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German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel stands next to outgoing Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) of the Social Democrats (SPD) and outgoing Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) after they received their certificates formally relieving them of their government duties, at Bellevue Castle in Berlin October 27, 2009. Reuters Pictures 3 weeks ago

German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel stands next to outgoing Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) of the Social Democrats (SPD) and outgoing Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) after they received their certificates formally relieving them of their government duties, at Bellevue Castle in Berlin October 27, 2009.

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  1. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at an European Union summit at the European Council headquarters on November 19, 2009 in Brussels. European leaders were urged not to miss a 'historic occasion' as they gather to choose a first-ever European Union president to represent the 27-nation bloc on the world stage.
  2. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of the lower house of parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin on November 12, 2009.
  3. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during the Armistice Day ceremony marking 91 years since the end of World War I, on November 11, 2009 in Paris. German leaders have attended Armistice Day events in France before -- most notably when chancellor Helmut Kohl took president Francois Mitterrand's hand in Verdun, the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the 1914-18 war. But Merkel's visit will be the first time a German leader has attended the Paris ceremonies marking the surrender of Germany after four years of trench warfare that left millions dead.
  4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during the Armistice Day ceremony marking 91 years since the end of World War I, on November 11, 2009 in Paris. German leaders have attended Armistice Day events in France before -- most notably when chancellor Helmut Kohl took president Francois Mitterrand's hand in Verdun, the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the 1914-18 war. But Merkel's visit will be the first time a German leader has attended the Paris ceremonies marking the surrender of Germany after four years of trench warfare that left millions dead.
  5. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during the Armistice Day ceremony marking 91 years since the end of World War I, on November 11, 2009 in Paris. German leaders have attended Armistice Day events in France before -- most notably when chancellor Helmut Kohl took president Francois Mitterrand's hand in Verdun, the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the 1914-18 war. But Merkel's visit will be the first time a German leader has attended the Paris ceremonies marking the surrender of Germany after four years of trench warfare that left millions dead.
  6. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) waves aboard a car as she leaves the Armistice Day ceremony marking 91 years since the end of World War I, on November 11, 2009 in Paris. German leaders have attended Armistice Day events in France before -- most notably when chancellor Helmut Kohl took president Francois Mitterrand's hand in Verdun, the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the 1914-18 war. But Merkel's visit will be the first time a German leader has attended the Paris ceremonies marking the surrender of Germany after four years of trench warfare that left millions dead.
  7. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: Sigmar Gabriel (C), new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier (2nd from R) and new General Secretary designate Andrea Nahles (R) applaude outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering (2nd from L) after Muentefering's speech at the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Party delegates are to vote on the new party leadership, including on Gabriel's chairmanship, later in the day.
  8. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: (From L to R) Sigmar Gabriel, new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier and new General Secretary designate Andrea Nahles listen to outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering speak at the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Party delegates are to vote on the new party leadership, including on Gabriel's and Nahels's candidacy, later in the day.
  9. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: (From L to R) Sigmar Gabriel, new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier and new General Secretary designate Andrea Nahles listen to outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering speak at the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Party delegates are to vote on the new party leadership, including on Gabriel's and Nahels's candidacy, later in the day.
  10. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: Sigmar Gabriel (C), new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering (L) and SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier attend the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Party delegates are to vote on the new party leadership, including on Gabriel's chairmanship, later in the day.
  11. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: Sigmar Gabriel (C), new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering (L) and SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier observe a moment of silence for deceased party members at the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Party delegates are to vote on the new party leadership, including on Gabriel's chairmanship, later in the day.
  12. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: Sigmar Gabriel (C), new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering (L) and SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier attend the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Party delegates are to vote on the new party leadership, including on Gabriel's chairmanship, later in the day.
  13. Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Franz Muentefering (R) and designated chairman Siegmar Gabriel gesture during the preparations of the SPD party congress in Dresden, eastern Germany on November 12, 2009. The congress, taking place from November 13 to 15, 2009, is said to elect former German Environment Minister Gabriel as the new party chairman.
  14. BERLIN - OCTOBER 07: German Environment Minister and Social Democrat (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel arrives for the final German weekly cabinet meeting of the current government at the Chancellery on October 7, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Gabriel's political party, the German Social Democrats (SPD), have nominated Gabriel as new chairman of the party following disastrous results in recent federal elections.
  15. BERLIN - OCTOBER 07: German Environment Minister and Social Democrat (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel arrives for the final German weekly cabinet meeting of the current government at the Chancellery on October 7, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Gabriel's political party, the German Social Democrats (SPD), have nominated Gabriel as new chairman of the party following disastrous results in recent federal elections.
  16. BERLIN - OCTOBER 07: German Environment Minister and Social Democrat (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel arrives for the final German weekly cabinet meeting of the current government at the Chancellery on October 7, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Gabriel's political party, the German Social Democrats (SPD), have nominated Gabriel as new chairman of the party following disastrous results in recent federal elections.
  17. BERLIN - OCTOBER 07: German Environment Minister and Social Democrat (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel arrives for the final German weekly cabinet meeting of the current government at the Chancellery on October 7, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Gabriel's political party, the German Social Democrats (SPD), have nominated Gabriel as new chairman of the party following disastrous results in recent federal elections.
  18. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 14: Newly elected Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel speaks to the media at the SPD party congress on its second day November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Delegates elected Gabriel as new party chairman the day before, and he will have the challenging task of leading the party following disastrous federal election results last September.

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  1. British Farm and Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick reviews documents on November 20, 2009 before an EU Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  2. Spanish Environment Minister Elena Espinosa arrives on November 20, 2009 for an EU Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  3. Philippine boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao (2L) joins hands with his wife Jinkee (2R) and Environment Secretary Lito Atienza (L) with former governor Chavit Singson (R) during mass in the Quiapo district of Manila on November 20, 2009, after he returned with a historic seventh career boxing title in as many divisions. The Philippines rolled out the red carpet in a rock star reception on November 20 for pound-for-pound king and newly crowned World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion Pacquiao. Earlier this week, Pacquiao brushed off rumours his marriage was in trouble amid reports he flew a starlet to Las Vegas to watch him win.
  4. SAN FRANCISCO - NOVEMBER 18: A Costco customer looks at a display of LCD HDTV televisions November 18, 2009 in San Francisco, California. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously to require all new televisions over 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. California became the first state in the nation to impose such stricts regulations in an effort to conserve energy and protect the environment.
  5. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  6. Indonesian activists dressed in orangutan costumes attend an anti-deforestation and illegal orang utan hunting campaign in Jakarta on November 17, 2009. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia's Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program warned the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.
  7. Indonesian activists dressed in orangutan costumes attend an anti-deforestation and illegal orang utan hunting campaign in Jakarta on November 17, 2009. There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia's Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program warned the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.
  8. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder listens to his introduction before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  9. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder walks on stage before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  10. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  11. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  12. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder listens to his introduction before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  13. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder walks on stage before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  14. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  15. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder participates in a ceremony before speaking at the Ronald Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  16. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ronal Reagan Trade Center on November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Attorney General Holder spoke at a celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department.
  17. British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hilary Benn (R) listens to a speech during a debate with Brazilian researchers about climate change and biodiversity, at Sao Paulo's Research Foundation (FAPESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 16, 2009.
  18. British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hilary Benn speaks during a debate with Brazilian researchers about climate change and biodiversity, at Sao Paulo's Research Foundation (FAPESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 16, 2009.

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