Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, is greeted on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, by Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. prior to the start of the committee's confirmation hearing for Rooney. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. is at center. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, is greeted on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, by Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. prior to the start of the committee's confirmation hearing for Rooney. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. is at center.

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  7. 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.
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