Six-banded armadillos sleep at their enclosure at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo December 31, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN) 

People lie on the ground outside St. Joseph's Seminary at a rally for Pope Benedict XVI in Yonkers, New York April 19, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES) 

Riot police block the way to the Dutch consulate during a protest against a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which accuses the Koran of inciting violence, in Istanbul April 4, 2008. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY) 

A man with a bicycle walks between U.N. peacekeepers on guard at the crossing of Ledra street in Nicosia April 4, 2008. Hundreds of Greek and Turkish Cypriots as well as tourists crossed the 80-metre (262 ft) stretch of road in the main commercial district of divided Nicosia one day after its opening. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (CYPRUS) 

A Spanish policeman hits a Moroccan woman at the border between Spain and Morocco in Ceuta January 31, 2008. Many Moroccan people cross the border to buy Spanish products in Ceuta to sell in Morocco. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (SPAIN) 

Broadcaster Dick Vitale is passed along by the Duke University fans known as the Cameron Crazies prior to Duke's game against the University of North Carolina in their NCAA basketball game in Durham, North Carolina March 8, 2008. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier (UNITED STATES) 

Josephine Onyia of Spain (R) falls after the last hurdle as LoLo Jones of the U.S. (L) runs to win the women's 60 metres hurdles final at the 12th IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championship in Valencia March 8, 2008. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (SPAIN) 

Maria de la Trinidad Calderon, known as the grandmother of La Carpio, sells tomatoes in the La Carpio slum March 3, 2008. Trinidad Calderon, 87, left Nicaragua for Costa Rica 16 years ago, where she founded the predominantly Nicaraguan neighborhood of La Carpio on the western outskirts of the capital San Jose. Today, she makes a meager living selling vegetables from a stand at a street corner to support herself and her 44-year-old son Manuel Salvador. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate (COSTA RICA) 

A Toshiba HD DVD player is displayed at an electronics retailer in Tokyo February 19, 2008. Blu-ray technology is close to winning the format war for home movie DVDs after a source at Toshiba said it was planning to exit its HD DVD business after Hollywood studios and big retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc backed Blu-ray. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN) 

Two pairs of brass knuckles and a gun holster purportedly belonging to Jack Ruby are a few of the artefacts presented by Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins at a news conference in the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Texas, February 18, 2008. The items are part of a batch of old documents and artefacts linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy recently unearthed from an old safe in a Dallas courthouse by the Dallas County district attorney's office. REUTERS/Mike Stone (UNITED STATES) 

A protester holds a sign that reads, "Putin go home", during a mourning mass for Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the centre of Sofia January 18, 2008. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday secured Bulgarian participation in an ambitious multi-billion dollar project to expand Russian gas deliveries into Southern Europe. Politkovskaya, a critic of President Putin, was shot dead in 2006 in her Moscow apartment building, prompting international condemnation and heightening concerns over the safety of journalists working in the country. REUTERS/Nikolay Doychinov (BULGARIA) 

An elderly man passes by a shack with pre-election posters of Serbia's President and Democratic Party leader Boris Tadic in the village of Jakovo, west from Belgrade January 16, 2008. Presidential elections in Serbia are scheduled for January 20. REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic (SERBIA) 

A view of the stained-glass skylight of the "Palau de la Musica Catalana" in Barcelona January 9, 2008. The Palau de la Musica Catalana, which celebrates its centenary in 2008, is one of the world's leading concert halls and in 1997, it was declared a "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO. The centenary celebrations will start from February 2008. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino (SPAIN) 

Hubble Space Telescope is seen in this picture taken from Space Shuttle in March 2002. A long-delayed and nearly canceled upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope will have to wait until NASA completes delivery of three modules to the International Space Station, officials said on January, 8, 2008.
REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. 

Gauchos ride horseback to folk saint Gauchito Gil's sanctuary in Mercedes in the Argentine province of Corrientes, 739 km (460 miles) north of Buenos Aires, January 8, 2008. Today marks the anniversary of the death of the legendary Argentine cowboy, who many people revere for working miracles after his untimely, violent death at the hands of the police in the 1800s. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian (ARGENTINA) 

Statues of Gauchito Gil are laid amid wax from red candles a day before the anniversary of his death near the city of Mercedes, in the Argentine province of Corrientes north of Buenos Aires, January 7, 2008. Argentine folk saint Gauchito Gil refused to fight in a civil war and was forced to live as an outlaw, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. After being captured, Gil told his executioner that he should pray for Gil's help to cure his sick son. The executioner repented for killing him and his son recovered miraculously, starting the cult of Gauchito Gil. Every year, tens of thousands of pilgrims visit the sanctuary where Gil's body is said to have been buried. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian (ARGENTINA) 

A member of the religious movement "Growing in Grace" shows his tattoo with the number "666" on his arm in Comayagua, December 21, 2007. The sect's leader Jose De Jesus Miranda has the number 666 identifying the Antichrist tattooed on his arm but says he is Jesus Christ reborn on Earth, arguing Saint Paul's teachings show this is what Antichrist means. Hundreds of followers have now tattooed themselves with the number saying it is a symbol of love and not the sign of Satan. Picture taken December 21, 2007. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS) 

Member of the religious movement "Growing in Grace" gets the number "666" tattooed on her arm in Comayagua, December 21, 2007. The sect's leader Jose De Jesus Miranda has the number 666 identifying the Antichrist tattooed on his arm but says he is Jesus Christ reborn on Earth, arguing Saint Paul's teachings show this is what Antichrist means. Hundreds of followers have now tattooed themselves with the number saying it is a symbol of love and not the sign of Satan. Picture taken December 21, 2007. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS) 

A member of the religious movement "Growing in Grace" shows number "666" tattooed on his arm in Comayagua December 21 , 2007. The sect's leader Jose De Jesus Miranda has the number 666 identifying the Antichrist tattooed on his arm but says he is Jesus Christ reborn on Earth, arguing Saint Paul's teachings show this is what Antichrist means. Hundreds of followers have now tattooed themselves with the number saying it is a symbol of love and not the sign of Satan. Picture taken December 21, 2007. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS) 

A dead starfish lies on a beach covered with crude oil from a Hong-Kong registered oil tanker Hebei Spirit, after an accident off Taean, about 150 km (93 miles) southwest of Seoul, December 12, 2007. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA) 

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man and a boy pray on the first night of the Hanukkah festival in Jerusalem, December 4, 2007. "Hanukkah", which means "dedication" and also referred as "The Festival of Lights", commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by foreign forces. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman (JERUSALEM) 

A man is silhouetted as he holds a Falange flag at the end of a demonstration against Basque separatist group ETA in central Madrid December 4, 2007. Thousands of Spaniards demonstrated against ETA after gunmen of the Basque guerrilla group shot two Spanish Civil Guards, killing one and seriously wounding the other in France on Saturday. It was ETA's first killing in almost a year. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN) 

A Congolese army soldier uses a monocular to view rebels' positions near the town of Sake, 27km (16 miles) west of Goma, December 4, 2007. FARDC army continued their offensive to dislodge renegade Tutsi General Lauren Nkunda's positions in Mushake village. REUTERS/James Akena (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) 

Switzerland's Stephane Lambiel performs during the Exhibition Gala at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Cup of Russia in Moscow November 25, 2007. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA) 

Mandean scholars participate in a baptism ceremony for a new scholar at Jaraman, Damascus suburbs, November 25, 2007. The scholars of the Mandeans trace the obscure religion's roots to Adam, whom they say lived 980 million years ago - pushing mankind's origins far earlier than those proposed by science. Almost every ceremony in the religion involves water and baptism is regarded as the means to ask for forgiveness of sin. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA) 

Raad Hani Ad Sheikh Zabad, an Iraqi Mandean, prepares for his baptism ceremony in order to become a Mandean scholar in Jarmana, Damascus suburbs, November 25, 2007. The scholars of the Mandeans trace the obscure religion's roots to Adam, whom they say lived 980 million years ago - pushing mankind's origins far earlier than those proposed by science. Almost every ceremony in the religion involves water and baptism is regarded as the means to ask for forgiveness of sin. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA) 

A Swiss Guard adjusts a Biretta during a Consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 25, 2007. Pope Benedict, elevating 23 prelates from around the world to the elite rank of cardinal, made a pressing appeal on Saturday for an end to the war in Iraq and decried the plight of the country's Christian minority. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (VATICAN) 

A woman displays a poster of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a rally in Baghdad's Sadr City November 24, 2007. Several thousand people took to the streets on Saturday chanting slogans pledging support for Moqtada. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ) 

A Nenets man signs a paper to get a ballot as he votes at a mobile polling station in Tundra, near the river Niarovecha, located in the Yamal peninsula above the polar circle, some 2,100 km (1,305 miles) northeast of Moscow, November 24, 2007. Inhabitants of Russia's remote regions have already started voting ahead of the December 2 parliamentary election. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (RUSSIA) 

Latvian border guard Jurijs Kravcenko drives a quad during a patrol near the Latvia-Russia border in Opoli, 320 km (199 miles) from Riga November 12, 2007. Travellers will be able to drive from Riga to Rome or from Prague to Porto without once showing their passports after EU ministers agreed on Thursday to extend the bloc's border-free zone to nine more EU states from December 21. The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will join the so-called Schengen zone which encompasses 15 states. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (LATVIA) 

A man shines shoes on a sidewalk in Baghdad November 12, 2007. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ) 

A Chelsea pensioner bows his head during the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony on Armistice Day at Whitehall in central London November 11, 2007. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez (BRITAIN) 

Waves crash into the sea defences at Southwold in Suffolk, eastern England, during strong winds, high tides, and tidal surges November 9, 2007. Police urged thousands of families to leave their homes on Friday as the Norfolk and Kent coasts braced for severe flooding from a tidal surge in the North Sea. REUTERS/Stephen Hird (BRITAIN) REUTERS/Stephen Hird (BRITAIN) 

A woman is reflected on the side of the Stata Center, designed by world renowned architect Frank Gehry, as she takes a photograph at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts November 8, 2007. MIT is suing Gehry, saying the celebrated building contains design flaws. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES) 

A World Pie Championship judge John Young poses with two scotch pies for photographers during the judging of the competition in Dunfermline, Scotland November 7, 2007. The competition, now in its ninth year has five former world champions and over seventy bakers and butchers taking part. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN) 

A World Pie Championship judge examines the meat content of a scotch pie during the judging of the competition in Dunfermline, Scotland November 7, 2007. The competition now in its ninth year has five former world champions and over seventy bakers and butchers taking part. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN) 

A selection of scotch pies are photographed together during the World Pie Championship judging in Dunfermline, Scotland November 7, 2007. The competition, now in its ninth year, has five former world champions and over seventy bakers and butchers taking part. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN) 

Sophie Wessex and her daughter Princess Louise look out from Buckingham Palace during the traditional state opening of Parliament in London November 6, 2007. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez (BRITAIN) 

People work at the Daihatsu factory in Jakarta November 6, 2007. Japan's Daihatsu Motor Co has increased the annual capacity of its plant in Jakarta by more than 40 percent to cater to the growing domestic and export market, company officials said Tuesday. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA) 

A hot air balloon flies near The Temple of Ramesses III in the Madinat Habu complex on the west bank of Luxor November 4, 2007. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) 

Kashmiri villagers collect saffron flowers in Pampore, 19 km (12 miles) south of Srinagar, November 4, 2007. Saffron has been grown in Kashmir since the Mughal period, which began in the 16th century. In highly drained clay-loam soil, the saffron crop is sown on an estimated 17,000 hectares of land in Kashmir in the months of May and June and the flowers are harvested at the onset of autumn. It takes some 170,000 flowers to get a kilogram (2.2 lbs) of the precious spice. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

Kashmiri villager collects saffron flowers in Pampore, 19 km (12 miles) south of Srinagar, November 4, 2007. Saffron has been grown in Kashmir since the Mughal period, which began in the 16th century. In highly drained clay-loam soil, the saffron crop is sown on an estimated 17,000 hectares of land in Kashmir in the months of May and June and the flowers are harvested at the onset of autumn. It takes some 170,000 flowers to get a kilogram (2.2 lbs) of the precious spice. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

Kashmiri villager collect saffron flowers in Pampore, 19 km (12 miles) south of Srinagar, November 4, 2007. Saffron has been grown in Kashmir since the Mughal period, which began in the 16th century. In highly drained clay-loam soil, the saffron crop is sown on an estimated 17,000 hectares of land in Kashmir in the months of May and June and the flowers are harvested at the onset of autumn. It takes some 170,000 flowers to get a kilogram (2.2 lbs) of the precious spice. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

The head of a victims association, Pilar Manjon, speaks to reporters outside the High Court after hearing the verdicts of the 2004 Madrid train bombings trial in Madrid October 31, 2007. A Spanish judge on Wednesday found 21 people guilty of involvement in the bombings, Europe's deadliest al Qaeda inspired attack, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN) 

Some of the 28 suspects accused of the 2004 Madrid train bombings (L-R) Jamal Zougam, Rachid Aglif, Rafa Zouhier y Abdelilah El Fadual are seen sitting in court inside an annex of High Court in Madrid, October 31, 2007. The court will deliver verdicts on Wednesday, ending a politically charged trial into Europe's deadliest al Qaeda inspired attack which killed 191 people and and injured more than 1,800. Best quality available. REUTERS/Paco Campos/Pool (SPAIN) 

A replica of one of three seals used by the inquisitors at a trial 700 years ago, in which Pope Clement V absolved the Knights Templar of charges of heresy, is seen in Rome October 9, 2007. A reproduction of the Latin-language minutes of trials against the Knights Templar in 1308, lost until its rediscovery in 2001, is being published by the Vatican Secret Archives at the end October. The documents, a book and parchments, costs 5,900 euros and its 799 numbered copies are destined for top libraries and medieval scholars. Picture taken October 9, 2007 REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY) 

Replicas of the three seals used by the inquisitors at the trial 700 years ago, in which Pope Clement V absolved the Knights Templar of charges of heresy, lie on documents in Rome October 9, 2007. A reproduction of the Latin-language minutes of trials against the Knights Templar in 1308, lost until its rediscovery in 2001, is being published by the Vatican Secret Archives at the end October. The documents, a book and parchments, costs 5,900 euros and its 799 numbered copies are destined for top libraries and medieval scholars. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY) 

The seal of the Vatican secret archives is shown on a replica document in which Pope Clement V absolved the Knights Templar of charges of heresy, in Rome October 9, 2007. A reproduction of the Latin-language minutes of trials against the Knights Templar in 1308, lost until its rediscovery in 2001, is being published by the Vatican Secret Archives at the end October. The documents, a book and parchments, costs 5,900 euros and its 799 numbered copies are destined for top libraries and medieval scholars. Picture taken October 9, 2007. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY) 

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II delivers a speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg October 2, 2007. REUTERS/Jean-Marc Loos (FRANCE) 

A Mevlevi sheikh walks to start "sema" ritual performed by whirling dervishes to remember Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, founder of Sufi Islam, during a ceremony in central Turkish city of Konya, September 30, 2007. Sunday marks the 800th anniversary of birth of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Anatolian philosopher, poet and the father of Mevlevi sect. REUTERS/Fatih Saribas (TURKEY) 

Local residents pan for gold in a creek bed near Dinkidi Hill in Didipio town, the site of a future large scale gold and copper mine, 270km (168 miles) north of Manila September 19, 2007. The sector's poor environmental record and its failure to share out profits during the local industry's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s have left people deeply distrustful of large-scale miners and has tripped up government efforts to attract billions of dollars in mining investments. Picture taken September 19, 2007. To match feature: PHILIPPINES-MINING/ REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (PHILIPPINES) 

The 1297 issue of the Magna Carta manuscript is enclosed in a glass case after being unveiled at Sotherby's in New York September 24, 2007. Sotheby's will auction off the King Edward I issue of the rare document that is universally accepted as the basis for modern constitutional law in December. The manuscript is estimated to sell for between $20 to $30 million. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES) 

An Indonesian youth reads the Koran from a digital player at a book shop in Jakarta, September 20, 2007. Digital Koran is increasingly popular in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, where such gadgets sell especially well during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan when religious fervour is high and reading the scripture is an essential part of the observance. Picture taken September 20, 2007. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA) 

A Sun Microsystems sign at their offices in Menlo Park, California, September 20, 2007. REUTERS/Kimberly White (UNITED STATES) 

A woman staples shut cardboard coffins containing the remains of German WWII soldiers in Podgorica September 18, 2007. Montenegrin authorities in cooperation with a German agency this week began the excavation of a site believed to contain the remains of several hundred German soldiers who were buried there by their comrades in World War Two. Picture taken September 18, 2007. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic (MONTENEGRO) 

A conductor gives a signal before a train leaves Berlin central railway station September 17, 2007. Germany's draft law to partially privatise rail operator Deutsche Bahn breaches the constitution, according to the summary of a report commissioned by several federal states. The report, to be presented in Berlin on Monday, is the latest blow to the government's long-delayed plans to sell 20 to 25 percent of the country's largest state-owned company by 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

A conductor walks on a platform at Berlin's central railway station September 17, 2007. Germany's draft law to partially privatise rail operator Deutsche Bahn breaches the constitution, according to the summary of a report commissioned by several federal states. The report, to be presented in Berlin on Monday, is the latest blow to the government's long-delayed plans to sell 20 to 25 percent of the country's largest state-owned company by 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

A Mauritius Echo Parakeet rests in Black River Gorge national park September 11, 2007. In the 1980s, there were only about 10 left alive. But, in a rare success story, a two-decade conservation programme in a wooded corner of Mauritius has brought the Echo Parakeet back from the brink of extinction. It is one of the only good news stories in Wednesday's IUCN Red List -- a list of threatened species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources -- which downgraded the species to "Endangered" from "Critically Endangered" in its last report. Picture taken September 11, 2007. REUTERS/Ed Harris (MAURITIUS) 

Tonga (L) and United States players form a scrum during their Rugby World Cup match in Montpellier September 12, 2007. REUTERS/Steve Holland (FRANCE) 

Athletes run up the moraine of the Eiger glacier during the Jungfrau-Marathon near Kleine Scheidegg in the Bernese Alps September 8, 2007. The alpine Jungfrau Marathon starts in Interlaken (566 metres above sea level) and ends at Kleine Scheidegg (2100 metres above sea level), with the route's peak at the Eiger glacier (2205 metres above sea level). REUTERS/Ruben Sprich (SWITZERLAND)