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Cars lie overturned after the highway they were travelling on was destroyed in an earthquake in Santiago February 27, 2010. (REUTERS/Marco Fredes)

A street kid holding a bottle of glue looks around a corner as police and hawkers clash in Nairobi, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, during a protest after the hawker's illegal street side shops were demolished by the authorities. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Riot policemen beat a Muslim demonstrator near the Jamia Mosque in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010. Kenyan security forces shot in the air and fired tear gas at hundreds of people protesting in the capital on Friday against the detention of Jamaican cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)

Kim Jong-il visits the Pyongyang Textile Factory in Pyongyang. Photo released on July 31, 2009. (REUTERS/KCNA)

A man offers a rose to a woman to mark International Women's Day in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 8. (Marko Djurica / Reuters)

A model eats as she has her hair done before the start of the Naeem Khan Fall 2010 collection show during New York Fashion Week on February 18, 2010. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

Thousands of motorists sit stuck in the morning gridlock after a group of protesters blocked one of Jakarta's main roads on February 22, 2010. The number of motor vehicles including motorcycles in greater Jakarta has almost tripled in the past eight years to 9.52 million. Meanwhile road space has grown less than one percent annually since 2004, according to the Indonesian Transport Society. BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images

A teacher comforts a crying pupil at the temporary school in the Bantar Gebang landfill site, one of Jakarta's biggest dump sites, on January 26, 2010 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Children who live and work at the landfill site are schooled by day before going to help their parents scavenge and sell their finds after classes are over. Around 6,000 metric tons of garbage are dumped daily at the landfill site. Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

A worker cooks dodol on the wood stove in a home business in Tangerang, Banten province February 6, 2010. Dodol, which is made of sticky rice, coconut milk, and palm sugar, is a special delicacy sold during the Chinese New Year period in Indonesia. The business increases its production of dodol products by about 50 percent due to higher demand ahead of the celebration. REUTERS/Supri

A young boy wades through floods in Jakarta on February 13, 2010. Thousands of residents took refuge after annual floods hit brink areas of the Ciliwung river caused by heavy rains in Bogor and Jakarta, according to local reports. ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images

A caterpillar hangs from a silk thread in Jakarta on January 30, 2010. REUTERS/Beawiharta

A man collects oranges during a night at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

A U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. The Pakistani army said Sunday that it was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike in mid-January. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

An Amish couple rides in a horse-drawn buggy through a blizzard in St. Mary's, Maryland. Mark Wilson/Getty

A costumed reveller enjoys his cappuccino in a bar next to Piazza San Marco during the Venetian Carnival in Venice, Italy on February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Max Rossi

Team Switzerland prepare before their ice hockey men's preliminary game against USA on day 5 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on February 16, 2010. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

A baby sits in a basket while waiting to board a train at a railway station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China on January 25, 2010. REUTERS/Sean Yong

In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, a Buddhist monk plays with a young tiger at Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. AP Photo/David Longstreath

People on a bus watch a street performer dancing in costume in the streets of Lima, Peru February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

People make their way on a flooded street of the Jardim Romano neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 26. More than 100 people have been killed by mudslides and floods triggered by downpours across southeastern Brazil since Jan. 1. Heaviest hit have been Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo states. Nelson Antoine / AP

Afghan soldiers trained by US Marines from the First Battalion, 6th regiment, thumb through an issue of People Magazine as they wait to be transferred to another camp, in Mahafiz camp in the outskirts of Marjah in central Helmand on January 23, 2010. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images

A British soldier stands in front of an Afghan vehicle, known as a "jingle truck", as he provides security outside Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 2, 2010. The soldier is assigned to B Flight, 27 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, which is serving with NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez/U.S. Air Force

A viking galley ship goes up in flames, surrounded by the Viking Jarl Squad in Lerwick, on Scotland's Shetland Islands, on January 26, 2010. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images

Workers clean fish along a busy street in Manila, January 11, 2010, before they put it on an improvised wooden stove for smoking. The vendor sells the smoked fish for 80 pesos ($1.77) a kilogram. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Employees of German bathroom ceramic and furniture firm Duravit, stand outside on a balcony atop of a giant lavatory bowl, at their company headquarters in Hornberg, Southwestern Germany, January 22, 2010. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

A Zoo employee makes a record of the number of Jellyfish in their tank at London Zoo as part of the zoo's annual stock-take on January 5, 2010 in London, England. ZSL London Zoo is home to over 650 different species which all need to be cataloged in their annual stock-taking which is a compulsory requirement for their zoo license. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Afghan men collect wool threads prior to being dyed at a carpet manufacturer on January 9, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The highly prized and typically expensive carpets and rugs are one of Afghanistan's best recognised exports. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

A worker prepares to destroy confiscated weapons at a steel plant in Shanghai, China on December 29, 2009. Some 13,000 illegal firearms, replica toy guns, machetes and swords that were confiscated by the police were destroyed during the campaign, local media reported. REUTERS/Aly Song

Children from the Turkana area of Kanukurdio pan for flakes of gold which helps sustain their families on November 9, 2009 near Lodwar, Kenya. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

People work in an illegal gold mine in a national park forest near Novo Progresso in Brazil's northern state of Paral on September 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A Haitian national policeman takes position during riots with looters in downtown Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Indian soldiers form a human pyramid on motorcycles during a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Jan. 18. India celebrates its Republic Day on Jan. 26. (Reinhard Krause / Reuters)

People watch a fashion show at the Portugal stand of the International Tourism Trade Fair in Madrid on Jan. 20. Delegations attend the fair to promote their countries' tourist industry. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP - Getty Images)

A duck, pheasants and rabbits hang from a clothes line before being plucked, skinned and frozen at Garron Point near the village of Carnlough in Northern Ireland, on Jan. 18. (Cathal McNaughton / Reuters)

Prince William officially opens the Supreme Court in Wellington on the second day of his visit to New Zealand. He will undertake numerous engagements during his three days in New Zealand, before visiting Australia. (Mike Heydon / Getty)

Rajasthani musicians from the Indian group The Manganiyar Seduction perform during the opening night of Australia's 34th Sydney Festival. (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty)

Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, is seen in Dubai December 14, 2009. Abu Dhabi stepped in to help fellow United Arab Emirates member Dubai with a $10 billion (6.1 billion pound) injection, of which $4.1 billion was allocated to troubled state-owned conglomerate Dubai World to pay immediate obligations, Dubai said on Monday. REUTERS/Mosab Omar

A male polar bear carries the head of a polar bear cub it killed and cannibalized in an area about 300 km (186 miles) north of the Canadian town of Churchill in this picture taken November 20, 2009. Climate change has turned some polar bears into cannibals as global warming melts their Arctic ice hunting grounds, reducing the polar bear population, according to a U.S.-led global scientific study on the impacts of climate change. Picture taken November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Iain D. Williams

Ken Weber laughs with with health practitioners while getting his H1N1 influenza vaccination in Vancouver, British Columbia October 26, 2009. Health care workers across the country began administrating H1N1 influenza vaccine shots across the country. REUTERS/Andy Clark

This image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 30, 2009 shows a view combining infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory in the supernova remnant W49B. Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory have revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions. Even after thousands of years, gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface. Suzaku found another fossil fireball. It detected X-rays produced when heavily ionized iron atoms recapture an electron. (AP Photo/NASA)

An airplane is silhouetted against a full moon in the sky over London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

Quarterback Pat White of the Miami Dolphins is carted off the field after being knocked unconcious in the third quarter against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Land Shark Stadium in Miami, Florida. The Steelers defeated the Dolphins 30-24. White was hospitalized after suffering a head injury in a helmet-to-helmet collision with Pittsburgh defender Ike Taylor in the teams' NFL season finale Sunday. (AFP/Getty Images/Doug Benc)

A police officer wields a baton against a protestor near the venue of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen. Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters

A delegate from France sleeps during a break in an all-night plenary meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Bob Strong / Reuters

Yuska, the senior female of a gorilla group at the Melbourne Zoo in Melbourne, Australia enjoys Christmas treats. Melbourne Zoo / EPA

Iranian security forces on motorcycles surround opposition protesters during clashes in Tehran. The White House on Sunday strongly condemned "violent and unjust suppression" of civilians in Iran, following a fierce government crackdown on opposition protests. (AFP)

Joydeep Yadav, of Rochester Hills, Mich., talks with reporters after clearing customs at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009 in Romulus, Mich. Yadav was aboard Northwest flight 253 that was kept on the tarmac on Sunday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Delta/Northwestern Airlines employee Eddie Rodriguez looks over luggage at baggage claim that arrived before passengers at O'Hare Airport, in Chicago, Sunday Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Shiite Muslim worshippers, stained by their own blood from self inflicted wounds, hold knives during the festival of Ashoura, when faithful show their grief over the 7th-century killing of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein, in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

'Cocolo,' a 2.5-year-old female Toy Poodle, eats a special Christmas cake made from rice powder, yogurt and natural honey with strawberries atop it, in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. The Christmas cake for dog is sold at 2,500 yen (US$27) at the Prince Park Tower Tokyo until Dec. 25. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

A passenger waits for a delayed flight at Heathrow airport's terminal four in London August 12, 2006. REUTERS/Toby Melville

People walk through the snow-covered National Mall in Washington, DC. The federal government was closed Monday after a record-breaking snowstorm swept across the northeastern United States and put a damper on one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Chayenne McLucas, 3, of Hockessin, Del., clears the snow off her driveway Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 in Hockessin, Del. during a winter storm. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson)

In this Dec. 19, 2009 file photo, Andres Alarcon, 29, of Colombia and a student at Washington's Howard University, sleeps by a Christmas tree inside of Reagan National Airport in Washington after the airport was closed due to a large snow storm that hit the region on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senator John McCain (L) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, speak about the health care reform on Capitol Hill on December 18.

Cows on the Diehl dairy farm in Callicoon, New York, about 120 miles (193 kms) northwest of New York City. The Diehls have refused to sign an agreement with energy companies to allow drilling rights on their land for access to part of the largest natural gas reserve in the US. They are worried the revolutionary gas extraction process will destroy their water supply. (AFP/File/Stan Honda)

This photo released by Anthony M. Tortoriello shows Faith a two-legged dog walking down Michigan Ave to the wonderment of the human pedestrians. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Anthony M. Tortoriello)

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 residue is seen on the bottom of an electric iron at the home of Mary Jo Coady, in Methuen, Mass. Coady says an image of Jesus Christ that she sees in the pattern on the bottom of the iron, which she first noticed on Sunday, has reassured her that 'life is going to be good.' (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Grant Morris)

Bunny style : Owners display their rabbit in fancy dress and dark goggles during a rabbit fashion contest at the Rabbit Festa in Yokohama city in Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest and newest cruise ship, navigates through a ship channel as a crowd cheers, headed for its home port nearby in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida as seen from a park in Dania Beach, Florida November 13, 2009. The ship, constructed in Finland, is owned by Royal Caribbean International. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Russia's Orthodox Patriarch Kirill conducts a service in the Crimean city of the Chersonese, August 2, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

Men push their cars through flooded streets after a storm produced heavy rain in Jeddah November 25, 2009. Saudi emergency services said on Sunday the death toll from floods that tore through the port city of Jeddah this week had risen to 103, with another 1,400 rescued, the state news agency reported on Sunday. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

Workers finish expanding an opening into room 146 of a laboratory at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington state. The radioactive and toxic mess at the longtime nuclear lab has become an economic engine for Benton County, which has received nearly $2 billion in stimulus funds.

Dead fish float in the Parana de Manaquiri River, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Manaquiri November 22, 2009. After a rainy season that caused some of the worst flooding in recent history the seasonal drought that followed is proving to be especially bad as well. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/Amazonaspress

Guinea's military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara arrives in October 2009 at the Martyrs Square of Conakry during ceremonies marking he 51st anniversary of independence day. Camara's candidacy in any fresh presidential elections is "not negotiable" in the current mediation talks, Communications Minister Idrissa Cherif said Sunday. (AFP/File/Seyllou)

A police forensic team examine a car in front of the Policing Board headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A massive car bomb that failed to explode properly was designed to cause widespread destruction, police have said, underscoring the threat posed by dissident groups to Northern Ireland's fragile peace. (AFP)

Sri Lankan war-displaced civilians look on at a state-run internment camp in Vavuniya. Sri Lanka has said it would grant free movement to the remaining war-displaced civilians held in internment camps, meeting a key demand of the international community. (AFP/Ishara S.Kodikara)

Iranian technicians remove a container of radioactive uranium at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities in 2005. Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog said that Tehran wants a guaranteed supply of fuel for a research reactor as a military chief warned that any attack on its nuclear sites would be crushed. (AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)