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A pastry chef makes a “Barbie Doll Cake” at a dessert shop in Kunming, Yunnan province December 7, 2014. A barbie doll cake costs 188 yuan (31 USD). (Photo by Wong Campion/Reuters)

A pastry chef makes a “Barbie Doll Cake” at a dessert shop in Kunming, Yunnan province December 7, 2014. A barbie doll cake costs 188 yuan (31 USD). (Photo by Wong Campion/Reuters)




AnimaNaturalis activists protest against the usage of animal covering for clothing at La Plaza del Rey in central Barcelona December 7, 2014. The placard reads, “Animals need their fur. You don't”. (Photo by Gustau Nacarino/Reuters)

AnimaNaturalis activists protest against the usage of animal covering for clothing at La Plaza del Rey in central Barcelona December 7, 2014. The placard reads, “Animals need their fur. You don't”. (Photo by Gustau Nacarino/Reuters)




Logan Browning, with duct tape over her mouth, joins demonstrators protesting against police violence, including the July chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the area where LAPD shot an assault suspect on December 5, in Hollywood, California December 6, 2014. Police responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call shot the man near the popular Hollywood and Highland complex Friday night. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters)

Logan Browning, with duct tape over her mouth, joins demonstrators protesting against police violence, including the July chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the area where LAPD shot an assault suspect on December 5, in Hollywood, California December 6, 2014. Police responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call shot the man near the popular Hollywood and Highland complex Friday night. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters)




A protester flees as police officers try to disperse a crowd comprised largely of student demonstrators during a protest against police violence in the U.S., in Berkeley, California early December 7, 2014. (Photo by Noah Berger/Reuters)

A protester flees as police officers try to disperse a crowd comprised largely of student demonstrators during a protest against police violence in the U.S., in Berkeley, California early December 7, 2014. (Photo by Noah Berger/Reuters)




Marilyn Monroe impersonator April Q. Russell joins demonstrators protesting against police violence, including the July chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the area where LAPD shot an assault suspect on December 5, in Hollywood, California December 6, 2014. Police responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call shot the man near the popular Hollywood and Highland complex Friday night. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters)

Marilyn Monroe impersonator April Q. Russell joins demonstrators protesting against police violence, including the July chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the area where LAPD shot an assault suspect on December 5, in Hollywood, California December 6, 2014. Police responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call shot the man near the popular Hollywood and Highland complex Friday night. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters)




Protesters retreat while police officers deploy teargas to disperse a crowd comprised largely of student protesters during a protest against police violence in the U.S., in Berkeley, California early December 7, 2014. (Photo by Noah Berger/Reuters)

Protesters retreat while police officers deploy teargas to disperse a crowd comprised largely of student protesters during a protest against police violence in the U.S., in Berkeley, California early December 7, 2014. (Photo by Noah Berger/Reuters)




Protesters block an Amtrak train in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, December 8, 2014. Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night, blocking an interstate highway and stopping the train as activists rallied against grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)

Protesters block an Amtrak train in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, December 8, 2014. Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night, blocking an interstate highway and stopping the train as activists rallied against grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)




A woman sits on the floor with a bag full of supplies for demonstrators as they protest against the New York City grand jury decision to not indict in the death of Eric Garner, at Grand Central Terminal in the Manhattan borough of New York, December 9, 2014. The death in New York of Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, and the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of Michael Brown, have highlighted strained relations between police and black Americans and rekindled a national debate over race relations. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

A woman sits on the floor with a bag full of supplies for demonstrators as they protest against the New York City grand jury decision to not indict in the death of Eric Garner, at Grand Central Terminal in the Manhattan borough of New York, December 9, 2014. The death in New York of Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, and the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of Michael Brown, have highlighted strained relations between police and black Americans and rekindled a national debate over race relations. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)




Protesters rallying against police violence block both directions of Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, December 8, 2014. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)

Protesters rallying against police violence block both directions of Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, December 8, 2014. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)




Andy Carroll of West Ham United heads to score against Swansea City during their English Premier League soccer match at Upton Park in London, December 7, 2014. (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

Andy Carroll of West Ham United heads to score against Swansea City during their English Premier League soccer match at Upton Park in London, December 7, 2014. (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Reuters)




A Syrian refugee girl makes tea inside a caravan at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, December 7, 2014. A lack of funds has forced the United Nations to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on December 1. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)

A Syrian refugee girl makes tea inside a caravan at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, December 7, 2014. A lack of funds has forced the United Nations to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on December 1. Suspension of the assistance programme comes as many vulnerable Syrian families enter their fourth bleak winter in difficult living conditions after fleeing a homeland racked by conflict since March 2011. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)




Syrian children hitch a ride from the back of a water tanker at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, December 7, 2014. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)

Syrian children hitch a ride from the back of a water tanker at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, December 7, 2014. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)




Children perform in a live nativity play at a Christmas market in the southern Bavarian village of Benediktbeuern December 7, 2014. Every year, Germany's traditional markets draw millions of visitors, both local and foreign. They open before the first Sunday of Advent and usually continue until December 24 at 12 noon. (Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters)

Children perform in a live nativity play at a Christmas market in the southern Bavarian village of Benediktbeuern December 7, 2014. Every year, Germany's traditional markets draw millions of visitors, both local and foreign. They open before the first Sunday of Advent and usually continue until December 24 at 12 noon. (Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters)




A pet is blessed during the “Blessing of the Animals” at the Christ Church United Methodist in Manhattan, New York December 7, 2014. (Photo by Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters)

A pet is blessed during the “Blessing of the Animals” at the Christ Church United Methodist in Manhattan, New York December 7, 2014. (Photo by Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters)




A boy carries a basket as he walks over corn kept for drying outside a mosque in Mathwar village, northwestern Jammu, in this November 8, 2012 file photo. India produces 23-24 million tonnes of corn, with Bihar accounting for nearly 3 million tonnes, according to trade and industry estimates. If other big producing states fail to match Bihar's gains, rising consumption would cut into Indian exports that now average 3.4-4.5 million tonnes a year. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)

A boy carries a basket as he walks over corn kept for drying outside a mosque in Mathwar village, northwestern Jammu, in this November 8, 2012 file photo. India produces 23-24 million tonnes of corn, with Bihar accounting for nearly 3 million tonnes, according to trade and industry estimates. If other big producing states fail to match Bihar's gains, rising consumption would cut into Indian exports that now average 3.4-4.5 million tonnes a year. The government says it hopes to extend Bihar's success in boosting yields and to other leading corn growing states such as Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)




Senior Airman Ebony Jackson of the US Air Force (L) and Gunners Mate 3rd Class Lillian Collins of the US Navy look at the wreckage of the sunken USS Arizona from the deck of the USS Arizona Memorial, during ceremonies honoring the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii December 7, 2014. (Photo by Hugh Gentry/Reuters)

Senior Airman Ebony Jackson of the US Air Force (L) and Gunners Mate 3rd Class Lillian Collins of the US Navy look at the wreckage of the sunken USS Arizona from the deck of the USS Arizona Memorial, during ceremonies honoring the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii December 7, 2014. (Photo by Hugh Gentry/Reuters)




A giant Santa Claus, created and worn by local artist Ed Terrell, 66, walks home with his son and assistant, Rupanuga, 18, following a ceremony to decorate a scraggly Christmas tree with a single red Bulb in Reading, Pennsylvania, December 7, 2014. A ceremony to decorate the scraggly Christmas tree in Reading, Pennsylvania with a single red bulb, much like Charlie Brown's tree in the animated holiday classic, was postponed to Sunday from Saturday because of rain and cold temperatures, officials said. (Photo by Mark Makela/Reuters)

A giant Santa Claus, created and worn by local artist Ed Terrell, 66, walks home with his son and assistant, Rupanuga, 18, following a ceremony to decorate a scraggly Christmas tree with a single red Bulb in Reading, Pennsylvania, December 7, 2014. A ceremony to decorate the scraggly Christmas tree in Reading, Pennsylvania with a single red bulb, much like Charlie Brown's tree in the animated holiday classic, was postponed to Sunday from Saturday because of rain and cold temperatures, officials said. Officials decided to hold a re-dedication ceremony, which will include a Spanish and English reading from the movie's screenplay, and decorate it with a single red bulb, as in the 1965 animated television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. (Photo by Mark Makela/Reuters)




A child holds up a sparkler during Little Candles' Day in Bogota December 7, 2014. The traditional holiday, celebrated on December 7 in Colombia, marks the unofficial start of Christmas in the country. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)

A child holds up a sparkler during Little Candles' Day in Bogota December 7, 2014. The traditional holiday, celebrated on December 7 in Colombia, marks the unofficial start of Christmas in the country. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)




A Vietnamese fan wipes blood on his head after scuffles between fans during the first leg of the Suzuki Cup 2014 semi-final match between Vietnam and Malaysia at Shah Alam stadium in Kuala Lumpur December 7, 2014. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)

A Vietnamese fan wipes blood on his head after scuffles between fans during the first leg of the Suzuki Cup 2014 semi-final match between Vietnam and Malaysia at Shah Alam stadium in Kuala Lumpur December 7, 2014. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)




A child looks at a diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume during an event celebrating the upcoming Christmas holiday at Lotte World Aquarium in Seoul December 8, 2014. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

A child looks at a diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume during an event celebrating the upcoming Christmas holiday at Lotte World Aquarium in Seoul December 8, 2014. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)




A plainclothes policewoman stands in front of passengers who are travelling to Nairobi, as they wait to be searched for weapons, in the town of Mandera at the Kenya-Somalia border December 8, 2014. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

A plainclothes policewoman stands in front of passengers who are travelling to Nairobi, as they wait to be searched for weapons, in the town of Mandera at the Kenya-Somalia border December 8, 2014. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)




A worker paints money boxes in the shape of cartoon character Pikachu at a pottery factory in Dehua, Fujian province December 7, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A worker paints money boxes in the shape of cartoon character Pikachu at a pottery factory in Dehua, Fujian province December 7, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)




A worker carries a fish at Muara Baru port in Jakarta December 8, 2014. The World Bank on Monday cut its projection for Indonesia's economic growth in 2015 to 5.2 percent from 5.6 percent due to the weak outlook for fixed investment and trade as well as a slowing pace of loan expansion. (Photo by Reuters/Beawiharta)

A worker carries a fish at Muara Baru port in Jakarta December 8, 2014. The World Bank on Monday cut its projection for Indonesia's economic growth in 2015 to 5.2 percent from 5.6 percent due to the weak outlook for fixed investment and trade as well as a slowing pace of loan expansion. (Photo by Reuters/Beawiharta)




A rebel fighter carries his weapon as he runs near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Manshiyeh neighbourhood in Deraa December 7, 2014. Picture taken December 7, 2014. (Photo by Wsam Almokdad/Reuters)

A rebel fighter carries his weapon as he runs near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Manshiyeh neighbourhood in Deraa December 7, 2014. Picture taken December 7, 2014. (Photo by Wsam Almokdad/Reuters)




Rebel fighters aim their weapons inside a building near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Manshiyeh neighborhood in Deraa December 7, 2014.  Picture taken December 7, 2014. (Photo by Wsam Almokdad/Reuters)

Rebel fighters aim their weapons inside a building near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Manshiyeh neighborhood in Deraa December 7, 2014. Picture taken December 7, 2014. (Photo by Wsam Almokdad/Reuters)




Rebel fighters ride a motorbike in the old city of Aleppo December 7, 2014. Picture taken December 7, 2014. (Photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)

Rebel fighters ride a motorbike in the old city of Aleppo December 7, 2014. Picture taken December 7, 2014. (Photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)




A supporter wearing a mask of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to attend an election campaign rally addressed by Modi in Srinagar December 8, 2014. Modi on Monday took his political campaign to the troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, promising jobs and water supplies to win support in a region at the heart of nearly seven decades of hostility with Pakistan. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

A supporter wearing a mask of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to attend an election campaign rally addressed by Modi in Srinagar December 8, 2014. Modi on Monday took his political campaign to the troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, promising jobs and water supplies to win support in a region at the heart of nearly seven decades of hostility with Pakistan. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)




Policemen escort driver Shiv Kumar Yadav (C in black jacket) who is accused of a rape outside a court in New Delhi December 8, 2014. U.S. online ride-hailing service Uber has been banned from operating in the Indian capital after a female passenger accused one of its drivers of rape, a case that has reignited a debate about the safety of women in the South Asian nation. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)

Policemen escort driver Shiv Kumar Yadav (C in black jacket) who is accused of a rape outside a court in New Delhi December 8, 2014. U.S. online ride-hailing service Uber has been banned from operating in the Indian capital after a female passenger accused one of its drivers of rape, a case that has reignited a debate about the safety of women in the South Asian nation. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)




General view of a wood railway boxcar at the Drancy internment camp memorial in Drancy, near Paris December 8, 2014. France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. Litigation. (Photo by Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

General view of a wood railway boxcar at the Drancy internment camp memorial in Drancy, near Paris December 8, 2014. France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. Litigation. About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and transported in appalling conditions in railway boxcars to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, where most died. (Photo by Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)




A man walks with his bicycle next to air-defence systems in front of Russian Army Theatre in Moscow, December 8, 2014. Air-defence systems are on display in central Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of the Russia's air defence forces, according to the spokesman of the Defense ministry. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

A man walks with his bicycle next to air-defence systems in front of Russian Army Theatre in Moscow, December 8, 2014. Air-defence systems are on display in central Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of the Russia's air defence forces, according to the spokesman of the Defense ministry. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)




Five-year-old Sonu holds balloons as he helps his father at a fair in Mumbai December 8, 2014. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

Five-year-old Sonu holds balloons as he helps his father at a fair in Mumbai December 8, 2014. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)




An official holds up confiscated firearms before they are destroyed at the Office of the State Home Foreclosure Confiscated Goods (Rupbasan) in Bandung, December 8, 2014 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The destroyed firearms were confiscated from 640 cases of narcotics, psychotropic substances, firearms and counterfeit money, according to Antara Foto. (Photo by Agus Bebeng/Reuters/Antara Foto)

An official holds up confiscated firearms before they are destroyed at the Office of the State Home Foreclosure Confiscated Goods (Rupbasan) in Bandung, December 8, 2014 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The destroyed firearms were confiscated from 640 cases of narcotics, psychotropic substances, firearms and counterfeit money, according to Antara Foto. (Photo by Agus Bebeng/Reuters/Antara Foto)




An unmanned Vietnamese fishing boat is blown up and sunk by the Indonesian navy, according to Antara Foto, off the Natuna sea in Anambas, Kepulauan Riau province, December 5, 2014 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Immanuel Antoneus/Reuters/Antara Foto)

An unmanned Vietnamese fishing boat is blown up and sunk by the Indonesian navy, according to Antara Foto, off the Natuna sea in Anambas, Kepulauan Riau province, December 5, 2014 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Immanuel Antoneus/Reuters/Antara Foto)




A man tends to a bonsai plant during an exhibition in Kudus, Central Java province, December 8, 2014 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The bonsai exhibition, featuring hundreds of works belonging to bonsai lovers from Kudus, Jepara, Pati, Demak, Rembang and Semarang, was held from December 8 to 12. (Photo by Andreas Fitri Atmoko/Reuters/Antara Foto)

A man tends to a bonsai plant during an exhibition in Kudus, Central Java province, December 8, 2014 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The bonsai exhibition, featuring hundreds of works belonging to bonsai lovers from Kudus, Jepara, Pati, Demak, Rembang and Semarang, was held from December 8 to 12. (Photo by Andreas Fitri Atmoko/Reuters/Antara Foto)




A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from Bravo Co 2/147th AVN Renegades flies support for U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel over Kuwait City December 8, 2014. Hagel flew out to Camp Buehring to visit with troops stationed there. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Reuters)

A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from Bravo Co 2/147th AVN Renegades flies support for U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel over Kuwait City December 8, 2014. Hagel flew out to Camp Buehring to visit with troops stationed there. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Reuters)




Gale Crater on the planet Mars, is shown in this artist's depiction provided by NASA December 8, 2014.  Billions of years ago, a lake once filled the 96-mile (154-km) wide crater being explored by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, bolstering evidence that the planet most like Earth in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, scientists said on Monday. (Photo by Reuters/NASA)

Gale Crater on the planet Mars, is shown in this artist's depiction provided by NASA December 8, 2014. Billions of years ago, a lake once filled the 96-mile (154-km) wide crater being explored by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, bolstering evidence that the planet most like Earth in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, scientists said on Monday. (Photo by Reuters/NASA)




An evenly-layered rock on the planet Mars, photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover is shown in the NASA handout provided December 9, 2014. It shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water may have entered a lake in a scene combining multiple frames taken with Mastcam's right-eye camera on August 7, 2014. (Photo by Reuters//NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

An evenly-layered rock on the planet Mars, photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover is shown in the NASA handout provided December 9, 2014. It shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water may have entered a lake in a scene combining multiple frames taken with Mastcam's right-eye camera on August 7, 2014. Billions of years ago, a lake once filled the crater being explored by Curiosity, bolstering evidence that the planet most like Earth in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, scientists said Monday. (Photo by Reuters//NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)




Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge wraps presents for children with Chirlane McCray, the wife of the mayor of New York City (C) and other volunteers at the Northside Center for Childhood Development in New York, December 8, 2014. (Photo by Seth Wenig/Reuters)

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge wraps presents for children with Chirlane McCray, the wife of the mayor of New York City (C) and other volunteers at the Northside Center for Childhood Development in New York, December 8, 2014. (Photo by Seth Wenig/Reuters)




Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (L) smiles while she listens to her husband Prince William, Duke of Cambridge as he talks to guests during a reception co-hosted by the Royal Foundation and the Clinton Foundation at British Consul General's Residence in New York, December 8, 2014. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Reuters)

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (L) smiles while she listens to her husband Prince William, Duke of Cambridge as he talks to guests during a reception co-hosted by the Royal Foundation and the Clinton Foundation at British Consul General's Residence in New York, December 8, 2014. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Reuters)
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