Other

South Korea Koreas Cl_Lea.jpg

South Koreans wear gas masks during a civil defense drill simulating a North Korean attack near the border city of Paju, South Korea, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Britain_French_King_s_Head.sff.jpg

In this combination digital image made available by Jean-Noel Vignal and Isabelle Huynh-Charlier Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010, a reconstruction of the face France's King Henri IV is seen, left, and his skull with the reconstruction overlaid is seen at right. After nine months of tests, researchers in France have identified the head of France's King Henry IV, who was assassinated in 1610 aged 57. The scientific tests helped identify the late monarch's embalmed head, which was shuffled between private collections ever since it disappeared during the French Revolution in 1793. (AP Photo/Jean-Noel Vignal and Isabelle Huynh-Charlier)

cold_2228

Icicles hang off of grapefruit at sunrise, at the Lake Jessup Groves, near Geneva, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank)

Germany Islamists Rai_Thir.jpg

This Nov. 18, 2010, file picture shows the Masjid As-Sunnah mosque, the home of the Invitation to Paradise association in Moenchengladbach, western Germany. The German Interior Ministry said Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, that authorities have searched buildings connected to the two groups Islamist groups Invitation to Paradise and Islamic Culture Center Bremen in three cities early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Britain Sweden Wikile_Lea.jpg

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, some holding placards and wearing masks depicting him, demonstrate outside the Swedish Embassy in central London on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

20101213-193245-pic-811434616.jpg

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a "a demented, anger-infused doofus," according to Time magazine's Joe Klein. Was it the worst example of media bias this year? Weigh in at www.mrc.org. (Associated Press)

Ballerina_Weight.sff.jpg

This November 2010 photo courtesy of the New York City Ballet/Paul Kolnik shows Jenifer Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, left, and Jared Angle, as the Cavalier, during a performance of "The Nutcracker," at Lincoln Center in New York. It's Christmas, and for a ballerina at New York City ballet, that means immersing yourself in visions of sugarplums in "The Nutcracker." What veteran dancer Jenifer Ringer surely didn't expect was to be accused of having eaten one sugarplum too many. (AP Photo/New York City Ballet, Paul Kolnik) NO SALES

sweden_2115

In this frame grab taken from Associated Press Television News video and provided by Hector Eguia shows a car burning and exploding in Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/APTN, Hector Eguia)

sweden_2113

Police forensics expert at the scene of an explosion in Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Two explosions in central Stockholm killed one person and injured two on Saturday, causing panic among Christmas shoppers. Police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander said a car exploded near Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street in the center of the city. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson)

Britain_X_Factor.sff.jpg

Simon Cowell arrives at the television studio for The 2010 X Factor, final at Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. Singer Matt Cardle won the 2010 X factor title on Sunday Dec. 12 2010. Simon Cowell and his X Factor juggernaut, is soon to jump the pond from England to the United States. (AP Photo/ Yui Mok/PA ) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Hong_Kong_WikiLeaks.sff.jpg

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold a banner, wearing the masks featuring the American National flags during a protest at Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Skirmishes raged across cyberspace between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battle line taken out of service or choked off by attacks. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

South Korea Boat Sink_Lea.jpg

Unidentified relatives of a crew member aboard a South Korean fishing boat that sank in the Antarctic Ocean arrive at the headquarters of Insung Corp., the owner of the ship, in Busan, South Korea, on Monday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Min Young-kyun)

France School Hostage_Lea.jpg

Elite police take their positions at a preschool in Besancon, France, on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, before entering the building, where a 17-year-old armed with swords was holding several small children and their teacher hostage. (AP Photo)

Kazakhstan_Russia_Space.sff.jpg

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 file picture, U.S. astronaut Catherine Coleman, left, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, center, and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS, pose through a window after a news conference at the Baikonur, Kazakhstan cosmodrome. A small piece of space junk is drifting dangerously close to the International Space Station. NASA has ordered the three station astronauts to seek shelter late Tuesday afternoon, April 5, 2011 in the Russian Soyuz capsule that is docked at the orbiting complex. A NASA spokesman says there's no time to steer the station out of harm's way. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Givng_By_Wealthy.sff.jpg

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiling at an announcement in San Francisco. Another 17 of America's richest people, including Zuckerberg, junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and AOL co-founder Steve Case, have pledged to give away most of their wealth. They are the latest to join the Giving Pledge, an effort led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett to commit the country's wealthiest people to step up their charitable donations. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

20101212-173423-pic-220045008.jpg

Hans Hass pauses Nov. 5 at a grave in the Sufi cemetery on the grounds of the Sufi center in Sidney Center, N.Y. The town was thrust into the spotlight this summer after a controversy over the Muslim grave sites. (Associated Press)

Fake_Doctor.sff.jpg

FILE - In this March 14, 2010 file photo, a doctor watches a monitor as he inserts a stent into an artery during a cardiology simulation supervised by William Hamman, not pictured, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Hamman, an airline captain who lives in Michigan, claimed to be a cardiologist and trained other doctors in teamwork. But he never got a medical degree. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)

Congress_Attacks_Health.sff.jpg

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., second from right, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, after the Senate voted down a bill to aid people who got sick after exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse in the Sept. 11 attack. From left are, Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Schumer. and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Indonesia_Giant_Stork.sff.jpg

In this undated sketch by Inge van Noortwijk and released by John Wiley & Sons, a six-foot (180 centimeters)-tall giant stork stands next to a dwarf Homo floresiensis that had lived on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia. According to the December 2010 issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, fossils of the giant stork, which lived 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, have been discovered on the far-flung Indonesian island that has been home to many extreme-sized creatures, from tiny human-like "hobbits" and dwarf elephants to the world's largest-known rats and lizards. (AP Photo/John Wiley & Sons, Inge van Noortwijk) NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Meteor_Shower.sff.jpg

In this picture provided by Wally Pacholka of AstroPics.com, a Geminid fireball explodes over the Mojave Desert in the Jojave Desert, Calif. on Dec. 13, 2009. In mid-December 2010, the Geminid meteor shower will make its annual appearance, just in time for Christmas. Astronomers consider it the best meteor shower of 2010, with more than 100 meteors streaking through the night sky every hour. (AP Photo/AstroPics.com, Wally Pacholka) MANDATORY CREDIT: ASTROPICS.COM, WALLY PACHOLKA; NO SALES; EDITORIAL USE ONLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 2010 GEMINID METEOR SHOWER STORIES