Shop assistant Malgorzata Zbikowska, 27, presents shoes to a customer in Roman Markowski's shoe store, Step In, at a shopping center in Warsaw May 23, 2013. Markowski's shoe-selling business mirrors the fortunes of Poland's economy over the past 20 years: built in the wreckage of communism, it prospered through years of hearty consumer spending and now the slowdown has left it in deep trouble. Data released on Tuesday showed retail sales in May grew 0.5 percent year on year, a slight improvement on the previous month but dismal for a country whose economic miracle since embracing the free market has been built on growing levels of consumption. To match Story POLAND-SALES/COMPANY Picture taken May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (POLAND - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS EMPLOYMENT) 

A receptionist talks on a phone while a picture of former U.S. NSA contractor Edward Snowden is shown on the television screen in the Capsule Hotel "Air Express" at the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport June 26, 2013. President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday Snowden sought by the United States was in the transit area of a Moscow airport but ruled out handing him over to Washington, dismissing U.S. criticisms as "ravings and rubbish". REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT TRAVEL) 

Women wait for food during the Download music festival in Castle Donington, central England, June 14, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) 

Peter Ode, 27, a mini-bar owner, serves champagne in his bar on McCarthy Street in Lagos June 12, 2013. Not so long ago, for luxury goods retailers the African market boiled down to a tiny elite, in some cases just a corrupt ruling clique. Not any more. Although millions of Africans remain stuck in crushing poverty, disposable incomes are on the up. As economies boom, the elite circles are widening and a growing middle class is aspiring to finer things. Picture taken June 12, 2013. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: BUSINESS) 

An employee stands at the reception hall in the Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens June 14, 2013. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras moved to defuse a political crisis over the government's abrupt closure of state broadcaster ERT that prompted a nationwide strike on Thursday and brought thousands into the streets in protest. REUTERS/John Kolesidis (GREECE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT MEDIA) 

A man counts Sri Lankan rupees at a money exchange counter in Colombo June 11, 2013. Sri Lanka's rupee hit a six-week low on Tuesday, weighed down by banks' demands for dollars to settle bond-related sales and importer buying of the U.S. currency, dealers said. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte (SRI LANKA - Tags: BUSINESS) 

An employee counts money, as a child lies on the counter, following purchases of gold jewellery inside a showroom in Mumbai June 4, 2013. The Reserve Bank on India on Tuesday extended the restrictions on the import of gold on consignment basis by banks to all nominated agencies and trading houses. Picture taken June 4, 2013. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES) 

A customer looks at a gold pendent inside a jewellery showroom in Mumbai June 4, 2013. The Reserve Bank on India on Tuesday extended the restrictions on the import of gold on consignment basis by banks to all nominated agencies and trading houses. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES) 

A vendor selling roasted suckling pig talks to a customer at the Malveira village market, on the outskirts of Lisbon May 30, 2013. Portugal's business confidence improved for the fifth consecutive month in May, when the country sold its first 10-year bond since its 2011 EU/IMF bailout, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Thursday. However, the INE said its consumer confidence indicator edged down to a negative reading of 55.0 this month from minus 54.2 in April and minus 52.6 a year earlier, cutting short a four-month rising trend. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro (PORTUGAL - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS FOOD) 

A mechanic sleeps at a service station on the outskirts of Havana May 28, 2013. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

A man, wearing a surgical mask as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus, pays for medicine at a hospital pharmacy in Khobar city in Dammam May 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 18, 2013. In a disease outbreak update issued from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO said the latest patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple medical conditions. She became ill on April 28 and is in a critical but stable condition. Worldwide, there have now been 41 laboratory-confirmed infections, including 20 deaths, since the new coronavirus was identified by scientists in September 2012. REUTERS/Stringer (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A cashier fills up a customer's ticket for her selections for the Florida Lottery Powerball at the Lawrence Shell gas station in Boynton Beach, Florida May 18, 2013. Powerball officials told participating states on Saturday they would not be raising the advertised number for the drawing, which is at a record of $600 million. Lana Kalichman, owner of the gas station, said one customer spent $4,000 on Powerball tickets and that sales at her business in the last two days have been more than $15,000. REUTERS/Joe Skipper (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A woman holds food inside a KFC restaurant in Beijing, May 9, 2013. Yum Brands Inc, the largest foreign fast-food chain in China, is strengthening its media strategy in the country in a bid to win back customer loyalty after a series of food scares that decimated sales this year. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD) 

A man sits at the bar of old fashioned cafe Het Spuitje at the Spuistraat in Amsterdam April 28, 2013. The Royal celebrations in the Netherlands this week put the country and the capital Amsterdam on front pages and television screens around the world with an orange splash. There's plenty to see and do in 48 hours in this compact city, where the world-famous Rijksmuseum only recently reopened after an extensive renovation. Picture taken April 28, 2013. To match story TRAVEL-AMSTERDAM/ REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: TRAVEL SOCIETY FOOD) 

Patrons wait to buy tickets for a Bollywood film at a cinema in Mumbai April 14, 2013. Indian cinema marks 100 years since Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's black-and-white silent film "Raja Harishchandra" (King Harishchandra) held audiences spellbound at its first public screening on May 3, 1913, in Mumbai. Indian cinema, with its subset of Bollywood for Hindi-language films, is now a billion-dollar industry that makes more than a thousand films a year in several languages. It is worth 112.4 billion rupees (over $2 billion) and leads the world in terms of films produced and tickets sold. Picture taken April 14, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INDIA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)


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Boys inquire about tickets from a mobile ticket booth at Anoop Touring Talkies, a travelling tent cinema company in Mumbai April 23, 2013. Indian cinema marks 100 years since Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's black-and-white silent film "Raja Harishchandra" (King Harishchandra) held audiences spellbound at its first public screening on May 3, 1913, in Mumbai. Indian cinema, with its subset of Bollywood for Hindi-language films, is now a billion-dollar industry that makes more than a thousand films a year in several languages. It is worth 112.4 billion rupees (over $2 billion) and leads the world in terms of films produced and tickets sold. Picture taken April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)


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Waterpipes are displayed at a Shisha cafe in Khartoum April 28, 2013. Local authorities have allowed shisha smoking back in "touristic hotels and restaurants", and they tend to look the other way in some other venues. Few large restaurants have also started to stage live music events that they stopped with the shisha ban because some Islamists deem such performances as "haram", or forbidden. The return of the cafes is welcome news for the young Sudanese who complain about the capital's dull nightlife. Picture taken April 28, 2013. To Match SUDAN-NIGHTLIFE/ REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A woman fills a lottery slip inside an OPAP shop in Athens May 1, 2013. Investment fund Emma Delta has met Athens' demand to raise its offer for a stake in gambling monopoly OPAP, sources said, meaning Greece could seal its first big privatisation as early as May 1. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) 

A salesperson serves customers at a mobile phone shop in Yangon April 11, 2013. Cellular operator Digicel Group Ltd. jumped into Myanmar early and big, hiring staff, funding local sports, negotiating land deals for thousands of cell tower sites and signing up hundreds of partners for retail outlets. The strategy helped propel it onto the shortlist for a mobile licence in one of the world's last mobile frontiers, putting an operator that ranks 65th globally in terms of customers up against giants such as Vodafone Group Plc. Myanmar this month short-listed 12 consortia for two licences it plans to grant foreign operators in late June. The government wants to expand mobile penetration from less than 4 percent to up to 80 percent by 2015-16. Picture taken April 11.
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A man chooses food at a shop in the al-Rawda neighbourhood in Damascus April 28, 2013. To match Insight SYRIA-CRISIS/LIFE REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

People are seen at a fast food counter at The Centaurus, a new shopping mall in Islamabad April 27, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A United Nations employee collects ration cards as Palestinians wait to receive food supplies inside a United Nations food distribution centre in Gaza City April 10, 2013. The main U.N. humanitarian agency for Palestinians said on Monday it was reopening its Gaza food distribution centres after suspending operations last week in response to violent protests over aid cutbacks. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

A Palestinian refugee man food supplies inside a United Nations food distribution centre in Gaza City April 10, 2013. The main U.N. humanitarian agency for Palestinians said on Monday it was reopening its Gaza food distribution centres after suspending operations last week in response to violent protests over aid cutbacks. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Palestinians present their ration cards as they wait to receive food supplies inside a United Nations food distribution centre in Gaza City April 10, 2013. The main U.N. humanitarian agency for Palestinians said on Monday it was reopening its Gaza food distribution centres after suspending operations last week in response to violent protests over aid cutbacks. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS) 

People wait in a queue to buy pork at a street food market in the centre of Minsk April 6, 2013. Street food markets attract many customers due to the low prices offered. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD) 

A vendor receives money from a customer from her trailer in the market of Malveira, 30km (18 miles) North of Lisbon, March 28, 2013. Portugal is facing a potential political crisis if its constitutional court rejects government austerity measures, risking more euro zone turmoil on top of the Cyprus bailout this month. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro (PORTUGAL - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY FOOD) 

Owner of Kosherland grocery store Marina Plistiev (R) a Kyrgyzstan-born Jew, chats with an employee in Vienna March 11, 2013. While Austria is one of the world's wealthiest, most law-abiding and stable democracies, the anti-Semitism lingers in a nation that was once a enthusiastic executor of Nazi Germany's Holocaust against Jews. But Jewish leaders who fought hard to win restitution after World War Two are on guard against a rising trend in anti-Semitic incidents, occasionally condemned by Austrian political leaders but seen more generally as a regrettable fact of life. TO GO WITH STORY AUSTRIA-JEWS/ REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) 

Villagers buy groceries in Felda Sahabat, a palm plantation near Kampung Tanduo, where Malaysian troops stormed the camp of an armed Filipino group on Tuesday, March 6, 2013. Malaysian soldiers expanded their hunt for elusive Philippine militants on Borneo island on Wednesday, a day after an all-out assault with fighter jets, mortars and hundreds of troops failed to end the security crisis. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIACIVIL LAW - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

A girl walks past a shop with various campaign posters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi March 3, 2013. Kenya will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on March 4. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A Sheikh (R) of an Islamist rebel group in Aleppo called "The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Supporting the Oppressed", gets a man make a thumbprint to register his marriage in Aleppo February 25, 2013. The group is a member of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Syria and says it is handing out aid and carrying out civilian administration in parts of Aleppo and its rural areas. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) 

A customer buys lunch at the IKEA cafeteria in Prague, February 25, 2013. Swedish furniture giant IKEA said on Monday it has stopped selling meatballs from a specific batch which has tested positive for traces of horsemeat by Czech authorities. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD POLITICS) 

A cook waits for customers at the IKEA cafeteria in Prague, February 25, 2013. Swedish furniture giant IKEA said on Monday it has stopped selling meatballs from a specific batch which has tested positive for traces of horsemeat by Czech authorities. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD POLITICS) 

Salespeople are reflected in a mirror as they stand at the cash counter inside a gold jewellery showroom in the southern Indian city of Kochi February 25, 2013. Falling gold prices pose a dilemma for India's government as it searches for ways to show in its February 28 budget it can control a record current account deficit. REUTERS/Sivaram V (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES) 

A woman rests her child on the ticket counter as she buys a train ticket at Allahabad Railway Station October 26, 2012. Almost all rail operations in India are handled by state-owned organisation Indian Railways - one of the biggest and busiest rail networks in the world operating 9,000 passenger trains and transporting up to 20 million passengers every day. Indian Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will unveil the railway budget on February 26, 2013 amid speculation that the government could raise fares for the second time in two months to help mend the network's finances. Picture taken October 26, 2012. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY TRANSPORT)

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Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, stands at the emigration control at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport February 17, 2013. Sanchez says she plans to make good use of "my victory" when she leaves on an 80-day-tour of more than a dozen countries on Sunday. Sanchez, considered Cuba's pioneer in social networking, told Reuters on Thursday that she would visit the headquarters of Google, Twitter and Facebook, and travel to Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and other nations. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Shoemaker Antonio Arellano deals with a customer as he works in his shop in downtown Rome February 14, 2013. Far from the designer stores on the other side of the Tiber, Arellano's shop, with its smell of glue and racks of shoe polish, is unremarkable, except for the fact that, due to its location, he counts Benedict as a loyal customer. With Benedict set to retire to an apartment inside the Vatican City, Arellano hopes he will remain his customer, even if the pope no longer visits in person. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

A girl is flanked by grooms as she accompanied her father (rear) to register before a mass wedding organized by the government's Home Development Mutual Fund in Quezon City, Metro Manila, February 14, 2013. More than 3,000 couples were simultaneously married nationwide. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo (PHILIPPINES - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Peter Breiter (R), CEO of Raiffeisen Gammesfeld eG bank, serves customer Mandes Rueger, 30, at the counter of the bank in Gammesfeld, Baden-Wuerttemberg January 29, 2013. The Raiffeisen Gammesfeld eG cooperative bank is one of the country's smallest banks and is the only one to be run by just one member of staff. All banking duties are done by CEO Peter Breiter who records the daily business by hand, partly on paper. The bank is not connected to a database system, there are no automatic teller machines (ATMs) and its customer base consists only of residents of the town of Gammesfeld which has a population of around 510. Picture taken January 29, 2013. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Malini Agarwal, blogger-in-chief of missmalini.com, has a drink while standing next to the bar at the Ren by China Garden nightclub in Mumbai, January 20, 2013. Agarwal, 35, exemplifies what aspirational India is all about - She's bubbly, energetic, and describes herself as "India's blogging princess" and a "social media Jedi". She's been called "without a doubt, India's most famous blogger". Her blog, missmalini.com, gets over 250,000 unique visitors a month. It provides a steady diet of Bollywood gossip, fashion, food and entertainment to a legion of followers. Picture taken January 20, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INDIA - Tags: PROFILE TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SOCIETY MEDIA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

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Men wait for customers at their newsstand, displaying local newspapers with pictures of assassinated prominent Tunisian opposition politician Chokri Belaid, in Tunis February 7, 2013. Tunisia's Islamists rejected on Thursday a plan by their party chief and prime minister to change the government after unrest erupted over the killing of an opposition leader, deepening the worst crisis since a 2011 revolution. Labour union leaders agreed to stage a general strike on Friday and the family of assassinated secular politician Chokri Belaid said his funeral could be held then too, raising the spectre of further destabilising turmoil. Belaid was shot as he left home for work on Wednesday by a gunman who fled on the back of a motorcycle. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

A plate of Oysters sit at the bar at the Oyster bar in the lower level of Grand Central Terminal in New York, January 29, 2013. It plays host hundreds of thousands of visitors each day, had an extensive facelift in the 1990s and was nearly demolished about 55 years ago, but Grand Central Terminal survived and is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Since its grand beginnings in 1913, when it was dubbed the greatest railway terminal in the world with an $80 million price tag, Grand Central has been an integral part of New York. Picture taken January 29. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANNIVERSARY FOOD TRANSPORT) 

A waitress poses with a menu during the media preview of a Barbie-themed cafe in Taipei January 30, 2013. The 660-square-metre "Barbie Cafe", fashioned with Mattel's barbie dolls themed decor and food dishes, will open January 31 along Taipei's Zhongxiao Dunhua shopping belt. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang (TAIWAN - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD BUSINESS) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE ALSO SEE: GM1E9261A3D01 

A woman receives change from a seller at a market stall in Madrid January 29, 2013. Spanish retail sales fell for the 30th month in a row in December, data showed on Tuesday, with a hike in sales tax deterring shoppers already suffering from recession and 26 percent unemployment. REUTERS/Juan Medina (SPAIN - Tags: FOOD BUSINESS) 

A woman receives change from a fishmonger at a market stall in Madrid January 29, 2013. Spanish retail sales fell for the 30th month in a row in December, data showed on Tuesday, with a hike in sales tax deterring shoppers already suffering from recession and 26 percent unemployment. REUTERS/Juan Medina (SPAIN - Tags: FOOD BUSINESS) 

A seller shows a fish to a woman at a market stall in Madrid January 29, 2013. Spanish retail sales fell for the 30th month in a row in December, data showed on Tuesday, with a hike in sales tax deterring shoppers already suffering from recession and 26 percent unemployment. REUTERS/Juan Medina (SPAIN - Tags: FOOD BUSINESS) 

An obese patient speaks with surgeon Dr. Alexandre Lesage in his office to prepare for surgery at the Saint Jean d'Angely Hospital, in Saint Jean d'Angley, southwestern France, January 24, 2013. The patient hopes to lose some 50 kilos (110 pounds) in the next year after she undergoes surgery for obesity. Picture taken January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE - Tags: HEALTH) 

Syrian refugees walk outside of a small shop at Al-Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 25, 2013. The United Nations on Friday urged Syria's neighbours to keep open their borders to civilians fleeing the intensifying conflict and said that the refugee exodus into Jordan was "absolutely dramatic". More than 30,000 Syrians have arrived in Jordan's main Zaatri camp this year, including 4,400 on Thursday and another 2,000 overnight, it said. Most were fleeing fighting in the southern area of Deraa, food and fuel shortages and high prices. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS SOCIETY) 

A man buys cigarettes at a kiosk in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk January 24, 2013. Russian lawmakers on Friday backed a law which would ban smoking in bars, cafes and other public spaces to promote healthier living in the world's largest tobacco market after China. Supported by President Vladimir Putin, who likes to present a healthy, active image, and has previously rebuked ministers for smoking, the bill was voted through in a second reading in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. Picture taken January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEALTH) 

A woman smokes a cigarette at a bar in St. Petersburg January 24, 2013. Russian lawmakers on Friday backed a law which would ban smoking in bars, cafes and other public spaces to promote healthier living in the world's largest tobacco market after China. Supported by President Vladimir Putin, who likes to present a healthy, active image, and has previously rebuked ministers for smoking, the bill was voted through in a second reading in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. Picture taken January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEALTH POLITICS) 

An employee demonstrates gun safety to clients at the Los Angeles gun club in Los Angeles, January 23, 2013. Picture taken January 23, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A boy waits to order snacks in a convenience store next to the central market in Diabaly January 23, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney 

A Palestinian woman makes a withdrawal at the Housing Bank for Trade & Finance in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 22, 2013. A central bank in the making, the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) is a rare bright spot as the economy of the Palestinian territories struggles with Israeli sanctions. Enforcing on Palestinian banks a regimen of conservative lending that has kept bad loans minimal and guaranteed liquidity, the PMA's technocratic prowess is the pinnacle of a Palestinian drive to build institutions fit for a future state. Picture taken January 22, 2013. To match PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/BANKS REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

A woman stands in her food stall in the flooded business area in Jakarta January 17, 2013. Heavy monsoonal rains triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday, with many government offices and businesses forced to closed because staff could not get to work. Weather officials warned the rains could get worse over the next few days and media reports said that thousands of people in Jakarta and its satellite cities had been forced to leave their homes because of the torrential downpours this week. REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni (INDONESIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER FOOD TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Gun shop customers shop for weapons as they listen to live streaming video of an announcement about gun control by U.S. President Barack Obama at the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota, Florida January 16, 2013. Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers on Wednesday in a bid to channel national outrage over the Newtown school massacre into the biggest U.S. gun-control push in generations. REUTERS/Brian Blanco (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS) 

Shoppers beg sales assistants for perfume products Selfridges on the morning of the Boxing Day sales in London December 26, 2012. Retailers in recent years have started sales online on Christmas Day, ahead of the clearances in stores from Boxing Day, but are increasingly launching their online offers before Christmas after delivery deadlines for the day have passed. REUTERS/Olivia Harris (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

King County employees issue marriage licenses to ten same-sex couples after midnight in Seattle, Washington December 6, 2012. A law legalizing same-sex matrimony took effect in Washington state on Thursday, and officials geared up for a flood of marriage-license applications from gay and lesbian couples eager to exchange vows. Washington made history last month as one of three U.S. states where marriage rights were extended to same-sex couples by popular vote, joining Maryland and Maine in passing ballot initiatives recognizing gay nuptials. REUTERS/Marcus Donner (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

A woman looks at gingerbread hearts at a Christmas market at the Charlottenburg castle in Berlin November 28, 2012. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: SOCIETY CITYSPACE TRAVEL) 

A shopkeeper waits for customers to buy Powerball lottery tickets in New York, November 28, 2012. Dreams of vast riches from a record Powerball lottery jackpot of more than half-a-billion dollars prompted a frenzy of ticket-buying across the United States ahead of Wednesday's draw, and continued heavy sales were nudging the payout even higher. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY) 

News stand worker Akram Hussien sells Powerball lottery tickets in New York, November 26, 2012. The top prize in Wednesday's Powerball lottery is currently a record $425 million after two months with no winner. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A vendor shows how to use wireless Internet to a customer at an Internet shop in Baghdad November 10, 2012. Iraqi telecommunications operators have warned that government plans to charge for the extra spectrum which they need to launch long-awaited 3G services could slow Internet adoption and economic growth. Picture taken November 10, 2012. To match story IRAQ-TELECOMS/ REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY)