Members of the crowd takes photographs of President Barack Obama after he gave a speech about housing and home ownership as he announces a cut in mortgage insurance premiums on Federal Housing Administration loans, a move aimed at attracting new homebuyers, Thursday, January 8, 2015, at Central High School in Phoenix. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
A pro-Russian rebel guards the road near the airport of Donetsk, with Ukrainian military vehicles at rear, Eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Ukrainian soldiers took up duties Tuesday at the Donetsk Airport, scene of some of the fiercest fighting in eastern Ukraine. The 50 soldiers in a convoy of four trucks were provided safe passage to the airport by rebel forces, who gave them gifts in celebration of Orthodox Christmas. (Photo by Mstyslav Chernov/AP Photo)
The view of the sea near the coastal city of Limassol is seen in the background through the fir trees after four-days of heavy snow on Troodos mountain, in Cyprus, Thursday, January 8, 2015. Cyprus is in the grip of a mid-winter storm bringing heavy rains, low temperatures and snow in the Troodos mountain range. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)
The Firefighters Memorial statue in Pioneer Square stands Tuesday, January 6, 2015, in Seattle, Wash. The memorial honors the four firefighters that died in the conflagration, making it the worst tragedy in the history of the Seattle Fire Department. (Photo by Jordan Stead/AP Photo)
A Syrian girl makes a snowman outside her tent at a refugee camp in al-Majdal village, Bekaa valley, east Lebanon, Thursday, January 8, 2015. Snow fell in the Middle East as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing at least two Syrian refugees in Lebanon and forcing thousands of others who have fled their country civil war to huddle for warmth in refugee camps. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)
In this Sunday, January 4, 2015 photo, workers place ingredients into instant noodles packaging at a food factory in Huaibei in central China's Anhui province. China's consumer inflation edged up in December despite the slump in global oil prices but was still well below the official target. Prices rose 1.5 percent from a year earlier, up from November's 1.4 percent increase, government data showed Friday, Jan. 9. (Photo by AP Photo)
Indonesian navy personnel check a helicopter as they prepare operations to lift the tail of AirAsia Flight 8501 in Java sea, Indonesia Friday, January 9, 2015. Days after sonar detected apparent wreckage, an unmanned underwater vehicle showed the plane's tail, lying upside down and partially buried in the ocean floor. (Photo by Adek Berry/AP Photo)
French police forcibly stop at gun point young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris January 9, 2015. Several people were taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday after a shootout involving a man armed with two guns, a police source said. There were unconfirmed local media reports that the man was the same as the one suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday. A police source had told Reuters earlier he was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in Wednesday's attack at weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. (Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters)
French police arrest young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris January 9, 2015. (Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters)
An Israeli girl takes photos of high waves in the Mediterranean Sea with her mobile phone in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 during a heavy winter storm seeping through the Middle East. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)
A whipcracker performs during the 48th edition of the Swiss whipcracking championships on the main square in Schwyz, central Switzerland, January 6, 2015. (Photo by Urs Flueeler/EPA)
Crimean people wave a Russian national flag as they prepare to swim celebrating an Orthodox Christamas in the Black Sea with air temperature about –8 Celsius, (17.6 32 Fahrenheit) in Yevpatoria, Crimea, Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, in accordance with the Julian calendar. A rescue boat patrols is in the background. (Photo by Alexander Polegenko/AP Photo)
People stand behind a police cordon near the wreckage of a bus that fell into a gorge in Penukonda, about 145 kilometers north of Bangalore, India, Wednesday, January 7, 2015. The passenger bus veered off a road in southeastern India and fell into the gorge on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people, most of them college and middle school students, police said. More than 50 other people were injured in the accident. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)
A member of an historic club wearing 1812-era French army uniform fires his rifle, during an historic festival to mark the Russian Orthodox Christmas in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, January 7, 2015. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/AP Photo)
Artist Kaya Mar holds a painting of British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel near Downing Street on January 7, 2015 in London, England. The two leaders are expected to discuss a range of issues including the crisis in Ukraine, the European economy and Germany's year-long presidency of the G7 group of nations ahead of the G7 summit, being held in the Bavarian Alps in June. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
An Indian soldier from the Border Security Force camel mounted division speaks to his camel as it rests during preparations for the upcoming Republic day parade amidst the morning fog, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, January 7, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit India as the chief guest for this year’s Republic Day celebrations, marked on Jan. 26. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)
Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2 is seen traveling though the starfield of the constellation Eridanus, near Orion on January 7, 2015, as seen from Tyler, Texas. The comet is giving off a green color and was closest to the Earth today, about 44 million miles away, but may continue to brighten over the next several days, and is visible in binoculars. (Photo by Dr. Scott M. Lieberman/AP Photo)
Caroline Yoder, center, the baby daughter of Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) makes a friend across the aisle as representatives stand for the prayer on opening day of the 114th Congress, on January, 06, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
A basket vendor walks past red lanterns serving as decorations to celebrate the new year outside a shopping mall in Kunming, Yunnan province January 6, 2015. China's services sector grew at its fastest pace in three months in December as new orders remained strong, a private survey showed, an encouraging sign of strength even as manufacturing activity slows and the property market softens. (Photo by Reuters)
People sit in a carriage drawn by a horse during the traditional Epiphany celebration in the village of Pietrosani, Romania, on January 6, 2015. As every year, horse owners and their animals gathered on a field next to the village to be blessed by an orthodox priest and to take part in a horse race. (Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP Photo)
Blood and debris are pictured beside a wrecked car at the scene of a remote-controlled bomb blast in Jalalabad on January 7, 2015. A judge serving in a provincial court of eastern Afghanistan''s Laghman province was killed and his two daughters wounded following an explosion in Jalalabad city. (Photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP Photo)
Coptic Christians attend Orthodox Christmas Eve Mass in the Cave Cathedral or St. Sama'ans Church on the Mokattam hills overlooking Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, January 6, 2015. The Coptic Christian population are considered to be the largest Christian community in the Middle East and observe Christmas on January 7 according to the old, Julian calendar. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)
A couple walks past a banner with pictures of Serbs, presumed killed by NATO and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, in front of the Serbia's war crimes court in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, January 8, 2015. Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says his office has faced an orchestrated “campaign of lynch” by war criminals and nationalists – including accusations of spying from the U.S. leveled by ruling party officials – after it recently moved to open sensitive cases from the Balkan country's wartime past. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)
Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami party activists set fire to a police motorbike in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, January 5, 2015. Two men on a motorbike opened fire on a group of anti-government activists in northwestern Bangladesh on Monday, killing two amid heightened tensions on the anniversary of a general election boycotted by a major opposition alliance last year, a local opposition leader said. (Photo by S.K. Hasan Ali/AP Photo)
A window mannequin wrapped into clothesline and spined with cable ties stands in Hanover, Germany, 05 January 2015. The sculpture is part of the crowd art project “PENvolution – PencilmobilRoom” iniciated by German artist Kerstin Schulz. The sculptures will be part of an exhibition that merges different pieces of art into a big installation at the municipal art gallery Kubus in Hanover end of January. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/EPA)
Catherina Pareto, left, and her partner Karla Arguello celebrate on the court house steps after Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel lifted a stay on her July ruling that Florida's same s*x marriage ban violates equal protections under the U.S. Constitution, Monday, January 5, 2015 in Miami. Judge Zabel provided a jump-start Monday to Florida's entry as the 36th state where gays and lesbians can legally marry, saying she saw no reason why same-s*x couples couldn't immediately get their licenses in Miami-Dade County ahead of a midnight launch statewide. (Photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
A Rajasthani folk dance artist performs while standing on two glasses during the “Dhora Ri Mahak” festival in Bhopal, India, 07 January 2015. The event is being organised by the “Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya” anthropology museum. (Photo by Sanjeev Gupta/EPA)
Ordnance disposal expert Mike Schwitzke of the bomb disposal unit of the police kneels behind a defused 250 kilogram World War II bomb in Potsdam, Germany, 07 January 2015. Around 10,000 residents had to be evacuated from their homes in the city centre of Potsdam during the disarming of the bomb, which was found during construction work near Potsdam's central train station (background). (Photo by Bernd Settnik/EPA)
A man wearing a Batman costume reacts after being punched in the face during a protest against the increase in bus fares, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, January 9, 2015. He was attacked after being accused by several demonstrators of having participated in political rallies against the Workers Party during the electoral campaign. According to police only about several hundred demonstrators participated in the Rio de Janeiro protest over the increase in bus fares. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)
Women look at an art installation as part of the Street Art project “Laman Seni” in Shah Alam, Malaysia, 09 January 2015. Laman Seni is organized by the local council that redefines prevents unhealthy activities and make a useable space for the community at the same time enhancing the urban condition, to improve the standard of life. (Photo by Fazry Ismail/EPA)
A girl practices her dance steps before participating in the traditional parade of La Diablada en Pillaro, Ecuador, Sunday, January 4, 2015. Originally people dressed in devil costumes where used to open up space to allow other participants to dance, but over the years the character gained popularity and became the most popular costume of the feast. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)
Ice forms on an depiction of Skip Baumhower standing behind a camera on a tripod on the front lawn of Baumhower's home in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Thursday, January 8, 2015. This winter's coldest weather yet plunged Alabama into a deep freeze and broke records early Thursday, with temperatures dropping into the single digits before dawn across the northern third of the state. (Photo by Michelle Lepianka Carter/AP Photo/The Tuscaloosa News)
Indian students pour water on each other as part of a ritual bath on the eve of Magh Purnima in Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, January 4, 2015. Many Hindu devotees take holy bath during the auspicious festival hoping that their sins are washed away according to ancient Hindu tradition. (Photo by AP Photo/Press Trust of India)
Twenty-year-old tour guides dressed in traditional kimonos hang up “emas”, or votive tablets, with their written wishes at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine after attending a purification ceremony with a Shinto priest to celebrate Japan's Coming of Age Day on January 9, 2015. Since tour guides will be busy working on Japan's national holiday Coming-of-Age Day on January 12, the company had a ceremony for them ahead of time. Young people turning 20 are officially recognised as adults in Japan. (Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP Photo)
A young girl poses with a Morpho Polyphemus butterfly during a butterfly exhibition in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 09 January 2015. According to local reports the exhibition “Happy Tropics” opened 30 December 2014 and runs until 09 February 2015 and includes a number of colorful and rare butterfly species. (Photo by Igor Kovalenko/EPA)
A woman walks down a snowy sidewalk on January 6, 2015 in New York City. Today the city will be hit by its first major snowstorm of the winter season. (Photo by Andrew Burton/AFP Photo)
The Holly Man, a character from pagan myths and folklore, holds the crowns of the new King and Queen, during a performance in a folk play near the Globe Theatre in central London on January 4, 2015, in celebration of Twelfth Night, marking the end of the twelve days of winter festivities. (Photo by Andrew Cowie/AFP Photo)
People, wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes, sing folk songs as they celebrate Orthodox Christmas in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on January 8, 2015. (Photo by Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP Photo)
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