Caua Aquino, 11, wearing a police uniform, stands among crosses placed by the NGO Rio de Paz during a protest on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Aquino is the son of a police officer who was also participating in the protest, honoring friends. A total of 152 black wooden crosses were planted on the sands of Copacabana beach in memory of police officers killed in Rio de Janeiro state between 2013 and 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
President Barack Obama shakes hands in the crowd after speaking at the Senior Executive Service, composed of the senior leadership of the Federal workforce, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Washington. Obama is launching a leadership program for future government career executives with a goal of giving potential managers multi-agency experiences and breaking out of a tradition of promoting senior bureaucrats from within their own agencies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi attend a press conference in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A dancer walks before a performance at the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting in Lima, to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
View of the bridge leading to Mont-Saint-Michel designed by Austrian-born architect Dietmar Feichtinger, in Mont Saint Michel, western France, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The new bridge leading out from the coastline to the historic Mont Saint-Michel island commune allow the sea to flow across the estuary, transforming the Mont back into a real island for the first time in over a century. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
A man wearing a mask to protect himself from pollutant is reflected on an advertising billboard poster installed at a bus stand in Beijing, China Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A bodybuilder flexes his muscles before participating in the 6th World Body Building and Physique Sports Competition in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Birds fly past as a man rows his boat in River Yamuna in the morning in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Clogged with garbage, sewage and industrial runoff, the Yamuna, which is one of India’s major rivers, is also one of the most polluted. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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