The Governor of the Bank of Spain Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez listens to Jean Claude Trichet President of the European Central Bank, not seen, during a joint press conference after the V High-Level Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American Central Banks in Madrid, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.
A bird is seen behind barbed wire fences in Fort 13 of the Jilava jail in Jilava, Romania, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Dozens of former political prisoners gathered on Human Rights Day to commemorate the anti communist fighters, parachuted by United States air force planes in the 1950s to organize a resistance movement, who were detained and executed in 1953 at the Jilava jail.
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland poses next to the Nobel diploma and Nobel medal placed on the empty chair during the ceremony in Oslo City Hall Friday Dec. 10, 2010 to honour in absentia this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
The image of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is projected onto the Grand Hotel and held aloft by a supporter during a torchlight procession in honor of Liu in Oslo, Norway Friday Dec. 10, 2010. Friday's ceremony at city hall marked the the first time in 74 years the prestigious $1.4 million award was not handed over, because Liu is serving an 11-year sentence in China on subversion charges for urging sweeping changes to Beijing's one-party communist political system.
A 2-week old male baby elephant is dwarfed next to his 25-year old mother, Nandong, at the Singapore Zoo's Night Safari on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 in Singapore. This baby is the first baby to be born in the enclosure after 9 years and had a birth weight of 151-kilograms. The Singapore Zoo and Night Safari ensures that its animals in captivity have habitats as close to that of the wild as part of its wildlife conservation efforts. Elephants are listed as endangered on International Union for Conservation of Nature.
U.S. Navy Deck crew members take a rest on the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during "Keen Sword" U.S.-Japan joint military exercise over the Pacific Ocean, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.
Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates gestures Friday, Dec. 10 2010, during his twice-a-month debate with the members of parliament at the Portuguese national assembly in Lisbon. Socrates' government insists it doesn't need or want a financial rescue of the kind provided to Greece and Ireland and says the country is on the way to resolving its problems. Portugal recorded growth of 1.8 percent in the first nine months of this year, and exports rose more than 15 percent.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, backgound center, chairs the Collective Security Treaty Organization meeting in Moscow's Kremlin on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. At background left is Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbayeva. At background right is Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon.
Activists of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front hold torches during a protest march to mark International Human Rights Day in Srinagar, India, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.
A woman, who declined to be identified, holds a candle as she walks in a prison cell in Fort 13 of the Jilava jail in Jilava, Romania, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Dozens of former political prisoners gathered on Human Rights Day to commemorate the anti communist fighters, parachuted by United States air force planes in the 1950s to organize a resistance movement, who were detained and executed in 1953 at the Jilava jail.