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PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A street is flooded after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Teneri...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A street is flooded after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Teneri...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A street is flooded after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Teneri...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A street is damaged after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Teneri...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A street is flooded after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Teneri...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A street is damaged after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Teneri...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Rescue workers work in a flooded street after heavy rainfall during Storm Altlantica in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Can...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Pedestrians walk past a branch of Bank of Beijing on February 2, 2010. Rampant bank lending could threaten the stability of Chin...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A man and woman walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney on February 2, 2010. Australia's central bank left interest rat...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Keith Ho, solicitor for Chinachem representing a charity which held a claim to property tycoon Nina Wang's will, speaks outside t...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Visitors take a closer look at the static display of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet at the Singapore Airshow 2010 in Singapore...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Visitors take a closer look at a Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet at the Singapore Airshow 2010 in Singapore on February 2, 2010....

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Visitors take a closer look at a Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet at the Singapore Airshow 2010 in Singapore on February 2, 2010....

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A Cambodian rescue team carries a "plane crash victim" during an air crash drill on the full scale Airport Emergency Exercise 201...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Cambodian soldiers stand guard during an air crash drill on the full scale Airport Emergency Exercise 2010 at the Military Air Fo...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A member of the Cambodian anti-terrorism unit stands guard during an air crash drill on the full scale Airport Emergency Exercise...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A customer looks at Toyota cars at the company's showroom in Tokyo on February 2, 2010. Toyota said it will start fixing faulty...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS An employee of Toyota inspects vehicles at the company's showroom in Tokyo on February 2, 2010. Toyota said it will start fixing...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS An employee of Toyota dusts a vehicle at the company's showroom in Tokyo on February 2, 2010. Toyota said it will start fixing f...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Driving seats and pedals are displayed of Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor's sedan Camry at the company's showroom in Tokyo on Fe...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Workers prepare the hook on a red lantern to be raised in front of an office building in Beijing on February 2, 2010 for the comi...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Workers prepare to raise red lanterns in front of an office building in Beijing on February 2, 2010 for the coming Lunar New Year...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C) along with his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, waves to his suuporters upon arriving at...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C) along with his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (back-R), smiles to his suuporters upon a...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Supporter of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim shout slogans and show a banner of Anwar's black eyed in the court in Kual...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Supporters of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim try to save a banner from plan-clothed security officials in the court in...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (L) speaks to his supporters along with his wife Wan Azizah Ismail inside the court bui...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim talks to media after a court appearance with his wife Azizah Wan Ismail (R) in Kuala Lu...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Supporters of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (top) struggle with planclothes security officials to save a banner insid...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS In this image released by the US Treasury Department February 1, 2010 shows US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (L) meets his Germ...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A damaged bus that was hijacked stopped on a street in Tianjin on February 1, 2010. A bus dispatcher in northern China hijacked...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS In this picture taken on February 1, 2010 thai farmers place a rubber sheet into a press, at a farm in Thailand's southern provin...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS In this picture taken on February 1, 2010 thai farmers stir latex collected from rubber trees, at a farm in Thailand's southern p...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A woman walks past a god of fortune figurine displayed for the coming Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing on February 1, 2010....

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Patients sit in the hospital of the University of Miami at the airport in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US government s...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Earthquake victims sit in the hospital of the University of Miami at the airport in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US go...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A girl shows a token she was given to swap for food at a distribution point in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US governm...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A Haitian handsover a token she was given to swap for food at a distribution point in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS US paratroopers from the 82nd airborne patrol at a food distribution point in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US governme...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Soldiers patrol at a food distribution point in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US government stepped-up medical relief f...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A woman sits in the shade of a sheet at a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince on February 1, 2010. The US government stepped-up medi...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS 65 chairs remain empty during a wake in Buenos Aires on February 1, 2010, prior to the veredict of the trial for the accident of...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS 65 chairs remain empty during a wake in Buenos Aires on February 1, 2010, prior to the veredict of the trial for the accident of...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A security guard walks past a mural with the image of Cuban former President Fidel Castro (L) and Nicaragua's President Daniel Or...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS A policeman walks towards a police vehicle that was damage by a bus hijacker on a street in Tianjin on February 1, 2010. A bus d...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS CHINE-EXPO2010-ENERGIE-ENVIRONNEMENT,PREV by Julie DESNEThis picture taken on January 28, 2010 shows a trumpet-shaped structure t...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS CHINE-EXPO2010-ENERGIE-ENVIRONNEMENT,PREV by Julie DESNEThis picture taken on January 28, 2010 shows a trumpet-shaped structure t...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS CHINE-EXPO2010-ENERGIE-ENVIRONNEMENT,PREV by Julie DESNEThis picture taken on January 28, 2010 shows a trumpet-shaped structure t...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS CHINE-EXPO2010-ENERGIE-ENVIRONNEMENT,PREV by Julie DESNEThis picture taken on January 28, 2010 shows a trumpet-shaped structure t...

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS CHINE-EXPO2010-ENERGIE-ENVIRONNEMENT,PREV by Julie DESNEThis picture taken on January 28, 2010 shows workers on a crane over the...