collapse of the Wall 20 years earlier.
  3. Nobel Prize winner and managing director of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit (L-R) arrive for a news conference in the Berlin City Hall November 9, 2009. As the highlight of a 5-million euro ($7.4 million) celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, a 1.5-km (one-mile) long segment of the Wall will stand for two days along its original route in front of the Brandenburg Gate to the Potsdamer Platz. The row of 1,000 20-kg dominos standing 1.5 metres apart -- painted in bright colours by school children and rising 2.5 metres high -- will be toppled at the end of a gala ceremony as a symbolic tribute to the collapse of the Wall 20 years earlier.
  4. Marianne Birthler, Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, Nobel Prize winner and managing director of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev (L-R) pose for a group picture before a news conference in the Berlin City Hall November 9, 2009. As the highlight of a 5-million euro ($7.4 million) celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, a 1.5-km (one-mile) long segment of the Wall will stand for two days along its original route in front of the Brandenburg Gate to the Potsdamer Platz. The row of 1,000 20-kg dominos standing 1.5 metres apart -- painted in bright colours by school children and rising 2.5 metres high -- will be toppled at the end of a gala ceremony as a symbolic tribute to the collapse of the Wall 20 years earlier.
  5. Chinese Xiao-Mi Tan receives the 2009 Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize for Asia and the Pacific from Muhammad Yunus (L), Nobel prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank of Microcredits, at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden October 22, 2009.
  6. Nobel Prize winner and managing director of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, participates in a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative, in New York, September 23, 2009. About 1,200 participants including heads of state, business leaders, humanitarians and celebrities will attend the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) which started on Tuesday.
  7. Nobel Prize winner and managing director of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, participates in a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative, in New York, September 23, 2009. About 1,200 participants including heads of state, business leaders, humanitarians and celebrities will attend the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) which started on Tuesday.

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