Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Leaders in Hats

US President George W. Bush dons a cowboy hat as he speaks at the annual meeting of the cattle industry at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver February 8, 2002.





Former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wears a traditional Mysore Peta (turban) during his 75th birthday celebrations in Bangalore October 15, 2006. REUTERS/Jagadeesh Nv (INDIA)




Philippines' President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sports a cap during the flag-off ceremony of the first ASEAN-India Car Rally in Vientiane, Laos, November 30, 2004. REUTERS/Adrees Latif





Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wears a conductor's cap while riding in the locomotive of the renovated Trem da Vale (Train of the Valley), during the inauguration of the restorated train line that joins the World Heritage cities of Ouro Preto and Mariana, in the Ouro Preto station of Minas Gerais State May 5, 2006. REUTERS/Washington Alves





Russia's President Vladimir Putin fishes in the Yenisei River in Siberia as he makes a tour together with Prince Albert II of Monaco, August 13, 2007. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/KREMLIN (RUSSIA)




US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wears a rain cover during the speech of US President George W. Bush at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, near the southern Dutch city of Maastricht, where around 8,000 U.S. dead from WorldWar II are buried, May, 8, 2005. REUTERS/Michael Kooren JFL/MSF





Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, wearing an Australian outback stockman's raincoat and holding a felt hat, prepares for a family photo held during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders summit at the Sydney Opera House September 8, 2007. REUTERS/Will Burgess (AUSTRALIA)




Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (R) and his Equatorial Guinea counterpart Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo arrive for the opening of the Harare Agricultural Show, August 31, 2007. President Robert Mugabe imposed a law on Zimbabwean businesses banning them from raising wages to keep pace with the world's highest inflation. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo (ZIMBABWE)




Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko receives a sailor's hat and a miniature ship's wheel at a ceremony in Warsaw, April 11, 2005. Yushchenko floated a plan to build an oil refinery near the Polish border as an alternative to extending a pipeline to carry Caspian crude to Poland and the European Union. REUTERS/Katarina Stoltz





Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (foreground) watches the unloading of nuclear fuel from the third unit of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station in the plant's control centre, December 8, 2005. Ukraine closed the Chernobyl plant, the site of theworld's worst civil nuclear accident, in December 2000. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Pictures of the Month December 2005





Former South African President Nelson Mandela wears a cap presented by the cast of the Oscar winning "Tsotsi" at his home in Cape Town March 16, 2006. "Tsotsi" won for Best Foreign Film and is the first South African film to receive the award. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings




Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wears a Mexican hat during a rally in Caracas in this November 19, 2005 file photo. Mexican congress on March 22, 2006 said they will investigate possible support of Chavez's government into the campaign of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico front runner presidential candidate for Mexico's leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution. REUTERS/Howard Yanes/Files




Bolivian President Evo Morales, wearing a necklace made with coca leaves, arranges his hat during a visit to coca growers in Caranavi, some 170 km (106 miles) northeast of La Paz, May 20, 2006. Morales visited Caranavi to start on a program of coca plants eradication. REUTERS/Jose Luis Quintana




Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva wears a hat made with a Chilean flag during a visit to Santiago's neigborhood, Joao Goulart, August 24, 2004. REUTERS/Lukas Coch REUTERS AS/LSD

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