A Kenyan runs past flames as a group of houses burn out of control on February 3, 2008 in Kericho, Kenya. The houses belong to ethnic Kikuyu, seen to be aligned with President Kibaki, they are resented for their domination of politics and the economy. Western Kenya has seen some of the worst ethnic clashes in the violence that has killed more than 800 people since December 27. By Paula Bronstein/Getty.
Supporters of US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama listen to Obama’s speech during a rally in Wilmington, Delaware, 03 February 2008. Obama is on the campaign trail to try to clinch the Democratic Party ticket in the race to the White House. By Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images.
An Iraqi man, injured in a bombing at a pet market, lies on a hospital bed on February 1, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. At least 64 people were killed and many other were wounded when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a two separate pet markets in Baghdad, Iraq. By Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images.
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks during a press conference to mark Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day at the US Treasury in Washington, DC, 31 January 2008. Treasury Secretary Paulson predicted 30 January that banking sector and financial markets would recover from a wide-ranging credit crunch that has reverberated through world markets. By Jim Watson/AFP/Getty.
A Kikuyu boy looks from behind a church bench in a monastery that hundreds of displaced are using as a camp high in the mountains some 10 km from the small central Kenyan town of Kepkelion 27 January 2008. Some 140 Kikuyu families sought refuge from ethnic post-election violence at the monastery and have had members of the Kalenji tribe attack them in the periphery of the monastery on several occasions. The men and women of the group sleep inside the church at night. More than 850 people have been killed, according to an AFP tally of police and hospital figures, since the disputed December 27 election touched off a wave of deadly rioting and ethnic killings. Some 260,000 people across the country have been forced to flee their homes. By Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty.
Miner Stuart Griffin laughs as he leaves the mine after the final shift at the Tower Colliery in Hirwaun, near Merthyr Tydfill on January 25 2008 in Wales, United Kingdom. The Cynon Valley pit is one of the oldest continuously-worked mines in the world and the last deep mine in Wales. Tower is the only colliery within the once-thriving South Wales coalfield to drain all its coal resources and hit the headlines in 1994 when it was subject to a miners buy-out of the deep mine – after it had been closed by the then Conservative Government. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images.
Tony Blair speaks at the opening press conference at the World Economic Forum January 23, 2007 in Davos Switzerland. Participants have arrived in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which starts today. By Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.
Young supporters of US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama try to catch a glimpse of his address during a town hall meeting at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, 23 January 2008. Obama is on the campaign trail ahead of the South Carolina primary vote schedulled for 26 January. By Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images.
A Kenyan girl looks on as Kenyan Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) stay in the show ground stadium on January 22, 2008 in Eldoret, Kenya. International mediators have attempted to unlock political gridlock in the East African nation after 600 people died in post-election violence amid allegations that the incumbent president had manipulated the December elections. By Uriel Sinai/Getty Images.
US President George W. Bush (C) leans over to talk with a girl (R) after Bush participated in a lesson for young children on the importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day during a tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, 21 January 2008. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty.
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