Dec. 4, 2009
The Public Observer offers a look at upcoming news and presents a photo roundup of recent images by The Associated Press.
OBAMA UNVEILS JOBS PLAN
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will outline his ideas for a new jobs bills during a speech in Washington. He'll likely endorse the expansion of a program that gives people cash incentives to improve their homes with energy-saving materials. He's also looking at providing more incentives for small businesses to hire new employees and more spending on infrastructure.
COPENHAGEN ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT
World leaders will gather for an international climate summit in Copenhagen from Dec. 7 to 18 in hopes of reaching agreements to curb global warming. Obama on Friday changed the timing of his visit to Copenhagen and instead will be at the summit on Dec. 18, a crucial period when more world leaders will be in attendance. The United States, India and China have all for the first time put specific proposals on the table to limit carbon emissions that lead to global warming. It's unlikely that the world's leaders will reach a legally binding agreement, but they can still gain commitments from the world's top emitters of carbon dioxide and financing for developing countries.
OBAMA COLLECTS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
President Obama will travel to Oslo, Norway, where he will accept his Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, an award given for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." As an example, Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed during a Moscow summit in July to cut the number of nuclear warheads possessed by each country to between 1,500 and 1,675 within seven years as part of a broad new arms control treaty. The 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the two countries expired Friday but the United States and Russia said they would continue to honor its provisions while working on a new arms control treaty.
PHOTO ROUNDUP
Here's a look at recent photographs provided by The Associated Press.
A man dressed as Santa Claus receives his H1N1 flu vaccine during a dress rehearsal Thursday before his weekend performance in Budapest, Hungary. The H1N1 flu has officially reached epidemic proportions in Hungary with 16 people reported to have died from the virus and some 300 others hospitalized. The Hungarian government has issued recommendations for every Santa Claus to get vaccinated before they distribute presents to children at Christmas, or attend other meetings with children. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
A child poses for a photo in front of a Christmas decoration displayed Wednesday outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
The red skyline over Victoria, Texas, is shown Wednesday. (AP Photo/Victoria Advocate, Frank Tilley)
A double-banked, steam hauled, Brockenbahn train arrives Thursday at the 3,743-feet high Brocken mountain station, in eastern Germany. The Brockenbahn runs from Drei Annen Hohne where it joins the Harzquerbahn, via Schierke and the Bode River valley to the summit of the Brocken, the highest mountain of the Harz in the Harz National Park. During the Cold War era the Brockenbahn was in use to supply a garrison at the summit and the area was off-limits to non service personnel. The line was reopened for the public in 1991 and the steam trains have become popular for thousands of tourists every year. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)
Sarah Palin, left, waves to supporters as she holds her son Trig Palin as she arrives Tuesday for a booking signing to autograph copies of her book "Going Rogue" at a Costco in Tempe, Ariz. Hundreds of Palin supporters showed up to buy her book and meet the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
This photo provided by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday shows a sport utility vehicle after it crashed into Stepping Stones Child Care in Indianapolis. Two robbery suspects fleeing police lost control of their sport utility vehicle and crashed into a day care center Thursday, injuring four children and an employee in a shower of bricks and other debris, police said. (AP Photo/Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz poses for the photographers Thursday prior to the world premiere of her latest film 'Nine' in central London. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke holds up the name South Africa as Actress Charlize Theron reacts Friday during the 2010 World Cup draw in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on his renomination. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
A sculpture by artist Evan Gruzis of New York titled Monument to Fashion is shown Wednesday on display by the Deitch Projects during the Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
A cow crosses a flooded farm Thursday in Ibicuy, northeastern Argentina. Thousands of people affected by floods, caused by heavy rainfall and the overflowing of the Uruguay river, were evacuated. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
United States Marine Cpl. Joseph Kelly, of Va., from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion walks past Afghan youths during a patrol Friday near Khan Nashin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
In this image taken Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009, horses' shadows flicker across illuminated panels in "Darshan," the innovative new show by Bartabas, the French equestrian master who goes by only one name. "Darshan," which puts the horses on the outside of the ring and the spectators on the inside, premiers on Friday at Bartabas' theater in the Paris suburb of Fort d'Aubervilliers. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
--Paul Chavez, Clear365 News Editor
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