SeaWorld animal trainers in Orlando have their hands full with four baby Asian small-clawed otters, seen March 30, 2009.
(Photo and caption submitted by Jason Collier/SeaWorld Orlando)
A stock broker trades at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt Main. Wall Street dived as weak US data combined with heightened fears of debt problems in European Union countries sent shockwaves through the markets. (DDP/AFP/File/Thomas Lohnes)
Eiger evening : This long night exposure photo taken in Wengen shows Swiss famous north face of the Eiger mountain overlooking the ressort of Grindelwald located in the Bernese Alps.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
This two photo combination shows above, in a May 20, 2004 file photo provided by the Canadian Department of National Defence, the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Below is the National Palace photographed Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one day after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. (Department of National Defence, Cpl. Matthew McGregor, above, Jorge Cruz, below)
A double rainbow is seen over the Rincon Mountains in Tucson, Ariz., as monsoon rains fall in the Sonoran Desert on Aug. 23, 2009.(Photo and caption submitted by Don Collins)
Two Belgian work horses stand together in the snowfall on a farm in Middlefield, Ohio on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010.(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
A mosaic of the Virgin Mary is displayed during its unveiling ceremony in Kiev January 13, 2010. The artwork, created by Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas, is made from 15,000 painted Easter eggs.REUTERS/Stringer
Kailua rainbow : A rainbow appears in the sky over the neighborhood where US President Barack Obama and his family resided for their vacation in Kailua, Hawaii.(AFP/Jewel Samad)
The sun is seen partially blocked by the moon through ceilings of Chinese ancient buildings during a solar eclipse observed in Kaifeng, in central China’s Henan province, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. The eclipse is known as an annular eclipse because the moon doesn’t block the sun completely(AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
A view of the office building of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province November 10, 2009. REUTERS/Steven Shi
Beautiful Holland. Holland, December 31, 2009.
This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 at 12:45 a.m. EST shows a mass of clouds in the Southeast associated with a low pressure system that is producing widespread precipitation in the area. This system will continue to move northeastward as the day progresses. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
Heavy rains which flooded parts of Australia’s vast desert centre have brought rare waterfalls spilling from the iconic monolith Uluru, or Ayers Rock. Situated near the centre of the semi-arid Sturt Desert, Uluru typically receives little more than 12 inches of rain a year, and January is its hottest, driest month, with temperatures topping to 45 degrees Celsius (113 F).(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)
The space shuttle Endeavour leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building as it rolls out to Launch Pad 39A aboard the crawler-transporter at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida January 6, 2010. The shuttle is expected to be launched on February 7 on a mission to the International Space Station. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Space shuttle Endeavour , atop the crawler transporter, makes its way to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Endeavour is targeted for a Feb. 7 launch on a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
The International Space Station. The European Space Agency is looking at proposals for using the International Space Station as a platform for climate science, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Thursday.(AFP/NASA/File)
In this file photo, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman, director of the Fermi National Accelarator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., speaks before moving the hands of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ‘Doomsday Clock’ two minutes closer to midnight at the University of Chicago, Feb. 27, 2002. The symbolic clock, kept by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, had been set at 11:51 since 1998. It was moved to 11:53 p.m. The attacks of Sept. 11 combined with evidence that terrorists were attempting to obtain the materials for a crude nuclear weapon should have served as a wake-up call to the world, George A. Lopez, the publication’s chairman of the board, said.(AP Photo/Aynsley Floyd)
A woman examines a giant globe in Copenhagen during the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference in 2009. World leaders should focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible over the next 40 years to avoid perilous warming conditions, researchers said Monday. (AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
In this Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006, file photo Russia’s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov speaks at a news conference in Moscow.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ivan Sekretarev, File
In this image provided by NASA, the Russian segment of the international space station is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 18 crewmember during a spacewalk Tuesday March 10, 2009.
**FILE PHOTO** In this Jan. 8, 2007 photo, a cloud of superheated ash and gas flows from the Soufriere Hills volcano, as seen from Olveston, Montserrat. (AP Photo/Wayne Fenton)
An Orca whale surfs for a moment in the wake of another in Haro Strait, off the coast of San Juan Island, Wash., in this Aug. 5, 1997 file photo. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreau, accompanied by his wife Anda and daughter Margarita view the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum in London in this June 4, 2000 file photo.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A visitor looks at a reconstructed biological model of a ‘Quetzalcoatlus northropi’ at the ‘Pterosaurs; Rulers of the Skies in the Age of Dinosaurs’ exhibition at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, in this June 28, 2008 file photo.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
In a rare alignment, the crescent moon, and the planets Venus, center, and Jupiter shine above a farmhouse in the eastern pre-dawn sky, in this Nov. 10, 2004 file photo, in Brunswick, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Aaron Duerinck, 33, rides his mountain bike along the waterfront in Burlington, Vt., in this Jan. 9. 2004 file photo.(AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
A close-up the Energy Ball is seen at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. (Home Energy)
Superheated ash and lava is visible inside the cone of the Soufriere Hills volcano as seen from Olveston, Montserrat in this Jan. 4, 2007 file photo.(AP Photo/Wayne Fenton)
Two women look at the 30th anniversary model of Italian casual brand Diesel denim jeans at Diesel’s Ginza flaship store in Tokyo, October 2008. Diesel has named French journalist Bruno Collin, founder of the fashion magazine WAD, as its new artistic director, the company said Friday.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
Swiss team Alinghi is pictured training off the coast of the Gulf emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, last October. The America’s Cup, tarnished by a battle of egos and legal wrangling, has been plunged into even more confusion just weeks before its 33rd edition is scheduled to begin in the Spanish port of Valencia.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)
Christmas lights shine outside insurance companies buildings’ in Athens on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. The city of Athens has planned a series of festivities for the Christmas and New Year’s Eve holidays. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Monaco’s Princess Stephanie poses with clowns during the Open Air Show of the 34th Monte Carlo International Circus Festival January 16, 2010. REUTERS/Sebastien Nogier
A worker makes room for soybeans in a hopper wagon, as the crop is being unloaded from a combine harvester. Scientists on Wednesday unveiled the genome of the soybean, saying it was an achievement that should deepen understanding of one of the world’s most important crops, help to boost yields and defend the plant against pests. (AFP/File/Daniel Garcia)
By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our own Sun’s family of planets, astronomers have been able to obtain the first direct spectrum of a planet around a star, thus bringing new insights into its formation and composition. The spectrum is that of a giant exoplanet, orbiting around the bright and very young star HR 8799, about 130 light-years away. (AFP/ESO/M.Janson)
FILE – In this Dec. 18, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the morning plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of the state of California, listens to a question during a debate at the Climate Summit for Mayors at the Copenhagen City Hall December 16, 2009. REUTERS/Scanpix/Anders Debel Hansen
One of five newborn white tigers sits in Santiago’s Metropolitan Zoo in Santiago, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. The five white tigers were born on Dec. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
The spherical Hayden Planetarium sits within the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A New York opera will have a few more stars this month when it performs at the planetarium in New York’s Museum of Natural History. (AFP/File/Stan Honda)
One-year-old twin polar bears Ikor and Kiroru play at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, northern Japan, January 18, 2010. The male cubs were born on December 9, 2008. REUTERS/Issei Kato
A Russian plane sits on the tarmac at Maiquetia Simon Bolivar international airport in Caracas January 17, 2010. A Russia-Venezuela mission was set to leave Venezuela on Monday carrying over 60 tonnes of aid to Haiti. Venezuela has sent several planes to Haiti with doctors, aid and some soldiers. REUTERS/Edwin Montila
Ben Doll of Linville, Pa., sleeps with his cow Treat Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, during the final hours of the 2010 Pennsylvania Farm Show at the Pennsylvania Farm Show and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
A couple of illegally smuggled orangutans hug each other inside a cage at the Khao Pratap Chang wildlife reserve near Bangkok. Illegal wildlife traders are turning to the Internet to reach a wider customer base, circumvent laws and evade authorities, an animal rights activist told a conference on Sunday. (AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
A view of the remaining part of the Larsen B ice shelf that extends into the northwest part of the Weddell Sea is seen in this handout photo taken on March 4, 2008. REUTERS/Pedro Skvarca/IAA-DNA/Handout
Attendees try an interactive display at the Microsoft booth at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, on January 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Microsoft said on Thursday that a vulnerability in its Internet Explorer Web browser was used to carry out cyberattacks which have prompted Google to threaten to leave China. (AFP/File/Robyn Beck)
Singer Lady Gaga attends a media event where she was announced as Polaroid creative director at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 7, 2010.REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
The AR.drone moves at 18 kilometres (11 miles) per hour, can stay airborne for 15 minutes after a 60-minute battery charge, has a maximum range of 50 metres (yards), and weighs just over 300 grams, or half a pound. (AFP/Patrick Kovarik)
The Siachen Glacier, north of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Picture taken October 4, 2003.
The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, “Ivy Mike”, as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952. REUTERS/File
A snowboarder rides through the fresh snow at Pats Peak ski area in Henniker, N.H., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. ( AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Swiss scientist-adventurer and pilot Bertrand Piccard is pictured unveiling the ‘Solar Impulse’ airplane during a ceremony in June last year, in Duebendorf, near Zurich. 51-year-old Piccard plans to fly his ‘Solar Impulse’ around the world over 20 to 25 days, traveling at an average of 70 kilometres (43 miles) an hour. (AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
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A panda cub plays at the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu on in 2009. China plans to open a fifth breeding centre for giant pandas in an effort to boost the population of the notoriously sex-shy species, state media reported on Wednesday. (AFP/File/Peter Parks)
People visit ice buildings created by Swiss ice-artist Karl Neuhaus, during the 23rd exhibition of magical ice palaces in a small forest near the Schwarzsee lake close to Fribourg, western Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone, Dominic Favre)
Two baby Arabian sand cat kittens look around on their first day of being on display Inside of the zoo’s cat house, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 in Avondale, Ohio. The kittens were born in October 2009. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ernest Coleman)
A female Sumatran Tiger (top), gives an affectionate lick to one of her cubs at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. The Indonesian government has hatched a plan to save Sumatran tigers from extinction by allowing people to adopt captive-born animals as pets for 100,000 dollars a pair, officials said. (AFP/File/Greg Wood)
FILE -In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001, file photo, Former President Jimmy Carter, center, listens to a speech by Former President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Carazo Odio, right, at the opening of the Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace and Justice on the campus of the University of San Diego, in San Diego. Carter is offering the Jewish community an apology for any of his ‘words and deeds’ that may have upset them. Carter writes in an open letter to the Jewish community this week in 2009, that he hopes the new year will bring peace between Israel and its neighbors. He says ‘we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.’ (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)
This undated photo provided by the North American Bear Center shows a black bear named Lily outside of Ely, Minn. Biologist Lynn Rogers and his North American Bear Center have placed a camera in Lily’s den that may stream lily giving birth live on the internet. (AP Photo/Sue Mansfield, North American Bear Center)
The astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour, from left, mission specialist’s Bob Behnken, Nicholas Patrick, Steve Robinson, Kay Hire, pilot Terry Virts and commander George Zamka, wave as they leave the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to launch pad 39A for their final day of a launch dress rehearsal exercise at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. The Endeavour crew is scheduled for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
This Oct. 16, 1968 file photo shows Dr. Marshall Nirenberg in Washington. Nirenberg, whose work untangling fundamental genetic processes earned him a Nobel Prize has died, Jan. 15, 2010. He was 82. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Bob Schutz, file)
Mountaineers are seen by the ‘Hillary Step’ while pushing for the summit of Mount Everest as they climb the south face from Nepal. A group of top Nepalese climbers is planning a high-risk expedition to clean up Everest, saying decades of mountaineering have taken their toll on the world’s highest peak. (The photo: courtesy of Pemba Dorje Sherpa)(AFP/File)
A snow man that was built as part of a climate change awareness program stands near the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) in Berlin early January 20, 2010. Environmental activist are calling on Berliners this weekend to build snowman in a bid to form a “Snowman Demonstration” in the heart of the German capital to raise awareness for climate change. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Combo photo shows a general view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge before (top) and after (bottom) “Earth Hour” in the Australian city on March 28, 2009. Millions of people across the globe are set to switch off their lights on March 27, as part of the global ‘Earth Hour’ campaign to highlight climate change, organisers have said. (AFP/File/Krystle Wright)
US astronaut Timothy J. Creamer jokes before testing his space suit at Baikonur cosmodrome in 2009. Creamer sent the first “tweet” from space on Friday after getting a personal Web connection on the International Space Station. (AFP/File/Dmitry Kostyukov)
FASHION OF THE DECADE – Two young men with low-slung, baggy jeans walk in Trenton, N.J., Sept. 15, 2007. Wearing your pants low enough to show your boxers — or more — in a small town in Louisiana could get you six months in jail and a $500 fine. Trenton is considering a law, where a first bust for low-riding trousers could soon mean an assessment by a city worker on where your life is going. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
FASHION OF THE DECADE - Michelle Obama and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in Caen, France, June 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Icicles hang around a statue decorating a building in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Egyptian workers in Luxor, Egypt, restore the Alley of Sphinxes, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, known as the ‘Kebash Road’, which was originally lined with 1,200 sphinxes and was built by Amenhotep III in the 12th century B.C .Luxor is set to become the world’s largest open-air museum as a multi-million dollar project to restore the Alley of Sphinxes begins in the south of Egypt, said the governor of Luxor Sunday. (AP Photo/Saedi Press)
Kira, a 3-month-old baboon, looks on as it is fed by an employee of the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk January 25, 2010. Kira’s mother refused to feed her cub and since then it has been brought up by the zoo employees. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
An Indochinese tiger found mainly in Malaysia and Thailand at the national zoo in Kuala Lumpur, in 2002. Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in 12 years, the WWF said Tuesday. (AFP/File/Jimin Lai)
Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates attends a meeting in New Delhi, 2009. Gates has weighed in on a row between China and Web giant Google over cyberattacks, saying that Beijing’s efforts to censor the Internet were “fortunately …very limited. “(AFP/File/Raveendran)
A 1974 photo pf unexplained lights over Barcelona, Spain. The law of probabilities backs theories that we are not alone in the Universe, although an encounter with an advanced civilisation may shock our species, scientists at a conference in London have said. (AFP/File)
Specialist Jason Hardzewicz is surrounded by screens as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Spirit rover. NASA admitted defeat Tuesday saying efforts to free the Spirit rover bogged down by Martian sand were over and instead the plucky robot was hunkering down to brave the harsh Mars winter. (AFP/NASA/File)
This image released by NASA January 21, 2010, from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock called “Marquette Island” that was examined from mid-November 2009 until mid-January 2010. Studies of texture and composition suggest that this rock, not much bigger than a basketball, originated deep inside the Martian crust. A crater-digging impact could have excavated the rock and thrown it a long distance, to where Opportunity found it along the rover’s long trek across the Meridiani plain toward Endeavour Crater. This true-color view of Marquette Island comes from combining three exposures that Opportunity’s panoramic camera took through different filters during the rover’s 2,117th Martian day on Mars on January 6, 2010. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Handout
This image taken in 2005 from the Spirit Rover and obtained from NASA/JPL shows the sunset casting a blue glow above the rim of Gusev Crater on the planet Mars. NASA Sunday celebrated Mars rover Spirit’s bountiful, six-year stint on the red planet, way longer than the three months it was forecast to last. But it all may soon come to an end, stuck as it is in Martian sand. (AFP/NASA/JPL/File/Michael Benson)
FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2007 file photo, wind and driving snow are seen on the top of the highest peak in the Northeast, Mount Washington, in New Hampshire. Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth. The World Meteorological Organization says a review of climate data turned up a 253 mph gust recorded in 1996 on Barrow Island in Australia during Cyclone Olivia. That tops the 231 mph record set atop Mount Washington in 1934.(AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad during an Apple event in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
A bicycle covered with ice, leans against a wall of a building in central Berlin January 27, 2010.REUTERS/Christian Charisius
Horologist Keith Scobie-Youngs of the Cumbria Clock Company carries out maintenance work on the clock face of the Town Hall in Manchester, England, Thursday Jan. 28, 2010. Once a year Keith checks the workings, the Great Abel bell and the dial of the clock. The clock is by Gillett and Bland and its face bears the inscription ‘Teach us to number our Days’.(AP Photo/PA, Dave Thompson)
Tourists from Argentina wave before being evacuated by Peruvian Army helicopters from the Machu Picchu Pueblo archeological site in Cuzco, Peru Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Heavy rains and mudslides in Peru have blocked the train route to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Pichu, leaving nearly 2,000 tourists stranded. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
The ruins of Peru’s famed Machu Picchu are seen in this July, 2006, file photo. Machu Picchu is among the leading contenders to be the new seven wonders of the world as a massive poll enters its final month with votes already cast by more than 50 million people, organizers say. The seven winners will be announced July 7, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this May 12, 2006 file photo a clock is seen on the belfry of the Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pa. The 200-year-old building is a big reason why Bethlehem has successfully marketed itself as the ‘Christmas City.’ (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
This undated photo released by Christmas in Ice shows a sculpture at the Christmas in Ice Festival held in North Pole, Alaska titled ‘Trimming the Tree’ by Sam Vose. (AP Photo/Christmas in Ice)
Visitors sit in reclining chairs where they can view historical television advertisements for Heineken at the Heineken Experience, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday Dec. 9, 2008. The Heineken Experience, a museum where visitors can learn about brewing and the history of Heineken, reopened in December after a major renovation. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
This 2009 NASA handout image shows a color mosaic of the moon, assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo’s imaging system through a green filter. President Barack Obama Monday ditched US plans to return to the moon and hitched NASA’s future to private industry in a budget calling for the space agency to stay close to Earth and do research. (AFP/NASA/File)
Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass windmills along the 10 freeway in 2009 near Banning, California. Fifty-five nations including the world’s top carbon polluters have registered their commitments to combat global warming, the UN climate chief said late Monday. (AFP/Getty Images/Fille/David Mcnew)
The DragonLab in orbit. President Barack Obama has killed NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/SpaceX)
Sultan Kosen of Turkey, 27, right, and He Pingping of China, 21, seen, during an event organized by the Guinness World Records in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The towering Turk, Kosen, is the tallest man walking the planet with a height of 246.5 cm ( 8 feet 1 inch) and He is officially the world’s shortest man with a height of 73 cm (2 feet 5 inch). (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
With downtown Vancouver enveloped in an early morning mist, a jogger takes a break while running on the seawall in Stanley Park, in this October 18, 2002 file photo. Vancouver, host of this month’s Winter Olympics, prides itself on being one of the world’s most liveable cities but residents seem unsure at times whether they really want the world on their doorstep. To match feature OLYMPICS/VANCOUVER REUTERS/Andy Clark/Files
FILE – In this July 23, 2007 file photo, Oscar, a hospice cat with an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, sits outside a patient’s room at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I. Dr. David Dosa profiles Oscar in a book released this week, ‘Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat.’ (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows ‘Portrait of a Woman, Called La Belle Ferronniere’ whose claim to fame is that it’s not by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting has fetched $1.5 million at Sotheby’s in New York City – triple its high estimate. It is believed to be of a Renaissance mistress of the Duke of Milan and has been the subject of almost a century of scholarly discussion and a legal drama. (AP Photo/Sotheby’s) NO SALES
A man takes a photograph of The Mona Lisa painting, behind a protective glass, in the Louvre museum in Paris in a Monday April 26, 2004 file photo. Mona Lisa, the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century masterpiece, was either pregnant or had recently given birth when she sat for the painting, a French art expert said Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Amel Pain, File)
A new Russian T-50 fighter lands at an airfield of the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturing plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur January 23, 2010. A new fighter aircraft seen as Russia’s response to U.S. advances in military aviation made a successful first test flight on Friday, plane maker Sukhoi said. Picture taken January 23, 2010. REUTERS/Sukhoi Press Service/Handout
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, looks over his papers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/ Michel Euler)
Bill and Melinda Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has announced that his Foundation will commit 10 billion dollars over the next decade to research and deliver vaccines to the world’s poorest countries. (AFP/Eric Piermont)
A trader watches a monitor displaying stocks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
In this photo taken Oct. 13, 2009, singer Jessica Simpson attends the 16th annual QVC ‘FFANY Shoes on Sale’ to benefit breast cancer research, in New York. Simpson has teamed up with the Nashville-based organization Soles4Souls. The charity has pledged to work with other aid agencies to give out one million pairs of shoes to earthquake victims in Haiti. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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This image provided by E-Trade shows part of a television ad scheduled to air during the 2010 Super Bowl. A reader-submitted question about Super Bowl advertising is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called ‘Ask AP.’ (AP Photo/E-Trade) NO SALES
/The Velozzi Supercar – 770 HP electric motor able to accelerate from 0-60mph in only 3 seconds, with a top speed of over 200 mph. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)/
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An abandoned house is shown covered in ice in Detroit, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. The two artists who are encasing the home in ice are hoping their effort inspires and helps draw attention to the housing crisis that has battered the nation. Photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune spent weeks spraying water on the home for the Ice House Detroit project.
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