Dancers from the all-male dance troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo line up before they perform a scene from "Raymonda's Wedding" during the dress rehearsal before the opening night at the Joyce Theater in New York on Dec. 14.

Police prepare to charge protestors, during a protest called by university students against the vote of confidence in Silvio Berlusconi's government on Dec. 14, in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi scraped through a crucial confidence vote in the lower house of parliament by 314 votes in favour and 311 against.

A group of Afghan refugee girsl walk in an alley of a slum area to join other children playing, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Dec. 12.

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his children, Emma Claire, left, Jack and Cate, far right, leave the funeral service for Elizabeth Edwards at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 11. Edwards died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 61.

A man leans on a wall decorated with images of Venezuelan historical figures in Caracas, Venezuela, on Nov. 13.

A young Yemeni boy, center, hides his face with a baby sheep while playing between sheep displayed for sale at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov. 13.

U.S. President Barack Obama is escorted to his position by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and his wife Nobuko Kan at the APEC Summit in Yokohama, on Nov. 13.

The daughters of Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi pose with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura located in Pakistan's Punjab Province on Nov. 13. Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of four, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy, the first such conviction of a woman, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported. Bibi, 45, was handed down the death sentence by a court in Nankana district in central Punjab on Monday, the newspaper reported. Standing left to right is Esha, 12, Sidra, 18 and Eshum, 10.

Internally displaced children play on piles of donated clothes in Sleman on November 12, 2010. Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has killed 206 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 380,000 people in makeshift camps, an official said on Nov. 12.

Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton pose for photographs during a photocall to mark their engagement in the State Rooms of St James's Palace in London, Britain, on Nov. 16. Prince William, second in line to the throne, is to marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next Spring or Summer and lives in north Wales, where he is serving with the RAF. Prince William used the engagement ring of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, when he proposed to Kate Middleton on a safari in Kenya, last October.

Deborah Barr, of Ortonville, Mich., grasps her brother U.S. Navy HT1 Daniel Doule's gravestone, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Mich. following a Veteran's Day observance.

A woman walks in the rainy weather in the town of Peterhof outside St. Petersburg on Nov.6.

Pakistani vendor Mohammed Arshad, 65, stands next to his stall waiting for customers in the city of Multan in Punjab province, Pakistan, on Nov. 4.

A lighthouse in Foz do Douro, Porto, in the northern prt of Portugal cames under 'attack' from a huge Atlantic wave driven by strong winds on Nov. 9. The country's Civil Protection Authority declared red alert in the Portuguese north coast due to strong winds and big waves.

Children from Bare tribe play on Negro River at the Cartucho community in Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, in Amazonas state, northern Brazil, on Nov. 8. The "Expedicionarios da Saude" (Brazilian Health Expeditions) organization is currently on a medical expedition to the area with volunteer doctors that twice a year build a mobile hospital to provide clinical and surgical treatment for indigenous tribes and residents from different parts of the Amazonian Rainforest.

An aviation official looks at the wreckage of a passenger plane which crashed near Karachi's Jinnah international airport on Nov. 5. A small plane with at least 21 people on board chartered to international oil company ENI crashed after taking off from Pakistan's Karachi airport on Friday, killing all on board, an aviation official said.

A woman wears red shoes as she walks into a subway station in downtown Shanghai on Nov. 3.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Connecticut Richard Blumenthal (L) celebrates his victory at an election night rally in Hartford, Connecticut, on Nov. 2.

Race-goers strike a pose before the running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Nov. 2.

Women visit tombs at the cemetery of Casabermeja near the southern Spanish city of Malaga, on All Saints Day, Nov. 1. Catholics mark All Saints Day by visiting the graves of deceased relatives and friends.

An earthquake survivor washes his hands in a bucket, donated by Haiti's Red Cross to control infections, near a damaged helicopter in a provisional camp in downtown Port-au-Prince on Oct.30. The unusually high death rate in Haiti's cholera epidemic is slowing as people become aware of the disease and health experts provide treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. The United Nations agency's key aim now is to prevent the disease from spreading south to the capital Port-au-Prince and the camps for homeless survivors of the January 12 earthquake, from the northern department of Artibonite where it is concentrated.

United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Francisco R. Jackson's son Giovanni Jackson salutes during his father's burial at the Rosehill Cemetery on Oct. 30, in Linden, New Jersey. LCpl. Jackson, who was from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was killed while participating in combat operations in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.