2007 News Photos

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., pauses as he talks about the assasination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as he begins a campaign rally Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.

(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

David Letterman at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles September 18, 2005. Letterman has reached a deal with the union representing striking screenwriters that will let his show, return to the air next week with his writing staff, the union said on Friday.

(Robert Galbraith/Reuters)

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto waves as she leaves a rally in the city of Rawalpindi shortly before she was killed in a gun and bomb attack, December 27, 2007.

(Reuters TV/Reuters)

These undated handout images provided by the Treasury Department shows the four presidential one dollar coins, and their reverse side, right, that will be issued in 2008. From left are, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

Water vapor builds up around an U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet as it breaks the sound barrier in this military handout photo taken July 27, 2005.

(HO/US Navy/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Chandler/Reuters)

A robot on a rail makes its way through the 130 foot long, 3-and-a-half story aisle stacked with thousands of books in metal boxes to find the bin with the requested book at the Marriott Library on Dec. 18, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Marriott Library is streamlining, part of a $77 million renovation designed to consolidate space and corral the tons of information. A $12 million compact book storage space and automatic retrieval system is a central part of the overhaul. Rail-mounted robotic cranes retrieve bins, where the volumes are stored and marked by code. Patrons turn in call numbers and operators retrieve the requested work from the bins in about 10 minutes.

(AP Photo/Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

A man dressed as Santa Claus feeds reindeers at a reindeer farm in preparation for Christmas on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, December 19,2007.

(REUTERS/Kacper Pempel FINLAND)

A residential street is blocked by fallen tree limbs in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. A winter storm has coated much of Oklahoma in ice, knocking out power to more than 400,000 homes and businesses.

(AP Photo)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. finishes her door-to-door campaigning in Manchester, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007.

(AP Photo/Jim Cole)

In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, Bulldozer, a 5-month-old male giraffe calf, is fed by Santa Claus at the San Francisco Zoo, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007 in San Francisco. Santa was making his holiday visit to the zoo’s animals and giving them treats. Bulldozer was born on August 11, 2007 and was cared for by the zoo’s veterinary department due to his mother’s lack of maternal instincts. Today Bulldozer can be seen on exhibit with the rest of the zoo’s giraffe herd at the African Savanna habitat.

(AP Photo/George Nikitin, San Francisco Zoo)

Vice President Dick Cheney’s ceremonial office is pictured after a fire erupted in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, near the White House, in Washington December 19, 2007. Flames did not reach Cheney’s office, but it sustained smoke and water damage, his spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said.

(REUTERS/White House Photo By Chris Green)

People look at a 1297 copy of the Magna Carta before it was sold at Sotheby’s auction house for $21,321,000, in New York, December 18, 2007. The Magna Carta is known as the basis of many parts of current law, most notably, the writ of habeas corpus, which allows appeal by prisoners against unlawful imprisonment by government.

(Chip East/Reuters)

A photo provided by the Union County, N.J., Prosecutor’s Office shows a hole in the wall and the ledge where two inmates escaped from the Union County Jail on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007. Jose Espinosa and fellow inmate Otis Blunt were able to scrape through the mortar holding the cinder blocks in their cells and escape to the outside, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said Monday, Dec. 17, 2007.

(AP Photo/Union County Prosecutor’s Office)

This undated picture provided by Henry Diltz shows Dan Fogelberg. Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits ‘Leader of the Band’ and ‘Same Old Lang Syne’ helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007 at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.

(AP Photo/Henry Diltz)

In this undated photo released by Tokyo University’s Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry Graduate School of Science, a genetically modified mouse approaches a cat in Tokyo. Using genetic engineering, scientists at Tokyo University say they have successfully switched off the rodents’ instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats, showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not leaned through experience, as commonly believed.

(AP Photo/Ko and Reiko Kobayakawa, Tokyo University Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry Graduate School of Science, HO)

Joseph Vento, owner of Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia, displays a sign during a recess of a Commission on Human Relations hearing in Philadelphia, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. The hearing was over alleged violations of the Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance by Geno’s Steaks for posting signs asking patrons to speak English when ordering.

This handout photo released in Seoul by the Ministry of Science and Technology shows a combo of cloned cats that have a fluorescence protein gene and glowing under ultraviolet beams. The technology could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, the developers said.

In an undated photo provided by the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, a warning on a compact tractor that reads ‘Danger: Avoid Death’ has been chosen as the nation’s wackiest warning label by the anti-lawsuit group. The’ Wacky Warning Label Contest,’ now in its 11th year, is conducted by the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch as part of an effort to show the effects of lawsuits on warning labels.

Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore, left and Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N. climate panel’s chief scientist, hold with their medals and diplomas at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007.

An iceberg floats in a bay off Ammassalik Island, Greenland in this July 17, 2007 file photo. A record amount of Greenland’s ice sheet melted this summer — 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark — U.S. scientists are reporting this week in an ominous new sign of global warming.

Bao Xishun (L), 56, a 2.36-metre (7 feet, 9 inches) tall herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, shakes hands with He Pingping, 19, a 0.73-metre (2 feet, 5 inches) tall man, in Baotou, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region July 13, 2007. He is applying for the Guinness World Record as the world’s shortest man, local media reported.