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Posted: 7/11/2012 12:18:40 PM EST
FILE - In an April 12, 2012 file photo, Artyom Savelyev, a 9-year-old Russian boy, is in a foster home in Tomilino, outside Moscow, Russia. Russia’s parliament on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 ratified an agreement with the United States which would regulate the adoption of Russian children by Americans. Russian first voiced its grievances about the fate of Russian children adopted in the United States when Savelyev, then 7, was sent back to Russia on a one-way plane ticket by his adoptive mother from Tennessee. The boy's treatment ignited outrage in Russia toward the United States, temporarily halting American adoptions of Russian children. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
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Posted: 7/10/2012 1:48:31 PM EST
FILE - In an April 12, 2012 file photo, Artyom Savelyev, a 9-year-old Russian boy, is in a foster home in Tomilino, outside Moscow, Russia. Russia’s parliament on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 ratified an agreement with the United States which would regulate the adoption of Russian children by Americans. Russian first voiced its grievances about the fate of Russian children adopted in the United States when Savelyev, then 7, was sent back to Russia on a one-way plane ticket by his adoptive mother from Tennessee. The boy's treatment ignited outrage in Russia toward the United States, temporarily halting American adoptions of Russian children. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
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Posted: 6/12/2012 2:45:46 PM EST
This undated photo provided by The World Food Prize Foundation shows Dr. Daniel Hillel with Palestinian Muslim community leaders, through whom he encouraged the adoption of drip irrigation. Hillel, who is credited with developing drip irrigation methods that conserve water while allowing food to be grown in some of the world's driest climates, was named the winner of the World Food Prize, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (AP Photo/This undated photo provided by The World Food Prize Foundation)
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Posted: 5/30/2012 3:35:46 PM EST
A poster hangs from a building calling for people to vote NO in the upcoming European Fiscal Treaty in central Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Ireland goes to the polls on May 31 in a national referendum to vote on the adoption of the European Union's Fiscal Treaty which aims to govern the national budgets of the member countries.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Posted: 5/30/2012 3:35:46 PM EST
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, front centre, speaks to the media while canvassing for a no vote in the referendum over the European Fiscal Treaty, in central Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Ireland goes to the polls on May 31 in a national referendum to vote on the adoption of the European Union's Fiscal Treaty which aims to govern the national budgets of the member countries. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 1:10:49 PM EST
In this May 8, 2012 photo, a flower arrangement resembles a dog faces at the Pooches on the Porch event to benefit the SPCA at Kitchen on George restaurant in Mobile, Ala. Restaurants around the country are offering doggie adoption happy hours and dinners to raise money for animal shelters. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 1:10:49 PM EST
This May 8, 2012 photo shows Val Regaliza at a buffet for the Pooches on the Porch event to benefit the SPCA at Kitchen on George restaurant in Mobile, Ala. Restaurants around the country are offering doggie adoption happy hours and dinners to raise money for animal shelters. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 1:10:49 PM EST
In this May 8, 2012 photo, supporters and their rescued dogs attend the Pooches on the Porch event to benefit the SPCA at Kitchen on George restaurant on in Mobile, Ala. Restaurants around the country are offering doggie adoption happy hours and dinners to raise money for animal shelters. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 1:10:49 PM EST
In this May 8, 2012 photo, a dog named "Girl" wears her sunglasses at the Pooches on the Porch event to benefit the SPCA at Kitchen on George restaurant in Mobile, Ala. Restaurants around the country are offering doggie adoption happy hours and dinners to raise money for animal shelters. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 1:10:49 PM EST
In this May 8, 2012 photo, a rescued dog named "Girl," attends the Pooches on the Porch event to benefit the SPCA at Kitchen on George restaurant in Mobile, Ala. Restaurants around the country are offering doggie adoption happy hours and dinners to raise money for animal shelters. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 1:10:46 PM EST
In this May 8, 2012 photo, Marcia Mathis greets "Atticus" at the Pooches on the Porch event to benefit the SPCA at Kitchen on George restaurant in Mobile, Ala. Restaurants around the country are offering doggie adoption happy hours and dinners to raise money for animal shelters. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Posted: 5/23/2012 12:46:44 PM EST
People peer through a gap at the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance in Brasilia, May 23, 2012. Rural workers invaded the headquarters on Wednesday morning to demand the adoption of measures to help farmers facing problems with the drought in the southern region of the country. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino (BRAZIL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST AGRICULTURE TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Posted: 5/21/2012 8:15:39 AM EST
Members of the Ukrainian Independent Trade Union take part in a rally against the adoption of a new labour code which will increase the length of the working day and a draft law restricting mass meetings of citizens which the Parliament is planning to debate this week, in central Kiev May 21, 2012. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)
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Posted: 5/21/2012 8:11:56 AM EST
Members of the Ukrainian Independent Trade Union take part in a rally against the adoption of a new labour code which will increase the length of the working day and against a draft law restricting mass meetings of citizens which the Parliament is planning to debate this week, in central Kiev May 21, 2012. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)
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Posted: 5/20/2012 1:22:41 PM EST
A fake skeleton is seen next to SOS Mata Atlantica "Atlantic Forest" activists during a demonstration against the adoption of a new Forest Code in Sao Paulo May 20, 2012. Brazil's Congress voted on April 25 to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. The bill must still be approved by Rousseff. The words on the skeleton's bandana read, "SOS Mata Atlantica and Forest Code". REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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Posted: 5/20/2012 1:21:21 PM EST
SOS Mata Atlantica "Atlantic Forest" activists hold up a surfboards during a demonstration against the adoption of a new Forest Code in Sao Paulo May 20, 2012. Brazil's Congress voted on April 25 to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. The bill must still be approved by Rousseff. The surfboards read "Veto Dilma". REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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Posted: 5/20/2012 1:19:58 PM EST
An SOS Mata Atlantica "Atlantic Forest" activist wears a mask of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff next to a placard during a demonstration against the adoption of a new Forest Code in Sao Paulo May 20, 2012. Brazil's Congress voted on April 25 to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. The bill must still be approved by Rousseff.The placard reads " Forest Code, Veto Dilma". REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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Posted: 5/20/2012 12:53:49 PM EST
A SOS Mata Atlantica "Atlantic Forest" activist carries her son while holding a placard during a demonstration against the adoption of new Forest Code in Sao Paulo May 20, 2012. Brazil's Congress voted on April 25 to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. The bill must still be approved by Rousseff. The placard reads reads " Forest Code, Veto Dilma". REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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Posted: 5/20/2012 12:52:41 PM EST
An SOS Mata Atlantica "Atlantic Forest" activist holds a placard on a balloon during a demonstration against the adoption of a new Forest Code in Sao Paulo May 20, 2012. Brazil's Congress voted on April 25 to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. The bill must still be approved by Rousseff. The placard reads " Forest Code, Veto Dilma". REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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Posted: 5/17/2012 3:12:52 PM EST
Loida Rodriguez, whose daughter Anyeli Hernandez was kidnapped in 2006 by a criminal gang engaged in illegal adoptions, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Guatemala City May 17, 2012. According to Rodriguez, her daughter, born in 2004, was stolen from their home in the San Marcos region, north of Guatemala, and given up for adoption in 2008 to a couple from the U.S. state of Missouri. Rodriguez is campaigning for public support to pressure the government to help her get her daughter back. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY CRIME LAW)
