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Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2012 file photo, a young man and a woman enjoy swimming in flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. High tides flooded Venice, leading Venetians and tourists to don high boots and use wooden walkways to cross St. Mark's Square and other areas under water. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini, File) (credit:AP)
(02 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2012 file aerial photo, the two homes that were leveled and the numerous neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge fire and killed two people are shown in Indianapolis. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, and seven people were taken to a hospital with injuries. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away. Authorities have said they believe the explosion was intentional and caused by natural gas but have released no other details. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger, File) NO SALES (credit:AP)
(03 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2012 file photo, people stand near a house sitting in the middle of a new main road on the outskirts of Wenling city in east China's Zhejiang province. Authorities have demolished the five-story home that stood incongruously in the middle of a new main road and had become the latest symbol of resistance by Chinese homeowners against officials accused of offering unfair compensation. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT (credit:AP)
(04 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2012 file photo, Israelis Sapir, left, and her boyfriend Ron, right, last names not given, walk inside Sapir's home, hit by a rocket fired by militants from Gaza Strip, in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File) (credit:AP)
(05 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, a riot police officer is engulfed by petrol bomb flames thrown by protesters in front of the parliament during clashes in Athens. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, File) (credit:AP)
(06 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, people prepare to bury the bodies of some of the 112 victims of a garment factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Khurshed Rinku, File) (credit:AP)
(07 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2012 file photo, Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike on their family house, in Gaza City. The Israeli military said its assassination of the Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari, marks the beginning of an operation against Gaza militants. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan, File) (credit:AP)
Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi(08 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2012 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, waves as he embraces Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi after addressing members of the media at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar. Obama became the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation also known as Burma. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) (credit:AP)
(09 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2012 file photo, Israeli soldiers and a civilian take cover as a siren alerting of an incoming rocket from Gaza Strip sounds in Ofakim, southern Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File) (credit:AP)
(10 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, a man takes photographs inside a burned out garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The blaze at the factory killed 112 workers. (AP Photo/File) (credit:AP)
(11 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, a Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) (credit:AP)
(12 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - This Nov. 10, 2012 file photo shows a view of the fireworks display organized by Kuwait's government to commemorate Constitution Day in Kuwait City. The 60 minute $14 million spectacle was competing for a place in the Guiness Book of Records. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari, File) (credit:AP)
(13 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, smoke rises during an explosion from an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City. Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations by militants to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of smuggling tunnels. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File) (credit:AP)
(14 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, police officers are sprayed with milk by European milk farmers during a demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Farmers drove their tractors into the European Quarter of Brussels for a two-day demonstration to protest against what they believe are unfair milk prices. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File) (credit:AP)
Mitt Romney(15 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks away from the podium after conceding the race during his election night rally in Boston. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool, File) (credit:AP)
(16 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2012 file photo, much of lower Manhattan remains dark, as viewed from the darkened Manhattan side of the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. In the wake of superstorm Sandy, power outages plagued much of the New York area. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) (credit:AP)
Liana Brinkerhoff(17 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, 2-year-old Liana Brinkerhoff, top left, looks on while sitting on the shoulder of her farther at a polling place in Billings, Mont. After a grinding presidential campaign, Americans headed into polling places across the country to cast their ballot for president. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) (credit:AP)
(18 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, aviculturists at the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans, wearing crane costumes, round up four endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes and transport them from their current habitat, to the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier, Miss. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (credit:AP)
(19 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama and wife Michelle holds hands with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill following Obama's victory speech to supporters in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) (credit:AP)
(20 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, a roller coaster that once stood on the Funtown Pier at Seaside Heights is seen dunked in the ocean after the pier was hit by superstorm Sandy in Seaside Heights, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) (credit:AP)
Zach Ames(21 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2012 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Zach Ames, center, who had been on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, surprises his wife, Bri Ames, left, and their daughter Emersyn, right, with a reunion prior to an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks on Veterans Day in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) (credit:AP)
(22 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 04, 2012 file photo, a rebel fighter prepares to throw a homemade grenade toward Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad who are hiding in a nearby building as they attempt to gain ground against rebel lines during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File) (credit:AP)
Mahmoud Abbas(23 of23)
Open Image ModalFOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, members of the Palestinian delegation react as they surround Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, applauding, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly after a vote on a resolution on the issue of upgrading the Palestinian Authority's status to non-member observer state passed in the United Nations in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) (credit:AP)