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US President Barack Obama (R) welcomes World Bank President Robert Zoellick to the G20 dinner on September 24, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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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. Finance and trade ministers (BACK ROW, L-R) Ricardo Ochao of Mexico, China's Zhu Guangyao, Brunei's Pehin Dato Abd Rahman, Wayne Swan of Australia, Vietnam's Tran Xuan Ha, Robert B. Zoellick of World Bank, Thailand's Korn Chatikavanji, Malaysia's Ahmad Husni, Japan's Shinichito Furumoto, Sush-der Lee of Taiwan and Benjamin Poponawa of Papua New Guinea (FRONT ROW L-R) Russia's Alexey Kudrin, Bill English of New Zealand, Phillippines's Margarito Teves, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of IMF, Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia, Chairman of FMM Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Timothy Geithner of United States, Chile's Maria Olivia Recart, Canada's James Flaherty, Claudia Cooper of Peru, Hong Kong's John Tsang and Korea's Shin Je Yoon pose for a group photograph during a break at a plenary meeting in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore on November 12, 2009. Asia-Pacific economies led by the United States and China opened annual talks with calls to fight protectionism or risk reversing the region's 'fragile' economic rebound. Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said 'resisting protectionism' was the topmost concern, as foreign and trade ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met in advance of a weekend summit here.
  8. Finance and trade ministers (BACK ROW, L-R) Ricardo Ochao of Mexico, China's Zhu Guangyao, Brunei's Pehin Dato Abd Rahman, Wayne Swan of Australia, Vietnam's Tran Xuan Ha, Robert B. Zoellick of World Bank, Thailand's Korn Chatikavanji, Malaysia's Ahmad Husni, Japan's Shinichito Furumoto, Sush-der Lee of Taiwan and Benjamin Poponawa of Papua New Guinea (FRONT ROW L-R) Russia's Alexey Kudrin, Bill English of New Zealand, Phillippines's Margarito Teves, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of IMF, Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia, Chairman of FMM Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Timothy Geithner of United States, Chile's Maria Olivia Recart, Canada's James Flaherty, Claudia Cooper of Peru, Hong Kong's John Tsang and Korea's Shin Je Yoon pose for a group photograph during a break at a plenary meeting in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore on November 12, 2009. Asia-Pacific economies led by the United States and China opened annual talks with calls to fight protectionism or risk reversing the region's 'fragile' economic rebound. Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said 'resisting protectionism' was the topmost concern, as foreign and trade ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met in advance of a weekend summit here.
  9. Finance and trade ministers (BACK ROW, L-R) Ricardo Ochao of Mexico, China's Zhu Guangyao, Brunei's Pehin Dato Abd Rahman, Wayne Swan of Australia, Vietnam's Tran Xuan Ha, Robert B. Zoellick of World Bank, Thailand's Korn Chatikavanji, Malaysia's Ahmad Husni, Japan's Shinichito Furumoto, Sush-der Lee of Taiwan and Benjamin Poponawa of Papua New Guinea (FRONT ROW L-R) Russia's Alexey Kudrin, Bill English of New Zealand, Phillippines's Margarito Teves, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of IMF, Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia, Chairman of FMM Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Timothy Geithner of United States, Chile's Maria Olivia Recart, Canada's James Flaherty, Claudia Cooper of Peru, Hong Kong's John Tsang and Korea's Shin Je Yoon pose for a group photograph during a break at a plenary meeting in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore on November 12, 2009. Asia-Pacific economies led by the United States and China opened annual talks with calls to fight protectionism or risk reversing the region's 'fragile' economic rebound. Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said 'resisting protectionism' was the topmost concern, as foreign and trade ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met in advance of a weekend summit here.
  10. Robert Zoellick (R), president of the World Bank, speaks while Richard Woolcott (L), former Australian secretary of foreign affairs and trade, listens at the APEC 20th anniversary high-level symposium on November 10, 2009 in Singapore. The symposium was held ahead of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in the city on November 14-15.
  11. Robert Zoellick (R), president of the World Bank, speaks while Richard Woolcott (L), former Australian secretary of foreign affairs and trade, share a light moment during the APEC 20th anniversary high-level symposium on November 10, 2009 in Singapore. The symposium was held ahead of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in the city on November 14-15.
  12. Robert Zoellick (R), president of the World Bank, speaks while Richard Woolcott (L), former Australian secretary of foreign affairs and trade, listens at the APEC 20th anniversary high-level symposium on November 10, 2009 in Singapore. The symposium was held ahead of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in the city on November 14-15.
  13. Managing Director of The World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addresses the audience during her speech during the Emerging Markets Summit, a two-day conference in London, on September 17, 2009.
  14. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing director of the World Bank and former Nigerian finance minister, Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi (C) and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan (R) exchange greetings during a session at the 15th edition of the Nigerian economic summit in Abuja December 15, 2009. Okonjo-Iweala said on Tuesday Nigeria needed quality over quantity in government spending, as parliament mulls an expansionary budget for 2010.
  15. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing director of the World Bank and former Nigerian finance minister, gestures during a session at the 15th edition of the Nigerian economic summit in Abuja December 15, 2009. Okonjo-Iweala said on Tuesday Nigeria needed quality over quantity in government spending, as parliament mulls an expansionary budget for 2010.
  16. DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 14: Men bathe themselves on the banks of the Yamuna river on December 14, 2009 in Delhi, India. In a city of approximately 16 million, over a quarter of New Delhi residents have no access to piped water. City residents pour an estimated 950 million gallons of sewage into the Yamuna River everyday, 50% of which enters untreated. The entire Yamuna River right from its origin to confluence with the river Ganges and its tributaries are subject to human activities, which directly or indirectly affect the water quality. 2.1 million children in India under the age of 5 die each year from water-borne diseases. The World Bank reports India stands on the edge of an era of severe water scarcity as the city's population has grown over 40% in 15 years. Acording to UNICEF, water-borne diseases are responsible for more deaths than AIDS, Malaria and Measles combined.

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  12. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 16: Dutch-born entertainer Johannes 'Jopi' Heesters poses during a photo call on December 16, 2009 in Munich, Germany.
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  15. MUNICH, GERMANY - DECEMBER 16: Dutch-born entertainer Johannes 'Jopi' Heesters smiles during a photo call on December 16, 2009 in Munich, Germany.
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