A musician performs during a procession carrying the image of Santo Tomas in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Monday Dec. 20, 2010. For three days villagers celebrate their patron saint Tomas in this highland town with a fair, processions, fireworks and folkloric dances.
The moon is seen over St. Patrick's Cathedral during a lunar eclipse, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 in New York.
Alan Hegeman, of Crested Butte, Colo. uses his snow blower to remove the overnight acclimation of snow from his driveway from the massive snowstorm that is passing overhead and through the town on the first day of winter, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The National Weather Service has posted a Winter Storm Warning Hazardous Weather Outlook for Areas in Utah and Western mountains of Colorado. Flood warnings are also posted in Southern California form the same storm that reached from Hawaii to Colorado.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sits, before submitting his new government for approval to the Iraq parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved on Tuesday a new government to be headed by incumbent Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, ending nine months of political deadlock that threatened to stall economic development and suck the country back into sectarian violence.
A Missionaries of Charity nun plays with a Haitian girl who awaits the arrival of her adoptive parents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010. The French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie confirmed that two aircrafts will transport 318 Haitian children to France. They are a group of 1,000 children that had been approved for adoption by French families after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
A mannequin, seen with multiple reflections, models a classic red dress by Valentino during a preview of the 'Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future' exhibition which features the work of celebrated Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani at Resorts World Sentosa, one of Singapore's main tourist attractions on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, applauds as former service members Sgt. First Class Stacy Vasquez, left, and current service member Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, and former service member Major Mike Almy, hold the signed bill to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.
Toulouse's Yoann Maestri, left, is tackled by Glasgow's Richie Vernon during their Heineken European Cup rugby union match in Toulouse, southwestern France, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, is applauded by his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy after a speech to the hospital staff as they visit the maternity ward of Henri Duffaut hospital center in Avignon, southern France, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010.
A Pakistani woman looks on while sitting on the ground during a donated food distribution at the Beri Iman, a shrine of famous Sufi Saint Beri Imam, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.