A woman walks on a snow-covered street in Bucharest January 26, 2012. Heavy snow and blizzards have swept across Romania over the past two days, not only causing chaotic traffic, blocking motorways and leaving hundreds stranded in snow, but also forcing the closure of the country's main Black Sea port. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (ROMANIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) 

A gardener works at the Rundale Palace garden August 2, 2011. Rundale Palace was built by Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli between 1736 and 1740 as a summer residence for Duke Ernst Johann of Courland. In 1972, the Rundale Palace Museum was founded and restoration of the palace began, planned for completion in 2014, as the museum informed the media. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (LATVIA - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL) 

Visitors walk past a maze which has been set up in Trafalgar Square to promote London's West End shopping and entertainment district, August 2, 2010. The maze will be left in Trafalgar Square for a week. REUTERS/Andrew Winning (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TRAVEL) 

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rubs his eye as he waits for the arrival of Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber for a meeting at Villa Madama in Rome May 4, 2010. REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: POLITICS) 

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi walks as he waits for the arrival of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber, at Villa Madama in Rome May 4, 2010. REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Press photographers raise their cameras over a hedge as they photograph the South Lawn fountain dyed with green water at the White House in Washington, March 17, 2010 to mark St. Patrick's Day. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANNIVERSARY) 

Press photographers raise their cameras over a hedge as they photograph the South Lawn fountain dyed with green water at the White House in Washington, March 17, 2010 to mark St. Patrick's Day. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANNIVERSARY) 

Sida Gazaryan, 43, stands next to the tomb of her late husband Ararat Gazaryan (R) who was killed during fighting between Karabakh and Azerbaijan forces in 1993, at the memorial cemetery in Nagorno Karabakh's main city of Stepanakert October 28, 2009. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (AZERBAIJAN POLITICS OBITUARY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Members of the German guard of honour salute during a welcome ceremony of German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung and his counterpart Pehin Dato Yasmin of Brunei Darussalam in Berlin, June 29, 2009. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY POLITICS) 

The Bank of Japan building is pictured in Tokyo March 18, 2009. Japan's central bank said on Wednesday it would increase purchases of government bonds by almost a third to "smooth market operations" as the government prepares more spending to cushion the country's worst recession since World War Two. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN BUSINESS) 

The house of Josef Fritzl is pictured in Amstetten March 16, 2009. Fritzl, a 73-year-old Austrian who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, pleaded guilty to incest on Monday but denied murdering a newborn son who died underground. Fritzl pleaded "partially" guilty to rape -- understood to mean he is contesting the way the charge is worded -- and deprivation of liberty. He said he was fully guilty of depriving the children marooned underground of their liberty. Fritzl, also pleaded innocent to a charge of enslaving his daughter Elisabeth for most of her life, according to Reuters reporters at the closed-door trial . REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA) 

Riders clear the "Taxis fence" obstacle during the 118th Velka Pardubicka Steeplechase horse race in Pardubice October 12, 2008. REUTERS/Petr Josek(CZECH REPUBLIC) 

Chicago Cubs Alfonso Soriano misses a double hit by Milwaukee Brewers Prince Fielder during the ninth inning of their MLB National League baseball game in Chicago September 18, 2008. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES) 

Flags fly in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York July 31, 2008. The United Nations is encouraging its New York staff to trade wool business suits for cooler attire this summer so the organization can slash air conditioning costs and help the environment. "There is going to be a relaxing of the dress protocols and people are being encouraged to wear lighter clothing," said U.S. architect Michael Adlerstein, who is overseeing a $1.8 billion renovation of the 60-year-old U.N. skyscraper. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES) 

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder walks behind a hedgerow during the festivities marking the 17th anniversary of the formal re-unification of Germany in Potsdam, south of Berlin October 3, 2007. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (GERMANY) 

A U.S. soldier (R) takes up position during a combined patrol with the Iraqi army in Zafraniya neighborhood, southeast of Baghdad September 6, 2007. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (IRAQ) 

A painting of a police raid covers a wall in the Christiania district in Copenhagen, July 18, 2006. The water-front community feels like an oasis in the city with the rosebushes and wild hedgerows intertwined between the decorated haphazard houses, workshops and cafés. Picture taken July 18, 2006. For use with feature DENMARK CHRISTIANIA REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK) 

Tourists stroll past a vegan restaurant in Copenhagen's Christiania district July 18, 2006. The water-front community feels like an oasis in the city with the rosebushes and wild hedgerows intertwined between the decorated haphazard houses, workshops and cafés. Picture taken July 18, 2006. For use with feature DENMARK CHRISTIANIA REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK) 

A cyclist rides under a sign leading to the Christiania district in Copenhagen July 18, 2006. The water-front community feels like an oasis in the city with the rosebushes and wild hedgerows intertwined between the decorated haphazard houses, workshops and cafés. Picture taken July 18, 2006. For use with feature DENMARK CHRISTIANIA REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK) 

A resident leaves his circular home in the Christiania district in Copenhagen July 18, 2006. The water-front community feels like an oasis in the city with the rosebushes and wild hedgerows intertwined between the decorated haphazard houses, workshops and cafés. Picture taken July 18, 2006. For use with feature DENMARK CHRISTIANIA REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK) 

A horse looks out from stables in the Christiania district in Copenhagen July 18, 2006. The water-front community feels like an oasis in the city with the rosebushes and wild hedgerows intertwined between the decorated haphazard houses, workshops and cafés. Picture taken July 18, 2006. For use with feature DENMARK CHRISTIANIA REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK) 

Squatters homes line a canal near the city center in Copenhagen's Christiania district July 18, 2006. The water-front community feels like an oasis in the city with the rosebushes and wild hedgerows intertwined between the decorated haphazard houses, workshops and cafés. Picture taken July 18, 2006. For use with feature DENMARK CHRISTIANIA REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK) 

A woman walks her dog past a travel park office in Delray Beach, Florida, September 3, 2004. Powerful Hurricane Frances pounded the Bahamas and roared toward the crowded southeast Florida coast on Friday, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homes and shutting down a large part of the state. REUTERS/Marc Serota MS 

Spanish Crown Prince Felipe, the heir to the Spanish throne, and television
presenter Letizia Ortiz, 31, take a stroll through the gardens during their
formal engagement ceremony at the Pardo Palace outside Madrid November 6,
2003. The couple will marry in Madrid next summer. Pictures of the Month
November 2003 Pictures of the Year 2003 REUTERS/Sergio Perez

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A mask used by anti-Pinochet demonstrators to illustrate those people they claim disappeared during Pinochet's dictatorship lies in a hedgerow outside his former Wentworth residence March 2. Home Secretary [Jack Straw] announced today that Britain would not proceed with the extradition proceedings against the former Chilean dictator leaving him free to leave the counrty. 

A mask used by anti-Pinochet demonstrators to illustrate those people they claim disappeared during Pinochet's dictatorship lies in a hedgerow outside his former Wentworth residence March 2. Home Secretary Jack Straw announced today that Britain would not proceed with the extradition proceedings against the former Chilean dictator leaving him free to leave the counrty.

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"Pickles", a female Hedgehog in the Wildlife Gardens of the Natural History Museum in London August 13. The museum has launched the Garden Mammal Survey, to discover where Britain's mammals are going when their natural woodland and hedgerow habitats are destroyed.
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Katherine Salisbury, 9, holds "Pickles", a female Hedgehog in the Wildlife Gardens of the Natural History Museum in London August 13. The museum has launched the Garden Mammal Survey, to discover where Britain's mammals are going when their natural woodland and hedgerow habitats are destroyed.
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"Pickles", a female Hedgehog in the Wildlife Gardens of the Natural History Museum in London August 13. The museum has launched the Garden Mammal Survey, to discover where Britain's mammals are going when their natural woodland and hedgerow habitats are destroyed.

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Katherine Salisbury, 9, holds "Pickles", a female Hedgehog in the Wildlife Gardens of the Natural History Museum in London August 13. The museum has launched the Garden Mammal Survey, to discover where Britain's mammals are going when their natural woodland and hedgerow habitats are destroyed.

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Police search through the ditches and hedgerows along the A303 near Newbury December 27. Police fear for the safety of 19-year-old French student Celine Figard, who was last seen hitching a ride from a lorry driver 

Police hunt for clues for the missing French student Celine Figard along the hedgerows of the A303 road December 27. Celine went missing after accepting a lift from a lorry driver