A girl sits next to a figure of Santa Claus on display at a shopping mall (购物商场, 商业街) in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008.
(AP Photo/Andre Penner)
In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, a crescent (新月形的) moon is seen as a plane flies over downtown Los Angeles.
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes/FILE)
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Taiwanese breeder (饲养动物者) You Xueyin feeds giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan at a panda breeding base in Ya'an City in southeast China's Sichuan Province on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. The pair of pandas left China Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 on a long-awaited goodwill journey to their new home in Taiwan in the latest move symbolizing the warming ties between the rivals.
(AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)
Two-and-a-half-month-old Persian leopard cub (幼兽) Chui, left, and her nine-year-old mother Cezi, seen in their enclosure, in Budapest Zoo, Hungary, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008.
(AP Photo/MTI, Attila Kovacs)
A woman negotiates her way through snow drifts (吹积物：被气流或水流聚成的堆，如沙或雪) after a snowstorm hit the Buffalo, New York December 22, 2008.
REUTERS/Gary Wiepert (UNITED STATES)
The sculpture 'Puma-Dentist' made with plastic, wax (蜡) and original heads of a puma and a hind by Austrian artist Deborah Sengl is pictured during an exhibition at the art gallery Deschler in Berlin April 15, 2008. The exhibition 'Of Sheep and Wolves' is open to the public till April 24, 2008.
REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY)
In this Nov. 13, 2008, file photo, President George W. Bush winks before speaking at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig/FILE)
In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters recede caused by Hurricane Ike in West Orange, Texas.
(AP Photo/Eric Gay/FILE)
A photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society shows Whirl, a 1 1/2-year-old Amur tiger enjoying a recent snowfall Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008, at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Amur tigers, formerly known as Siberian tigers, are critically endangered due to their natural habitats being destroyed through deforestation and the loss of natural prey. Approximately 390 Amur tigers are exhibited in zoos worldwide, 150 in North America.
A couple uses skis to cross a snowy street in downtown Portland, Ore. on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. A weekend winter storm that buried northern Oregon and slowed its largest city to a crawl was expected to let up some after spilling into the workweek.
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)