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In this undated photo released by the Northern Territory government, camels are seen crowded around a drinking trough in MacDonnell Shire of the Northern Territory, Australia. State authorities announced Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, they plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small town in Australia's Outback in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. (AP Photo)

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Invading camels ... In this undated photo released by the Northern Territory government, camels are seen crowded around a drinking trough in MacDonnell Shire of the Northern Territory, Australia. State authorities announced Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, they plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small town in Australia's Outback in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. (AP Photo)
China announces ... FILE -- In a Nov. 18, 2009 file photo President Barack Obama, left, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, gesture to each other during the arrival at Diaoyutai State Guest House before their bilateral meeting in Beijing, China. China announced Thursday Nov. 26, 2009 that Premier Wen Jiabao will take part in the Copenhagen meeting on the global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/file)
Prime suspect in... Gubernatorial candidate and Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu grieves during the burial of his wife and other family members in Buluan town, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Thursday Nov. 26, 2009. Authorities say a scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in Maguindanao province has turned himself in. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
China's Internet... File - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Wang Zifei, is seen at far right in the third row in the background while listening to President Barack Obama, left, answer questions during his town hall meeting at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China. Wang has become China's version of the "Obama Girl," as online forums gushed over her beauty and poise. Even a week after Obama left China, the buzz about Wang is still going strong. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Khmer Rouge pris... In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, center, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, now known as Tuol Sleng genocide museum, stands in the court room of the U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Prosecutors in the genocide trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded he be sentenced to 40 years in jail for his role in the killing of thousands of Cambodian prisoners. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
Mumbai commemora... A security guard of the Trident hotel salutes to pay homage to victims during a memorial service to mark the first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, at the Trident hotel, one of the sites of the attack, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. Ahead of Thursday's first anniversary of the deadly terror attacks that paralyzed Mumbai for 60 terrifying hours, groups around the city held vigils, calling for police reform and painting murals to remember the 166 killed. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Patrols and turk... Cooks attached to the Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron slaughter a turkey in preparation for their Thanksgiving dinner at the Joint Combat Outpost, in Baraki Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
State-run magazi... FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, a man walks through a former black jail where a young woman says she was raped while being illegally detained in Beijing, China. A large-scale system of secret detention centers set up in Beijing where Chinese citizens are held, forcibly restrained and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government. Two articles, published Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, are prominently displayed on the opening page of Xinhua's Web site. Calling the extensive network of secret jails a "gray industrial chain," the articles say their existence "damages the legitimate rights of petitioners and seriously damages the government's image.", but the Chinese government has repeatedly insisted that the unofficial jails don't exist. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)
Pakistan charges... An armed commando stands guard at the Chhatrapati Shivaji train station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 on the eve of the first anniversary of terror attacks. Ten militants with assault rifles fanned out across Mumbai last Nov. 26, attacking a train station, hotels, and other targets, paralyzing India's financial capital and shocking the country killing 166 people. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
India basks in l... President Barack Obama listens as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reads his toast during a State Dinner on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Kandahar is key ... In this photo taken on Nov. 2, 2009, an Afghan woman sews at a small sewing center for women, run by Afghan American Rangina Hamidi, in Kandarhar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Hamidi returned to her native Kandahar in 2003 to run a charity for Afghan woman that she has since turned into a business with outlets in the United States as well as in Kandahar. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
Icebergs head fr... In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division, an iceberg is seen at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island's east coast, in the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It is very rare to see icebergs from Macquarie Island and is uncommon to find icebergs in this general region. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, Eve Merfield)
Docs say formerl... In this August 2009, image provided by the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphan, Trishna, is seen at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne in Australia. A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate Trishna from her conjoined twin sister, Krishna, who are joined at the top of the head. (AP Photo/Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne) Editorial Use Only
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Indian probe bla... India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leader S.S. Ahluwalia, right, talks with Samajwadi, or Socialist party leader Amar Singh after the tabling of Liberhan report, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2009. A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians, including a former prime minister in the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque that sparked deadly communal riots. Ahluwalia had a minor scuffle with Singh after the report was tabled. (AP Photo)
Festival of mass... Butchers with butcher knives participate in religious rituals before slaughtering buffalos during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple in Bariyapur, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Former Thai Prim... FILE - In this January 29, 2008 file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej gestures after receiving the royal command appointing him the country's prime minister at his residence in Bangkok, Thailand. Samak, a firebrand politician who briefly served as prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular TV cooking show, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 74. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
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Bomb kills 6 fam... U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Leslie Harbin from East Over, S.C., left, and Stf. Sgt. Joseph Timms from Williamston, S.C. foreground, belonging to the South Carolina National Guard patrol near the town of Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan Monday Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Pakistani troops... Local residents examine a damaged government high school, wrecked by suspected militants on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 on the outskirts of Bara, the main town of Pakistan troubled tribal region Khyber along the Afghan border. Militants target schools, particularly girls schools, because they deeply opposed to Western-style education. (AP Photo/Qazi Tariq)
Renowned Chinese... In this October 2006 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, Yang Xianyi, one of China's well-known translators, known for rendering numerous ancient Chinese classics into English, including "The Dream of the Red Mansions," poses at his home in Beijing. Yang died in Beijing on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, Xinhua said Tuesday. He was 94. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Tang Shizeng)
China activist w... FILE - In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. A Chinese court handed down a three-year sentence in prison to the veteran dissident accused of spying, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo, File)
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Woman found 25 h... An unidentified relative of a victim weeps while waiting for news at Sekupang port in Batam, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm on Sunday. (AP Photo/Tjundra Laksamana)
Official: China ... Relatives of miners who were killed in a gas explosion cry at the entrance of Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The death toll two days later was up to 104, with four still missing, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. The accident Saturday was the deadliest in China's mining industry for two years, and has highlighted how heavy demand for power-generating coal comes at a high human cost. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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