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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/249-AMDAILYEDIT_01.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 11: Actress Eva Mendes arrives at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/160-AMDAILYEDIT_02.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525BEVERLY HILTON, CA - JANUARY 11: Director Mark Osborne (R) and guest (detail) arrive at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/53-AMDAILYEDIT_03.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL - JANUARY 12: A column of Israeli army tanks advances to join the fighting against Hamas militants at sunrise January 12, 2009 as they pass Israel's border with the Palestinian territory. Israel is intensifying its wide-scale ground assault against the Gaza Strip in an effort to put an end to Hamas rocket attacks against the Jewish State. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/786-AMDAILYEDIT_04.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416TOKYO - JANUARY 12: Japanese twenty-year-olds, dressed in traditional kimonos, pose for photographs as they skate on an ice rink after attending the annual Coming-of-Age Day ceremony at Toshimaen Amusement Park on January 12, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. 1.33 million youth celebrate their passage into adulthood on the day while they become eligible to drink alcohol, smoke and vote at the age of 20. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/594-AMDAILYEDIT_05.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL - JANUARY 12: Artillery shells explode in the air to lay down smoke cover over Palestinian homes as the Israeli army battles Hamas militants in the central Gaza Strip January 12, 2009 as seen from Israel's border with the Palestinian territory. Israel is intensifying its wide-scale ground assault against the Gaza Strip in an effort to put an end to Hamas rocket attacks against the Jewish State. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/374-AMDAILYEDIT_06.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416Artwork Le Deux Filles by Amedeo Modigliani is seen at Christie's auction house in London, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. The painting is expected to realize in the region of pounds 3.5 - 5.5 million, (US dlrs 5.2 - 8.2 million) when it is offered at the evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art on Feb. 4, 2009, at Christie's in London.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/968-AMDAILYEDIT_07.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|419Ice falls from an historic water mill near Furtwangen in the Black Forest, southwestern Germany, on Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. Even though the days time temperatures are slowly getting warmer, the nights are still very cold. (AP Photo/Winfried Rothermel)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/589-AMDAILYEDIT_08.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|465A bicycle messenger puts on a facemask, after Budapest's mayor issued the capital's full-scale smog alert in Hungary, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. The smog increase is being caused partly by power plants that were forced to switch from natural gas to more polluting fuels after gas shipments from Russia through Ukraine to Europe were suspended last week. As the smog alert was issued on an even date, only vehicles with even-numbered registration plates were permitted on the roads. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/12/10/444-AMDAILYEDIT_09.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|415FILE - This Oct. 10, 2008 shows an Airbus Beluga cargo airplane at the airport Dresden, Germany. Airbus SA, which held onto its title as the world's biggest planemaker in 2008, could be set for an easier ride in 2009 than rival Boeing Co., beset with problems with the 787. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/825-APTOPIX_Senate_Burris.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|384Roland Burris has make-up applied before appearing on the CBS television show Face the Nation in Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/973-NCarolina_St_NCarolina2.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525North Carolina's Chay Shegog (20) reacts to her basket against North Carolina State during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. North Carolina won 75-66. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/699-NCarolina_St_NCarolina_Bask.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|464North Carolina State's Nikitta Gartrell, center, bows her head as the Wolfpack loses to North Carolina in overtime of a NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. North Carolina won 75-66. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/879-Germany_Weather.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|289People skate across the frozen lake Ammersee, near the village of Herrsching, southern Germany, during sunset and cold winter weather with temperatures of minus three degrees centigrade on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009 (AP Photo/Christof Stache)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/861-Hungary_Weather.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|460A horse is seen on a snow covered field near Csoeroeg, Hungary, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Hungary is expecting its coldest winter day on Sunday. In the capital city of Budapest two homeless people were found frozen to death on the streets while winter chills have killed more than 40 people since the beginning of this year in Hungary, the Social and Labor Affairs Ministry said. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/656-APTOPIX_Bulgaria_Balkans_Ru.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|405Jordanka Dimitrichkova 86 years old, who lives alone at her home in a suburb of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, brings in her firewood with the aid of her walking stick as she tries to stay warm near a wood-burning stove, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Natural gas supplies from Russia through Ukraine to Bulgaria and other parts of Europe remain cut off for a sixth day, leaving several countries scrambling to secure alternative energy sources to cope with a cold snap, with factories shut down, schools closed and tens of thousands of people scrambled to find other ways of keeping warm. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/84-FRANCE_SOCCER.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|429Bordeaux's Souleymane Diawara reacts after his team scores the second goal against Paris Saint Germain during their French League one soccer match in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/777-82989324SD013_PHOENIX_SUNS_.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525LOS ANGELES, CA - Grant Hill #33 of the Phoenix Suns takes a charging foul from Eric Gordon #10 of the Los Angeles Clippers as Sun Louis Amundson #17 defends on January 11, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The Suns won 109-103. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/331-MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALESTI6.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|410Israeli school children run after a rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/54-MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALESTI5.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|425An Israeli boy reacts after a rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/962-APTOPIX_Philippines_Ga2.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|419Philippine policeman scuffles with a student activist during a rally in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, to condemn the Israeli air and ground assaults in Gaza. The demonstrators called Israel and the U.S. "the world's number one terrorist." (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/40-MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALESTI4.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|408A Palestinian tries to extinguish a fire in a car following an Israeli airstrike at the Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. (AP Photo/Khaled Omar)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/120-MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALESTI7.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416A Palestinian man holds up a Quran, Islam's holy book, as he inspects the rubble of a mosque and Islamic school after it was destroyed in an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City on Sunday morning as Israel's military inched closer to Gaza's main population centers despite growing diplomatic pressure to end the conflict. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/751-AK842192993.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|510BEIT LAHIA, GAZA STRIP - A wounded Palestinian child is carried into the Kamal Adwan hospital after an Israeli air strike on January 11, 2009 in Beit Lahia northern of Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian medical sources 46 people have been killed today in Gaza. As the conflict goes into its third week the overall death toll is nearing 900. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/1-AK842192994.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416BEIT LAHIA, GAZA STRIP - A wounded Palestinian child is carried into the Kamal Adwan hospital after an Israeli air strike on January 11, 2009 in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian medical sources 46 people have been killed today in Gaza. As the conflict goes into its third week the overall deathtoll is nearing 900. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/346-APTOPIX_MIDEAST_ISRAEL2.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|439Palestinians receive food aid at a United Nations food distribution center in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Sunday, Jan.11, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City on Sunday morning as Israel's military inched closer to Gaza's main population centers despite growing diplomatic pressure to end the conflict.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/746-MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALESTINIANS.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|415Samuel Wurzelbacher, known as Joe the Plumber, reporting for the conservative pjtv.com Web site is back-dropped by smoke from fires caused by Israeli military attacks inside the Gaza Strip, poses for pictures, near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Wurzelbacher became famous after campaigning for US republican presidential candidate John McCain during the US Presidential elections in 2008. (AP Photo/Moshe Milner, Government Press Office, handout)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/104-83368546AZ020_WOMEN_S_SLALO.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525MARIBOR, SLOVENIA - JANUARY 11: Maria Riesch (L) of Germany takes first place and Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. takes fourth place during the Alpine FIS Skiing World Cup Women's Slalom on January 11, 2009 in Maribor, Slovenia. (Photo by Agence Zoom/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/965-Auto_Show.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|421Protesters march on the sidewalk across from the North American International Auto Show Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/01/11/21/272-Aptopix_Iraq_Officer_Gradua.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|463A graduate of the Kalachwalan military academy is kissed by relatives after his graduation north of Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. The academy graduated 250 officers on Sunday.(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
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