November 10, 2008, President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office. Obama inherited the Bush décor.

December 29, 2009, President Barack Obama's Oval Office after he made some changes to the decorations.

August 31, 2010, after more extensive renovations to the Oval Office, including a new carpet, drapes, wallpaper and furniture. The famous Resolute Desk remains.

A Pakistani flood survivor sleeps in a net with his son to avoid flies at a roadside in Nowshera near Pesharwar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.

Same location, same day, same photographer: no net.

Hurricane Earl can be seen from the International Space Station on Monday, Aug. 30. The solar arrays on the port side of the Space Station are visible at right.

Hurricane Earl continues to strengthen on Tuesday, Aug. 31, as seen from the International Space Station.

A mink runs past dead animals on a road in Hiliodendro, near the northern Greek city of Kastoria, on Monday, Aug. 30. 2010. More than 50,000 mink were set loose in the area on Friday and Saturday, after raids by suspected animal rights activists on two fur farms. Greece's The National Fur Breeders' Association said most of the released animals are likely to die, adding that the cost to the farm owners could pass 1 million Euros ($1.27 million) despite an effort to recover the animals.

Left: Hurricane Earl makes landfall on the Leeward islands in the Caribbean on Monday. Right: Grand Case Street in St. Martin on Monday.

Hurricane Earl strengthens into a category 4 storm as it surges into the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean early Monday.

Luis Colon uses an umbrella to shield himself from rain and wind caused by the approaching Hurricane Earl in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday.

People gather at a rally dubbed "Restoring Honor," to show support of the U.S. military, organized by conservative radio and television commentator Glenn Beck, one of the de facto leaders of the Tea Party movement at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28. The rally has attracted controversy because it is being held on the 47th anniversary of civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, where King spoke.

A police officer fires tear gas during clashes with teachers outside the Pedagogical University in Tegucigalpa August 27, 2010. The teachers are denouncing the undercapitalisation of their retirement funds, according to the Federation of Honduras' Teaching Organizations.

A youth runs near a tear gas canister during clashes between teachers and police outside the Pedagogical University in Tegucigalpa August 27.

A man is detained by police during clashes between teachers and police outside Pedagogical University in Tegucigalpa August 27.

A young girl, displaced by floods, and stranded on land only accessible by air, sleeps covered in flies on a makeshift bed on August 27, 2010 in Garhi Khairo near Jacobabad in Sindh province, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been affected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The army and aid organizations are struggling to cope with the widespread scale of the disaster that has killed over 1,600 people and displaced millions. The UN has described the disaster as unprecedented, with over a third of the country under water.

An oak tree that survived Hurricane Katrina in Waveland, Miss., is still there five years later, though the house beyond it has been rebuilt.

Pakistani soldiers prepare boats for rescue work after floodwaters swept through Alam Kot village in Sindh province, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 26.

Jane Henson, co-creator of the Muppets, participates in a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on Wednesday, Aug. 25 in Washington, DC. Jane Henson donated 10 of her late husband Jim Henson's characters from "Sam and Friends" to the museum including the original Kermit the Frog.

People, wearing masks depicting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, ride a motorcycle as they take part in a rally held by Chavez's allies in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Chavez's allies launched their campaigns Wednesday for crucial congressional elections that come just as recession, crime and inflation have pushed the socialist leader's popularity to a seven-year low.

Orthodox nuns and worshippers hold candles as they walk along the Via Dolorosa during a procession in Jerusalem's Old City early morning August 25, 2010. More than a thousand worshippers took part in the annual procession in which an icon of the Virgin Mary is carried from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City to a church at the foot of the Mount of Olives believed by Christians to mark the tomb of the Virgin Mary.

Greek Orthodox Christians walk through Jerusalem's Old City at dawn during a candlelight procession commemorating the death of Jesus' mother, Mary, in Jerusalem, August 25, 2010.

Orthodox nuns hold candles and flowers as they take part in a procession to bring the icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where it is believed she is buried, through Jerusalem's Old City on Aug. 25, 2010. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to the tomb of the Virgin Mary to honor her Assumption.

Christian Orthodox nuns hold candles and flowers as they walk along the narrow streets of Jerusalem's Old City during a procession marking The Dormition of the Theotokos (God-bearer) which commemorates the Virgin Mary on August 25, 2010.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aims a crossbow during a scientific expedition to study grey whales in the Olga Harbor near the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans with new houses built by Make it Right Foundation on Aug. 24, 2010 and following hurricane Katrina in 2005, below.

Robert Fontaine in 2010, and during the storm in 2005, below.

Tourists are led under a barb wire by fake "coyotes", otherwise known as human traffickers, while taking part in a mock illegal immigrant's run in Ixmiquilpan in the state of Hidalgo on Aug. 14. Mexico is no longer just a tourist destination for those in search of paradisiacal beaches and impressive archaeological sites. Visitors now come to experiment so-called "Black Tourism", which includes everything from tours of Tepito, the most dangerous neighbourhood of Mexico City, to the experience of becoming for a few hours an illegal immigrant sought by U.S. police.

Tourists taking part in a mock illegal immigrant's run are "arrested" by fake border patrol in Ixmiquilpan in the state of Hidalgo Aug. 14.

A computer screen shows a recorded image of Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in a deep underground copper and gold mine at Copiapo, 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago, August 23, 2010. Chilean miners still alive 17 days after a cave-in were sent supplies of saline and glucose through a narrow drill hole on Monday, and rescuers
now face a months-long, half-mile dig to rescue them.

The giant face of Chief Crazy Horse is slowly taking shape at the Crazy Horse Memorial that is being carved out of Thunder Mountain in the Black Hills near Custer, South Dakota. The massive undertaking, originally the creation and idea of Polish-American artist and sculptor Korczak Ziokowski, was started in 1948, and it might be the largest sculpture in the world measuring when completed at 641 feet wide and 563 feet high. The head of Crazy Horse is 87 feet high. In comparison, the faces of the US president carved in Mt. Rushmore are 60 feet high. Ziokowski with approval from Chief Standing Bear and other Native Americans envisioned not only a monument to Native Americans, but also an educational and cultural center that currently includes the Indian Museum of North America, the Native American Cultural Center as well as workshops for Native American. Ziokowski and his relatives have refused government funding for the non-profit project and instead rely on donations and admissions to the memorial for funding to complete the Crazy Horse Memorial.

(Bottom) The Crazy Horse Memorial at Thunder Mountain is lit up in the evening prior to the laser light show in the Black Hills near Custer, South Dakota on Aug. 11, 2010.

Pakistani men push a motorcycle on rubber floats as a police boat passes by along a flooded road in Baseera, Punjab province, Pakistan on Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea.

A supporter listens during a visit by U.S. Sen. John McCain to a campaign office one day before Arizona's primary election on August 23, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. Once labeled a vulnerable incumbent, the four-term Republican is the clear front-runner against challenger J.D. Hayworth in Tuesday's contest.

After being rescued, a pink dolphin (Inia Boliviensis) is transported by Colombian biologist Mariana Escobar and rescue worker team leader Runny Callau from the Pailas river to the Grande river in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 22 , 2010. According to Bolivian biologists, heavy sedimentation and droughts have cut the communication between the Amazonian Pailas and Grande rivers, leaving some 12 dolphins stranded on a drying pond of the Pailas river.

Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan. The ancient village has a long and complex relationship with the dolphin. In early September, the waters of this same cove will turn blood red, as it becomes a holding pen for the annual dolphin hunts.