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Video game maker Atari seeks court approval for sale of assets

Telefonica cuts handset prices to win back Spanish clients

Oncolytics cancer drug meets mid-stage trial goal, shares rise

Swiss billionaires buy Merck Serono HQ for biotech campus

Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. e-books case

Talks over Vimpelcom's Djezzy at delicate stage: source

Pfizer to spin off Zoetis stake to shareholders

IMF's Lagarde to be quizzed in French arbitration case

Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row

Europe closes in on tax havens; Austria agrees to swap bank data

National Photos

American singer and songwriter Edmonson is seen in this publicity photo provided by music label Sony in London

A man walks past a train carrying goods, at Anglo Platinum

Boanta looks on during an interview with Reuters in his cell at the Vaslui penitentiary

A worker collects orders at Amazon

People walk past a closed job centre of Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in Shenzhen

Carell waves at fans at the premiere of "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" in Hollywood

Handout photo of the Global Hawk at the aircraft hangar of NASA

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

File photo of Google founder Sergey Brin posing for a portrait wearing Google Glass during New York Fashion Week

House Speaker Boehner holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Groupon Chief Executive Andrew Mason smiles outside the Nasdaq Market following his company

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announces that he is filing lawsuits against four service stations for violations of the New York State Price Gouging statute in New York

Police officials escort Chit-fund company Saradha Group

A publicity image from "Marvel

TV Personality Seth Meyers speaks at the Robin Hood Foundation Benefit at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York

File photo of China

Picture illustration of Samsung Electronics

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Facebook and Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

A JC Penney department store sign is shown in Oceanside

Actors ( L to R ) Eric Nelsen and Denise Tontz are seen embracing during the filming of the soap opera "All My Children" in Stamford, Connecticut embrace during the filming of the soap opera "All My Children" in Stamford, Connecticut

Airbus A400M arrives for the ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow

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A woman walks out of the Internal Revenue Service building in New York

McCarthy testifies before a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building in New York as seen from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

White, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Gruenberg, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation attend the Treasury Department

A general view shows the annual general meeting of Bayer AG in Cologn

McLaren F1 driver Button of Britain drives during the first practice session of the Spanish F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo

People walk in front of Carige bank in Genoa

Woman walks out of an office of Rosbank in central Moscow

JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Dimon speaks about state of global economy at forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington

Katie Busker clips coupons as her son, Austin Spiker, plays with Legos at the dinner table in Independence

A trailer blown into a home on Lindsay Lane in Cleburne rests on a car after a tornado touch down in Cleburne

Rescue workers and soldiers search through a site of the accident in a shoe factory in the Kong Pisei district of Kampong Speu province

A patient receives chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer at the Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Center in Nice

Colombian pop star Shakira performs during her concert in Caracas

A first aid kit made by Johnson & Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster

Tavenner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington

Visitors walk at the Alcatel-Lucent booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Angry Birds products are displayed during a news conference in Hong Kong

Recording artist Dr. Dre attends the NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks in Los Angeles

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

Google

Comedian Robin Williams reacts after receiving the Stand Up Icon Award during the second annual 2012 Comedy Awards in New York

Player avatars from Zynga

Formula One supremo Ecclestone looks on at a paddock before the qualifying session at the Spanish F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo, near Barcelona

House Speaker Boehner holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Rescue workers carry a garment worker, who was pulled alive from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in Savar

U.S. President Obama speaks at Democratic Party fundraiser in New York

Turkish artist Yigit Yazici fixes one of his artworks at his studio in Istanbul

McLaren F1 driver Perez of Mexico drives during the second practice session during the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya

Malaysia

Members of the mining community march during a strike at Lonmin

Tencent headquarters is seen at Nanshan Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen

A worker is seen in the Amazon.co.uk warehouse in Milton Keynes, north of London

A handout picture provided by the Indonesian police, a Lion Air plane is seen in the water after missed the runway in Denpasar, Bali

A man reads the bible from an iPad mini at the "Christ is the Answer International Ministries" group

America

Director Baz Luhrmann and cast members pose during a photocall for the film

Google signage seen at the company

U.S. President Obama departs for travel to New York City from the White House in Washington

A publicity image from "Marvel

Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch gestures after speaking at the 38th annual CPAC meeting in Washington

Hader poses at the premiere of "Paul" at the Grauman

Google CEO Page speaks during a press announcement at Google headquarters in New York

CBO Director Elmendorf speaks at a news conference to release the CBO

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood speaks at the White House in Washington

Holder refers to his notes during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington

Senator Warren listens during testimony while sitting on Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington

Russian President Putin makes speech during official opening of Hanover Messe in Hanover

A bus passes the Bank of England in the City of London

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

John Lechleiter, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

Blackberry Z10 devices are displayed at a Rogers store in Toronto

A sells man demonstrates a computer game in a display area of Nvidia Corp. during the second day of the annual 2007 Computex Taipei

Nokia executive vice president of smart devices Harlow and vice president for industrial design Pannenbecker pose with the Nokia Lumia 925 at its launch in London

File photo of Loeb, founder of Third Point hedge fund, participates in a panel discussion in Las Vegas

An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft is launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia

A vacant, boarded up house is seen in the once thriving Brush Park neighborhood with the downtown Detroit skyline behind it in Detroit,

U.S. actorMichael J. Fox arrives for the Golden Camera awards in Berlin

Sutherland poses at the party for the television series finale of "24" in Los Angeles

Illustration picture of Latvia

Formula One supremo Ecclestone looks on at a paddock before the qualifying session at the Spanish F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo, near Barcelona

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Two cars of the public rail are seen covered with a advertisement for 2014 Chevy Silverado pickup truck as they move past General Motors World Headquarters in Detroit

French President Hollande waves goodbye at journalists in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris

Posters for the film

The clothing tag on a shirt by Wal-Mart

Shots of liquor are seen at a bar in Prague

Indonesia

Flags fly over a Bank of Valletta branch near the ruins of the Royal Opera House in Valletta

Journalist Barbara Walters arrives for the Time 100 gala celebrating the magazine

Actor Ben Whishaw arrives for the royal world premiere of the new 007 film "Skyfall" at the Royal Albert Hall in London

Police officer films a protest outside the Hong Hai headquarters in Tucheng

TV Personality Seth Meyers speaks at the Robin Hood Foundation Benefit at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York

Google signage seen at the company

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius addresses first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte

File photo of a college senior waiting to meet with potential employers at a job fair in New York

File photo of the office on EnStage Inc in Bangalore

U.S. President Obama walks away after announcing Mel Watt as his nominee for director of the FHFA and Tom Wheeler to head FCC, in Washington

The New York Times building is seen in New York

Producer Kathleen Kennedy arrives for the premiere of the movie "The Adventures of Tintin" in New York

A group of workers and labor activists march down West Grand Boulevard as they demand a raise in the minimum wage for fast food workers in Detroit

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Cast member Matthew Perry attends the premiere of the film "17 Again" in Los Angeles

Softbank Corp

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on jobs during a visit to Applied Materials in Austin

The sign for Al-Barzakh Islamic Cemetery is seen in Doswell, Virginia

Russian President Putin listens during an interview with German public broadcaster ARD at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow

Fashion designer Johnson, co-host of "XOX Betsey Johnson", arrives at the 2013 NBCUniversal Summer Press Day in Pasadena, California

A Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive box is seen in New York

A woman walks past the Pfizer Inc. headquarters in New York

A woman looks at a map showing where eight members belonging to a New York-based cell of a global cyber criminal organization withdrew money from ATM machines, during a news conference in New York

A woman holds a Nokia smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

File picture of a man leaving with a prospectus of the Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust real estate investment trust (REIT) at a marketing booth in Singapore

Golf park Dubrovnik project director Ivan Kusalic looks on as he talks to Reuters in Croatia

Panasonic Corp

A labourer works in front of a sign for China Mobile at the company

A monitor displaying Japanese yen

Urban poses at the party for the finalists of the television show "American Idol" in Los Angeles

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear talks with Ford Motor Company

Jackson and Seacrest arrive for the American Idol Season 12 premiere event in Los Angeles, California

U.S. 1040 Individual Income Tax forms are seen in New York

House Speaker John Boehner holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is seen in an FBI handout photo. REUTERS/FBI/Handout

AT&T mobile phones are seen for sale alongside T-Mobile phones at a RadioShack electronics store in Los Angeles

A view shows an office block at Central St Giles where Google has offices, in London

Youth carries national flags of the U.S. and Mexico through the streets of San Diego, during a May Day demonstration and march in California

Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, speaks at a news conference in New York

A screen grab shows the access to Netflix online as displayed on a television screen in Encinitas

Everton

McCarthy testifies before a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

A Turkish Airlines plane takes off at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul

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Peregrine Financial Group (PFGBest) headquarters in Cedar Falls

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen attends the Google

Britain

Huawei CEO Ren takes part in a discussion meeting at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg

A worker paints a wall above a branch of Bank of Cyprus in Bucharest

Birds perch on power lines above farmland near Tirana

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Maurizio Lupi attends the lower house of the parliament in Rome

A Renesas Electronics Corp

Advertisement of Sony Corp. is seen at an electronics store in Tokyo

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner speaks to the press about U.S. debt reduction talks on Capitol Hill

A foreclosed home is shown in Stockton

FBI agents search home where three Cleveland women were found alive after vanishing in Cleveland

People walk past the Wrigley building in Chicago

U.S. President Barack Obama attends a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Senator Charles Grassley, (R-IA), speaks to a reporter on Capitol Hill

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Jack Lew testifies on the budget for the Treasury Department on Capitol Hill in Washington

Outstanding Lead Actress Jeanne Cooper poses with her award at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Kodak theatre in Hollywood

The Groupon smartphone app is displayed on a Motorola Droid Bionic cell phone in Denver

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Director Steven Spielberg arrives at the 85th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills

People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wipes his forehead as he attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome

Handout photo of Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett in an illustration on the cover of the book "My First Berkshire ABC"

Director Justin Lin, recipient of the Director of the Year Award, arrives at the CinemaCon awards ceremony at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

Rick and Mary Todd, parents of U.S. engineer Shane Todd, speak to Reuters during an interview in Singapore

File photo of Manchester United

File photo of Manchester United

Boxes of Toshiba Corp

Models present lingerie maker Triumph

Senator Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland

The Merrylin Restaurant sign on a Yanjing Beer advertisement is seen outside its closed restaurant in Beijing

A sign advertising bankruptcy filing is seen hanging off a road sign in San Bernardino

New Jersey Governor Christie speaks at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Technology Enhanced Accelerated Learning Center news conference in Newark

Carrie Underwood performs "Two Black Cadillacs" at the 48th ACM Awards in Las Vegas

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates arrive to play bridge in Omaha

Ken Feinberg, administrator for "The One Fund, Boston," waits to begin a town hall style meeting about the fund in Boston

Roberto Azevedo, Brazil

Richard Rosenblatt, CEO of Demand Media, attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley

Ireland

Attendees at Electronic Entertainment Expo visit the Electronic Arts booth on the first day of E3 in Los Angeles

Blackberry Z10 boxes are seen at a Rogers store in Toronto

Copies of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 video game published by Activision Blizzard, owned by Vivendi, are displayed in a shop in Rome

U.S. President Barack Obama faces a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington

A trash collector walks by a Telekom Austria phone box in Vienna

A Telecom Italia call box is seen in a Villa Borghese park in Rome

Chairwoman Stabenow listens to testimony before Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington

File photo showing a view of the interiors of the new Google France headquarters before its official inauguration in Paris

Director J.J. Abrams arrives at the U.S.-Ireland Alliance

Nokia

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused by the explosion of a gas tanker truck in San Pedro Xalostoc

President of Greenlight Capital David Einhorn arrives for the Time 100 gala celebrating the magazine

Visitors walks in front Vodafone stand during the 3GSM World Congress at the Feria of Barcelona,

Russian media magnate Lebedev speaks to the media after his trial in Moscow

An aerial view shows the aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas

Nokia

Aerosmith

Softbank Corp President Masayoshi Son speaks during a news conference in Tokyo

Guests are silhouetted at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Russian banker and media magnate Lebedev arrives for a hearing at a court building in Moscow

Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs on stage during a concert as part of his "Believe" World Tour in Dubai

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Camp questions U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Geithner in Washington

Electronic Arts

A security guard stands guard near immigrants during a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles

Selina Lo, President and CEO of of Ruckus Wireless, gives an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Google CEO Sergey Brin speaks at Google I/O 2012 Conference

House Speaker Boehner holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

A pregnant woman touches her stomach as people practice yoga on the morning of the summer solstice in New York

Robel Phillipos, the teenager accused of lying to FBI agents in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, appears in court in Boston

People walk at a Bank of America

Handout of BMC Software

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Berlusconi attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome

Zynga senior player researcher Keeker talks with playtester Drake at the company

Google signage seen at the company

A man walks past Telefonica

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Visitors view Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon paintings during a Sotheby

Showgowers visit the Verizon booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A woman, wearing a mask, rides past a KFC restaurant in Shanghai

John Krasinski, star of "The Office," meets with fans during the "

A man shows a girl how to hold an airsoft gun during the NRA Youth Day at the National Rifle Association

Robert Downey Jr. rings opening bell at New York Stock Exchange to promote his new movie

The headquarters of Deutsche Bank are seen behind a red traffic light in Frankfurt

U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington

File picture shows members of the Rapid Action Battalion presenting Mohammed Sohel Rana to the media after his arrest, in Dhaka

French Junior Minister of Small Business, Innovation, and Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin , arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris

Sharp Corp President Katayama looks on during a news conference in Tokyo

Berkshire Hathaway chairman Buffett sings the national anthem at a 5km race sponsored by Brooks Sports Inc. in Omaha

CEO for Magna International Inc. Walker waits for the annual general meeting to start in Toronto

Rescue workers attempt to find survivors from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar

U.S. President Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Costa Rica

Amazon Indians from the Xingu, Tapajos and Teles Pires river basins invade the Belo Monte dam project in Vitoria do Xingu

Police try to put out a fire set by opposition protesters during a political rally in Conakry

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

Airport security officials block vehicle access to Terminal B after a gunman opened fire at the terminal in George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas

Orascom Telecom chairman Naguib Sawiris speaks during a conference in Beirut

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Cast member Gwyneth Paltrow poses at the premiere of "Iron Man 3" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California

Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf smiles during a meeting in Monrovia

U.S. President Barack Obama waves to visitors as he steps aboard Marine One for departure from the White House

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange

Charlie Munger speaks to Reuters during an interview in Omaha

U.S. President Obama delivers a speech during his visit to Mexico City

A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Leicester

A woman uses her mobile phone at the Blackberry World Event in Orlando

Vestberg, president and chief executive of Ericsson Group, speaks during his keynote address at 2012 International CES in Las Vegas

Bayern Munich

Cast members of "Star Trek Into Darkness" pose for photos during premiere in London

CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley

Graduate student Giulia Agliardi, from Milan, Italy, studies cancer cells in the Nanomedicine Lab at UCL

Swiss pioneers Borschberg and Piccard celebrate completing the first leg of the Solar Impulse flight across the United States after arriving in Phoenix

Mineworkers prepare to go underground at the Harmony Gold Mine

A Turkish Airlines plane prepares to take off at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul

An electronic display identifies the post that trades SandRidge Energy stock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

File picture shows the burning remains of a fertilizer plant after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas

A U.S. Marine, who is part of a military honor guard, takes his position before a welcoming ceremony for German Defense Minister de Maiziere at the Pentagon in Washington

Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President and CEO of the NRA, waves to members after arriving to the National Rifle Association

First ever U.S. Navy helicopter squadron to include unmanned helicopters established today in California

Windows Phone chief Myerson attends an interview during the mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are pictured in this combination photo

A sign advertising bankruptcy filing is seen hanging off a road sign in San Bernardino

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, parents of two men suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings, take part in a news conference in Makhachkala

A worker stands in front of an engine on the Boeing 777 at their assembly operations in Everett

A general view of the National Mane Garrincha Stadium, seen under construction in Brasilia

Police and security officials create a cordon around an unattended vehicle at Terminal B baggage claim level after a gunman opened fire at the terminal in George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston

Everett Dutschke works on his mini-van in his driveway in Tupelo

Cranes stand at various condominium developments in Toronto

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

A firefighter pulls a hose line as a backfire is ignited in order to control the Springs Fire near Newbury Park, California

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring

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Malaysia

Employees are pictured inside a clean room of German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon in Regensburg

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

Relatives mourn as they look for a garment worker, who is missing after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar

A delegate of Germany

A salesperson shows an HTC Sensation XL smartphone in a mobile phone shop in Taipei

Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi, attends the company

An Intel Inside sticker is seen on a personal computer for sale in San Diego, California

File photo of a man taking notes outside Best Buy Co.

Employee works on new 2009 Ford F-150 on assembly line at Ford

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen attends the Google

Japanese PM Abe signs business agreement after conference at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah

A Toyota Camry is seen at the Chicago Auto Show

A Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive box is seen in New York

The Euro currency sign is seen in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt

Aerial view of the United States military headquarters, the Pentagon

Britain

Actor Tobey Maguire attends the

New York Police Department truck and a City of New York Medical Examiner mobile lab park in front of 51 Park Place in New York

A salesperson unpacks an Apple iPad Mini to test it for a customer in the Apple specialty section of a Croma retail store in Mumbai

An employee installs a computer at the booth of IBM during preparations at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover

Japanese PM Abe signs business agreement after conference at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah

CIBC branch is seen in Toronto

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

File of an inmate standing in his cell at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana

Pyott, CEO of Allergan, speaks during the Reuters Health Summit in New York

A Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive box is seen in New York

Carey poses at the party for the finalists of the television show "American Idol" in Los Angeles

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Liberia

The entrance of a J.C. Penney store is pictured in Arcadia

A row of Tim Hortons coffee cups are lined up for customers at Penn Station in New York

Tsarnaev poses with Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev in an undated photo taken in New York

Traders work at their desks in front of the DAX board at the Frankfurt stock exchange

T-Mobile CEO John Legere jokes around before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange

The refreshed iPod Touch with new earpods is introduced during Apple Inc.

Mark Zuckerberg during a Facebook press event to introduce

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

U.S. Congressman Watt talks to the media next to U.S Congresswoman Lee during a news conference in Havana

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

The news ticker outside the Today Show announces GE

A view shows an office block at Central St Giles where Google has offices, in London

Frigua alumina refinery employee Abdul Wahab Soumah, 52, speaks to a reporter at his home in Fria

Two cans of Monster energy drink are shown in this photo illustration in Los Angeles

New York City Comptroller John Liu speaks in support of a demonstration against the NYPD

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Bodies of unidentified garment workers, who died in the collapse of a building in Savar, lie on the ground as people gather to watch a mass burial in Dhaka

Opposition leader ElBaradei speaks during an interview in his home in Cairo

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A woman walks out of an Internal Revenue Service office in New York

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

Everett Dutschke works on his mini-van in his driveway in Tupelo

File of former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Aleynikov appears at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York

Boston Marathon bombing victim Heather Abbott smiles as she leaves a news conference at Brigham and Women

Giant suitcases for Louis Vuitton are displayed inside a shopping mall the upcoming opening the largest Louis Vuitton store in China, which is located in Shanghai

Jesus Zambrano hugs Mexico

Downtown Washington is seen in an aerial view

U.S. President Obama announces Wheeler to head FCC, in Washington

Virginia Governor McDonnell speaks at the CPAC in Washington

California Governor Schwarzenegger smiles with wife Maria Shriver at Governor

People sit next a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

A table of the iPod nano is seen at the Apple Store during Black Friday in San Francisco

Fine arts student wears make-up as he talks on the phone during the Catrina

An Apple iPhone is shown in a XM Skydock at the Sirius Satellite Radio booth during 2010 International CES in Las Vegas

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

Bowman, swimming coach for Michael Phelps, announces Phelps is withdrawing from the men

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a briefing on the Defense Department

Iceland

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures while talking at the White House in Washington

A sign hangs in the Verizon booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

File photo of Portland Trail Blazers owner Allen talking to the team president at NBA game in Portland

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People line up at an employment office in Badalona

File photo of couple watching "Kung Fu Panda 2" in Beijing

Workers assemble a large Diesel engine at the MAN Diesel & Turbo factory in Augsburg

Screens show a group of Iron Man during a promotional event of the movie "Iron Man 3" at the Imperial Ancestral Temple of Beijing

Apple

Softbank Corp President Masayoshi Son speaks during a news conference in Tokyo

Man walks past a branch of Bank of Cyprus in Nicosia

A pedestrian walks past Hindustan Unilever Limited headquarters in Mumbai

Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corporation, arrives to give a keynote address during the CES in Las Vegas

Golborne, Chile

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building in New York as seen from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

A taxi driver checks an app on his smartphone in Rio de Janeiro

An Ora Quick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody test kit is seen at the AIDS Service Center of New York City (ASC/NYC) lower Manhattan headquarters

File photo of Li Gang holding a news conference in Hong Kong

Handout photo of landing gear from a September 11 commercial airliner in New York

Actress Arterton who plays Agent Fields, actor Craig who plays "James Bond" and actress Kurylenko who plays "Camille" pose during a photocall at Pinewood Studios north of London

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building in New York as seen from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

Britain

A worker climbs outside an Apple store in Hong Kong

Photo illustration of Google apps are shown on an Apple iphone 5 in Encinitas

A worker packs boxes at Amazon

A detail of the new Nissan Altima is seen at the car

A man visits Sina

A woman holding a mobile phone stands in front of Softbank Corp

A woman walks past a Honda Fit Hybrid car during the media preview of the 10th China International Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

2day FM radio hosts Greig and Christian, pose in Sydney

Huawei CEO Ren takes part in a discussion meeting at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg

Birmingham City Football Club owner Yeung arrives at a district court in Hong Kong

German Finance Minister Schaeuble presents report on proposed benchmark figures for 2014 federal budget in Berlin

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

Designer and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham judges the Woolmark Prize during London Fashion Week

File photo of Giuseppe Orsi posing next to a helicopter in Rome

Files photograph of a Dell laptop computer in New York

Senator Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland

Actor Mark Wahlberg and his wife Rhea Durham arrive at the premiere of his new film "Pain & Gain" in Hollywood

Officers of China

The Bolshoy Ice Dome is seen in the background in Sochi

Fitschen, Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank AG speaks during an extraordinary shareholders meeting in Frankfurt

Man walks past an advertisement board showing the logos of Huawei and ZTE on it, outside a mobile phone repair shop in Wuhan

A long line of passengers wait to enter the security checkpoint before boarding their aircraft at Reagan National Airport in Washington

A shopper passes demonstrators outside clothing retailer Primark in central London

The Monte Dei Paschi bank headquarters is pictured in Siena

Kebede, an Ethiopian Airlines manager, sits inside the cockpit of their 787 Dreamliner after it arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Kenya’s capital Nairobi

The exterior of Ericsson

A long line of passengers wait for security at checkpoint at Reagan National Airport in Washington

Kotick, President and CEO of Activision Blizzard, takes part in a panel discussion in Beverly Hills

A woman looks at a poster of the film "Django Unchained" outside a cinema in Beijing

Handout photo of landing gear from a September 11 commercial airliner in New York

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

Secretary of the Air Force Donley attends a ceremony, marking the 10th anniversary of the presence of the U.S. transit center in Kyrgyzstan, at the Manas airport near Bishkek

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

Enrico Giovannini sits next to Maria Chiara Carrozza at the Lower house of the parliament in Rome

French President Hollande attends as he arrives to meet Italy

A woman walks out of an Internal Revenue Service office in New York

Designer Vivienne Westwood, and a person in a Winnie The Pooh costume join campaigners protesting in Parliament Square to urge Britain

Airline passengers look at a flight status board at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco

An internally displaced woman walks along a war-ravaged street in Hodan district of Somalia

White House deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs Mike Froman and Chicago businesswoman and Obama fundraiser Penny Pritzker in combination photo.

Handout photo of suspects in Boston Marathon shooting

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspect #2 in the Boston Marathon explosion is pictured in this undated FBI handout photo

Microsoft CEO Ballmer speaks about Microsoft

Producers (L to R) Rich Frank and Jef Kwantinetz pose on the set of soap opera "One Life to Live" in Stamford, Connecticut

A worker carries packages for shipment at the Amazon warehouse in Leipzig

A motorcycle dispatch rider uses his smartphone next to an advertisement promoting Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Job seekers listen to a presentation at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver

A security guard patrols at Hong Hai headquarters in Tucheng

Job candidates receive information at a U.S. Congressional Black Caucus Jobs Fair in Miami

A man holds up Samsung Electronics Co

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

Handout photo of workers on the moving line and forward fuselage assembly areas for the F-35 JSF at Lockheed Martin Corp

New York

Cox and Campbell pose at the premiere of "Scream 4" at the Grauman

Google founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week

An employee walks past the Baidu company signage outside its headquarters in Beijing

A woman walks past the Pfizer Inc. headquarters in New York

Deputy leader of Italy

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

Google signage seen at the company

A woman passes by an office of Russian telecoms firm Rostelecom in Moscow

Pope Francis looks on as he arrives at the weekly audience in Saint Peter

A model of Boeing

Passengers walk past temperature detectors at the entrance of Taoyuan International Airport, northern Taiwan

The Time Warner Cable office is shown in Carlsbad

A Google sign is seen at a Best Buy electronics store in this photo illustration in Encinitas

A plant belonging to Germany

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

A statue is pictured in front of the former head quarters of Germany

A woman walks on an advertisement for Canon digital cameras at an electronics retail store in Tokyo

Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF is pictured with space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop its 747 SCA at 461st FLTS JSF Integrated Test Force at Edwards Air Force Base, California

Firefighter Layton salutes a procession of vehicles in honor of fallen firefighter Harris, following funeral services at St. Mary

Democratic U.S. Sen. Brown after defeating Republican challenger Josh Mandel during his election night rally in Columbus, Ohio

A man holds up Samsung Electronics Co

Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Employees walk in front of a pyramid-shaped building at the Infosys campus in the Electronic City area of Bangalore

A man shakes a box containing SIM card lottery tickets, before the tickets are drawed, in Yangon

Western Digital Corporation to report earnings

Handout photo of workers on the moving line and forward fuselage assembly areas for the F-35 JSF at Lockheed Martin Corp

Deputy US Trade Representative Marantis smiles before seventh round of U.S.-Taiwan talks in Taipei

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

Britain

A page from the Skype website is seen in Lausanne

U.S. Ambassador to Albania Arvizu speaks during a news conference with Albania

Jesse Grant plays a 3D Star Wars game on the Kinect for Xbox 360 gaming console during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Henrik Fisker testifies at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

Airline passengers head to a flight at San Francisco International Airport

Samsung Electronics Co

The exterior of Ericsson

Logos of some Boeing 787 commercial airline clients are seen on a fuselage of the aircraft at the Singapore Airshow

People talk on their cell phones as passers-by walk past a Sprint store in New York

A car leaves the Motorola headquarters in Schaumberg, Illinois

A view shows the headquarters of Life Technologies Corp in Carlsbad

Earthquake survivors work on the rubble of a mud house after it collapsed following the quake in Jalalabad province

A man walks on an advertisement of Canon digital cameras at an electronics retail store in Tokyo

To match Analysis GULF-TELECOMS/SUBSIDIES

Members of the police escort Mohammed Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza which collapsed last week, after his hearing at the High Court in Dhaka

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks at the opening ceremony of the annual Boao Forum in Boao, in southern China

Australian Federal policemen arrest the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group LulzSec

A Google sign is seen at a Best Buy electronics store in this photo illustration in Encinitas

Italy

Derek Maltz displays a glassine bag used for distribution of illicit drugs during a news conference in New York

A visitor tries out an iPhone at an Apple store in Beijing

Marc Lasry, chairman and CEO and co-founder , Avenue Capital Group at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills

To match Special Report CHESAPEAKE-MCCLENDON/LOANS

A Suffolk County sign is seen along the road entering Cold Spring Harbor

Photograph of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspect in Boston Marathon bombing, is seen on his page of Russian social networking site Vkontakte, as pictured in St. Petersburg

Performers dressed as Iron Man pose during a promotional event of the movie "Iron Man 3" at the Imperial Ancestral Temple of Beijing

Reagan National Airport air traffic controller Sundie Yukich directs aircraft from the control tower in Washington

Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Zimbabwe

Couriers load packages onto vehicles as other packages move down the belt at the Marina Del Rey, California FedEx station

A model of Boeing

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

Manchester United CEO David Gill gives an interview at the NY Stock Exchange

Anil Ambani, Chairman of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, attends the annual general meeting of Reliance Communication in Mumbai

Handout photo of workers on the moving line and forward fuselage assembly areas for the F-35 JSF at Lockheed Martin Corp

Celestica employees work at a production line in a factory in Dongguan, China

Jack Ma, the chairman of China

A participant picks chips at a roulette game at an event to promote legalization of casinos in Japan

To match feature CALIFORNIA-CELLPHONES/

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

Super committee co-chair Rep. Hensarling talks to reporters as he arrives for a meeting with Republican committee members on Capitol Hill in Washington

A worker washes a Mercedes-Benz car at its garage in Mumbai

Signage is pictured on the company headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in west London

An American Airlines passenger jet lands at the San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California

A Netflix return CD mail envelope is shown in Encinitas, California

Results of a Google search on Ebay on monitor in Encinitas, California

An ANA

A worker walks past as a house damaged beyond repair by Hurricane Sandy is demolished by heavy machinery in the Ocean Breeze neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City

Passenger stands in the departure hall at Israel

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

Google signage seen at the company

Earthquake survivors protest against what they said was a lack of rescue operations at Chaoyang village, after an earthquake in Lushan county

Inside view of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

Spectators are seen reflected in a British Petroleum sponsors building in Olympic Park at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

A Tea Party member reaches for a pamphlet at a "Food for Free Minds Tea Party Rally" in Littleton

The air traffic control tower is shown at the Ramona Airport in Ramona, California

People walk though LaGuardia airport in New York

People wait outside a shopping mall after an earthquake struck in Mexico City

Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Reyes walks past site of housing complex destroyed by deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West

An aerial view shows the aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas

Slovenia

Results of a Google search on Ebay on monitor in Encinitas, California

El Al planes are seen parked at Israel

An employee cleans an advertisement plate at an Apple dealership on eve of iPhone 5

Staff at an Apple store hold a meeting before they open their doors to the public, in central Sydney

Models pose by Toyota cars during the 15th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Shanghai

Investigators stand amid the aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas

NEUHARTH AT NEWSEUM OPENING IN ARLINGTON

Handout of competitors participating in the 13th National Security Agency cyber competition in Annapolis

A man recovers his wedding photo from the wreckage of his house after Saturday

The V-22 Osprey arrives for the Marines from the 1st Battalion 9th Marines Charlie Company 2nd Platoon during a tactical demonstration as a part of Fleet Week in New York

A Dell Latitude D430 laptop computer is seen in New York

To match feature EDUCATION/MBA/

Police officers search homes for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown

WORKERS BUILD HONDA CR-V SUV CAR IN WUHAN, CHINA.

People wait in line to enter the CUNY Big Apple job fair in New York

Photograph of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspect in Boston Marathon bombing, is seen on his page of Russian social networking site Vkontakte, as pictured on computer screen in St. Petersburg

Aircraft of German air carrier Lufthansa are seen at the airline

Signage is pictured on the company headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in west London

An aerial view shows the aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas

Files photograph of a Dell laptop computer in New York

File of a passenger jet departing Washington

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

Senate Majority Leader Reid holds a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington

Handout photo of suspects in Boston Marathon shooting

A Boston Marathon runner stands with his medal outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross where President Obama attended an interfaith service for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing in Boston

Visitors look at motherboards being displayed at the AMD booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei

File of a passenger jet departing Washington

U.S. Supreme Court Justices applaud prior to President Obama

A Google sign is seen at a Best Buy electronics store in this photo illustration in Encinitas

Microsoft CFO Peter Klein takes questions during a Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York

A view shows Toshiba Corp

The ABP foods Dalepak Hambleton factory at Leeming Bar industrial estate, is seen in Northallerton, northern England

Teresa Hobgood listens to speakers at a U.S. State Department meeting to discuss the proposed route of the Keystone pipeline, in Grand Island, Nebraska

An entrance gate to Sony Pictures Entertainment at the Sony Pictures lot is pictured in Culver City

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

File photo of a Southwest Airlines passenger jet landing at the Lambert - St. Louis International Airport

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

A view of IBM headquarters at la Defense in Paris, May 6, 2005. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

Russia

Sign near the Trades housing division built by Gentry Homes promotes special offers for potential buyers in Ewa Beach, Hawaii,

India

Edward DeMarco testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, on Capitol Hill in Washington

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

The new Nokia Lumia 720, featuring the same camera lens as the higher end Lumia 920, is pictured during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Germany

Logos of TCS are displayed at the venue of the annual general meeting of the software services provider in Mumbai

An aerial view shows the aftermath of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas

Ground staff work under an United Airlines

American Airlines aircraft sit on the tarmac at LaGuardia airport following a reservation system outage in New York

Officials take crime scene photos two days after two explosions hit the Boston Marathon in Boston

File photo of fire boat response crews battling the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon off Louisiana

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks to the Economic Club of New York in New York

File of Schwartz, executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, takes part in a panel discussion in Beverly Hills

A model poses with SanDisk products in Taipei

Senator Dick Durbin speaks at news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington

Spears poses at the party for the television series "The X Factor" finalists in Los Angeles

People stand during a vigil honoring the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings at the Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts

American Airlines aircraft sit on the tarmac at LaGuardia airport following a reservation system outage in New York

Employees and visitors evacuate the John Joseph Moakely federal courthouse in Boston

Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

CAST OF TELEVISION SERIES FRIENDS ON GIANT BILLBOARD.

Customers visit the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York

A woman walks near telephone booths in downtown Milan

Obama visits Riddell manufacturing facility in Lorain County ,Ohio

Google signage seen at the company

Dock workers march during a strike outside Cheung Kong centre in Hong Kong

Dock workers march during a strike outside Cheung Kong centre in Hong Kong

Tanker trucks wait to be loaded at Taq Taq oil field in Arbil

A customer pushes a cart to the entrance of a Fresh & Easy Express food market in Burbank

ASML

Boston Marathon bomb scene pictures taken by investigators show the remains of an explosive device

Retirement plan brochures are seen at the Calpers regional office in Sacramento.

A police officer stands outside the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York

A Bushmaster semi-automatic assault rifle is turned in during a gun buyback event in New Haven

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shakes hands with Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) as he arrives to testify before the House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington

A man with a Macy

A Google sign is seen at a Best Buy electronics store in this photo illustration in Encinitas

Summerall

The News Corporation building is seen in New York

File photo of gold bars at the Ginza Tanaka store in Tokyo

NDP leader Adrian Dix talks to supporters at the Museum of Anthropology while starting the provincial election campaign in Vancouver

Officials wrap crime scene tape around an area on Boylston Street a day after two explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston

Cars run on the I-95 highway in Miami

File photo of Lehman Brothers booth on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange

American Airlines aircraft sit on the tarmac at LaGuardia airport following a reservation system outage in New York

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Ashton attends a news conference after the talks on Iran

Obama speaks about the Boston bombing in Washington

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt attends a function on catalysing tech Start-ups in India by NASSCOM, in New Delhi

Handout of a user demonstrating a new motion-control sensor

The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east London

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

An employee displays a case of frozen beef lasagne dinners which were removed from stores and are prepared for destruction in a central purchasing warehouse under a sign on a door which reads "Products for Destruction" in Villeneuve

Products made by Johnson & Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster

Traders work in the Goldman Sachs stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Almirall

An employee sprays to sterilize a poultry farm in Hemen township

Handout photo of suspects in Boston Marathon shooting

Debris is seen along Boylston Street after explosions went off at the 117th Boston Marathon in Boston

Passersby walk in front of a Citibank branch in New York

A man walks past a Softbank Corp branch in Tokyo

The tail sections of a newly designed American Airlines aircraft, a US Airways aircraft and a traditional American Airlines aircraft are lined up at at Dallas-Ft Worth International Airport

A man with a Macy

Women carry packages into the James A. Farley Post Office Building in New York

Albania

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

A customer visits the Apple Store in New York City

The headquarters of Calpers, the largest U.S. public pension fund, is seen in Sacramento

Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. holds up four fingers to indicate the four Pulitzer Prizes won by the New York Times, as winners for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize are announced in New York

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves next to Benin

Google signage seen at the company

A general view of the now mostly unused Kodak factory in Rochester, New York

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

Signage is pictured on the company headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in west London

Guinea

The captain of the Costa Concordia Schettino is surrounded by Italian Carabinieri policemen as he leaves at the end of the preliminary hearings in Grosseto

Gold bars are seen in this picture illustration taken at the Istanbul Gold Refinery in Istanbul

The new Nokia Lumia 720, featuring the same camera lens as the higher end Lumia 920, is pictured during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

An employee serves a guest at the reception counter inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

Visitors try the iPhone at an Apple Store in Beijing

Acting Venezuelan President Maduro holds a religious memento with a picture of the late President Chavez during a news conference in Caracas

Light bulbs of lamp manufacturer Osram are pictured in shop in Germering

To match Special Report VENEZUELA/PDVSA

Wall St. sign is seen in New York

The sun sets behind an oil drilling rig in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

An employees walks past a signage board in the Infosys campus at the Electronics City IT district in Bangalore

Spilled crude oil is seen in a drainage ditch near Starlite Road in Mayflower

An excavator is used to demolish a building near a residential complex in Zhengzhou

The wreckage of a Lion Air Boeing 737 -800 airplane is seen in the water near Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar

People walk in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington

Helgeland poses at the premiere of "42" in Hollywood

Petry one of three new elected party leaders of Germany

A Giant African land snail is seen in this handout picture

Liberal leader Trudeau arrives to speak to journalists on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

Cyprus Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades makes statements outside the parliament in Nicosia

Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Adelson and his wife Ochsorn pose for a photo during the opening ceremony of Sheraton Macao hotel at Sands Cotai Central in Macau

Euro sculpture is partially reflected in a puddle in front of the headquarters of the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt

A Cima NanoTech employee tests the conductivity of a piece of folded SANTE Film in their lab in Singapore

Handout photo of the burnt auxiliary power unit battery, removed from an All Nippon Airways

Body of Lion Air plane is seen in water after it missed the runway in Denpasar

JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon testifies before the House Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

Picture shows package of diabetes drug Avandia in pharmacy in Berlin

A military parade of ships makes its way up the Hudson River during the start of Fleet Week in New York

Spilt oil from Exxon pipeline runs between homes in North Woods Subdivision in Mayflower

Cherry trees are in full bloom in front of the U.S. Capitol

A man with a Macy

Italian President Napolitano speaks during a meeting with the "wise men" at the Quirinale palace in Rome

Packets of Douwe Egberts coffee are seen at a supermarket in Amsterdam

American Airlines CEO Horton appears before Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington

Jamie Dimon answers a question at the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington

A sign advertising bankruptcy filing is seen hanging off a road sign in San Bernardino

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

Visitors walk past advertising placard of FIFA13 during the Gamescom 2012 fair in Cologne

U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Cohen leaves after a meeting with South Korea

A view shows the Federal Reserve building in Washington

Pasadena fire captain Hurtado talks to reporters about saving a man who intentionally cut off his own arms in a Home Depot store, at a news conference in Pasadena

Hip hop artist Rick Ross arrives at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Cohen arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Obama delivers remarks on the budget alongside Jeff Zients in the Rose Garden of the White Hose in Washington

Stern adjusts his headphones before start of news conference on his first day of Sirius Satellite Radio in New York

U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Obama

Martha Stewart holds a camera as she departs the New York state Supreme Court after testifying in Manhattan

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

A sells man demonstrates a computer game in a display area of Nvidia Corp. during the second day of the annual 2007 Computex Taipei

Somali Minister of Justice Noor addresses a delegation from the World Bank during discussions over piracy matters in the capital Mogadishu

The headquarters of Morgan Stanley is pictured in New York

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

Former KPMG senior auditor London and his lawyer Braun leave the Roybal Federal Court Building after London

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about tightening gun regulations during a visit to the Denver Police Academy in Denver

DeMarco talks with fellow attendees before a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the Treasury Department in Washington

A woman waits for an elevator at the Fort Worth Regional Office of the SEC in Fort Worth

Driver Schumacher from Team Germany speaks with compatriot Vettel at the Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok

Job seekers stand in line to meet prospective employers at a career fair in New York City

Journalist Jordi Evole from Spain smiles during an interview with Reuters at Sant Just Desvern

File photo of a laboratory assistant holding one hemisphere of a healthy brain in the Neuropsychiatry division of the Belle Idee University Hospital in Chene-Bourg

A PayPal card sits at a cashier station at a Home Depot store in Daly City

Aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.

A Telecom Italia phone booth is seen in Rome

The German Frigate

The steering wheel of a Toyota car which contains an airbag is pictured in Vienna

Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi, attends the company

Accused Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes listens at his arraignment in Centennial

Booking mugs shots of bank robbery suspects in Los Angeles

Passengers cast shadows as they walk along a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernanke takes the stage for a news conference at the Federal Reserve offices in Washington

Handout of Andreessen, Maris and Doerr

A private security guard stands outside the Four Points hotel in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad

Booking mugs shots of bank robbery suspects in Los Angeles

A man talks on his mobile phone in front of logos of KFC and Pizza Hut in Shanghai

The headquarters of Morgan Stanley is pictured in New York

Street level sign on the KPMG building in Downtown Los Angeles

Spain

Two men walk past the front desk inside of the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co bank in New York

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the Goldman Sachs stall

A woman walks past the Pfizer Inc. headquarters in New York

NASA handout image shows storm clouds on the east coast of the United States

A U.S. postal worker loads up his truck with mail for delivery from the postal station in Carlsbad

To match story MORTGAGES-CONDEMNATION/HOUSING

Relatives of victims stand on a ferry in front of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia outside Giglio harbour

A girl holds up a banner while people take part in a rally to demand that Congress fix the broken immigration system at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple prepares to drive a bulldozer to break ground on a new diesel refinery in Dickinson

A security guard patrols at Hong Hai headquarters in Tucheng

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on measures to reduce gun violence, in Connecticut

U.S. President Barack Obama talks about the Fiscal 2014 Budget at the White House in Washington

A man walks past an automatic teller outside a BNP Paribas bank in central Paris

A policeman walks past tents set up by protesting dock workers outside Kwai Chung container terminal in Hong Kong

Universal Entertainment Corporation CEO Kazuo Okada poses during an interview in Hong Kong

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

An Occupy Wall Street activist is arrested while protesting in the streets of New York

Guests leave the lobby area of the Sentosa Resorts World Casino in Singapore

A real estate sign is seen outside a deserted home stripped of its copper wiring in San Bernardino

Alberta Premier Redford arrives to discuss the E. coli outbreak with cattle ranchers at the Bell L ranch near Airdrie.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a speech at Ft. McNair in Washington

US Representative David Vitter of Louisiana speaks at the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans

Jahangir Siddiqui, Chairman of JS Bank Ltd, speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Karachi

Martha Stewart holds a camera as she departs the New York state Supreme Court after testifying in Manhattan

A sign for the ASDA supermarket chain stands outside a store in London

A view of the main entry way at the Oshkosh plant in Wisconsin

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on measures to reduce gun violence, in Connecticut

The satellite program known as National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, in an undated photo. REUTERS/NOAA

Google homepage logos are seen on a wall at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

A woman walks at the campus after Rutgers University President Barchi held a town hall meeting to students and people in Newark, New Jersey

A man looks at Panasonic Corp

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talks about the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in Albany

Tavenner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington

File photograph of traders working at the post that trades Herbalife stock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Google signage seen at the company

A patient has her knee examined by Dr. Narang at University of Chicago Medicine Urgent Care Clinic in Chicago

U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem is pictured at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center in Arlington Virginia

Actor Hugh Bonneville and his wife Lulu Evans arrive at the NBC Universal after-party following the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California

German Finance Minister Schaeuble and US Treasury Secretary Lew pose before news conference in Berlin

Visitor look at aircraft models at EADS booth ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow

An employee of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) works inside the company headquarters in Mumbai

Underground water storage tank unit under construction is seen at TEPCO

Dan Akerson, Chairman and CEO of General Motors, attends the press conference for the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit

Chairman of the the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke speaks at the London School of Economics in London

A real estate sign is seen outside a deserted home stripped of its copper wiring in San Bernardino

J.C. Penney Chief Executive Ron Johnson testifies in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan

A Citi sign is seen at the Citigroup stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

New U.S. citizen waves a U.S. national flag in front of a display of flags of the more than 40 nations represented by the more than 90 immigrants becoming U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at Boston College in Chestnut Hill

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius smiles with Acting Director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Todd Jones as President Barack Obama proposes a series of measures to counter gun violence

Spilled crude oil is seen in a drainage ditch near Starlite Road in Mayflower

A screengrab from the "Defiance" video game is seen in this undated photo.

U.S. President Obama announces Mary Jo White for SEC chairwoman in Washington

Handout of Venezuela

Carey, deputy chairman, president, and COO of News Corporation participates in a panel session at The Cable Show in Boston

A JetBlue Airbus A320 air plane is pictured on the tarmac at a ground breaking ceremony for the first Airbus U.S. assembly plant in Mobile

Actress Annette Funicello poses in this undated publicity photograph handout

France

U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew addresses a news conference after meeting European Council President Van Rompuy in Brussels

A flag is reflected on the window of the Fitch Ratings headquarters in New York

France

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) players attend a training session at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence in Doha

U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew addresses a news conference after meeting European Council President Van Rompuy in Brussels

A woman walks at the campus after Rutgers University President Barchi held a town hall meeting to students and people in Newark, New Jersey

Virgin America flight attendants hold model of Virgin America Airbus A320 commercial aircraft in Los Angeles

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

The exterior of Ericsson

SPD electoral candidate Steinbrueck arrives for a session of the Bundestag in Berlin

"Double-Lotus" bowl is shown after setting world auction record for Qing Kangxi porcelain at Sotheby

A man walks past a Lufkin oil drilling pump in McKenzie County outside of Williston, North Dakota

File of chairman of Liberty Media Malone attending the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

The sign at the entrance of a J.C. Penney store is pictured in Arcadia

HTC smartphones are displayed in a mobile phone shop in Taipei

To match feature HOUSING-MANHATTAN/

Opposition supporters protest to demand a free and fair parliamentary election, on the streets of the capital Conakry

The hand of a child, who has been put on drip after showing symptoms of dengue fever, is seen in a public hospital in Santo Domingo

Tencent headquarters is seen at Nanshan Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen

French President Hollande delivers a speech at the International University of Rabat

Maybank Tower, the headquarters of Maybank, is seen in Kuala Lumpur

California Governor Jerry Brown gestures while addressing the audience during a summit meeting on the future of housing in California, in Oakland

File photograph of Investor Carl Icahn speaking at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference at the New York Stock Exchange

Aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Obama prays at the Easter Prayer Breakfast in Washington

David Vitter and Larry Leibowitz tour the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation, speaks during 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills

A man looks at a scale model of Boeing

Logos of some Boeing 787 commercial airline clients are seen on a fuselage of the aircraft at the Singapore Airshow

The boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, is seen empty of vacationers

A US Airways plane arrives at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia

Shoppers look at Samsung smartphones in a shop in Seoul

Aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.

John Doerr shows a flexible solar panel in Stanford

Samsung outdoor advertisment sits atop an office building in Seoul

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, poses for a photograph in this undated picture provided by AstraZeneca in London

Google signage seen at the company

A part of the signage at the main gate of The Walt Disney Co. is pictured in Burbank

Emergency crews work to clean up an oil spill near Interstate 40 in Mayflower

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson West (R-FL) addresses supporters during his victory rally in Orlando, Florida

File photo of Samsung Electronics Co

Invited guests for the world premiere of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are reflected in the fuselage at the 787 assembly plant in Everett

A man talks on a telephone outside a branch of Nordic telecoms group Tele2 in St. Petersburg

Beyonce poses with her award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Love On Top" at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

To match Insight CTECH-US-HP-LANE/

Martoma exits the Manhattan Federal court following an appearance on insider trading charges in New York

Cast of Arrested Development smile at the Emmy awards in Los Angeles.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

A BlackBerry salesperson displays a BlackBerry Z10 during the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone in Mumbai

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to Richard Cordray at the White House in Washington

Clinton bids farewell to the State Department in Washington

Dilma Rousseff speaks during the inauguration ceremony of Cesar Borges at the Planalto Palace

Pedestrians walk past the Versace store on Fifth Avenue in New YorK

Corzine frowns as he testifies before a House Financial Services Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the collapse of MF Global, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

An Everything Everywhere (EE) mobile phone store sign is seen in London

Demonstrators protesting low wages and the lack of union representation in the fast food industry chant and hold signs in New York

Mozambique

A plaque depicting Britannia is seen on the outside of the Bank of England in the City of London

A statue is pictured in front of the former head quarters of Germany

A Delta Air Lines jet takes off past a Northwest Airline jets parked at gates at the Minneapolis St.Paul International Airport

A woman walks past the Pfizer Inc. headquarters in New York

Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda attends a news conference after his first monetary policy meeting in Tokyo

Albania

Argentine President de Kirchner visits residents of the Villa Mitre slum affected by floods after heavy rains in Buenos Aires

The Carnival Triumph cruise ship is towed towards the port of Mobile

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French Junior Minister for Budget Jerome Cahuzac speaks during the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris

Late night talk show hosts Leno and Fallon pose backstage at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills

Fahad Ali, a 27-year old medical tourist from Britain, is prepared for hair transplant at a clinic of Esteworld, an aesthetic private hospital group, in Istanbul

Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, responds to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas

A tanker truck driver waits in the queue to unload crude oil at Jordan Petroleum Refinery in the city of Zarqa

Members of the Mortgage Victims

A sign for automaker Hyundai hangs at the 2008 New York International Auto Show

A PayPal card is shown as customers can now pay with the card at selected Home Depot stores such as the one in Daly City

Former Goldman Sachs trader Matthew Taylor departs Manhattan Federal Court in New York

Former French Junior Minister for Budget Jerome Cahuzac reacts during a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry in Paris

Pardal waits inside a government-run employment office with wife Garcia in Cadiz

A Google employee poses with Nexus 7 tablets at a promotional event in Seoul

Rutgers Scarlet Knights coach Rice reacts during the first half of their NCAA men

Malaysia

A sign advertising bankruptcy filing is seen hanging off a road sign in San Bernardino

A woman walks out of an Internal Revenue Service office in New York

Emergency crews work to clean up an oil spill near Interstate 40 in Mayflower

File photo of an attendant holding a bottle of Wuliangye, one of China

Handout photo of Tonya Susan Bundick

Optimus Prime in a scene from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Facebook and Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

The characters Dory and Marlin are seen in a scene from "Finding Nemo"

Google signage seen at the company

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The headquarters of Italian defence and aerospace company Finmeccanica is seen in Rome

Cosmai President and CEO of Hyundai America talks about the 2006 Hyundai Sonata at the 2005 North ...

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

Man buys cancer drug Glivec for a relative who is suffering from cancer at a pharmacy in a government-run hospital in Ahmedabad

A 2008 Subaru Legacy is polished at the New York International Auto Show in New York

Obama is introduced by Francis Collins before his announcement of his administration

Depositors wait to enter a branch of Laiki Bank in Nicosia

Pope Francis speaks during his "Urbi et Orbi" address from a balcony in St. Peter

The new 2013 Buick Encore crossover is displayed on the final press preview day for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit

A man smokes a cigarette as he asks for money in central Madrid

A visitor talks with a staff member at an Apple store in Beijing

Four All Nippon Airways

CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, poses for a photograph in this undated picture provided by AstraZeneca in London

Australian Prime Minister Gillard leaves a media conference at Parliament House in Canberra

Peter Orszag, vice chairman of Global Banking, Citigroup, looks on during The Economist

A Citi sign is seen at the Citigroup stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

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Investor Carl Icahn speaks at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie looks on while giving his State of the State address in the assembly chamber in Trenton

The Capitol Records building is pictured in Hollywood

Shain Gandee, who starred in the MTV reality series "Buckwild" set in West Virginia, is shown in this undated publicity photograph

Comedian and talk show host Conan O

A visitor tries an iPhone at an Apple store in Beijing

Actor CMonteith arrives at Do Something Awards in Santa Monica, California

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring

Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp Barry Diller attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

A view of the jet assembly line at Cessna at their manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kansas

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

The sign at the entrance of a J.C. Penney store is pictured in Arcadia

Ranjit Shahani, chairman and managing director of Novartis India Ltd, speaks with media during news conference in Mumbai

Shuttered and padlocked businesses line Main Street in Stockton, California

A man uses an iPad with a Facebook app in this photo illustration in Sofia

Egypt

A man holds a U.S. flag while receiving his proof of U.S. citizenship during a ceremony in San Francisco

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

Workers clean up oil following a spill from Exxon

Former German Chancellor Schroeder addresses a news conference following a SPD parliamentary faction meeting

The entrance of Monte Dei Paschi bank headquarters is pictured in Siena

Central African Republic

South Africa

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

Argentina

An illustrative photo shows Blackberry smartphone

A view shows the Standard & Poor

Michel Djotodia, leader of Central African Republic

Gabon

A pedestrian passes the sign outside the headquarters of Biogen Idec Inc. in Cambridge

Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc arrives for the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A man walks past an MTS shop in St.Petersburg

Michael Steinberg (C) leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York

A man looks at NEC Corp

The National Information Security Engineering Center, a building commissioned by the People

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

Shoppers push a trolley outside a Costco Wholesale store in Los Angeles

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A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

Recording artist Lovato performs "Give Your Heart a Break" during the VH1 Divas 2012 show in Los Angeles

A riot police stands in front of parliament in Cairo

Michel Djotodia, leader of Central African Republic

An aerial view of Arena Sao Paulo stadium, known as "Itaquerao", which will host the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup

File photo of Mike Lazaridis of Research In Motion, speaking during BlackBerry

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius addresses first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte

Blake Shelton speaks at the 46th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville

File photo of a padlock and foreclosure papers attached to the front door of a home in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati

eBay Inc President and CEO Donahoe speaks during a hi-tech industry conference in Jerusalem

A woman talks on her mobile phone as she walks by Telekom Austria headquarters in Vienna

Fighters of the Seleka rebel coalition stand in front of the presidential palace in Bangui

U.S. Republican lawmaker Schock spins cotton on a wheel during his visit to Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad

A GameStop store is pictured in Pasadena, California

An illustration picture showing chocolate Easter bunnies by Swiss company Lindt and Austrian company Hauswirth taken in Vienna

Visitors look at devices at Accenture stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Panasonic

Low-cost handsets from Nokia on display at a Nokia store in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad

A man stands on a skateboard outside a Wal-Mart store in Williston, North Dakota

Handout of crews working to recover an estimated 30, 000 gallons of crude oil from tankers in derailment near Parkers Prairie

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

View of Belgian headquarters of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in Brussels

Handout image of damaged homes following a landslide on Whidbey Island

A cell infected with foot-and-mouth disease

A name plate is seen on the Hermes store in New York

A pedestrian passes the sign outside the headquarters of Biogen Idec Inc. in Cambridge

An American Airlines aircraft is on the ramp at Dallas-Ft Worth International Airport

Wachowski

A home destroyed nearly five months ago during the landfall of Superstorm Sandy is pictured in Mantoloking, New Jersey

Handout of crews working to recover an estimated 30, 000 gallons of crude oil from tankers in derailment near Parkers Prairie

People walk outside the Nasdaq Market site in New York

Cancer cells are seen on a big screen connected to a microscope at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover.

File photo of the offices and studios of Comcast Entertainment Group in Los Angeles

File photo of Lehman Brothers booth on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange

File photograph shows American billionaire, Stan Kroenke, arriving at the 26th annual Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley

Rollen, the president and chief executive officer of Hexagon, poses by the London Eye in London

CEO of Wolters Kluwer Nancy McKinstry speaks during a Reuters Media summit in London

People walk past the government building and the Landtag parliament in Liechtenstein

Designer Vera Wang greets the crowd following her Vera Wang Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week

Johnson, senior VP of Corporate Strategy for Dell Inc, smiles during the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York

Co-founder and Chief Executive of Oracle Corporation, Ellison introduces the company

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about strengthening the economy for the middle class and measures to combat gun violence during a visit to Hyde Park Academy in Chicago

The headquarters of Calpers, the largest U.S. public pension fund, is seen in Sacramento

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Handout of president and CEO of Wal-Mart Global eCommerce Ashe

A sign of the new iPhone 5 is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in Shanghai

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The exterior of Ericsson

Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, responds to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas

A generic picture of a computer keyboard.

Fighters for Seleka rebel alliance stand guard in front of the presidential palace in Bangui

A woman uses a mobile phone in north London

Handout of cover of first edition of newly launched Hollywood trade magazine "Variety"

A man looks around Sharp

A man looks at NEC Corp

North Korean bank notes are seen at a pavilion, just south of the border between the two Koreas, in Paju

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky arrives at a division of the High Court in central London

A PayPal card is shown as customers can now pay with the card at selected Home Depot stores such as the one in Daly City

Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

A view shows the Federal Reserve building in Washington

A line of Oscar statuettes can be seen at a "Meet The Oscars" display in Times Square, New York

Senator Tim Johnson chairs the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington

The United States Supreme Court is seen before dawn in Washington

General view of the stage during the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles

A woman walks past the Pfizer Inc. headquarters in New York

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky arrives at a division of the High Court in central London

People work out in an outdoor "Adult Playground" exercise area at Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx section of New York City

Structure of the Euro currency sign is seen in front of the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt

The city of Detroit skyline, including General Motors Global Headquarters, is seen along the Detroit River from Windsor, Canada

Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Abramovich gives a thumbs-up before the Group D Euro 2012 soccer match between Ukraine and England at Donbass Arena in Donetsk

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, departs Manhattan Federal Court in New York

Signage is pictured on the company headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in west London

Armed South African soldiers talk in Begoua

People enter a factory of Swiss drugmaker Roche in Burgdorf near Bern

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Man walks past sign welcoming Facebook to the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

Commentator Glenn Beck arrives at the 45th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville

Australian Prime Minister Gillard leaves a media conference at Parliament House in Canberra

Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc arrives for the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing

Newly recruited employees attend a training session inside Tech Mahindra office building in Noida

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the fiscal cliff to members of the media in the White House Briefing Room

A Lion Air airplane takes off at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta

A general view of damage caused by a siege by Islamist militants earlier this month at the Tiguentourine Gas Plant in In Amenas

Jiaotong University campus is seen at Zhangjiang High Technology Park, outskirts of Shanghai

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Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc arrives for the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

IFormer Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi looks on as he speaks in Rome

A view shows the Federal Reserve building in Washington

A woman looks in from a window panel of a Barnes and Noble store in New York

A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California

Handout photograph shows the Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota

An attendee tests the new HTC One during a launch event in New York

U.S. Representative Markey speaks during visit by him and colleagues discussing bilateral relationships of Egypt and U.S. in Cairo

Members with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, Louisiana

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Designer Rebecca Minkoff smiles and waves with a musician after presenting her Fall/Winter 2012 collection during New York Fashion Week

Italy

CEO of e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc Hiroshi Mikitani speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo

Central African Republic president Bozize speaks during a news conference at the presidential palace in Bangui

A customer holds up an Apple iPhone 5 as he poses for a photo during an exclusive sale by Belgian operator Mobistar in Brussels

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt addresses people from IT field during a conference in Yangon

A sample of Botox is seen at the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group at the Americana Manhasset luxury shopping destination in Manhasset

Receptionist works at the Otsuka Holdings Co headquarters in Tokyo

The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east London

TTSI trucks are pictured refueling with liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro

A clerk works at Kate Spade

Google signage seen at the company

South Korea

Australian PM Gillard greets members of audience as Opposition leader Abbott follows at National Apology for Forced Adoptions ceremony in Canberra

People line up for admission at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington

A mahout washes an elephant during a tusk trimming ceremony at Mahawangchang elephant camp in Kanchanaburi province

Five former Bell City elected officials were found guilty of stealing public money by paying themselves extraordinary salaries, in a Los Angeles Superior courtroom

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks at the Cable Show in Chicago

President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank Fred Hochberg speaks during an interview with Reuters in Nigeria

Actress Winslet arrives at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills

A diabetic patient displays her insulin supplies and blood sugar level-testing device at the J.W.C.H. safety-net clinic in the center of skid row in downtown Los Angeles

John Doerr shows a flexible solar panel in Stanford

Robert Downey Jr. arrives at the screening of the film "Marvel

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A Honda Odyssey car is displayed outside Honda Motor Co

Railroad cars are seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Handout photo of Lance Cpl. David P. Fenn II

A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

Handout photo of Sue Ann Hamm and Continental Resources Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Harold Hamm

Women walk out of an Internal Revenue Service office in New York

Customers visit the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York

Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch arrives at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

File photograph of Oracle Corp headquarters Redwood City

A worker leaves a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in Shenzhen

A view shows U.S. postal service mail boxes at a post office in Encinitas

CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, poses for a photograph in this undated picture provided by AstraZeneca in London

Cast members Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone arrive for the premiere of the film "The Croods" in New York

Google signage seen at the company

Renesas Electronics Corp

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt attends a function on catalysing tech Start-ups in India by NASSCOM, in New Delhi

A patient has her knee examined by Dr. Narang at University of Chicago Medicine Urgent Care Clinic in Chicago

A computer is seen down after hacking at main office of broadcaster YTN in Seoul

All Nippon Airways

Oracle President Mark Hurd delivers a keynote during Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco

Clouds are reflected off the Secretariat Building of the UN headquarters during the 67th United Nations General Assembly, in New York

A PayPal card sits at a cashier station at a Home Depot store in Daly City

Clouds are reflected off the Secretariat Building of the UN headquarters during the 67th United Nations General Assembly, in New York

A sign is seen outside a Starbucks Coffee shop in central London

File photograph of Oracle Corp headquarters Redwood City

Handout photograph shows the Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota

The exterior of Ericsson

An illustrative photo shows Blackberry smartphone

Co-Presidents and Chief Operating Officers of Fox Media Group Randy Freer and Eric Shanks appear during a presentation to announce Fox

Structure showing the Euro currency sign is seen in front of the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

A fisherman sits on the bank of the Suez Canal in Ismailia

People walk on Tartous city beach northwest of Syria

The Swedish flag flies outside Ericsson

Balu, a leader of DMK party, speaks with the media after handing over the letter of withdrawal of support to India

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Lagarde arrives for the Frankfurt Finance Summit in Frankfurt

The front grill of a 2013 Cadillac SRX Crossover is shown at the 2012 New York International Auto Show

Federal Express trucks head out for deliveries

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File photo of the U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington

File photo of headquarters of Deutsche Bank

Irons poses at the premiere of "The Host" in Hollywood

India

A man walks at the main office of television network YTN in Seoul

Two men walk past the front desk inside of the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co bank in New York

Handout images of new cigarette packaging released by US Food and Drug Administration

An Aston Martin car is displayed near television crews before guests arrive for the royal world premiere of the new 007 film "Skyfall" at the Royal Albert Hall in London

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is shown in Sunnyvale

A 64-ounce drink is displayed alongside other soft drink cup sizes at a news conference at City Hall in New York

Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court before Justice Elena Kagan

A pedestrian passes the sign outside the headquarters of Biogen Idec Inc. in Cambridge

Iraqi Kurdish Minister for Natural Resources Hawrami speaks during a news conference in Arbil

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Camp questions U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Geithner in Washington

A man walks away from the St. Regis hotel reading information regarding investing in the upcoming IPO of Facebook in New York

Arkansas governor Mike Beebe looks on during a Martin Luther King Jr. service in this January 15, 2013 Governor

A guest uses a Lytro light field camera on the red carpet at the world premiere of the film "Marvel

A box of Hostess Brands "Twinkies" is on display at a Jewel-Osco grocery store in Chicago

A Nokia smartphone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

Sign shown at headquarters for eBay in San Jose

Siderov leader of Bulgaria

A picture of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is seen on his grave in the Preobrazhensky cemetery in Moscow

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ARM CEO East speaks during a Samsung Electronics keynote address at the CES in Las Vegas

U.S. President Obama announces Mary Jo White for SEC chairwoman in Washington

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring

Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi, attends a news conference to present Sanofi 2011 annual results in Paris

China

Passengers board a Ryanair plane parked at Girona airport

Visitors are seen in front of Samsung stand during the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

A crane loads containers at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province

Workers put up a banner advertisement for AT&T on the side of a hotel as they prepare for International CES show in Las Vegas

Arkansas governor Mike Beebe looks on during a Martin Luther King Jr. service in this January 15, 2013 Governor

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew speaks with China

eBay Inc President and CEO Donahoe speaks during a hi-tech industry conference in Jerusalem

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda exits the beach after walking a high wire over the California Avenue beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

ANA Co

Israel

File photo of EA CEO John Riccitiello in Los Angeles

Calpers headquarters is seen in Sacramento

Police booking photo of Andrew Auernheimer

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Sign shown at headquarters for eBay in San Jose

Moshe Yaalon attends a Likud-Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the media at New York

A customer walks out of a branch of Bank of Cyprus UK, in north London

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

DeMarco delivers testimony on robo-signing and foreclosures at a hearing of the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Service Committee, in Washington

Members of the media are shown the Thames Water Fleet sewer in London

People walk down the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring

A trader works at the Goldman Sachs stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, poses for a photograph in this undated picture provided by AstraZeneca in London

A model displays a creation by Christian Dada Autumn/Winter 2013-14 collection during Tokyo Fashion Week

Israel

A Palestinian labourer works on a construction site in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem

Office workers walk during morning peak hour in central Sydney

Women sit on bench in New York

A worker packs boxes at Amazon

Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court before Justice Elena Kagan

People walk past an ST-Ericsson stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A model of Boeing

A sign stands in front of the JPMorgan Chase & Co bank headquarters building in New York

Obama makes official his nomination of Perez as his next labor secretary, at the White House in Washington

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Signs hang above the Panasonic booth on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A woman poses with a glass of wine at a tapas bar in Mumbai

First Nations protestors take part in an "Idle No More" demonstration on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

A man withdraws money from an automatic teller machine at a branch of Bank of Cyprus in Athens

Walt Disney Studios Chairman Horn, actress Spencer, actor Franco, actresses Kunis, Williams, King, Weisz, actor Braff, producer Roth and director Raimi pose for a picture at the premiere of "Oz the Great and Powerful" in Hollywood

People walk through a shopping mall in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck

Men watch a soccer match at a restaurant in Nicosia

The entrance of Monte Dei Paschi bank headquarters is pictured in Siena

A man looks at Panasonic TV sets at an electronic shop in Tokyo

China

Solaire Casino-Resort Chief Operating officer Michael French poses with waitresses a few days before the casino opening in Pasay city, Metro Manila

Shin, President and head of IT and Mobile Communication Division, introduces Samsung Electronics Co

Copies of the final edition of the News of the World are printed on the presses at the News International print works in Waltham Cross, southern England

Handout photograph shows the Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota

Traffic lights are seen near BP petrol station in Moscow

Samsung Electronics Co

A visitor walking past cars is reflected on a Toyota car at the company

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Office workers smoke on the pavement of their office in Nice

Exterior of Headquarters of SAC Capital Advisors, L.P. in Stamford

Brazil

A demonstrator holds a sign during a march against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington

Italy

Handout photograph shows the Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota

Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Marantis smiles before the seventh round of U.S.-Taiwan talks in Taipei

A police car escorts buses carrying passengers of the Carnival Dream cruise ship in Philipsburg

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building in New York as seen from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

JP Morgan Chase officer Drew appears before the Senate Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee in Washington

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gestures during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco

Fans take pictures of singer Perry with their mobile phones during an autograph-signing event as part of promotional activities for her new fragrance "Purr" in Mexico City

Boeing vice president and 787 Dreamliner chief production engineer Sinnett poses with model of Boeing

People gather at an automatic teller machine in Nicosia

Surfer Demacedo heads to a surfing spot at Martin

A man holds up Samsung Electronics Co

Connolly and Trevorrow of "Safety Not Guaranteed," arrive at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica

Anti-government protesters stand next to burning tyres as they march on the streets of the village of Sanabis, west of Manama

The entrance to JPMorgan Chase

The sign at the IBM facility near Boulder, Colarado

Ang Lee holds his award for Best Director for "Life of Pi" at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood

U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Pet Shop Boys perform during the German game show "Wetten Dass" (Bet it...?) in Erfurt

White House Press Secretary Carney speaks during a media briefing at the White House in Washington

Carnival Dream cruise ship moored at the A.C. Wathey Cruise Facilities after a diesel generator malfunctioned causing temporary disruptions, in Philipsburg

Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Eustace, senior vice-president of engineering and research at Google Inc., arrives at The Trevor Project

A retro McDonalds restaurant is seen next to a Chick-fil-A in Arundel Mills

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring

A woman opens a glass door with a "Now Hiring" sign on it as she enters a Staples store in New York

GlaxoSmithKline Chief Executive Andrew Witty speaks at the Global Investment Conference in London

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Handout photo of Dr. Harlan Krumholz

A woman holds BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high security Secusite software, used for governmental communication, at the booth of Secusmart during preparations at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover

Olivier Piou, CEO of Gemalto, attends a Reuters Global Technology Summit in Paris

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An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux

The signage at the main gate of The Walt Disney Co. is pictured in Burbank

Actress Kristen Bell of

The sign marking the MF Global Holdings Ltd. offices at 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan is seen in New York

A 64-ounce drink is displayed alongside other soft drink cup sizes at a news conference at City Hall in New York

Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

A man looks at the screen of his iPhone as he walks on a busy street in downtown Shanghai

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

Scout statue at the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving

People view the new Blackberry Z10 device at a Rogers store in Toronto

File photo of SandRidge Energy CEO Tom Ward in Oklahoma City

The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during Apple Inc.

A PayPal card is shown as customers can now pay with the card at selected Home Depot stores such as the one in Daly City

A car drives past an illuminated sign displayed in front of the local office of TNK-BP company in Tyumen

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech during a business conference in Budapest

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A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

EMC CEO Tucci speaks at a news briefing to release two reports addressing the impact of information technology on the environment

Obama speaks about the sequester in Washington

A model presents a creation by French designer Christophe Lemaire as part of his Fall-Winter 2013/2014 women

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

People walk past a Samsung stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A visitor walks past a stand for Italian defence group Finmeccanica during the IDEX at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre

An undated handout photo of Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University professor of cardiology and public health

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

Woman walks past JP Morgan Chase

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

U.S. President Barack Obama walks at the White House in Washington before visiting wounded military personnel in Maryland

Jackson, Carey, Urban, Minaj and Seacrest attend a Fox panel for the television series "American Idol" at the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena

76-year-old Minekatsu Kinugasa and his 74-year old wife Kiyoko make "imagawayaki

Handout photo of three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters flying over Edwards Air Force Base

Handout photo of workers on the moving line and forward fuselage assembly areas for the F-35 JSF at Lockheed Martin Corp

People watch the "World of Color" show at Disneyland in Anaheim

An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux

A Falklands islander wears a wig with the Union Jack colours as she arrives to the Town Hall polling station in Stanley

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan speaks during a joint news conference with other government ministers in Tripoli

President-elect of Kenya Kenyatta and his wife Margaret attend a ceremony inside a church in his hometown Gatundu

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London Mayor Boris Johnson campaigns for Conservative Party candidate Maria Hutchings in Eastleigh in southern England

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Central African Republic President Bozize attends peace talks in Libreville

President elect Uhuru Kenyatta greets his supporters in the company of his wife Margaret soon after attending a church service in his rural home town of Gatundu

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U.S. President Obama announces Mary Jo White for SEC chairwoman in Washington

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan holds a news conference to unveil the House Republicans

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U.S. President Obama announces Mary Jo White for SEC chairwoman in Washington

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Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric and Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), speak together during a news conference announcing the Head Health Initiative in New York

Tom Donilon stands as U.S. President Obama announces the resignation of NSA Jones in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington

Barbara Walters arrives for the premiere of the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" in New York

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Walt Disney Studios Chairman Horn, actress Spencer, actor Franco, actresses Kunis, Williams, King, Weisz, actor Braff, producer Roth and director Raimi pose for a picture at the premiere of "Oz the Great and Powerful" in Hollywood

Anti-nuclear protesters attend a rally in Tokyo

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

A woman walks into a Citibank branch in New York

Howard Stringer, CEO and president of Sony Corporation, speaks at a function to launch the Sony Media Technology Centre on the outskirts of Mumbai

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

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Ground beef makes its way down a conveyor belt at the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market meat processing facility in Riverside

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Sandberg CEO Facebook attends the annual meeting of WEF in Davos

A BlackBerry salesperson displays a BlackBerry Z10 during the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone in Mumbai

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves from a boat in the southwest of Pyongyang

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Bottles of Plavix shown on display at a pharmacy in North Aurora, Illinois.

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The Veneno car is pictured on the Lamborghini booth during the second media day of the 83rd Geneva Car Show at the Palexpo Arena in Geneva

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Copies of the Sun on Sunday are displayed for sale, on the first day of publication, in a newsagents in Wembley, north London

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The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange is seen ahead of the closing bell in New York

Filmmaker and Chairman of the Board of Lucasfilm Ltd. George Lucas waits to do a television interview in Beverly Hills

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Corporate consultant Berger poses before a Reuters interview in Berlin

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Television personality Joy Behar talks during the Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards event in New York

Purse containing Time magazine Romney cover is seen at RNC in Tampa

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Providence Equity Partners CEO and founder Jonathan Nelson speaks at The Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills

A work station is pictured at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The first shipment of pandemic vaccine against the swine influenza A (H1N1) Pandemrix arrives in Malmo

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U.S. actor Harrison Ford poses for photographs as he arrives for the British premiere of "Cowboys and Aliens" at the O2 Arena in London

New televisions are displayed at the Samsung booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg addresses the audience during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

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Visitors are seen in front of Samsung stand during the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

A car is covered on the Ford stand ahead of the 83rd Geneva Car Show at the Palexpo Arena in Geneva

A British Petroleum sign is seen at a petrol station in south London

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Showgoers visit the Intel booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Outrigger canoes are seen along the beach in Waikiki in Honolulu

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

Customers check a table at an IKEA store in Beijing

Former Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney waits for the start of a welterweight bout between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talks about the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in Albany

Motorists wait in lanes of traffic heading into the United States from Mexico at the U.S. border crossing in San Ysidro, California

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Demonstrators carry a replica of a pipeline during a march against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington

Damaged batteries are seen on a screen during a news conference on an investigation into the January 7 fire that occurred on a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver applauds New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act was signed in Albany

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder listens to a question at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington

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U.S. President Obama addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington

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John Lechleiter, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

Kelly Martin, President and CEO of Elan, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

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Winner of "The Best Job in the World" competition Ben Southall of Britain talks on a mobile phone on Hamilton Island

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Apple CEO Tim Cook waves at the end of Apple Inc.

European Union Competition Commissioner Almunia holds a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels

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TV host Stewart holds the Emmy award for the "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" after winning for outstanding variety, music or comedy series, backstage at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles

Handout photo of three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters flying over Edwards Air Force Base

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Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan arrives for the Barack Obama second presidential inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reacts at the end of the first half against the Los Angeles Lakers during their NBA basketball game in Dallas, Texas

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Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal speaks at a news conference in Riyadh

People sit next a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

Google Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist Cerf looks on during a news conference in Sofia

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Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Franz Humer, chairman of the board and Severin Schwan, CEO of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, speak before the company

Fernod, founder of Kabulbank, speaks in court in Kabul

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Transparent Container quality manager Walters and McManus talk on the company

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People take photos in Times Square in New York

A painting is pictured at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

Mexican businessman Carlos Slim listens during a news conference in Texcoco in this file photo

Surfboards lean against a wall at the Google office in Santa Monica

The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) departs for a deployment to the Asia-Pacific region, in San Diego Bay

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

Member of the British Parliament Robin Walker speaks during a meeting with Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro during a meeting in London

Two cans of Monster Energy drink are pictured in this photo-illustration shot in Los Angeles

Nominee for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy in Washington

Alexander Provotorov, chief executive of Rostelecom, poses at his office in Moscow

Traders work at the Goldman Sachs stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

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Supermodel Klum arrives at the 2013 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party in West Hollywood

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A Delta plane sits on a runway prior to takeoff at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York

Revellers dance at an office Christmas party in London

A man riding an escalator passes an advertisement of Sony Corp. at an electronic store in Tokyo

The logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Fiat-Chrysler chief executive Marchionne makes his speech during the visit of Italy

Undated handout photo of Dr. Deborah Persaud a virologist at Johns Hopkins

A Chinese national flag is seen at the headquarters of the central bank of China in Beijing

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about strengthening the economy for the middle class and measures to combat gun violence during a visit to Hyde Park Academy in Chicago

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Protesters march on a street during a demonstration in central Sofia

Director of the movie Singer poses at the premiere of "Jack the Giant Slayer" in Hollywood, California

Protestors march on a boulevard during a demonstration in central Sofia

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Noraziah Noor and Nurunisa Abu Bakar recite a prayer in Subang

The crest of English Premier League soccer club Arsenal is seen in front of their home ground, the Emirates Stadium, in London

French designer Jean Paul Gaultier appears with models during Paris fashion week

Men stand and watch as a fire rages in the background during clashes between rival gangs in Marche Madina, in Conakry

File photo of Boeing 787 Dreamliner airframe #8 being tugged out for takeoff from Paine Field in Everett

Actor Schwarzenegger attends a photo call of the film "The Last Stand" in Cologne

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie looks on while giving his State of the State address in the assembly chamber in Trenton

A Yahoo! signs sits out front of their headquarters in Sunnyvale

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Investor Warren Buffet arrives for the premiere of the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" in New York

Crowds gather on the track before the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach

The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

A demonstrator holds a sign during a march against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

The new Kindle Fire HD 7" is on display at Amazon

A Taco Bell restaurant is pictured in Burbank, California

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

U.S. President Barack Obama tours Linamar Corporation, a manufacturer of parts for the truck industry in Arden

Former UBS trader Adoboli arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London

A Chrysler badge is pictured on a new car at a dealership in Vienna, Virginia

British soldiers unload a British C17 cargo aircraft while a French Gazelle helicopter takes off at the Mali air force base near Bamako

Buses pass the Bank of England in the City of London

A Facebook icon is shown on a Samsung Galaxy III mobile phone in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon capsule, lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a second resupply mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral

Mark Bertolini, Chairman and CEO of Aetna, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un leaves after attending a photo session with participants of a meeting of officials guiding party lectures for the whole army

Director Peter Jackson arrives for the royal premiere of his film "The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey" in central London

The entrance to the Time Warner Center is seen at Columbus Circle in New York

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles

A worker prepares the Cancer Research UK Garden ahead of the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show 2011 on Tuesday in London

Attendees of the GiGse online gaming convention make phone calls between presenters at the Westin hotel in San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gestures as he speaks during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gestures as he speaks during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco

Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason drinks during a break of the first day of the Allen and Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley

Handout photo of workers on the moving line and forward fuselage assembly areas for the F-35 JSF at Lockheed Martin Corp

A man walks past a construction site for a new stadium in Mentougou district, suburb of Beijing

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People sit next a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

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The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

Jack Lew, President Barack Obama

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Zeidan Prime Minister of Libya pauses after his address to the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva

A lock secures a chain on the steel fence of a foreclosed home previously owned by U.S. Bancorp in Los Angeles

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Google signage seen at the company

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Army Private First Class Manning is escorted in handcuffs as he leaves the courthouse in Fort Meade

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

Anti-government demonstrators protest in Conakry

Director Steven Spielberg arrives at the 85th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills

PS leader Bratusek speaks during a news conference after the parliament dismissed Slovenia

Horses are being shown at Skaryszew horse fair

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

Tencent headquarters is seen at Nanshan Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen

The logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Indonesian Finance Minister Martowardojo leaves the presidential compound after attending a meeting in Jakarta

Hamied, chairman and MD of Indian generic drugmaker Cipla, poses for picture in front of cabinet containing company

NASCAR driver Kyle Larson and his Chevrolet end up in the fence during the final lap crash during the during the NASCAR Nationwide Series 32nd Annual DRIVE4COPD 300 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach

Westergren, founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora internet radio, watch as their company begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

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Rescue workers stand next to a hole in the catch fence following a last-lap incident during the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach

Handout photo of third Marine Aircraft Wing

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DeFazio throws up his hands as he talks to reporters after a Democratic caucus meeting with about debt relief legislation in Washington

A view shows U.S. postal service mail boxes at a post office in Encinitas

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Rescue workers attend to the injured in the stands following a last-lap incident during the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

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Oscar host Seth MacFarlane speaks on stage at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Anti-government demonstrators protest in Conakry

Handout photo of third Marine Aircraft Wing

Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, arrives at the premiere of "The Guilt Trip" in Los Angeles

Workers rest sitting next to Telefonica

Visitors look at devices at ZTE booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

Handout of an inactive wellhead owned by Swift Energy is seen discharging an oily-watery mixture after being struck by a 42-foot crewboat, the Sea Rider, off the coast of Port Sulphur

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Qtel Group CEO Nasser Marafih gestures during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

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Two policemen talk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington

People wave flags as they watch live telecast of Slovenian PM Jansa, as he speaks from Brussels, during a pro-government rally Ljubljana

Attacking team members work to hack into a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

File of shoppers leaving a Target store with their purchases in Chicago

A visitor looks at the new Sony Xperia Z phone and tablet through a glass window during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

People wave flags as they watch live telecast of Slovenian PM Jansa, as he speaks from Brussels, during a pro-government rally Ljubljana

Slovenia

File of residents of the Colonial Place neighborhood survey flood waters as heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy floods the Lafayette River in Norfolk

Bill Gates in a still from a new video released online

Same sex couples take their vows during a group wedding at the First Baptist Church in Seattle

A U.S. Airways jet departs Washington

General view of Microsoft Corporation new headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris

Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks at news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington

Google signage seen at the company

A sign for the SEC is pictured in the foyer of the Fort Worth Regional Office in Fort Worth

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gives his State of the State address in the assembly chamber in Trenton

An artisanal miner washes tin ore before it is bagged up and weighed, ready to be transported to the nearest major town for export in the Kalimbi tin mine near the small town of Nyabibwe

Blackberry Z10 devices are displayed at a Rogers store in Toronto

A Yahoo! signs sits out front of their headquarters in Sunnyvale

Cablevision CEO James Dolan is seen at a news conference in New Yor, November 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Iranian soldiers stand guard on an anti-aircraft machine gun inside Natanz uranium enrichment facility

A model displays a creation from Gianfranco Ferre

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

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Treasury Secretary-designate Lew faces Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

An Aer Lingus plane docks at the gate at the Chopin International Airport in Warsaw

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

The entrance to JPMorgan Chase

The new Sony Xperia Z is pictured during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Trevor Fetter, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

A sign with a caricature of Slovenia

M23 rebel fighters guard the venue of news conference in Bunagana in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

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Philippines Juvic Pagunsan is silhouetted against a lake while hitting from the 17th hole fairway during third round of the Volvo Masters of Asia golf tournament

An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux

File photo of a man using an ATM machine at a La Caixa savings bank branch in central Madrid

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch an exhibition basketball game in Pyongyang

Senator Richard Blumenthal is seen with Newton sign during a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary committee about guns and violence on Capitol Hill in Washington

Oscar statue is pictured at the Governors Ball for the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Tennis balls sit on the court before a match at the Australian Open, January 18, 2008.

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

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Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

Handout photo of third Marine Aircraft Wing

A general view shows the annual general meeting of Bayer AG in Cologn

Members of Boko Haram splinter group attend a media conference in Maiduguri

File of a Goldman Sachs sign is seen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

NASCAR driver Kyle Larson and his Chevrolet end up in the fence during the final lap crash during the during the NASCAR Nationwide Series 32nd Annual DRIVE4COPD 300 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach

A view of the Hewlett Packard headquarters in Palo Alto

Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

Products made by Johnson & Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster

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Democratic party leader Bersani casts his vote at a polling station in Piacenza

Flag hangs on the wall of the JP Morgan company stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

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Kelly Martin, President and CEO of Elan, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

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Blackberry Z10 devices are displayed at a Rogers store in Toronto

Argo director Ben Affleck poses with wife Jennifer Gardner arrive at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Jessica Chastain, actress in a leading role nominee for the film "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Dr. Weitz poses in the emergency room at St. John

People walk at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul

Inmates in the Last Mile program at San Quentin State Prison prepare to present their startup ideas in San Quentin

Quenzhane Wallis, best actress nominee for her role in "Beasts of the Southern Wild", arrives at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

A salesperson unpacks an Apple iPad Mini to test it for a customer in the Apple specialty section of a Croma retail store in Mumbai

Packages of 30 watt light bulbs of lamp manufacturer Osram are pictured in a shop in Germering

Thousands of demonstrators march shouting slogans during a protest against high utility bills and monopolies in the energy sector in Sofia

A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B lands at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona

A model displays a creation from Roberto Cavalli Autumn/Winter 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week

Ben Affleck accepts the award for best motion picture for Argo at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Ellison, daughter of Oracle CEO and a producer on the film "Zero Dark Thirty", is shown on the set of the film

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U.S. President Barack Obama listens to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Washington

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

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British actor Nicholas Hoult attends a screening of the movie "Warm Bodies" in New York

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

A man looks at a scale model of Boeing

Patricia Relling looks over the letter from Anthem Insurance in Louisville

Handout of Lockheed Martin jet plant in Fort Worth Texas

Bernard Madoff departs US Federal Court after a hearing in New York

Emergency crews respond to a United Airlines 737 passenger jet after it slid off the runway in icy conditions in Cleveland

File photo of a concrete sign marking the city limits for San Bernardino, California

A calendar with a picture of Pope Benedict XVI on its cover is seen in front of his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo

A first aid kit made by Johnson & Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster

Casino chips are seen on a gaming table inside a casino on the opening day of Sheraton Macao hotel at Sands Cotai Central in Macau

An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

People wait in line at a branch of Bradesco bank, inside a Casas Bahia store in Sao Paulo

A Dish Hopper DVR system with Sling is displayed during a Dish news conference at the CES in Las Vegas

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Woman poses for photos along the steps leading to the Dolby Theatre, the site for the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles

Publcity photo of actress Jessica Chastain in scene from "Zero Dark Thirty"

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

People walk in front of residential towers in Hong Kong

General view of Gecamines

A sign hangs in the Sharp booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A man rides a bicycle past a Barclays bank in London

Kelly Martin, President and CEO of Elan, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

Man carries a bag with ice past a cooler with an advertisement for est sodas in Bangkok

Director Zeitlin and actress Wallis react as they arrive at the National Board of Review Awards in New York

Cast members Courtney and Willis meet with fans to celebrate the opening of their new film "A Good Day To Die Hard" in New York

An aerial view shows a house pushed into marshland almost a month after the Oakwood neighborhood in the Staten Island borough of New York was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy

British singer-songwriter Morrissey performs during the International Song Festival in Vina del Mar city

Aerial view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Mobile

Sehat Sutardja, Chairman and CEO of Marvell Technology Group, speaks at the Reuters Global Technology Summit New York

Vaccination containers pass through machine that will individually photograph vaccines for quality control at the Novartis flu facility in Holly Springs

Beds lie empty in emergency room of Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans

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Workers hang a Ford Motor banner on the side of a building across from Cobo Center in advance of media preview of North American International Auto show in Detroit

A woman walks past election campaign posters of PDL member Silvio Berlusconi in Milan

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Petursson, CEO of IT company CCP, poses for a picture at the company

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A visitor walks past a stand for Italian defence group Finmeccanica during the IDEX at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre

Angela Merkel smiles during a news conference after her talks with Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo

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New Surface tablet computers with keyboards are displayed at its unveiling by Microsoft in Los Angeles

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Florida Governor Scott greets an attendee in the audience before the start of the final U.S. presidential debate in Boca Raton

The Carnival Triumph cruise ship is towed towards dock at the port of Mobile

Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court before Justice Elena Kagan

A view shows U.S. postal service mail boxes at a post office in Encinitas

A model presents a creation from Gucci Autumn/Winter 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week

World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein speaks at an event to update the public on the pace of development at the site in New York

Hospital beds in a file photo

CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corporation McClendon walks through the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana

Maurice "Morry" Taylor working with an employee at Titan

A woman passes by an office of Russian telecoms firm Rostelecom in Moscow

Office Depot store in Encinitas, California

Publicity photo from the Oscar nominated film "Argo"

Co-founder of Yahoo Yang attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley

Spain

Andrew House speaks during the unveiling of the PlayStation 4 launch event in New York

The logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

A fire engine is seen in flames after it was set afire by protesters during a strike in Noida

A Boeing 787 descends in Everett, Washington travelling with crew only from Fort Worth, Texas

Construction workers are seen on a high rise office building site on the Pudong River bank at the new financial district of Pudong in Shanghai

"Lincoln" director Steven Spielberg and cast members Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field pose during a photocall to promote the movie in Madrid

To match feature CZECH-CROWN/TOURISM

Cars drive north along the Overseas Highway near Craig Key, Florida

British singer-songwriter Morrissey performs during the International Song Festival in Vina del Mar city.

Mayweather Jr. of U.S. sits as he waits to start during his title fight against Cotto of Puerto Rico at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas

The headquarters of Calpers, the largest U.S. public pension fund, is seen in Sacramento

A doctor checks the blood pressure of a patient in a file photo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder holds a news conference to talk about why he signed into law, earlier in the day, right-to-work laws in Lansing, Michigan

Model Cara Delevingne presents a creation from the Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during London Fashion Week

Guests use a sample phone at the launch of the HTC One smartphone in London

Timberlake performs with Jay-Z at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

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People shop at a supermarket in London

An electronic display identifies the post that trades SandRidge Energy stock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

John Martin, CEO of Gilead, poses before speaking to reporters during the Reuters 2006 Biotechnology..

A customer leans against the pharmacy counter in Arkansas May 31, 2007.

People line up for admission at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington

An election judge deals with paper work prior to early voting in Silver Spring

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates listens during a news conference in Texcoco

An employee carries a wafer box in a clean room of German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon in Regensburg

Employees work on LCD panels in the new AU Optronics plant in Trencin

An employee serves a guest at the reception counter inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

Children are seen with a bicycle on the road outside the village of Tenke, in Congo

File photo of ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner after making an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in western Japan

Burger King’s Twitter account shows hacking activity before the account was suspended by Twitter in this screen grab taken

The Carnival Triumph cruise ship is towed towards dock at the port of Mobile

Tunisia

Handout photo of Raytheon

A QR code is seen on goods for sale during the launch of a temporary "pop-up" Christmas shop run by online giant eBay on Dean Street in Soho, central London

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

A North Korean flag on a tower flutters in the wind at a North Korean village near the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in this picture taken just south of the border, in Paju

A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator, unmanned aerial vehicle, armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, performs a low altitude pass during the Aviation Nation 2005 air show at Nellis Air Force Base in this handout photo

File picture showing a general view of the Petrusse river in city of Luxembourg

A woman walks past a poster of Reliance Industries installed outside the venue of the company

Sony

Britain

Demonstrators carry a replica of a pipeline during a march against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington

A necklace and pendant by Bvlgari seen on display as part of the upcoming auction of the late actress Elizabeth Taylor

Showgoers look at a display of 55-inch OLED televisions in the LG Electronics booth during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A bottle of Maker

Cyprus Presidential candidate Anastasiades of the right wing Democratic Rally party casts his ballot at a polling station in Limassol

People challenge the riot police as they block traffic during a protest against high electricity bills in Sofia

Cast members Courtney and Willis meet with fans to celebrate the opening of their new film "A Good Day To Die Hard" in New York

Members of various nationalist organizations march with torches in memory of former general Lukov in downtown Sofia

Pistorius stands in the dock during a break in court proceedings at the Pretoria Magistrates court

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Camp questions U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Geithner in Washington

A man uses an iPad with a Facebook app in this photo illustration in Sofia

Members of the band Fun pose with their awards for Song of the Year "We Are Young" and Best New Artist, backstage at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

Canada

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A passer-by stands in front of the News Corporation building in New York

Actors Cage and Stone arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the movie "The Croods" at the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin

Enrique Pena Nieto attends a media conference after a business meeting at the FIESP (Sao Paulo Industry Federation) in Sao Paulo

Italy

The headquarters of Italian defence and aerospace company Finmeccanica is seen in Rome

The X5 all terrain car of German carmaker BMW is on display at the Frankfurt International Auto Show IAA in Frankfurt

Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi, attends the company

A Chrysler auto assembly worker walks past a 2008 Dodge Viper on the assembly line of the Chrysler Conner Avenue Assembly plant Detroit

Finmeccanica Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Giuseppe Orsi poses in a helicopter during the opening ceremony of the new Terminal of Vertiporto dell

A stranded passenger sleeps in deserted terminal at Schoenefeld airport outside Berlin

The main body section of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder holds a news conference to talk about why he signed into law right-to-work laws in Lansing, Michigan

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on education for young children in Decatur

File photo of a view of the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Contestants take the stage during the 2011 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

U.S. President Barack Obama greets doctors from across the country after making remarks on the need for health insurance reform in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington

A technician configures a "Pick and Place" electronics manufacturing machine

Security guards and staff stand at the entrance of an Apple store during the release of iPhone 5 in Beijing

Founder and chairman of Dell computers Michael Dell passes a screen projection before speaking at a news conference in Sydney

Federal Reserve Board Governor Tarullo testifies before the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announces $25 billion agreement with mortgage servicers in Washington

Passengers leave the Carnival Triumph cruise ship after reaching the port of Mobile, Alabama

To match Interview G20/RIM

A man poses with an iPhone during Earth Hour in the center of Brasilia

To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/WELLNESS

Two women look at the arrival hall of Duesseldorf

Alex Behring, Managing Partner at 3G Capital, talks as Heinz Chairman, President and CEO William R. Johnson listens during a news conference to announce that Heinz has agreed to be bought by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital, in Pittsburgh

A laboratory worker of the Official Food Control Authority of Canton Bern extracts the meat of beef lasagne for a DNA test in the laboratory in Bern

Sign shown at headquarters for eBay in San Jose

People are reflected in the window of a Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena bank in Rome

South African

A photo illustration shows a picture of a flower taken with the photo-sharing application Instagram on the screen of an Android mobile phone in Los Angeles

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks about the future of the city during an interview in Detroit, Michigan

Slim, Gates, Avila and Martinez cut the ribbon during the inauguration of a new research facility at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Texcoco

A woman looks in from a window panel of a Barnes and Noble store in New York

A man poses with an iPhone during Earth Hour in the center of Brasilia

Obama waves to reporters as he returns from a daytrip in North Carolina, to the White House in Washington

A man rides a motorcycle past a signboard for the Cambodia Iron Group at the Rovieng District in Preah Vihear province

Adidias logos are seen on the company

U.S. Coast Guard handout photo of the Carnival Triumph cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

Gasoline drips off a nozzle during refueling at a gas station in Altadena

Boehner listens to Cantor during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

People walk in front of the Time Warner Inc. headquarters building at Columbus Circle in New York

A model presents a creation from the Vivienne Westwood Man Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during "London Collections: Men" in London

A worker places traffic cones on the road as the Mulholland bridge is closed over the 405 freeway in Los Angeles

U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe addresses the Reuters Washington Summit in the Reuters newsroom in Washington

U.S. President Obama poses for a picture with workers as he tours Linamar Corporation that manufactures parts for the truck industry in Arden, North Carolina

A view shows a partially damaged exterior construction of the engine room of unit number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The new Macbook Pro is pictured during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

Handout photo of the 2006 Pontiac G6

An Alzheimer

Former Managing Director of World Bank, Ramphele, speaks during the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 in Putrajaya

A visitor looks over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

A broken rotating advertising board is seen outside the entrance to News International

EU Commission President Barroso addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks about the future of the city during an interview in Detroit, Michigan

Peter Breiter, CEO of Raiffeisen Gammesfeld eG bank, hangs up the table of prices at the bank in Gammesfeld, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Treasury Secretary-designate Lew faces Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

File photos of pictures of Hindu gods hanging beside a medicine rack inside a clinic in Pune

General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt speaks before a panel discussion in Washington

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talks about the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in Albany

Showgoers visit the Intel booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Pemex employees and workers are seen inside of the headquarters of state-owned oil giant Pemex, following a deadly blast, in Mexico City

Founder and chairman of Dell computers Michael Dell passes a screen projection before speaking at a news conference in Sydney

Traders work the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York

A participant wears a sticker with the word "Obey!" during an opposition protest on Revolution square in central Moscow

Apple CEO Cook speaks in the demonstration room after the Apple event introducing the new iPad in San Francisco

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Carter adjusts his glasses during his meeting with Japanese Senior Vice Defence Minister Watanabe during their meeting in Tokyo

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tpolia poses for a portrait at the company

A Nokia smartphone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

Workers construct a road near Nkandla in South Africa

A customer buys medication at a pharmacy in Khartoum

Nokia smartphones are seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

The Barclays headquarters building is seen in the Canary Wharf business district of London

Cornyn responds to questions during the Reuters Washington Summit in the Reuters newsroom in Washington

A model presents a creation from the Diane von Furstenberg Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week

The United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft onboard launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder holds a news conference to talk about why he signed into law right-to-work laws in Lansing, Michigan

U.S. President Obama addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington

A person uses the new Blackberry Z10 device at a Rogers store in Toronto

Trolleys are stacked outside a Tesco store in Hammersmith, west London

Commuters walk past the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York

A worker selects roses for export before Valentine

The Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King speaks to the Economic Club of New York in New York

Employees work at the headquarters of Box.net, an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies, in Los Altos

File photo of the Vorkutinskaya mine in Russia

An iPhone 5 is displayed in an Apple store in central Sydney shortly after going on sale to the public

File photo as the new Volkswagen Golf model is unveiled in Berlin

Carnival cruise ship, Carnival Triumph, is seen in this undated handout picture provided by Carnival Cruise Lines

Handout shows the new long-acting insulin Tresiba drug on a Novo Nordisk production line

A table of the iPod nano is seen at the Apple Store during Black Friday in San Francisco

Metal horse heads are seen above a closed horsemeat butcher shop in Paris

McCarthy, best supporting actress nominee for her role in "Bridesmaids", arrives at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett speaks at a news conference in State College

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Lew answers questions during the Reuters Washington Summit in Washington

File photo of an employee holding Apple

A US airways plane takes off behind an American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington

A recall notice for frozen meals which had tested positive for horse meat is seen at an Aldi supermarket in northwest London

Venezuela

Police photographer inspects the scene of a tourist plane crash at Charleroi airport

Venezuela

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Google Chairman Schmidt smiles during a rehearsal of his MacTaggart lecture speech for the Edinburgh International Television Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland

People are reflected in the window of a Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena bank in Rome

The Boeing 787 lands in Everett, Washington travelling with crew only from Fort Worth, Texas

Demonstrators protest against Las Vegas Sands

Findus products are display in a store in Edinburgh, Scotland

The Barclays headquarters building is seen in the Canary Wharf business district of London

The Superdome is darkened during a power outage in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game in New Orleans

A view shows U.S. postal service mail boxes at a post office in Encinitas

ATF agents treat one of their colleague after a massive shootout between police and a religious cult near Waco

The main body section of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse

WTO Director-General Lamy, EU Trade Commission De Gucht and U.S. Trade Representative Kirk attend a session at World Economic Forum in Davos

Men walk past logos of Japan

Employee works on a steel production line in Dalian

Chris Van Hollen takes questions during the Reuters Washington Summit in Washington

Ecuador

U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew greets people during the presidential inauguration in Washington

Google signage seen at the company

U.S. President Obama speaks during the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Virginia

Pink performing and Rihanna arriving at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles January 31, 2010. REUTERS/Staff

Bottles of pills of the weight-loss drug Qsymia produced by Vivus Inc are shown in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/Vivus/Handout

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Google signage seen at the company

Handout of Merck cholesterol drug Vytorin

NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman speaks during a news conference in Boston

A view shows U.S. postal service mail boxes at a post office in Encinitas

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Black Keys members accept their awards for best rock album and best rock song at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

A man walks past a train carrying goods, at Anglo Platinum

Mark Carney, the next governor of the Bank of England, answers questions from a parliamentary committee in the Houses of Parliament in central London

European Central Bank President Draghi arrives for the monthly ECB news conference in Frankfurt

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator taxies on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Atlantic Ocean in this handout photo

A man poses as he looks at music from the legendary band The Beatles on Apple

Hasbro Inc handout image shows the new cat token for Monopoly

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Geithner arrives for the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington

All Nippon Airways

Barcenas is surrounded by journalists as he gets into a taxi after leaving the anti-corruption prosecutor

A statue is pictured in front of the former head quarters of Germany

Obama announces the nomination of Sally Jewell, CEO of Recreational Equipment Inc., to Interior Secretary at the White House in Washington

Mail carrier Mike Perkins delivers mail in the snow in Waterloo

The entrance to The Home Depot store is pictured in Monrovia, California

Signage is pictured on the company headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in west London

File photo of SandRidge Energy CEO Tom Ward in Oklahoma City

People are reflected in the window of a Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena bank in Rome

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

File photo of a medical marijuana starter plant

The map of Europe is featured on the face of a one Euro coin seen in this photo illustration taken in Paris

Google signage seen at the company

News of the Facebook IPO is seen on the Times Square news scroller across from the Nasdaq Market site in New York

Sotheby

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

A BP petrol station sign is seen at dawn in west London

A sign of the new iPhone 5 is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in Shanghai

DELIA SMITH ARRIVES AT A RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE 400 PIONEERS TO BRITISH LIFE AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

U.S. President Obama speaks from the briefing room of the White House in Washington

Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy addresses a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin

File photograph of Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell displaying a Dell tablet computer in San Francisco

The logos of German airline Lufthansa and Austrian airlines are pictured at Vienna

The logos of German airline Lufthansa and Austrian airlines are pictured at Vienna

Swiss bank UBS CEO Ermotti addresses the annual news conference in Zurich

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

U.S. President Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return to Washington from Minneapolis

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the White House in Washington

A BP petrol station sign is seen at dawn in west London

A photo illustration shows a graphic depicting a Chinese national flag flying atop of the disputed islands, being seen on the front page of Chinese search engine website Baidu, on a computer screen in Beijing

The new Surface tablet computer by Microsoft is displayed at its unveiling in Los Angeles

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring

A view shows the Standard & Poor

Commuters read copies of the Evening Standard newspaper, featuring a front page headline about the engagement of Britain

South African President Zuma listens as Swedish PM Reinfeldt addresses a news conference after their meeting in Cape Town

Ravens free safety Reed hoists Lombardi Trophy following victory in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans

A tourist walks towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge at Circular Quay September 24, 2008 as clouds form in the distance

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Mothers and their infants await appointments with health researchers as part of a clinical trial to develop new TB vaccines at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative’s clinical trial field site in Worcester

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

Coders work in the Mojang company office in Stockholm

A coder plays a pinball machine game during a break in the Mojang company office in Stockholm

A person talks on a mobile phone in front of a HTC advertisement board in Taipei

Rescue workers carry a stretcher with body of 36th victim at site of explosion at headquarters Pemex in Mexico City

The Superdome is darkened during a power outage in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game in New Orleans

U.S. President Obama addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington

File picture shows RIM CEO Heins silhouetted during the BlackBerry World event in Orlando

Mexico

Crowds look at the South Bay Power Plant after its implosion in Chula Vista

File photo of Lockheed Martin

A Bank of America sign is seen outside of a branch in Greenville

Man walks past the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton appears in a Super Bowl 2013 advertisement for Mercedes-Benz

San Francisco 49ers tackle Joe Staley, guard Joe Looney, and guard Al Netter work on blocking drills during a NFL Super Bowl XLVII football practice in New Orleans

Google signage seen at the company

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the White House in Washington

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building and the skyline of New York, as people watch from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

Italy

Oracle signage at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 event in San Francisco

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a news conference at the headquarter of PDL in Rome

Saudi

A home under construction is for sale in Virginia

Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn leaves Southwark Crown Court in London

Demonstrators gather outside Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport to protest against a visit by British author Salman Rushdie in Kolkata

A research nurse gives an infant a check-up as part of a clinical trial to develop new TB vaccines at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative’s clinical trial field site in Worcester

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-Hee arrives at Gimpo airport in Seoul after he visited several European countries and Japan

A visitor walks past Sony

Employee cleans red carpet before German premiere for the film

File of Colorado Lt. Gov. Garcia looking at notes while campaigning with Colorado Governor John W. Hickenlooper

A plug is seen coming from the Chevrolet Volt electric car during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the iPhone 4S at Apple headquarters in Cupertino

Ben Stephens, a Blackberry sales manager demonstrates a new Blackberry Z10 to prospective customer Shevek at a branch of phones 4U in central London

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the White House in Washington

File photo of the space shuttle Columbia lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

A worker packs boxes at Amazon

The U.S. Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington

A customer enters the Asiacell company headquarters in Baghdad

Copies of the "FY2013 Budget - The Path to Prosperity" are placed on the chairs of the news conference room at Capitol Hill in Washington

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

The headquarters of Fresenius is pictured in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt

Students have a nutrition break mid-morningl at Belmont High School in Los Angeles

The U.S. flag flies at the Burt GM auto dealer in Denver

Man makes a call on a mobile phone in Sierra Leone

Employees of Satyam Computer Services Ltd enter their head office in Hyderabad

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

An attendee reaches out to grab a newly launched RIM Blackberry 10 device in New York

Ericsson

Ruling People

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

A visitor walks past the bank

People exit a Citibank branch in New York

Two people walk outside a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City

A Qualcomm sign is seen at one of Qualcomm

White House

File photo of Ron Jeremy in Park City

Students have a nutrition break mid-morningl at Belmont High School in Los Angeles

Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach

File of a box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Publicity photo of actors Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in scene from "House of Cards"

African Rainbow Minerals Executive Chairman Motsepe attends a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Justice Department

Lenovo

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Tanker trucks wait to be loaded at Taq Taq oil field in Arbil

Toyota Motor Corp

ANA

Customers look at LG Electronics

Handout image of the proposed Kennedy Center Expansion Project

CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corporation McClendon walks through the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana

Customers wait in line outside the Apple store on 5th Avenue, for Friday

Immigrants take the oath of allegiance to the U.S. constitution during a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles

Visitors walk past a YouTube stand during MIDEM in Cannes

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

RIM President and CEO Heins introduces new RIM Blackberry 10 devices during their launch in New York

Box of Hostess Twinkies is seen on the shelves at a Wonder Bread Hostess Bakery Outlet in Glendale

Customers visit the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York

A puzzle page from the no. 59 issue of Cool Kidz magazine is seen in this photo illustration shot in London

Nokia Lumia smartphones are pictured in a shop in Warsaw

U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem is pictured at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center in Arlington Virginia

TV personality Kris Jenner (R) talks with reporters as she arrives for a party thrown by Google and the Hollywood Reporter, on the eve of the annual White House Correspondents

U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured as he meets with members of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and Major County Sheriffs Association to discuss gun violence measures, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington

Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz speaks during an interview in New York

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch gives a speech at the state memorial service for his mother Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in Melbourne

File photo of supporters awaiting for the arrival of ANC Youth League President Julius Malema at an election campaign event in Mitchells

File photo of electrical cable used to secure a security fence surrounding Cnoc an Iuir, an empty and unsold housing development in the village of Drumshanbo

The Time Warner Cable office is shown in Carlsbad

Research In Motion CEO Heins displays features of Blackberry 10 during his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

File photo of a child running towards a burning barricade during a strike by farm workers at De Doorns on the N1 highway, linking Cape Town and Johannesburg

ANA Boeing Co

Pedestrians walk down Main street during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah

Commuters use their smartphones in a train in Singapore

Senator Robert Corker speaks to the media before voting on a bill allowing a rise in the debt ceiling on Capitol Hill

Actor Jeremy Renner arrives at the premiere of the film "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" at Grauman

The main entrance to Monte Dei Paschi bank headquarters is pictured in Siena

Panasonic chief Tsuga introduces the company

European Trade Commissioner De Gucht answers a question during an interview with Reuters in Santiago

The ABP foods Dalepak Hambleton factory at Leeming Bar industrial estate, is seen in Northallerton, northern England

The ABP foods Dalepak Hambleton factory at Leeming Bar industrial estate, is seen in Northallerton, northern England

The Euro sculpture is pictured in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt

Monte Dei Paschi bank headquarters is pictured in Siena

People look for things to salvage after a fire at the Smart Fashions garment factory in Dhaka

Executive producer J.J. Abrams takes part in a panel discussion of NBC Universal

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration technical advisor West inspects Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane which made an emergency landing, in Takamatsu

ANA Boeing Co

Sarah Palin walks to her "One Nation Tour" bus after a visit to Fox News headquarters in New York

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the White House in Washington

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the Goldman Sachs stall

A US airways plane takes off behind an American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington

U.S. President Obama gestures as he delivers remarks on the economy to employees at Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in Redford

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks to a reporter as he and his wife Janet wait in line overnight with customers to purchase the new iPad at the Apple Store in Century City Westfield Shopping Mall

A sign for the SEC is pictured in the foyer of the Fort Worth Regional Office in Fort Worth

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Italy

A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas

U.S. President Obama speaks at the White House in Washington

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

Toronto Mayor Ford wins conflict of interest appeal

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

A woman looks at a French military vehicle drive past in Diabaly

Belgian riot police try to block Arcelor Mittal workers from the Liege site from entering the zone where a political meeting is taking place, in Brussels

File photo of an ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Takamatsu airport

Bottles of cholesterol drug Zocor are shown as Merck announces plans to cut jobs and close factories

Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani poses before taping of a talk show in Rome

IMF chief Lagarde addresses the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

Cast member Radcliffe poses at the premiere of "Kill Your Darlings" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City

Models hold a Samsung

Dell Inc. founder and chief executive Dell smiles during a business conference in New Delhi

U.S. President Barack Obama stands next to outgoing U.S. Secretary of Treasury in Washington

Sony

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

Handout photo of a Hywind floating windmill is towed from Amoyfjorden to Karmoy

File photo of Microsoft CEO Ballmer speaking in front of Microsoft products at the Qualcomm pre-show keynote at the CES in Las Vegas

The new Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet device is pictured during Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in Berlin

Mercedes Formula One team principal Ross Brawn follows the first practice for the German F1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim

U.S. President Obama announces Mary Jo White for SEC chairwoman in Washington

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads his Angelus prayer from the window of his private apartment in Saint Peter

Woman holds an American flag during naturalization ceremonies for new citizens aboard the Intrepid in New York

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

Outgoing Italian Prime Minister Monti addresses the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

CAT machines are seen on a lot at Milton CAT in North Reading, Massachusetts

Nestle CEO Bulcke attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

Russian banker and media magnate Alexander Lebedev talks to the media in front of a court building in Moscow

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

Mitsubishi Motors Corp

A truck passes by a road sign in In Amenas

Italy

Logitech president Darrell poses before Reuters interview during opening day of IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Director Julie Taymor poses at the premiere of her film "The Tempest" in Hollywood

Nokia Lumia smartphones are pictured in a shop in Warsaw

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Camp questions U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Geithner in Washington

U.S. President Obama and Senator Kerry shake hands after announcing Kerry

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

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A man walks by a video display at the Motorola booth on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

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JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Dimon speaks about state of global economy at forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

Lance Armstrong waves to the crowd following a run with his fans at Mount Royal park in Montreal

Handout photo of an auxiliary power unit battery removed from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jet

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A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk smiles during an event at the Singapore Management University

KCNA photo shows the launch of the Unha-3 rocket at West Sea Satellite Launch Site in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province

Rajat Gupta departs Manhattan Federal Court after being sentenced in New York

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A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building and the skyline of New York, as seen from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld for French fashion house Chanel as part of his Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 fashion show in Paris

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German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande leave family picture opportunity at Chancellery in Berlin

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Visitors look at motherboards being displayed at the AMD booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer displays Windows Phone 8 devices at the Qualcomm pre-show keynote at the CES in Las Vegas

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Actress Jessica Chastain arrives at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills

A man uses cross-country skis to make his way across the snow-covered Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Fire trucks surround Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire at Logan International Airport in Boston

Police officers secure an area near a shopping mall following an explosion near Athens

An Apple iPhone 5 phone is displayed in the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner speaks at the Institute of International Finance

Disney CEO Robert Iger attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley

Lance Armstrong speaks to the crowd prior to a run with his fans at Mount Royal park in Montreal

A delegation led by Algerian Oil Minister Youcef Yousfi and Japanese vice Foreign Affairs Minister Miuro Kiuchi visit the Tiguentourine Gas Plant in this still image from video footage

A man is screened with a backscatter x-ray machine as travellers go through a TSA security checkpoint in terminal 4 at LAX in Los Angeles

Benin soldiers stand in preparation to leave for their deployment to Mali, in the capital Cotonou

Showgoers visit the Intel booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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A pedestrian walks past the US Supreme Court building in Washington

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Nurses prepare influenza vaccine injections during a flu shot clinic in Boston

Lance Armstrong walks back to his car after running at Mount Royal park with fans in Montreal

Holder, flanked by Parker and Pistole, delivers remarks on gun violence to the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington

A "production ready" version of the Honda Pilot is shown at its debut at the New York International ..

A wall with remains of frescoes and graffiti is seen in Rome

A Samsung Galaxy Note II phone-cum-tablet is displayed during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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Research In Motion CEO Heins gestures as he delivers his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

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Massachusetts Governor Patrick addresses first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte

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File photo of Lance Armstrong in New York

A construction worker erects scaffolding at a new apartment complex under construction in Silver Spring

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the Goldman Sachs stall

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg listens to a question after introducing a new feature called "Graph Search" during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

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President Barack Obama signs executive orders on gun violence flanked by Hinna Zeejah, Taejah Goode, Julia Stokes and Grant Fritz during an event at the White House in Washington

A body is removed from the wreckage of a helicopter crash in Vauxhall, central London

A parachute dropped by a small aircraft is observed by the U.S. Navy as it drops over the MV Sirius Star off the coast of Somalia

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Protesters gather to deliver a petition to Walmart during an anti-gun protest in Danbury, Connecticut

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg introduces a new feature called "Graph Search" during a media event at the company

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French Junior Minister of Small Business, Innovation, and Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin , arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris

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Former Austrian interior minister Strasser and his lawyer Kralik leave a courtroom after the verdict in Vienna

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General Motors Corp. President of North America Mark Reuss introduces the Chevrolet 2014 Corvette vehicle during a press event in Detroit

Producer Grant Heslov and cast and crew accept the award for Best Motion Picture, Drama, for "Argo" at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills

HTC CEO Chou holds one of his devices sporting a new Myanmar font ahead of Monday

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Chastain and Ramirez greet each other at the premiere of "Zero Dark Thirty"at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood

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F-35 Lightning II releases an inert 1,000 lb. GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range in Patuxent River Maryland

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Attendees walk down branded steps at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

An exterior shot of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures before the taping of the talk show "Telecamere" at Rai television in Rome

Massachusetts Governor Patrick addresses first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte

A Los Angeles Police Department officer stands near his vehicle outside the Nordstrom Rack store in the Westchester area of Los Angeles

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The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

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Attendees walk down branded steps at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

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Former director of the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" Julie Taymor poses at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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United States Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue delivers his annual State of American Business address in Washington

An Oscar statue is seen at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences following the 85th Academy Awards nominee announcements in Beverly Hills, California

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Courtroom illustration of Viktor Bout during sentencing in New York

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House Energy and Power Subcommittee member Markey (D-MA) speaks during the committee

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Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer displays a Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 during an event in San Francisco

French President Francois Hollande listens to a New Years speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris

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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

The headquarters of Morgan Stanley is pictured in New York

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the White House in Washington

Speilberg stands at taping of the AFI Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles

A home for sale is seen in Los Angeles

Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, attends meeting of 57th National Development Council in New Delhi

Lenovo CEO Yang stands after a news conference in Sao Paulo

Gervais answers a question during the panel for the HBO television series "Life

Firefighters climb into rear cargo compartment of a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire at Logan International Airport in Boston

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Host Jimmy Kimmel opens the show at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles

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Robert Greifeld, CEO of Nasdaq-OMX Stock Market, attends news conference for Campaign to Fix the Debt at Nasdaq Market site in New York

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News headline displaying "Herbalife" is seen under DowJones electronic ticker at Times Square in New York

Stephen Woo, president of Device Solutions Business for Samsung Electronics, talks about the new Samsung Exynos 5 Octa processor during a keynote address at the CES in Las Vegas

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U.S. Vice President Biden speaks to representatives of gun safety and gun violence victims

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Sergei Polonsky, co-owner of Russian developer Mirax, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Moscow

U.S. President Obama announces his nomination of White House chief of staff and budget expert Lew as his next Treasury Secretary in Washington

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A victim of a commuter ferry crash is cared for by an FDNY EMT on the scene in New York

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A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

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File photo of Watson receiving data encompassing his personal genome sequence in Houston

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

Robert Greifeld, CEO of Nasdaq-OMX Stock Market, attends Campaign to Fix the Debt at the Nasdaq Market site in New York

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New televisions are displayed at the Samsung booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Kevin Reilly, president Entertainment Fox Broadcasting Co. poses at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society Newsmaker Luncheon in Beverly Hills

Showgoers look at a display of 55-inch OLED televisions in the LG Electronics booth during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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Fire trucks surround Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire at Logan International Airport in Boston

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New York Senator Charles Schumer holds aloft his tablet at an announcement of neighborhood WiFi in New York

Employee at the new CityTarget store sits in a store window overlooking downtown Chicago, as they prepare for the opening

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New Sony Bravia 4K Ultra HD televisions are displayed after being unveiled during a Sony news conference at the CES in Las Vegas

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Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court before Justice Elena Kagan

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

Lowell McAdam, Verizon president and COO, speaks at Verizon

A rescue team member searches for the Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft YV-2615 near the archipielago of Los Roques

Sen. Durbin speaks to reporters following a caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Fire trucks surround Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire at Logan International Airport in Boston

Ghanaian President Mahama takes the oath during his inauguration ceremony at the Independence Square in Accra

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File photograph of a Bank of America banking center in Times Square in New York

A rescue team search for the Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft YV-2615 near the archipielago of Los Roques

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A man photographs the skyline of Lower Manhattan in New York from a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey

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Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt arrive at an airport in Pyongyang

Worker walks outside the main terminal of the Berlin-Brandenburg international airport (BER) outside Berlin

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Blackberry Bold smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Note phablet and Apple iPad 2 tablet are displayed in this illustration in Hong Kong

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U.S. President Obama opens his notes before remarks to reporters in Washington

Guns that were turned in by their owners are seen in a trash bin at a gun buyback held by the LAPD

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Illinois Governor Pat Quinn delivers his State of the State address in Springfield

U.S. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington

Onlookers stand as smoke billows from one of the Indian Oil Corporation

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National Medal of Arts recipient, actor Al Pacino acknowledges the applause after receiving the medal from U.S. President Barack Obama at a ceremony in Washington

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The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits aground 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska

File photo of director George Lucas and his partner Mellody Hobson arriving at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood

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Adele speaks as she holds her award for best British female solo artist during the BRIT Music Awards at the O2 Arena in London

The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits aground 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska

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The 2010 Subaru Outback is unveiled at the 2009 New York International Auto Show

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The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Director Kathryn Bigelow is interviewed at the premiere of "Zero Dark Thirty" at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood

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Speaker of the House Boehner walks with Congressman Camp after a meeting with House Republicans about a "fiscal cliff" deal on Capitol Hill in Washington

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Waves crash over the conical drilling unit Kulluk where it sits aground on the southeast side of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska

F-35 Lightning II releases an inert 1,000 lb. GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range in Patuxent River Maryland

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A couple walks their dog on a beach framed by a home damaged by superstorm Sandy in the Queens borough region of Belle Harbor

File photo of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arriving for inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama as President of the United States in Washington

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Fox Marble Holdings worker walks at a mine the company had previously received a licence to exploit, near the village of Astrazub in southwest Kosovo

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German Chancellor Merkel poses for photographs after recording of her annual New Year

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Bonita Robbins, a patient suffering with arachnoiditis due to a contaminated steroid injection, sits on her hospital bed as she and her husband Ed listen to Infectious Diseases doctor Anurag Malani at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital in Ypsilanti,

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in Washington

Top candidate for the 2013 German general elections Steinbrueck of German SPD party addressees news conference in Berlin

Guns that were turned in by their owners are seen in a trash bin at a gun buyback held by the LAPD

Blake Krikorian, of id8 Group Holdings, arrives at the Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley

US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus departs after meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington

U.S. President Obama opens his notes before remarks to reporters in Washington

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Mike Lynch, Founder and Chairman of Autonomy Corporation, poses for photographers at an awards ceremony in central London

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

A worker welds steel bars at a construction site for a new train station in Ningbo

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, speaks during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro

File photo of US actor Stallone posing with fans at premiere of "The Expendables" in Berlin

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Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam departs Manhattan Federal Court after his sentencing in New York

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Daiwa Securities Group Chief Executive Hibino speaks during an interview with Reuters at the company headquarters in Tokyo

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

Actress and honoree Jessica Simpson is interviewed at the US Weekly Hot Hollywood Style issue party in Hollywood

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

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Wayne LaPierre, CEO and Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington D.C. in this handout photo.

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McCarthy arrives at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 21st annual Hall of Fame Gala in Beverly Hills

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner arrives to speak to the media on the "fiscal cliff" in Washington

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A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Pari

A Blair County Sheriffs deputy talks with an arriving Pennsylvania State Patrol trooper along Route 22 near the entrance to Canoe Creek State Park, in Blair County

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Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the NRA, speaks during a news conference in Washington

Wine merchant Gerard Mettler poses with various sizes of Champagne bottles in front of his wine shop in Paris

Women wait for fishermen to return with their catch in Costa do Sol, Maputo

A woman begs as she sits outside a Hellenic Postbank branch in Athens

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

The letters Telekom Austria are placed in front of the headquarters of Telekom Austria Group in Vienna

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A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

File photo of a superyacht built for Apple co-founder Jobs in a shipyard in Aalsmeer

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A woman walks past a Nokia advertisement board at a home appliances store in Shenyang

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

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People dine at a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet in Shanghai

A photo illustration shows a picture of a flower taken with the photo-sharing application Instagram on the screen of an Android mobile phone in Los Angeles

Peter Madoff, brother of Bernard Madoff, arrives at the Federal Court in New York

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

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CEO of the National Rifle Association Wayne LaPierre at the 38th annual CPAC meeting in Washington

The capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen surrounded by cranes during rescue operation in front of Giglio harbour

Designated new finance chief Hoettges and Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG pose before the annual news conference in Bonn

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Shovels are seen at a ground breaking ceremony for Foxconn

The National Debt Clock hangs on a wall next to an office for the Internal Revenue Service near Times Square in New York

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

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Morning commuters walk pass New York Stock Exchange

Handout picture showing Patrick Sarmiere, a scientist, at an Acorda lab in Ardsley

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French President Francois Hollande speaks during a news conference in Algiers

Cider bottles are seen on the production line at the Stassen brewery in Aubel

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

A man walking out is seen past Tokyo Electric Power Co

The exterior of Ericsson

Two women look at a mobile phone on Oxford Street in London

Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat state, gestures on the podium during a felicitation ceremony in Ahmedabad

Apple

U.S. President Obama gestures as he speaks to the media about the "fiscal cliff" in Washington

The U.S. flag waves in the breeze above one of the entrances to the New York Stock Exchange

U.S. President Obama gestures as he speaks to the media about the "fiscal cliff" in Washington

A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

A boy takes part in a candlelight vigil in Newtown

Argentine naval vessel ARA Libertad is tugged out of Tema harbour in Accra

An American Airlines passenger jet comes in the land at LaGuardia airport in New York

A man shops at the Los Cerreitos Center mall on Black Friday in Cerritos

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces enforcement actions against UBS Securities Japan Co. Ltd.investment bank at the Justice Department in Washington

Newly appointed Schalke 04 coach Keller gestures during a practice session in Gelsenkirchen

A woman uses her mobile phone while holding a cigarette in central London

Jean-Bernard Levy, Chief Executive of Media and Telecommunication group Vivendi, speaks during the company

Kodak World Headquarters is pictured in Rochester, New York

File photo of President Obama in Chicago

The Sberbank name is seen on a sign in a street in Russia

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden waves as he arrives at the Benito Juarez International airport in Mexico City

Branch of drugs and chemicals group Merck is pictured in central German city of Darmstadt

Woman embraces a boy next to a makeshift memorial for victims who died in the December 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut

Kevin Systrom, Chief Executive of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app now owned by Facebook speaks during an interview with Reuters at the LeWeb technology conference in Aubervilliers

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Medvedev at Gorki residence outside Moscow

Au Optronics Chief Executive Chen and Chief Finance Officer Yang speak during an investors conference in Taipei

Penguin books are seen in a used bookshop in central London

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

The entrance to the home of Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, in Georgetown

The Time Warner Cable office is shown in Carlsbad

A worker walks past wind turbines outside an assembly workshop at Baoding

Oracle signage at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 event in San Francisco

The entrance to the home of Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, in Georgetown

Flowers for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School rest at a memorial in Newtown

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

People talk on their cell phones as passers-by walk past a Sprint store in New York

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

Nielsen CEO, Calhoun, and company officials ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of their IPO

A visitor is reflected on a Toyota car at the company

U.S. Capitol Building stands in Washington

File illustration photo shows an Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S, taken in Berlin

File photo of Cayman Islands Premier Bush speaking in Seven Mile Beach outside Georgetown

People pass by the Motorola booth during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Girl lights candle at memorial for victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown

A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles

Zuckerman, chairman of board of directors of Boston Properties, Inc., speaks at Wharton Economic Summit in New York

Riot police stand guard outside the Supreme Judicial House in Cairo, before the resignation of Public Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim

Passengers wait in a security line a day before the annual Thanksgiving Day holiday at the Salt Lake City international airport in Salt Lake City

Morgan Stanley

The Nordstrom store at a mall in a Denver suburb

The entrance to the home of Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, in Georgetown

Co-Chairmen of Management board and Group Executive Committee of Germany

Iran

Signage is pictured on the company headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline in west London

A man smokes a cigarette in central London

A woman walks past a Sprint store in New York

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

An employee cleans an advertisement plate at an Apple dealership on eve of iPhone 5

A banner for American International Group Inc hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange

Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom, speaks during a Q&A session at LeWeb 2012 in London

Mourners embrace as they wait for the funeral ceremony for Soto, a victim of the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Stratford

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

Containers waiting to be loaded onto ships are pictured at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta

Cast member Ian McKellen arrives for the premiere of the movie "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" in New York

Director Peter Jackson arrives for the royal premiere of his film "The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey" in central London

France

A customer is reflected in a screen showing the schedule times of United at Newark International airport in New Jersey

Argentine naval vessel Libertad is seen docked at Tema port in Accra

Cracks in the parking lot are seen in front of the Carousel shopping mall in San Bernardino

The entrance to the home of Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, in Georgetown

Reid poses at the party for the television series "The X Factor" finalists in Los Angeles

U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law H.R. 6156 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

Computer software pioneer McAfee speaks with reporters outside his hotel in Miami Beach

Taffo, one of the owners of Taffo Funerals, poses at the company

Local residents meet during sunset, with the Metallurgical Plant seen in the background, in the Southern Urals city of Magnitogorsk

Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach

File photo of a Southwest Airlines plane taking off from Midway Airport in Chicago

France

Rolled steel after being treated on the pickle line are seen at the Severstal steel mill in Dearborn, Michigan

A patient has her knee examined by Dr. Narang at University of Chicago Medicine Urgent Care Clinic in Chicago

South Africa

A customer takes a bottle of vodka from a shelf in a Russian supermarket in Benidorm

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

PFIZER WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, speaks during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro

A jogger runs past a Softbank shop in Tokyo

A bag used to hold chemotherapy drugs is pictured at a patient

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

File photo shows Italy

Software pioneer John McAfee is escorted by immigration officers at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City

A DNA double helix in an undated artist

General Motors displays its 2014 GMC Sierra full-size pickup truck after unveiling it and the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado full-size pickup truck in Pontiac, Michigan

Apple employees hang an iPhone 5 sign at one of the company

The first Virgin America flight lands in San Francisco

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto shakes hands with visiting South African Vice President Kgalema Motlanthe in Helsinki

Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing Philip Schiller displays a new model of the iMac desktop computer during an Apple event in San Jose

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

U.S. House Speaker Boehner speaks to the media outside his office on Capitol Hill in Washington

Matthew Prince, chief executive at internet start-up company called CloudFlare, poses in his office in San Francisco

A woman uses her phone as she walks past a Sprint store in New York

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reacts as she arrives to address delegates during the third session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa

Bruederle parliamentary faction leader of FDP addresses session of Bundestag at Reichstag in Berlin

An Amazon Kindle displays a section of the Chinese edition of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" at the e-Book corner of the Hong Kong Book Fair

Japanese gaming firm DeNA Co

Brian McClendon, Vice President of Engineering for Google Maps, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how Google Maps are built and kept up-to-date at the Google offices in San Francisco

New York City donations vouchers sit on a table at the Oasis Christian Center in Staten Island, New York

File photograph of a customer being helped by an Apple employee while looking over the iPad mini after the device went on sale in Palo Alto California

The sun shines though the distinctive leaves of marijuana plants during police raid in the remote ...

The entrance to the home of Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, in Georgetown

Warren addresses supporters during her victory rally in Boston

File photograph shows disgraced British entertainer Jimmy Savile arriving at the unveiling of a new monument, commemorating the fighter pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain, in London

Software pioneer John McAfee is escorted by immigration officers to the Guatemalan Airport in Guatemala City

File of Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, speaks at the Iab Mixx Conference and Expo in New York

James Harding the editor of the Times arrives to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London

Handout photo of a fireball across Interstate 77 in Sissonville

An envelope addressed to Marsha Hunt is seen in this undated handout photograph released by Sotheby

Spears poses at the party for the television series "The X Factor" finalists in Los Angeles

File photo of Lockheed Martin

Customers rent DVD movies from a redbox video kiosk in Burbank, California

A sign is seen above the entrance to an HSBC branch in midtown Manhattan in New York City

A woman begs next to the Lidl supermarket entrance in Barcelona

The fuel price board of a Rosneft petrol station in St.Petersburg

Fireworks light up the sky at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium

Huawei mobile phones are displayed in one of its offices in Shenzhen

Commuters cross the Millenium Bridge during a rainy morning in London

President and CEO of Walmart Mike Duke speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York

A man walks past an advertisement board of Panasonic outside an electronic shop in Tokyo

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

The Euro currency sign is seen in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt

File photo of Cayman Islands Premier Bush speaking in Seven Mile Beach outside Georgetown

Digital Sky Technologies CEO Yuri Milner attends the eG8 forum in Paris

Sales staff demonstrate the Microsoft Surface during the opening of Microsoft

Jeremy Levin, chief executive officer of Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., looks on as his company begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Bridge piers built at a construction site of Yanba Dam stand in Naganohara

Handout photo of Eli Lilly

File photo of Cayman Islands Premier Bush speaking in Seven Mile Beach outside Georgetown

Fire crews look on as flames burn from a gas line explosion near Sissonville

Day-Lewis poses at the premiere of "Lincoln" during the AFI Fest 2012 at the Grauman

Two-wheelers move past the newly opened Bharti Wal-Mart Best Price Modern wholesale store in Hyderabad

Italian PM Monti gestures during a media conference at the Chigi palace in Rome

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

A general view of Lynas factory is seen in Gebeng

Clothes and sewing machines are seen in the Tazreen Fashions garment factory, where 112 workers died in a fire, in Savar

People walk past a HSBC bank branch in midtown Manhattan in New York City

Mexico

Cruise arrives for world premiere of film "Jack Reacher" in Leicester Square in central London

A consumer holds her credit cards in Washington

A woman checks her mobile phone as she walks past an Intel Core Duo advertisement outside a computer shop in Beijing

File photo of a man watching Sharp

Handout photo of Darwin, the monkey

Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

View of corporate sign outside the Honeywell International Automation and Control Solutions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley

Japan Atomic Power Co.

Handout of Sydney-based 2DayFM radio announcers Christian and Greig leaving a TV studio after giving an interview in Sydney

Man works in a studio at the 2Day FM radio station in Sydney

Renesas Electronics Corp

U.S. President Obama and Vice President Biden walk from the stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Customers talk to a salesperson about a new laptop at a Lenovo shop in Shanghai

Gujarat

A man looks at Panasonic TV sets at an electronic shop in Tokyo

Ghana Electoral Commission President Kwadwo Afari-Gyan arrives to announce the results of the presidential election at the commission in Accra

U.S. Senator Bob Corker takes part in a panel discussion titled "Fixer-Upper: Repairing the U.S. Housing Market" at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California

Cast member Marlohe director Mendes producer Broccoli and actor Craig pose on red carpet as arrive for German premiere for film

Supporters of NDC celebrate the victory of their candidate, John Dramani Mahama, on a street in Accra

U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner gestures as he is interviewed in Washington for "Face the Nation"

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks during a conference at the Economy ministry in Paris

Former Ghanaian president Jerry John Rawlings votes during presidential elections in Accra

Exterior of Headquarters of SAC Capital Advisors, L.P. in Stamford

File photo of derailed freight train cars in Paulsboro

Debris of a home damaged by Superstorm Sandy is seen one month after the disaster in Union Beach

A man walks into the Nexen building in downtown Calgary

People wait to vote at a polling station in Kibi

A US Airways plane passes American Airlines planes at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington

A butcher arranges portions of meat in her display at a market in St. Petersburg

A man registers to vote at a polling station in Kibi

A police officer outside King Edward VII hospital in central London

Nurse Linas looks at patients

File photo of a woman shopping with her dog at Lululemon Athletic in San Francisco

A employee works inside a Best Price Modern Wholesale store, a joint venture of Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Bharti Enterprises, at Zirakpur in the northern Indian state of Punjab

A woman passes by an office of Russian telecoms firm Rostelecom in Moscow

File photo of Lei Jun, founder and CEO of China

A man votes at a polling station in Kibi

New Zealand director Jackson emerges from a

The People

Handout photo of F-35 Deputy Program Executive Officer U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Bogdan in Fort Worth

Handout photo of Governor Chris Christie holds a press conference at a Relief Center at the Joseph R. Bolger Middle School in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in Keansburg

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

File photo of the F-35 Lightning II planes arriving at Edwards Air Force Base in California

Undated handout photo of George Zimmerman

Members of heavy metal band Metallica pose during a photocall in Mexico City

Presidential candidate Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party waves during his last rally in Accra

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh listens to Apple attorney Michael Jacobs as Apple lead counsel Harold McElhinney looks on during court proceedings in San Jose

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

Singer Sparks performs with one of the Seven Dwarfs during the grand opening ceremony for Walt Disney World

Shoppers look over items on sale at a Macy

Handout photo of F-35 Deputy Program Executive Officer U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Bogdan in Fort Worth

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corporation, holds an Intel smartphone reference design as he gives a keynote address during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Michigan Republican Governor Snyder introduces Romney, U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, during a rally in Lansing

John McAfee, anti-virus software guru, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Guatemala City

Publicist Max Clifford arrives for music and television mogul Simon Cowell

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

Security staff watch over a crowd gathered for the opening of a new Apple store in Beijing

A worker leaves the AstraZeneca research facility in Loughborough

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Labour union representative chants slogans during a protest outside the Singapore Consulate in Hong Kong

New HTC smartphones, HTC One X+ and HTC One S Special Edition, are presented during a news conference for the launch of the products in Taipei

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Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

A woman returns a lost dog to its ruined home after a tornado went through the western suburb in Auckland

U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee sits next to an INTERPOL agent after his detention in Guatemala City

Brazilian soccer legend Pele holds the hand of architect Oscar Niemeyer during a press conference in Rio

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. military

Singer Rihanna performs at The Forum in Kentish Town in London

F-35 Deputy Program Executive Officer U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Bogdan tours Lockheed F-35 factory in Fort Woth in handout photograph

A man passes a poster of Japan

US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Levin and Ranking Republican McCain confer on Capitol Hill in Washington

Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom, speaks during a Q&A session at LeWeb 2012 in London

The ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) launches from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Saipan in the Persian Gulf in this handout photo

Shoppers wait in line to pay for purchases at a Macy

U.S. singer Alicia Key arrives for MTV European Music Awards 2012 in Frankfurt

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Jay Rasulo, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO, The Walt Disney Company, speaks at the UBS 40th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

People dine at a KFC outlet in Shenyang

A part of the signage at the main gate of The Walt Disney Co. is pictured in Burbank

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

U.S. President Obama gestures during a news conference at the White House in Washington

A building belonging to Teva, Israel

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

Yankees

A Google employee poses with Nexus 7 tablets at a promotional event in Seoul

A man walks past a Citibank branch in lower Manhattan, New York

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

An employee weighs a packet chickpea flour inside a mom and pop grocery store at a residential area in Mumbai

A customer with a cup of coffee leaves the new Starbucks store in San Jose

EU Competition Commissioner Almunia gestures during a news conference in Brussels

Actor Daniel Craig and actress Berenice Marlohe pose for photographers as they arrive for the royal world premiere of the new 007 film "Skyfall" at the Royal Albert Hall in London

Customers shop at a Tesco shop in Bishop

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

The signage of a Fresh & Easy Express food market is pictured in Burbank

Jay Y. Lee, son of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee and the company

Fan holds up sign upon cast members

Grassley answers questions during the 2009 Reuters Washington Summit in Washington

Congresswoman Maxine Waters arrives at the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Pro-Choice America

Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat for Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren addresses supporters during her victory rally in Boston

U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee uses a computer in a migrant shelter, where he is detained in Guatemala City

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane is seen in Long Beach

Chairman and Chief Executive of BlackRock Fink speaks during The Economist

A gaming table of Bally Technologies is displayed at Global Gaming Expo Asia in Macau

U.S. President Obama, sitting with FEMA administrator Fugate, talks to reporters after a briefing about operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, at FEMA headquarters in Washington

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

Yahoo headquarters shown in Sunnyvale

Doctors examine patients at a medical centre of the Greek delegation of the Doctors of the World in Athens

London

Britain

File photo shows employee walking past tables at SJM

General view of Bushehr nuclear power plant, 1,200 km south of Tehran

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Voters listen to a speech by Japan

A dog sits outside of the home of anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee in San Pedro

Yahoo headquarters shown in Sunnyvale

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

Two attendees ride an escalator during Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco

A gardener plants seedlings at the entrance of Start-up Village in Kinfra High Tech Park in Kochi

France

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington

File photo of members of the media and policemen gathering outside office of PWC in Hyderabad

File photo of exterior of Ericsson

Alonzo Mourning checks the headroom in the new Lincoln MKZ during a Ford event at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables

Ford Assembly workers install a battery onto the chassis of a Ford Focus Electric vehicle at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

File photo of a house for sale in Alexandria, Virginia

File photo of Robert Thomson, editor in chief of Dow Jones & Company, in New York

Albania

Price markdowns are seen in the Izod section at the J.C. Penney Herald Square department store location is seen in New York

Employees are seen working in their offices in the building housing Greece

Krawcheck, former head of Bank of America

Indian Prime Minister Singh is followed by his staff as he leaves a session of the 21st ASEAN and East Asia summits in Phnom Penh

Visitor stands at EADS booth ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow

Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner pose for pictures before premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in Berlin

St Paul

DreamWorks Animation studio executive Jeffrey Katzenberg at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 4th annual Governors Awards in Holllywood

Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on "Examining Bank Supervision and Risk Management in Light of JPMorgan Chase

Greece

French President Francois Hollande jokes with journalists before welcoming European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the Elysee Palace in Paris

French Economy and Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris

Robert Thomson, editor in chief of Dow Jones & Company, speaks at the Reuters Media Summit in New York

Shoppers look over items on sale at a Macy

US Fish and Wildlife Service handout photo of a lesser prairie-chicken

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

Bush addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference in Lake Buena Vista

A F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is seen at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River

A Boeing 787 sits on the assembly line at the company

Derailed freight train cars sit semi-submerged in the waters of Mantua Creek after a train crash in Paulsboro

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

U.S. President Obama gestures during a news conference at the White House in Washington

Arcelor Mittal workers from Florange site stand next to French riot gendarmes and CRS as they demonstrate in front the National Assembly in Paris

European Central Bank President Draghi waves after a news conference after the Governing Council Meeting of the European Central Bank in Brdo

File picture shows Wan, alias Broken Tooth Koi, in handcuffs after being arrested by Macau

Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada attends the opening ceremony of his dining complex in Hong Kong

President Obama talks while on White House complex in Washington

An employee of Samsung Electronics walks past the company main office in Seoul

Customers walk out of a store selling and advertising Apple products, including both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, in central Beijing

A woman walks past a Sprint store in New York

Traffic flies by the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Sony

Bush addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference in Lake Buena Vista

An AIDS ribbon hangs from the North Portico of the White House in Washington in recognition for tomorrow

A Microsoft Surface tablet PC is displayed on a stand during its launch event with Microsoft Windows 8 in New York

The 2013 Nissan GT-R is on display at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Rice listens to U.S. President Obama speak during a cabinet meeting in Washington

Britain

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

Shoppers line up for Black Friday sales at the Disney store in Glendale, California

Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner delivers a speech at the closing ceremony of the UIA annual meeting at Los Cardales

A police van reverses out of the premises of a dormitory as negotiations with striking bus drivers continue within the building in Singapore

EU Commission President Barroso addresses a news conference in Brussels

Newspapers are seen on sale at Victoria Station in central London

File picture of a man taking a photo of a Samsung Galaxy Camera in Berlin

A guard stands next to a sign that reads, "Zuma, stop farm murders now!" before the funeral of Eugene Terre

Amazon Senior Vice President Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote speech at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas

Singer Mary J. Blige performs during second day of the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas

Britain

Red Cross volunteers walk past the remaining foundations of homes destroyed by the storm surge of superstorm Sandy in the Staten Island borough neighborhood of Oakwood in New York

Handout photo of Jermaine Edwards

Children eat pieces of a giant cake prepared for the celebration of Albania

A F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is seen at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River

Microsoft CEO Ballmer talks about Microsoft

Granville Road on the St George

Employee holds up a Samsung Electronics

A U.S. flag decorates a for-sale sign at a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington

Granville Road on the St George

Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, responds to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas

Storm clouds form near a BP station in Alexandria, Virginia

A Greek flag flutters at the Acropolis hill in Athens

A Citi sign is seen at the Citigroup stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

File photo of an American Airlines flight attendant marching with Laura Glading, president of APFA, during a rally to save jobs at American Airlines and American Eagle in New York

ABC publicity photograph shows contestants Rycroft and Dovolani holding mirror ball trophy as they are crowned champions on season finale of ABC

Perry speaks during the taping of the Spike TV special tribute "Eddie Murphy: One Night Only" at the Saban theatre in Beverly Hills

Handout photo of Elisse Walter

U.S. President Obama waves as he leaves the 21st ASEAN and East Asia summit in Phnom Penh

MasterCard and VISA credit cards are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Hong Kong

Sony

A Microsoft Surface tablet PC is displayed on a stand during its launch event with Microsoft Windows 8 in New York

Cigarette butts in an ashtray in Los Angeles, California

Mike Lynch, Founder and Chairman of Autonomy Corporation, poses for photographers at an awards ceremony in central London

A worker cries during a protest against the death of her colleagues after a devastating fire in a garment factory which killed more than 100 people, in Savar

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

Orascom Telecom chairman Naguib Sawiris speaks during a conference in Beirut

An Apple iPhone 5 phone is displayed in the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

Dennis Lockhart, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, takes part in a panel discussion titled "Twist and Shout: The Limits of U.S. Monetary Policy" at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-NV) speaks to reporters about an agreement on the payroll tax holiday on Capitol Hill

Conagra

File photo of Reverend Moon Sun-myung, head of the Unification Church, taking part in an awards ceremony in Seoul

Bush addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference in Lake Buena Vista

A Telecom Italia antenna booster is seen in northern Rome

Samsung

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A concrete sign marks the city limits for San Bernardino, California

DigitalGlobe satellite image of DigitalGlobe shows the Sohae Launch Facility in North Korea

Dannielynn Birkhead, daughter of iconic GUESS model, Anna Nicole Smith is shown in this Guess Clothing Inc. handout photograph

U.S. President Obama boards Marine One before departing for a trip to Thailand, Burma and Cambodia from the White House

British actor Armitage poses on the red carpet at the world premiere of

Two dentists work on a U.S. patient at a dental clinic in San Jose

Angus T. Jones poses at the CBS comedies

The Supreme Court in Washington

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference announcing the re-opening of 12 schools in the Rockaways and Brooklyn at P.S. 43 in the Far Rockaway section of the Queens borough of New York

Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on "Examining Bank Supervision and Risk Management in Light of JPMorgan Chase

U.S. former Rep. Jefferson walks with wife, after his sentencing at U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Beds lie empty in emergency room of Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans

A woman walks past the entrance to offices of the McGraw-Hill Companies, in New York

Investor Warren Buffet arrives for the premiere of the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" in New York

File photograph shows Mark Carney, the governor of The Bank of Canada, speaking to reporters at a news conference in Ottawa

The main headquarters of the FBI, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is seen in Washington

Army personnel load the body of a dead garment worker onto a rickshaw van after a devastating fire in a garment factory in Savar

A Greek flag flutters in front of the moon in Athens

File picture shows the Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp

File photo of investors looking at computer screens showing stock information at a brokerage house in Shanghai

Young holiday shoppers interact with the iPad at the Apple Store during Black Friday in San Francisco

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

U.S. President Barack Obama and his daughters Malia and Sasha visit One More Page bookstore in Arlington

People shop at a Target store in Westbury, New York

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy jogs in Paris

A crowd of shoppers browse at Target on Thanksgiving Day in Burbank, California

The extensive damage to an amusement park roller coaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is seen in Seaside Heights

A UPS delivery man unloads boxes from a truck in New York

Argentina

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy jogs in Paris

Walmart customers leave the store as they are greeted by striking Walmart workers and supporters on Black Friday in Paramount

Homes destroyed by a fire during Hurricane Sandy are seen in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens

Ranbaxy Chairman Une speaks during a news conference in New Delhi

File photo of Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console is seen on display at an electronics shop in Tokyo

Two-wheelers move past the newly opened Bharti Wal-Mart Best Price Modern wholesale store in Hyderabad

Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner pose for pictures before premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in Berlin

Handout image of emergency personnel on the scene of a vehicle pileup near Beaumont

PFIZER WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK.

People shop at a Target store in Westbury, New York

File photo of Apple

Handout of booking photograph of Kariem McFarlin, charged with burglary of late Steve Jobs

Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, responds to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas

Ally Financial sign is seen on a building in Charlotte, North Carolina

JPMorgan Chase & Co

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

One of many homes badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy is pictured in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven

Two National Guardsmen, seen through empty window frames of a home, pause while on patrol at the beach front, to look at the ocean in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, at Bay Head

File photo of a box of Hostess Twinkies on the shelves at a Wonder Bread Hostess Bakery Outlet in Glendale

Handout photo of third Marine Aircraft Wing

SUSPECTED HIJACKERS ATTA AND ALOMARI PASS THROUGH SECURITY IN PORTLAND MAINE.

Iran

Greece

Russia

Sun Chunlan, then party chief of Fujian province, attends a meeting in Longyan, Fujian province

Indian PM Singh speaks during the inauguration ceremony of International Academic Conference 2012 in New Delhi

Weathersby pushes the cart he uses for collecting recyclables after picking up food from the Foothill Unity Center food bank in Monrovia, California

Handout of Andrew Auernheimer in this police booking photograph

Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console units are shown for sale at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego

U.S. Senator Mark Warner speaks during an interview with Reuters in Washington

File photo of a box of Hostess Twinkies on the shelves at a Wonder Bread Hostess Bakery Outlet in Glendale

Anti-government protesters run from tear gas fired by riot police as they attempt to get to the village of Diraz

Activists hold up protest signs to encourage the Detroit City Council members to vote no on a contract to hire a firm to help carry out an overhaul of the city

PFIZER WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK.

A worker is seen loading luggages on a plane from US Airways at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey

A customer is helped by an Apple employee while looking over the iPad mini after the device went on sale in Palo Alto

A Chevron tanker truck unloads gasoline into underground storage tanks in Burbank

Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce the charges of insider trading against Mathew Martoma in New York

A placard that reads "A minimum $ 5,000 wage" is seen while demonstrators block the Pueyrredon Bridge, during a one-day nationwide strike in Buenos Aires

Luxembourg

Former UBS trader Adoboli arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London

File photograph shows former News of the World editor Andy Coulson arriving to hear charges of phone hacking at Westminster Magistrates Court in London

An armed Turkish policeman guards men from the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ain as they wait to be transported to a refugee camp, in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar

HTC CEO Chou speaks during the launch event for new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system HTC phones in New York

A sign advertising bankruptcy filing is seen hanging off a road sign in San Bernardino

A customer looks over the iPad mini after the device went on sale at Apple

A nurse arranges test tubes containing blood taken during a free HIV test, at an HIV/AIDS awareness rally on World AIDS Day in San Salvador

Former NBA player Horace Grant gets help from Mitch Richmond (2nd R) during a exhibition game with Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) star players inside the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila

Yahoo! CEO Mayer listens during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

A French Mirage 2000 fighter jet refuels with an airborne Boeing C135 refuelling tanker aircraft above the Mediterranean Sea

File photo of a box of Hostess Twinkies on the shelves at a Wonder Bread Hostess Bakery Outlet in Glendale

People displaced by recent fighting in eastern Congo wait to distribute corn flour in Mugunga IDP camp outside of Goma

A member of the Poor People

File photo of Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corporation, holding an ultrabook as he gives a keynote address during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

PFIZER WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK.

A contractor loads a bathroom vanity cabinet onto his truck after purchasing it at a Lowe

US President Obama speaks during joint media conference with Thai Prime Minister Shinawatra at Government House in Bangkok

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

File photo of Sri Lanka

Austrian Freedom Party leader Strache listens during an extraordinary session of the Parliament in Vienna

Chief Executive of Jersey Finance Geoff Cook smiles during an interview with Reuters in St. Helier, Jersey

Handout of commercial vessels spraying water to extinguish a platform fire on board an offshore oil platform 20 miles offshore of Grand Isle, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico

France

An undated handout photo shows "Madre e Hijos" (Mother with Children) by the late Mexican painter Diego Rivera, to be auctioned at Christie

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

A shop attendant poses with replicas of HTC, Samsung and Apple

Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner pose for pictures before premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in Berlin

Striking Walmart workers walk a picket line during a protest over unsafe working conditions and poor wages in Pico Rivera

Fans wait at the premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" in Los Angeles

A generic picture of a woman in an office using a computer mouse.

Striking miners sing during a strike at the AngloGold Ashanti mine in Carletonville, northwest of Johannesburg

Springsteen performs with the E Street Band during a concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey

U.S. President Obama gestures during a news conference at the White House in Washington

Selina Lo, President and CEO of of Ruckus Wireless, applauds as her company

People buy remaining stock at a Wonder Bread Hostess Bakery Outlet in Glendale

NBC sign on the General Electric building in New York

City workers cross a bridge in Canary Wharf, east London

A visitor looks over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

Handout photo of A F-35 fighter jet preparing for landing with its life fan cover deployed over Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland

Steven Sinofsky speaks at the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Petraeus testifies to the Senate Armed Forces Committee in Washington

Research in Motion President and CEO Heins discusses the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10 in Waterloo

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Actor Pattinson poses for a photo with a fan as he arrives for the European premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" in London

Justin Bieber accepts the award for favorite pop rock album at the 40th American Music Awards in Los Angeles

Courtroom sketch shows Nafis being arraigned in United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York

Photo illustration of TomTom navigation device in Amsterdam

Bernanke speaks to the Economic Club of New York in New York

Obama visits New York to view Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts

A view of Sierra Leone

A Chrysler badge is pictured on a new car at a dealership in Vienna, Virginia

File photo of fire boat response crews battling the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon off Louisiana

Microsoft CEO Ballmer talks about Microsoft

United States Postal Service trucks are seen in Manhasset, New York

New York State Comptroller announces settlement with WorldCom defendants in New York.

Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner pose for pictures before premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in Berlin

Members of the Stop Evictions movement wait for judicial commission to carry out eviction in Valencia

A Target employee returns carts to the store in Falls Church

Customers are seen at a Wal-Mart market in Miami, Florida

A blacked out New York City skyline is seen from Brooklyn, New York

File photo of company logos of Glencore and Xstrata

A man looks at Panasonic Corp

Workers pause to look at a home that has been pushed on top of a work truck by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy in the Brooklyn borough region of Belle Harbor in New York

Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line

A Texas Instruments employee in an undated photo courtesy of the company.

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

Research in Motion President and CEO Heins discusses the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10 in Waterloo

Bicycles lay in seawater in what used to be basement of home swept away by flooding from Hurricane Sandy in New York City

A young girl looks at a makeshift memorial left outside the Krim family apartment in New York

Rihanna poses as she arrives at a reception in West Hollywood

U.S. President Obama gestures during a news conference at the White House in Washington

A man passes ITV television studios in London

Lenovo

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

A customer looks at a Buick car at a General Motors auto dealership in Shanghai

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

File picture of Borussia Dortmund

Publicity photo of actor Martin Freeman in scene from "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"

Picketers shout slogans at Atocha rail station during a 24-hour nationwide general strike in Madrid

A man walks with an umbrella at the compound of the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

A man rides a bicycle in front of the building of Germany

A man stands behind Sony Corp

Power lines devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy are seen in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York

File of handout photo of Red Cross volunteers Jessica Elam and Gilbert Abney checking on Rob Fragetti to salvaging items with his neighbors in their destroyed homes in Staten Island

He, Xi, Jia and Wu attend the closing session of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at a Motorola phone launch event in New York

A man wears a T-shirt which reads: "No cuts. Spending review" during a demonstration against austerity measures in downtown Rome

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

Lockheed Martin

Geithner listens to Bernanke at Financial Stability Oversight Council in Washington

A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California

A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

Single room is illuminated in a block of high-rise apartment buildings that remain devoid of power in Brighton Beach

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

A general view of a Washington Post Company newspaper box near the company

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A view shows the entrance to a HSBC Bank branch in New York

Eisner arrives at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 21st annual Hall of Fame Gala in Beverly Hills

The Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island and Ellis Islands are seen to the left next to New York

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks to a crowd at a campaign event in New Hampshire

A flaming phoenix flies above the Olympic flame during the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney gives his concession speech after losing the election to U.S. President Barack Obama in Boston Massachusetts

People walk around Rockefeller Center, home of NBC

File of Steven Sinofsky speaking at the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A man rides his buggy in the main square in San Pedro

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaks during a news conference in Tripoli

Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco

Commuters pass through Grand Central Terminal in New York

File photo of Thompson posing for media on visit to Media City in Salford

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Shopping carts are seen in the new CityTarget store in downtown Chicago

Strikers chants slogans outside the Anglo American Platinum mines near Rustenburg

Journalists inspect the new Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster during its unveiling in Singapore

Buildings damaged by Hurricane Sandy are seen in Monmouth Beach

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is silhouetted against a video screen during his presentation of the new Surface in Los Angeles

PFIZER WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK.

Commuters ride the Staten Island ferry in New York

Crying Engracia Lucena is hugged by a neighbour as she waits for the judicial comission to carry out the later suspended eviction from her home in Valencia

St Paul

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

A new HTC Android-based smartphone Sensation is displayed during a news conference for the launch of the product in Taipei

Workers unload a container from a cargo ship at a port in Tokyo

Cast member Marlohe director Mendes producer Broccoli and actor Craig pose on red carpet as arrive for German premiere for film

Cast members Craig and Marlohe pose for photographers during a photocall to promote their film "Skyfall" in Berlin

File photo of commuters making their way across the Brooklyn Bridge in the Brooklyn Borough of New York

File photo of Coors Light and Molson Candian beer are poured into a glass in Toronto in this file photo.

Traders work at the Goldman Sachs stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Striking platinum miners march near the Anglo-American Platinum (AMPLATS) mine near Rustenburg in South Africa

Afghanistan

Chen Deming speaks during a news conference after a bilateral meeting with Sergio Diaz Granado in Bogota

Singer Taylor Swift arrives at the 46th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville

Musician Jagger is seen before the L

People carry to the cemetery the coffin of one of the four members of the De Leon family, who were killed during a landslide triggered by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake, in El Recreo

Volunteers prepare food for distribution to resident in Red Hook Houses in the Brooklyn Borough of New York

A C-130J aircraft takes part in a flying display during the 49th Paris Air Show at the Le Bourget airport

Ally Financial sign is seen on a building in Charlotte, North Carolina

American Airlines planes sit at their gates while others taxi for arrival and departure at O

Handout photo of MTA employees using a pump train and working around the clock to remove seawater out of the L train

File of Lockheed Martin

A patient receives a check up from Dr. Vinci at University of Chicago Medicine Primary Care Clinic in Chicago

U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner speaks during a panel discussion hosted by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council titled "The U.S. and World Economies: An Overview" in Los Angeles

A sign for the SEC is pictured in the foyer of the Fort Worth Regional Office in Fort Worth

File photo of a pedestrian reflected in the window of a Telus store while using a mobile phone in Ottawa

A sign for Wall Street is seen with a giant American flag in the background across from the New York Stock Exchange

Senate Minority Leader McConnell walks with reporters on the opening day of the 113th Congress on Capitol Hill

The all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee moves along the assembly line at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit

U.S. singer Swift poses with her Best Female, Best Live and Best Look awards backstage during the MTV European Music Awards 2012 show at the Festhalle in Frankfurt

The Great Hall of the People, venue of 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, is pictured in Beijing

Sony Corp

The HSBC building is seen on Canary Wharf in London

A Chrysler badge is pictured on a new car at a dealership in Vienna, Virginia

File photo of a vehicle that ran out of fuel parks at a gas station in Staten Island due to shortages following Hurricane Sandy, in New York

A building is reflected in the glass of a Best Buy store in New York

Warren addresses supporters during her victory rally in Boston

To match Special Report SEC/INVESTIGATIONS

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney gives his concession speech after losing the election to U.S. President Barack Obama in Boston Massachusetts

Storm clouds form near a BP station in Alexandria, Virginia

The entrance of a United States Post Office is seen in Manhasset, New York

Investor Carl Icahn speaks at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange

File photo of Amendment 64 pamphlets in Denver

Mexico

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

A farmer walks beside two combined harvesters being serviced in central Cuba

File photo of actor holding his gun during filming of the Chinese television program

People stand in line with gas cans at a gas station on Staten Island in New York City after Hurricane Sandy

A Twilight fan displays an autographed magazine featuring Twilight as fans begin camping out at Nokia Theater for chance to see stars of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" in Los Angeles

An American Airlines passenger jet comes in the land at LaGuardia airport in New York

A utility worker repairs damage to power lines the morning after the town was hit by a tornado in Elmira, New York

Rescuers carry the body of Cruz Abel De Leon, who died in a landslide triggered by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake, in El Recreo

A worker deposits steel onto the top of a pile of debris stacked up outside of homes damaged from flooding that inundated the area during hurricane Sandy in the Queens borough neighborhood of Belle Harbor, New York

Austrian businessmen Stronach attends a news conference in Vienna

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

File photo of a box of Viagra is seen in a pharmacy in Toronto

A Green Mountain Coffee single-serve K-Cup is pictured in New York

People inspect the Jaguar XF vehicle during the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles

A McDonald

Commuters are reflected in stone as they walk past the JP Morgan headquarters in New York

File photo of Google Venture

A Target employee returns carts to the store in Falls Church

Samsung Electronics

Brown speaks at a news conference to announce the Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012 at Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles

Research In Motion CEO Heins displays features of Blackberry 10 during his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

A LePhone is on display during a news conference in Hong Kong

Residents stand over vehicles which were submerged in a parking structure in the financial district of Lower Manhattan, New York

A couple look out at the skyline of New York with most of Lower Manhattan remaining in the dark as they stand in a park along the Hudson River in Weehawken, New Jersey

U.S. President Obama and first lady Michelle wave from Air Force One in Chicago

Two demonstrators hold a sign during a rally in support of the state

Panasonic Corp

People from the pro-statehood New Progressive Party reacts to the tendency for the lead for governor of the Popular Democratic Party

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during his election night rally in Chicago

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Brazil

U.S. President Obama and Vice President Biden celebrate with their wives at their election night victory rally in Chicago

A worker moves food rations before they are further transported to earthquake-affected areas, in Guatemala City

A share trader looks at a TV showing news on re-elected U.S. President Obama in front of the German share price index DAX board at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt

Traders handle last minute trade orders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange just before the closing bell

The Funtime Pier Amusement park is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights

A policeman searches a motorcyclist at a checkpoint in Sao Paulo