Shoppers are reflected on a snow-flake decoration outside a shopping mall Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 in Singapore where malls are taking advantage of the festive season to spruce up their sales through visual merchandising and year end sales.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi holds his head during a session at the Senate, in Rome, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. Berlusconi says political stability is necessary in the midst of an economic crisis in a speech to Parliament ahead of Tuesday's crucial confidence votes.
A pedestrian shields himself from a gust of snow flurries Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, in downtown Atlanta.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walks to a meeting with military and police officials in Moscow's Kremlin on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. Medvedev vowed to track down and punish the soccer fans and racists who rampaged just outside the Kremlin walls, raising fears that violent nationalism was spinning out of control and threatening Russia's integrity.
A bald eagle flies over the Des Moines River, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.
Pakistani sister, Pesmina Zainullah, 9, right, and Pervisha, 11, second right, and Zerghouna, center, work in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010.
Elite gendarme officers release children from a school, after an hostage taking in Besancon, eastern France, Monday Dec.13, 2010. Gendarmes entered the pre-school where a 17-year-old armed with swords was holding several small children and their teacher hostage in eastern France. A city official says police have detained the 17-year-old, and that all the children have been released safely.
A Kashmiri Muslim rows his boat in Dal Lake on a cold and foggy morning in Srinagar, India, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010.
Bhutanese refugees watch their colleagues leave for resettlement abroad at a transit facility of International Organization for Migration in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A 3-year-old program to resettle ethnic Nepalese forced out of Bhutan in the early 1990s has found homes for 40,000 of the refugees in Western countries, and 50,000 more have applied.
Pakistani police officers and rescue workers survey the site of bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A roadside bomb exploded near a school bus in northwest Pakistan's main city, killing the driver and wounding at least two children, police said.