NASA's Ares 1-X Flight Test Vehicle was postponed due to high winds and clouds at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 27,2009.The 327-foot-tall Test Vehicle represents the next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system.Launch date has been set for October 28, 2009. UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell

President Barack Obama (2nd-R) presents the Congressional Gold Medal to former Sen. Edward Brooke (R-MA), as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Read (D-NV) watch on, during a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on October 28, 2009. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

President Barack Obama (L) delivers remarks alongside Defense Secretary Robert Gates, before signing the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 in the East Room of the White House in Washington on October 28, 2009. The bill included the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act which expands upon 1969 U.S. federal hate-crime law by extending its scope to protect crimes motivated by a victim's gender, sexual orientation or gender identity. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

Men work to put out fires at the site of a car bomb attack in Peshawar, Pakistan on October 28, 2009. A car bomb exploded at a market in northwestern Pakistan killing at least 100 and wounding over 200 people. UPI/Sajjad Ali Qureshi

An injured man is carried by police following an attack at Bekhtar guesthouse used by United Nations staff, in Kabul on October 28, 2009. Twelve people were killed including six UN staff members. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said it is the first step in their campaign against the upcoming run-off in the presidential elections UPI/Hossein Fatemi

Bill Gates speaks to an audience gathered at the Sidney Harmen Hall in Washington on global health initiatives on October 27, 2009. The graphic displayed behind Gates illustrates in the color red, areas of the world where the transmission of Malaria occurred in 1900. Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke about the Foundation's Living Proof Project, which reports on successful cases of U.S.-funded international health programs. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn

Masked Arab youth prepare to hurl stones at Israeli riot police in Jerusalem's Old City, October 25, 2009. Clashes broke out after Muslim leaders urged Arabs to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem against the "jewish conquest." UPI/Debbie Hill

Afghan university students shout anti-US slogans and hold a banner reading 'No Democracy; We want just Islam!' during a demonstration in Kabul on October 25, 2009. Afghans protested over allegations that Western troops fighting the Taliban had set fire to a copy of the Koran. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi)

First Lady Michelle Obama hula hoops during a Healthy Kids Fair on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on October 21, 2009. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

Afghanistan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah makes a statement at a press conference at his residence in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 21, 2009. Abdullah said that the runoff November 7th election was the only possible scenario amid the political crisis following the first election that showed massive fraud. UPI/Hossein Fatemi