A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy's ten-year old brother, Qusay, was injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year. (Adem Hadei, AP)


Survivors flee a bomb blast attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 following a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader died from wounds to the neck and head after speaking at an election rally in the northern city where an estimated 15 people were left dead by the explosion, party officials have been quoted as saying. (John Moore, Getty Images)


A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers outside the residence of the country's deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 9, 2008. (Emilio Morenatti, AP)


A grieving mother looks back at the body of her child as she is escorted away from a temporary morgue after identifying the body at a sports center, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Hanwang in Sichuan Province, on May 15, 2008. China's biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under the rubble of crushed communities, plunging the nation into an all-out aid effort. Troops and rescue teams struggled by air, land and water to reach areas of southwestern China stricken by the huge quake that demolished schools, homes and factories. (Mark Ralston, AFP / Getty Images)


Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., center, is covered in the hands of supporters after his primary election night speech in St Paul, Minn., June 3, 2008. (Chris Carlson, AP)


Artists perform during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Aug. 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Clive Rose, Getty Images)


In this handout image provided by NASA, Hurricane Ike is seen on Sept. 10, 2008 from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The center of the hurricane was near 23.8 degrees north latitude and 85.3 degrees west longitude, moving 300 degrees at 7 nautical miles per hour. The sustained winds were 80 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 100 nautical miles per hour and forecast to intensify, according to NASA. The eye of the hurricane is expected to make landfall at Galveston Island early on Sept. 13 morning. (NASA via Getty Images)


Fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike recede, in West Orange, Texas, Sept. 15, 2008. (Eric Gay, AP)


Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard S. Fuld Jr., wearing tie, is heckled by protesters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. (Susan Walsh, AP)


Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 6, 2008. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east. (Jerome Delay, AP)


Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel continues to burn in Mumbai, India, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks. (Gautam Singh, AP)


A gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India, Nov. 26, 2008. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. The militant group suspected in the Mumbai attacks is widely believed to have been established by Pakistan's military two decades ago to fight India in the disputed region of Kashmir. (Sebastian D'souza, Mumbai Mirror / AP)


Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines, Jan. 15, 2009. The audio recordings of US Airways Flight 1549, released on Feb 5, 2009 by the Federal Aviation Administration, reflect the initial tension between tower controllers and the cockpit and then confusion about whether the passenger jet went into the river. (Steven Day, AP)


Barack Obama stands for a moment in a crowded hallway at the U.S. Capitol moments before walking out to be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. (Charles Ommanney, Getty Images)


Pakistani men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the compound of radical Lal Masjid or Red mosque as the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, not seen, talks to his supporters during Friday prayers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 17, 2009. (Emilio Morenatti / AP)


Seven-month-old Alexa Zuniga wears a surgical mask at the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, April 28, 2009. In Mexico, more than 150 deaths were believed to have been caused by swine flu. (Guillermo Arias, AP)


A demonstrator climbs the Freedom Tower, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in the presidential election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2009. (Vahid Salemi, AP)


Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson is comforted by the brothers and sisters of Michael Jackson including Marlon and Randy Jackson at the memorial service for the King of Pop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009. (Gabriel Bouys, AFP / Getty Images)


U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, July 8, 2009. (David Guttenfelder / AP)


A US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan on July 13, 2009. Two US Marine soldiers were killed when the explosion occured as they tried to clear a route into the Taliban heartland of southern Helmand province. About 4,000 US Marines are battling insurgents in a massive offensive launched in the south early July to clear Taliban militants out of strongholds ahead of presidential and provincial council elections scheduled for Aug. 20. (Manpreet Romana, AFP / Getty Images)


Palestinian bride Kholood Al Zaaneen sits inside a tent built after her family's house was destroyed during Israel's latest military offensive in Gaza, during her wedding ceremony in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2009. (Adel Hana, AP)


Aerial view of an area deforested for cattle ranching within the "Legal Amazon", the name given to the area originally covered by the rainforest, seen on Sept. 2, 2009 in the northern region of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Deforestation and forest fires are responsible for 75 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil. (Rodrigo Baleia, LatinContent / Getty Images)


This photo provided by the French Army shows French soldiers arresting suspected pirates off Somalia, in this Nov.12, 2009 file photo. (French Army, ECPAD / AP)


A young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a town on edge of the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in Waziristan, a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border in an operation, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country's battle against extremism. (Ijaz Muhammad, AP)