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PM Manmohan Singh (C) shakes hands with European Council president Herman Van Rompuy (L) as EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) looks on prior to a meeting and signing ceremony in New Delhi. (AFP PHOTO / Prakash SINGH) - AFP A man with child walk past a snow-covered car in central Tbilisi, on February 9, 2012. The temperatures in the Georgia's capital dropped today to -6 C. (AFP PHOTO /VANO SHLAMOV) - AFP US President Barack Obama(R) and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shake hands during meetings in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 9, 2012. (AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB) - AFP A butcher in a soon to be demolished area as a major urban redevelopment continues in the coal mining city of Datong, Shanxi province in China. (AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON) - AFP Riot police shadow a march of hundreds of Peruvians from different regions taking part in Lima on February 9, 2012 in a protest against U.S. giant Newmont mining project Conga in the so called 'national march for water'. (AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE) - AFP Kashmiri Muslims watch as an unseen priest shows a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammed at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar. (AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA) - AFP Activists take part in a protest against bullfighting on February 9, 2012, at Bolivar Square in Bogota. (AFP PHOTO/Eitan Abramovich) - AFP First Lady Michelle Obama kicks off her three day national tour in Des Moines, Iowa, Feburary 9, 2012 to highlight Iowa's Healthiest State Initiative. (AFP PHOTO / CONRAD SCHMIDT) - AFP Music legend Paul McCartney (C) reacts upon seeing his freshly unveiled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. Receiving the 2,460th Star on the famed walkways of Hollywood, McCartney's star is lined up alongside his fellow Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. (AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN) - AFP A team rowing in to the finish during the Quebec Winter Carnival Ice Canoe Race in Quebec City, Canada. The race is one the highlights of the carnival as well trained teams race across the partially frozen Saint-Laurent river, zigzaguing in the middle of huge ice blocks aboard light but strong boats made of epoxy and fiberglass. (AFP PHOTO/Geraldine WOESSNER) - AFP Portogal's Armindo Araujo and his co-driver Miguel Ramalho steer their Mini John Cooper Works during the qualifying stage of the WRC Rally of Sweden on Febuary 9, 2012 near Hagfors north of Karlstad. (AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND) - AFP McLaren's British driver Jenson Button takes part in a Formula One training session at Jerez racetrack, on February 8, 2012 in Jerez de la Frontera. (AFP PHOTO / CRISTINA QUICLER) - AFP