Politicians and children from around the world

United States (US) President Barack Obama tries to evade the wandering fingers of 8-month-old Cooper Wall Wagner as he poses for a picture with his parents, Captain Greg Wagner and Meredith Wagner as Obama met US Marines and their families having lunch at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps base in Hawaii, on Dec 25, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Spain's centre-right People's Party (Partido Popular) leader Mariano Rajoy kisses a baby after a rally in Oviedo, northern Spain on Nov 14, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney returns a baby to his mother in the audience at a campaign rally at Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Florida on Jan 28, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, kisses a baby while campaigning in Tamworth, central England on April 20, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Candidate for Congress Nestor Kirchner holds up a baby as he campaigns in the Greater Buenos Aires' district of Malvinas Argentinas, on June 24, 2009. Kirchner, who preceded his wife President Cristina Fernandez in office, is now running for Congress for the ruling Peronist party in the June 28 mid-term election. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

President Barack Obama bends over so that the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office in this handout photo taken in Washington on May 8, 2009 and later released by the White House. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Mr Brett Ferro, the grandson of Republican House Majority leader Tom DeLay, hits United States President George W. Bush in the nose at the annual White House Summer Picnic on the South Lawn on June 18, 2003. The picnic is an annual White House tradition to host members of Congress and their families. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Right) holds a baby next to presidential candidate for the Ruling Workers Party Dilma Rousseff during a campaign rally in Belo Horizonte on Oct 16, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Presidential candidate for the Ruling Workers Party Dilma Rousseff carries a baby during a campaign rally to celebrate Children's Day in Brasilia, on Oct 12, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Left) hugs a child at his arrival to the Djenan El Mitak Hotel to meet businessmen in Algiers on Aug 06, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard holds a baby after voting at her electorate in Melbourne on Aug 21, 2010. Australians voted on Saturday in the closest election in decades with voters divided on whether to give Labor a second term or opt for conservative rule, raising a real prospect of a minority government unpopular with investors. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Baroness Thatcher meets Jonathan Weaver, a pupil at Whitefield School in Walthamstow, north London, Britain's biggest centre for children with severe learning difficulties, during her visit while election campaigning on April 14. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

United States Democratic presidential candidate, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, lifts five-month-old Mia Carlson from Boston, after a town hall meeting with veterans in Manchester, New Hampshire on Jan 23, 2004. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

United States President George W. Bush hands back a crying baby that was handed to him from the crowd as he arrived for an outdoor dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Trinwillershagen, Germany, on July 13, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh holds a baby in front of his house in Shati refugee camp in Gaza on Feb 17, 2006. The new Palestinian parliament is to be sworn in on Saturday and President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask the militant Islamist group Hamas to form a government after its election victory. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Left) poses for a photo with a baby during an official visit outside the Royal Palace in Oslo on Sept 13, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Centre), kisses a baby while touring Qualcomm Stadium the site of the largest evacuation center in San Diego County for evacuees of the wildfires with Mr Michael Chertoff (Right) Secretary of Homeland Security in San Diego, California on Oct 23, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

United States Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks with a young girl during a campaign stop at the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor in Le Mars, Iowa on Dec 28, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika kisses a baby during his official visit to the southern city of Tamanrasset on Jan 7, 2008. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses with one-year old girl Madita during the opening of the "Wellcome center" in Berlin on April 7, 2008. The centre is aimed to provide support for young families. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

United States Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has his cheek touched by 7-month-old Aedyn Buchanan as he visits diners at Stephanie's II homestyle restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 5, 2008. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (Centre) holds a baby as he greets a crowd of onlookers during a visit at Mur-de-Barrez, Center France, on July 1, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao greets a boy during a welcoming ceremony at Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's official residence in Tokyo on May 31, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff holds a crying baby at his campaign headquarters in Toronto, on April 8, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS