The new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport is presented at a Volkswagen event, ahead of the Paris Motor Show 2008 in Paris, France, 01 October 2008. The 2008 Paris Motor Show will take place from 04 to 19 October 2008, in Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles in France.  EPA/ULI DECK

A young Palestinian plays with homemade sparklers after breaking their fast in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 23 September 2008. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan during which they observe fast from dawn until dusk  EPA/ALI ALI

Dutch 9-years old Kasper Veldhuijzen with a giant mushroom on 23 September 2008 which he discovered last week with his father Huub in the forest in Eefde in eastern Netherlands, The mushroom, a Bovista gigantea, measures 60 centimetres.  EPA/HUUB VELDHUIJZEN

Traders at the Lehman Brothers desk work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, NYC, USA, 18 September 2008 Wall Street is still nervous that there are more significant financial companies to fall despite the US Federal Reserve and other major global institutions pumping 180 billion dollars into the market to stem the credit crisis. EPA/STPHEN CHERNIN

Ship 'MS Sonnenkoenigin' (lit.: Summer Queen) is being christened with a bottle of champagne attached to a helicopter offshore Friedrichshafen, Germany, 18 September 2008. With a length of barely 70 meters 'Sonnenkoenigin', which is owned by a German enterpriser but cruises under the flag of Austria, is the largest ship to ever have sailed on Lake Constance. Up to 1,000 passengers may be transported on the so-called event ship.  EPA/STEFAN PUCHNER

A single house is left standing on the waterfront near Gilchrist, Texas, USA on 14 September 2008 following the destruction along the Texas coast. As Hurricane Ike slowed to a tropical depression after carving a path of destruction through Texas, rescuers were using everything from dump trucks to boats and helicopters to reach stranded residents. The victims, many of whom had ignored mandatory evacuation orders, were trapped on rooftops or amid debris in unstable houses without electricity or clean water.  EPA/SMILEY N. POOL/ POOL

A currency dealer covers his face at the headquarters of the Korean Exchange Bank in Seoul on 16 September 2008  after the won plunged 51 won to finish the day at 1,160 won against the U.S. dollar. The local currency came under selling pressure after foreign investors dumped local stocks due to jitters arising from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and moved to buy dollars.  EPA/YONHAP

European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists control computer screens showing traces on Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its switch on operation at the Cern's press center on September 10, 2008 near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists fired a first beam of protons around a 27-kilometer tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

They hope to recreate conditions just after the so-called Big Bang. The international group of scientists plan to smash particles together to create, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the Big Bang. (KEYSTONE/AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI/POOL)

An Afghan girl reads the holy Koran, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 September 2008. Muslims all over the world are observing the holy month of Ramadan which prohibits food, drinks, smoke and sex from dawn to dusk. EPA/S. SABAWOON

A Palestinian Muslim boy pauses in the alleyway where he lives, decorated with thousands of colored lights, that leads to the Harim el-Sharif (The Holy Sanctuary), behind, as the faithful are called to prayer at sundown on 10 September 2008, breaking the Muslim holy month of Ramadan daylight fasting period.  EPA/JIM HOLLANDER