BOSTON - AUGUST 29: The white draped casket of Senator Edward Kennedy sits in front of (L-R) former President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden and his wife Jill Biden, former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former President Jimmy Carter during funeral services for U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help August 29, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. Kennedy, youngest sibling to brothers President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, died of brain cancer August 25. Getty Images logo Getty Images 3 months ago

BOSTON - AUGUST 29: The white draped casket of Senator Edward Kennedy sits in front of (L-R) former President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden and his wife Jill Biden, former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former President Jimmy Carter during funeral services for U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help August 29, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. Kennedy, youngest sibling to brothers President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, died of brain cancer August 25.

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  1. Cuban diva Omara Portuondo performs with Juan Formell, director of Cuba's most popular salsa band Van-Van, in the Karl Marx theatre in Havana during the band's 40th anniversary concert December 9, 2009. The band, founded in 1969, is starting a 70-concert tour of the United States and Europe. Omara Portuondo, the 79-year-old diva of the legendary Buena Vista Social Club group, was invited to help host the Latin Grammy awards last month in Las Vegas, a ceremony off-limits for Cuban artists during the hardline relationship that marked the Bush administration years.
  2. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: Anti-war demonstrators dressed up as bloodied former Prime Minister Tony Blair (L), US President George Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) stand outside the Iraq Inquiry on November 24, 2009 in London. Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry Sir John Chilcot will lead a committee of Privy Counsellors who will consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, the military action and its aftermath.
  3. Frances Townsend, former Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, full committee hearing on 'The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment' on November 19, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The panel was investigating 'whether the federal agencies and employees involved missed signals or failed to connect the dots in a way that enabled Major Nidal Hasan to carry out his deadly plan.' Hasan has been charged in the deadly shooting spree in the Fort Hood army base which left 13 dead and 42 wounded on November 5.
  4. BERLIN - OCTOBER 31: German President Horst Koehler delivers a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wallin 1989 at Friedrichstadtpalast on October 31, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The event organized by The Konrad Adenauer Foundation takes place under the motto: 'The Fall of the Wall and Reunification - the Victory of Freedom.' Bush, Gorbachev and Kohl played key roles as the peaceful revolution unfolded in East Germany in the autumn of 1989. Their cooperation would pave the way for German reunification in 1990.
  5. GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - OCTOBER 28: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by U.S. Military prior to transmission) Detainees kneel during an early morning Islamic prayer at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' on October 28, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Although U.S. President Barack Obama pledged in his first executive order last January to close the infamous prison within a year's time, the government has been struggling to try the accused terrorists and to transfer them out ahead of the deadline. Military officials at the prison point to improved living standards and state of the art medical treatment available to detainees, but the facility's international reputation remains tied to the 'enhanced interrogation techniques' such as waterboarding employed under the Bush administration.

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  1. Haitian President Rene Preval (R) welcomes former US president Jimmy Carter (C) and his wife Rosalynn Carter (L) on October 9, 2009 in Port-au-Prince. Carter is seeking cooperation between the leaders of Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic to rid their shared island of the mosquito-borne malaria.
  2. Former US President Jimmy Carter, left, looks at his wife Rosalynn Carter holding a child, second right, during their visit to a hospital in Ouaniminthe, northeast of Haiti, on the border with the Dominican Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Carter is visiting Haiti and the Dominican Republic to urge their leaders to forge a pact to rid the island of Hispaniola of malaria.
  3. Former US President Jimmy Carter, center, applauds next to his wife Rosalynn Carter during their visit to the La Bomba neighborhood in Dajabon, Dominican republic, on the border with Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Carter is visiting Haiti and the Dominican Republic to urge their leaders to forge a pact to rid the island of Hispaniola of malaria.
  4. immy and Rosalynn Carter's Presidential Medals of Freedom are shown Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta. The museum is scheduled to reopen Sept. 30 after a $10 million redesign.
  5. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter speaks at the inauguration of the New Life Community at Oudong village in Kandal province 50 km (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, November 21, 2009. Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and the former U.S. president on Saturday officially opened the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Kandal province where 21 houses were built for the poor Cambodians.
  6. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter waves while talking with volunteers at Oudong village in Kandal province, 50 km (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, November 21, 2009. Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and the former U.S. president on Saturday officially opened the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Kandal province where 21 houses were built for poor Cambodians.
  7. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: Anti-war demonstrators dressed up as bloodied former Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) and US President George Bush stand outside the Iraq Inquiry on November 24, 2009 in London. Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry Sir John Chilcot will lead a committee of Privy Counsellors who will consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, the military action and its aftermath.
  8. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: Anti-war demonstrators dressed up as bloodied former Prime Minister Tony Blair (L), US President George Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) stand outside the Iraq Inquiry on November 24, 2009 in London. Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry Sir John Chilcot will lead a committee of Privy Counsellors who will consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, the military action and its aftermath.
  9. Frances Townsend, former Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, full committee hearing on 'The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment' on November 19, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The panel was investigating 'whether the federal agencies and employees involved missed signals or failed to connect the dots in a way that enabled Major Nidal Hasan to carry out his deadly plan.' Hasan has been charged in the deadly shooting spree in the Fort Hood army base which left 13 dead and 42 wounded on November 5.
  10. Frances Townsend, former Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism, and US Army General John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff, testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, full committee hearing on 'The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment' on November 19, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The panel was investigating 'whether the federal agencies and employees involved missed signals or failed to connect the dots in a way that enabled Major Nidal Hasan to carry out his deadly plan.' Hasan has been charged in the deadly shooting spree in the Fort Hood army base which left 13 dead and 42 wounded on November 5.
  11. William Safire receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George W. Bush (R) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 15, 2006. Safire, the former Richard Nixon speechwriter who went on to become known for his columns on politics and language in The New York Times, has died, the newspaper said on Sunday. Safire, who was 79, died at a hospice in Rockville, Maryland, the Times said. An aide to Safire said he had suffered from cancer.
  12. Former President George W. Bush, right, and wife, Laura Bush, stand during the playing of the National Anthem, before the announcement of a community service project called Service Learning Adventures in North Texas, or "SLANT 45," at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.

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  1. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (L) talks with Peru's opposition leader and ex-army officer Ollanta Humala at a private meeting in Lima December 11, 2009.
  2. Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya (C) plays the guitar with his supporters inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa December 11, 2009. The Honduran de facto government said on Friday that Zelaya only could leave the country under political asylum and ruled out amnesty for the charges made against him.
  3. NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 12: Umar Gul of Pakistan looks back at Brendon McCullum of New Zealand after unsucessfully appealing for a catch behind during day two of the Third Test match between New Zealand and Pakistan at McLean Park on December 12, 2009 in Napier, New Zealand.
  4. NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 12: Umar Gul of Pakistan appeals unsucessfully for a catch behind as Brendon McCullum of New Zealand looks on during day two of the Third Test match between New Zealand and Pakistan at McLean Park on December 12, 2009 in Napier, New Zealand.
  5. NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 12: Umar Gul of Pakistan appeals unsucessfully for a catch behind as Brendon McCullum of New Zealand looks on during day two of the Third Test match between New Zealand and Pakistan at McLean Park on December 12, 2009 in Napier, New Zealand.
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  7. Tiger Woods watches a shot during the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Gainesville, Virginia, in this September 22, 2005 file photo. Woods said on December 11 he would take an "indefinite break" from professional golf, acknowledging the disappointment and hurt his "infidelity" had caused his family."I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try," the world's No. 1 golfer said in a statement posted on his website.
  8. Edmonton Oilers' Lubomir Visnovsky (L) tries to steal the puck from St. Louis Blues' Brad Boyes during the second period of their NHL hockey game in St. Louis December 11, 2009.
  9. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 12: Jockey Craig Newitt riding Sincengarni leads the field to win Race Three Johnstaff Projects Handicap during the Western Health Community Race Day meeting at Flemington Racecourse on December 12, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.
  10. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 12: Jockey Craig Newitt riding Sincengarni crosses the line to win Race Three Johnstaff Projects Handicap during the Western Health Community Race Day meeting at Flemington Racecourse on December 12, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.
  11. Chinese youth call on developed nations taking part in the Copenhagen conference to attend issues regarding climate change in Beijing Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei on Friday said the chief U.S. climate negotiator either lacks common sense or is "extremely irresponsible" for saying that no U.S. climate financing should be going to China.
  12. Chinese youth call on developed nations taking part in the Copenhagen conference to attend issues regarding climate change in Beijing Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei on Friday said the chief U.S. climate negotiator either lacks common sense or is "extremely irresponsible" for saying that no U.S. climate financing should be going to China.
  13. South Korean runners wearing Santa Claus costumes do exercise before taking part in the Santa Marathon race in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. More than thousand people participated in the 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) charity run to raise money for the poor as Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea where over half of the population are Christians.
  14. South Korean runners wearing Santa Claus costumes do exercise before taking part in the Santa Marathon race in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. More than thousand people participated in the 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) charity run to raise money for the poor as Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea where over half of the population are Christians.
  15. South Korean runners wearing Santa Claus costumes do exercise before taking part in the Santa Marathon race in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. More than thousand people participated in the 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) charity run to raise money for the poor as Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea where over half of the population are Christians.
  16. U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth speaks to reporters in Beijing Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. Bosworth was in Beijing to brief Foreign Ministry officials on his recent talks with North Korea about resuming negotiations on its nuclear disarmament.