(AFP) - Chile's President Michelle Bachelet tastes a pisco sour. A source of national pride among party-loving Peruvians, the tart, frothy beverage that packs a punch has repeatedly taken center-stage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum's gathering in the capital Lima.(AFP/Martin Bernetti)

(AFP) - US President George W. Bush drinks a traditional pisco sour. A source of national pride among party-loving Peruvians, the tart, frothy beverage that packs a punch has repeatedly taken center-stage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum's gathering in the capital Lima.(AFP/Martin Bernetti)

(Reuters) - Joints containing different types of cannabis are seen in their jars at a coffee shop in the southern Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom November 18, 2008. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Singers Janet Jackson(L) experiencing a "wardrobe malfunction" while performing with Justin Timberlake during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVII in 2004. The US government has asked the Supreme Court to reimpose a half-million-dollar fine slapped on CBS television for a 2004 broadcast of live images of pop star Janet Jackson's breast, court documents obtained by AFP show.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frank Micelotta)

(AFP/File) - The Vatican's daily newspaper marked the 40th anniversary of the "White Album" on Friday by dismissing as a "quip" John Lennon's notorious claim that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ.(AFP/File)

(AFP/File) - Thai soldiers patrol near the Government House in Bangkok in October 2008. A Thai general who warned anti-government activists to book their own funerals ahead of a rally this weekend hit out at his bosses Friday after saying he had been moved to a role teaching aerobics.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

(Reuters) - Bras are displayed at Triumph International in Tokyo October 23, 2001. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)

(AFP/File) - A view of Australian outback mining town of Mount Isa. The mayor of the town has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year, after inviting ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)

(Reuters) - A woman walks along the boardwalk in New York September 4, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

(ISI) - US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday. Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).(ISI)

(AFP) - An Italian financial policeman (Guardia di Finanza) holds up an illegal copy of the film Gomorra on DVD, an adaptation of the book Gomorra by Italian writer Roberto Saviano, in Naples. Counterfeit copies of the film of a bestselling book about the Neapolitan mafia are being sold by black marketeers in Naples ahead of the DVD's December 3 release, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.(AFP/Mario Laporta)

(AFP/File) - A museum employee holds the gold and silver Iron Age collar (or torc), valued at £350,000, during a press view for the British Museum's annual report of treasure finds in central London, November 19. The collar, unearthed by an amateur in a field in Nottinghamshire, has been described as the best find of its kind in 50 years.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)

(AFP/File) - A display at an Erotica Convention. Australia's sex industry launched a political party Thursday, vowing to fight what it called growing conservatism in a "nanny state" -- along with global economic crisis gloom.(AFP/File/Hector Mata)

(AFP/File) - Guests raise their glasses in a toast to celebrate the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau wine and the opening of Beaujolais Nouveau spa at the Hakone Yunessun spa resort in Hakone, some 100 Kms west of Tokyo, on November 20, 2008. Japan's love of Beaujolais Nouveau hasn't gone cold, at least in this mountainous hot spring resort where people began bathing in the light red wine Thursday.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)

(AFP/File) - Golf enthusiasts are seen practicing at a driving range in Seoul. Golf has gained popularity in South Korea, which has several world stars in the sport. But it is still seen in some quarters as a sport for the idle rich and for people seeking to peddle influence.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)

(AFP) - Manila airport workers have been banned from wishing travelers a Merry Christmas, according to local a newspaper. The warning was issued by airport general manager Alfonso Cusi who claimed the polite yuletide greeting was a "not so subtle way of asking for money" from arriving passengers, the Manila Standard Today reported on its front page.(AFP/Jay Directo)

(AFP/File) - Surgeons at work. A bored German banker who faked university diplomas to realise his dream of becoming a surgeon has been jailed for three years, officials said on Wednesday.(AFP/File)

(AFP/File) - Doctors prepare to place a silicon implant during breast enlargement surgery in 2003. Health authorities in Spain Wednesday expressed outrage over a raffle being organised by a nightclub in which the prize is breast enlargement surgery.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)

(Reuters) - A South China tiger known as Cathy, mother of an 11 day-old male, is seen in the Free State province of South Africa, December 4, 2007. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

(AFP/File) - A shop in Taipei. A Taiwanese man with eight "wives" and 32 children said Wednesday he expected to collect 4,500 US dollars in shopping vouchers to become the largest beneficiary of the new scheme(AFP/File/Patrick Lin)

(AFP/File) - A rat in a pipe. Just ahead of the 725th anniversary of the Pied Piper reputedly banishing a plague of rats from Hamelin, there has been an "explosion" in the German town's rodent population, officials said Tuesday.(AFP/File)

(AFP/File) - A Swazi women football team's ambitious target of scoring 150 goals this season inched closer at the weekend after walloping a rival team 33-0 - a rate of one goal nearly every three minutes.(AFP/File/Alberto Pizzoli)

(AFP/OFF) - Even Popeye's stomach would probably have churned at the grisly find made by a 32-year-old mother from Vienna who decided to cook frozen spinach for her family's evening meal, the daily Oesterreich reported Tuesday.(AFP/OFF)

(AFP/File) - Women walk past a building pasted with posters advertising residential and commercial spaces for sale or rent in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian activists have threatened to stage a naked protest over a sudden hike in rental rates for government housing, drawing criticism from Muslim leaders and police Tuesday.(AFP/File/Ahmad Yusni)

(Reuters) - Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, with an altitude of 8,848 meters (29,028 feet), is seen in this aerial view taken from a passenger aircraft flying over Nepal at a height of 9,144 meters (30,000 feet), November 9, 2008. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

(Reuters) - A pakistani man prepares samosas on the first day of Ramadan, in Islamabad July 11, 2002. (Mian Kursheed/Reuters)

(Reuters) - PDSA veterinary nurse Jennie Keen with Tinks, a 13-year-old cat from Gillingham. His current weight of 9.8kg makes him around 96 percent overweight. (Handout/Reuters)

(AFP/Scanpix/File) - Thieves have broken into the Norwegian criminal police's headquarters, Kripos, in Oslo (pictured here), making off with several computers, police have said.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Morten Holm)

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Characters perform on stage at "The Simpsons" Panel during the 2008 Comic Con in San Diego, California, July 2008. "Meh", a word which indicates a lack of interest or enthusiasm, became the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Buckner)

(AFP/File) - File photo shows a meeting of the Australian Parliament in Canberra. Australia is about to get a new entry into national politics -- a party devoted to sex. The brains behind the Australian Sex Party, which will be launched in Melbourne on Thursday, believe that politics has become too stuffy and conservative Down Under.(AFP/File/Andrew Sheargold)

(AFP/HO/File) - An undated photo shows Viagra pills made by Pfizer. An Austrian pumpkin seed oil producer faces possible legal action by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the producer of Viagra, over his "Styriagra" chocolate-coated pumpkin seeds, according to media reports.(AFP/HO/File)

(Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida November 14, 2008. Endeavour carries a crew of seven astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. (David Carlson/Reuters)

(AFP/File) - The moon shadowed by the Earth is seen in 2007 during the start a total eclipse in Mexico City. A US funeral business that specializes in launching cremated human remains into Earth's orbit has begun taking reservations for landing small capsules of ashes on the moon, announced the company's founder.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)

(Reuters) - NASA guests pose for pictures in front of the space shuttle Endeavour at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida November 13, 2008. The shuttle is covered by the protective Rotating Service Structure. Launch of Endeavour on Mission STS-126 to the International Space Station is scheduled for November 14. (Scott Audette/Reuters)

(Reuters) - As NASA prepares to double the number of astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, nothing may do more for crew bonding than a machine being launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Friday. It's a water-recycling device that will process the crew's urine for communal consumption. (Graphics/Reuters)

(Reuters) - Crew members of the space shuttle Endeavour on Mission STS-126 arrive to prepare for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida November 11, 2008. From left are Donald Pettit, Pilot Eric Boe, Mission Commander Chris Ferguson, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Robert Kimbrough, Steve Bowen and Sandra Magnus. The mission to the International Space Station is scheduled for November 14. (Scott Audette/Reuters)

(Reuters) - A woman walks in front of the Acropolis ruins at the sunset in Athens, August 9, 2004. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

(AFP/POOL/File) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seen here on November 12, 2008, allegedly threatened to hang Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili "by the balls" during the August war in Georgia, a report not denied by Putin's spokesman said on Friday.(AFP/POOL/File/Alexey Nikolsky)

(AFP/File) - Condoms on display at a promotional event in India in 2007. A media campaign featuring a mobile phone ringtone that sings "condom condom" has pushed up sale of the contraceptive by 85 million in six months, India's AIDS control body said Friday.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)

(SecondLife) - A woman is to divorce her husband after discovering he was having a virtual affair within the online game "Second Life," newspapers reported Friday.(SecondLife)

(AFP/File) - A cab in Tokyo. A Japanese man depressed after his girlfriend dumped him was arrested for failing to pay for a 500-kilometre (300-mile) taxi ride back to his home town, police said Friday.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)

(Reuters) - Tony Fox, the owner of the White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, in tropical Queensland state, and his wife Lenore pose in this undated handout photo at the resort. (White Cockatoo/Handout IMAGE PIXELATED AT SOURCE/Reuters)

(AFP) - French student Solene Doucet sets the world record for the most kisses received on the cheek in one minute at the Audencia management school in Nantes on November 12, 2008. Doucet was kissed by 108 volunteers. Wannabe record breakers puckered up, cooked up and stripped off across the globe Thursday to celebrate a day of mass attempts to break world records.(AFP/Frank Perry)

(AFP) - French student Valentin Pasquier sets the world record for the most kisses given in one minute -- a total of 94 -- at the Audencia management school in Nantes on November 12, 2008. Wannabe record breakers puckered up, cooked up and stripped off across the globe Thursday to celebrate a day of mass attempts to break world records.(AFP/Frank Perry)

(AFP/GWR-HO) - This handout from Guiness World Records(GWR), shows a world record attempt for the largest gathering of people wearing underpants at St Pancras Station in London. Wannabe record breakers puckered up, cooked up and stripped off across the globe to celebrate a day of mass attempts to break world records Thursday.(AFP/GWR-HO)

(AFP/File) - Stoke City's Irish midfielder Rory Delap, seen here on November 11, 2008, reacted wryly Thursday to suggestions he could represent Ireland in the 2012 Olympic javelin competition.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)

(AFP/Illustration) - A Swedish school that confiscated invitations to an eight-year-old boy's birthday party after learning he had invited all of his classmates except two was chastised by parliament Thursday.(AFP/Illustration)

(AFP/DDP/File) - Pedestrians look at German artist Johan Lorbeer performing his still-life act titled "Tarzan-Standbein" (Tarzan-main pillar) on the facade of the city hall of Chemnitz, Germany, in 2007. Several fire trucks and rescue workers rushed to a German cultural centre in central Cairo Thursday after hearing a man was hanging from a wall, only to find an arts installation by Lorbeer.(AFP/DDP/File/Uwe Meinhold)

(AFP) - French student Solène Doucet sets the world record for the most kisses received on the cheek in one minute at the Audencia management school in Nantes on Movember 12. Doucet was kissed by 108 volunteers.(AFP/Frank Perry)