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Posted: 4/16/2013 2:01:50 PM EST
Daniel Jaeggi, co-founder and Group Vice President, Head of Oil trading at Mercuria Energy Group pauses during a panel discussion at the first Global Commodities Summit in Lausanne April 24, 2012. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 4/14/2013 9:49:06 PM EST
Soldiers close a polling station after a special presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Venezuelan voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect interim President Nicolas Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president or opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, to replace Chavez who died of cancer on March 5. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 9:49:06 PM EST
Polling station delegates start the counting of votes in a special presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Venezuelan voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect interim President Nicolas Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president or opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, to replace Chavez who died of cancer on March 5. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 9:08:32 PM EST
Opposition supporters chant, "Si se puede, Capriles presidente," or "Yes we can, Capriles president," at ruling party supporters outside a polling station that had remained open about 20 minutes past the allotted time, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Although no was waiting to vote, the polling station remained open past 6:00 p.m., until demands by the Capriles supporters were met for the station to be closed. Voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect interim President Nicolas Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president or opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in a special presidential election to replace Chavez who died of cancer on March 5. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 9:08:32 PM EST
Government supporters chant slogans praising Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez at opposition supporters, outside a a polling station that had remained open about 20 minutes past the allotted time, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Although no was waiting to vote, the polling station remained open past 6:00 p.m., until demands by a group of opposition supporters were met for the station to be closed. Voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect interim President Nicolas Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president or opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in a special presidential election to replace Chavez who died of cancer on March 5. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 7:58:44 PM EST
A Venezuelan, who resides in Mexico, casts his vote inside Venezuela's consulate office that was serving as a polling station, in Mexico City, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect interim President Nicolas Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president or opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, in a special presidential election to replace Chavez who died of cancer on March 5. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 4:00:18 PM EST
This Oct. 4, 2011handout photo provided by HBO shows actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus star of the HBO series "Veep". Watch out, Joe Biden. The other vice president is in the house.The White House says Louis-Dreyfus, who plays Vice President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy "Veep," is at the White House to have lunch with Biden. (AP Photo/HBO, Bill Gray)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 4:33:19 PM EST
In this photo made Thursday, April 4, 2013, Jerry Holley, executive vice president of Dallas Auction Gallery, rotates a rare Russian vases made in 1833 by Russia's Imperial Porcelain Factory and on display at the gallery in Dallas. The rare 4 1/2-foot tall vases, which had been packs away for around a decade, were sold Thursday, April 11, 2013, for $2.7 million in a private sale about a week before they were to be auctioned. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Posted: 4/9/2013 8:23:27 PM EST
John Daggett, Oshkosh Corp. Vice President of Communications, and Rod Wedemeier, Vice President of Defense Human Resources hold a press conference at Oshkosh Corporation headquarters in Oshkosh, Wisconsin regarding the reduction of its Oshkosh workforce by 900 positions April, 9, 2013. Layoffs of 700 hourly positions and 200 salaried positions will take effect mid June. (AP Photo/Oshkosh Northwestern Media, Joe Sienkiewicz)
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Posted: 4/9/2013 5:53:23 PM EST
FILE - In these Nov. 7, 2011 file photos, former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, left, and former athletic director Tim Curley, right, enter a district judge's office for an arraignment in Harrisburg, Pa., for their actions related to the sex abuse scandal surrounding former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The criminal case can move forward against the former Penn State administrators accused of covering up reports that Jerry Sandusky was behaving improperly with children, Judge Barry Feudale ruled Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Brad Bower, left, Matt Rourke, right, File)
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Posted: 4/9/2013 4:23:21 PM EST
Vice President Joe Biden speaks about gun legislation, Tuesday, April 9, 2013, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington. The Obama administration continued its efforts to pressure Republicans, with Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder speaking at the White House, joined by law enforcement officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 4/9/2013 3:34:06 PM EST
Venezuela's acting President and Presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro (2nd R) and his wife Cilia Flores (2nd L) sit with brother of late President Hugo Chavez, governor of Barinas Adan Chavez (R), and President Chavez's son-in-law, Venezuela's Vice President Jorge Arreaza, as they attend a ceremony in the state of Barinas, April 2, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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Posted: 4/9/2013 3:18:33 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate Oath to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., accompanied by his wife Gayle and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., during a mock swearing in ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Democrats are approaching decision time on whether they can get Republican support for expanding background checks for firearms sales or will have to take the shakier path of pursuing the cornerstone of the gun control effort on their own. Democrats were to meet Tuesday, April 9, 2013, to discuss whether Manchin has been able to reach compromise with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Posted: 4/8/2013 1:33:21 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speaks in Washington where he called for armed school officers in every American school following a mass shooting at a Connecticut school. His message carried extra heft because many lawmakers in the more than two dozen Republican-controlled states are NRA members, but four months later the quest has stalled in many traditionally gun-friendly states. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
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Posted: 4/8/2013 11:58:40 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about proposals to reduce gun violence, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 4/8/2013 10:19:00 AM EST
FILE - In a Feb. 20, 1985 file photo, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is applauded by Vice President George Bush, left, as House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. looks on just before she addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, in Washington. Thatchers former spokesman, Tim Bell, said that the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had died Monday morning, April 8, 2013, of a stroke. She was 87. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)
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Posted: 4/6/2013 3:03:35 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is greeted by California Governor Jerry Brown as Commerce Secretary John Bryson looks on at the JW Marriott hotel before attending the US-China Economy and Trade Cooperation Forum in Los Angeles. California has the highest population of Chinese-Americans and is China's top trade partner among U.S. states. Yet it has no trade offices in China, opting to eliminate them in a cost-cutting move a decade ago, and is feeling the pressure from other states that have been far more aggressive in pursuing business from the world's second-largest economy. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Robert Gauthier, Pool , File)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 5:13:21 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) delivers remarks next to Vice President Joe Biden on common-sense measures to protect children from gun violence at the White House in Washington, March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Posted: 4/5/2013 2:44:37 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden arrive for the Easter Prayer Breakfast held in the East Room of the White House in Washington April 5, 2013. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Posted: 4/5/2013 1:38:24 PM EST
Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Export-Import Bank in Washington, Friday, April 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
