CAPTAIN TAREK DREAM: Memories of 2008

A woman held a child as she and a group of internally displaced people waited for food aid given out by the Red Cross near a camp in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

Paraguayan police dispersed people who marched in protest against the country’s attorney general Wednesday. The government sent dozens of officers Friday to poor areas where peasant farmers demanding land redistribution have threatened to invade Brazilian-owned ranches. President Fernando Lugo has vowed to make land reform a top priority. (Reuters/Diario Ultima Hora)

Blindfolded Palestinian women sat outside an Israeli army base after troops detained them Wednesday in a Gaza Strip military operation. Gaza militants pounded southern Israel with dozens of rockets to avenge raids that left six militants dead. The fighting comes after a truce. (Yehuda Lahiani/Associated Press)

A monk adjusted his robe at the monastery of Wangdue Phodrang near Thimpu, Bhutan, Wednesday. Bhutan is preparing for the coronation of its fifth king, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)

Army Sgt. Kyle Whalen, 22, of Plover, Wis., playfully tapped his helmet with a boy’s donated toy football helmet during a visit to a Mosul, Iraq, school Wednesday. (Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press)

A laborer worked at a Ranikhamar, India, rice mill Wednesday. India is likely to produce up to 100 million tons of rice from the upcoming harvest, officials said. (Jayanta Dey/Reuters)

Officials from the U.S., Japan, New Zealand, China, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and other countries posed in Peruvian attire Wednesday at the 15th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, which was held in Trujillo, Peru. The meeting came as calls grow for countries like China to take on a bigger role in the world’s international financial system, which is racked by crisis. (Ernesto Enavides/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Villagers carried a motorcycle in a flooded village in Palopo, Indonesia, Wednesday. Nearly 1,000 families have been affected by floods following heavy rains on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, with several casualties and damage to homes, an official said Wednesday. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

Residents paddled improvised boats in the flooded compound of a residence in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday. More than 40,000 people were evacuated from inundated areas of Hanoi on Wednesday and some residents who stayed behind had to cope with floating garbage, as they waited for flooding to recede even though rains eased. (Kham/Reuters)

Jafar Shodiq, the brother of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron, held a picture of his brothers and Imam Samudra during a protest against their planned execution Wednesday in Tenggulun, Indonesia. The bombers are awaiting death by firing squad on the prison island of Nusakambangan for their part in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people. (Luis Enrique Ascui/Getty Images)

An anti-China activist was injured while scuffling with the police during a protest against Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, at the Regent Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

Firefighters stood around the site of a plane crash in Mexico City Tuesday. Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino was in a small plane that crashed into rush hour Mexico City traffic Tuesday, killing six people. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi met in a tent in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday. (Olexander Prokopenko, Pool/Associated Press)

A woman placed a poppy cross in the Field of Remembrance in front of Westminster Abbey Wednesday in London. The Remembrance crosses are placed by ex-servicemen and women as well as the general public to pay tribute to fallen soldiers. The Duke of Edinburgh will lay a wreath to officially open the Field of Remembrance on Thursday morning. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Traditional dancers celebrated U.S. President-elect Sen. Barack Obama’s victory in the Nyangoma Kogelo village, 267 miles west of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, on Wednesday. Kenyans in Sen. Obama’s ancestral homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday, as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the first black U.S. President. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

President-elect Obama, along with wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia, second right, waved during his election night victory rally in Chicago Tuesday. Sen. Obama captured the White House after an extraordinary two-year campaign. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain talked on this cell phone on the balcony of his condominium before going to vote early Tuesday in Phoenix. Sen. McCain had planned two final campaign stops in Colorado and New Mexico.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Children pleaded with aid workers for coupons that would allow them to receive high-energy biscuits at a clinic of the International Medical Corps in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo, Tuesday.(Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

Riot police and a plain-clothed colleague detained one of the nationalists attempting to hold a Russian March marking National Unity Day in the Russian capital Moscow, Tuesday. Moscow police say they have detained more than 200 people.(Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press)

Bedouin children rode their camels during a camel race in Ain Musa, near the town of Suez , 88 miles northwest of Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday.(Amr Dalsh/Reuters)

A woman offered prayers on Chhat festival, dedicated to the worship of the Sun God and celebrated largely in northern India, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday.(Rajanish Kakade/Associated Press)

Marion Johns, wearing an Obama button, walked by an American flag in central Kisumu, Kenya, Tuesday. Sen. Barack Obama is popular in Kenya and particularly in Kisumu, the town in Nyanza Province where his father was born and which is populated mainly by members of the Luo ethnic group.(Riccardo Gangale/Associated Press)

Palestinian gunmen from the radical Palestine Liberation Front watched U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speak on a television Tuesday. A poster of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hung on the wall at their base in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.(Mohammed Zaatari/Associated Press)

Palestinian militants from the Popular Resistant Committee stepped on a U.S. flag during a press conference in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The PRS said today that they hope the new U.S. president will help bring a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.(Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

A Sudanese journalist protested against censorship in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday. More than 150 Sudanese journalists and support staff on Tuesday started a 24-hour hunger strike to protest against censorship by state security services, media executives said.(Mohamed Nureldin/Reuters)

A protester against Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, lay injured on the ground at the Ambassador Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday.(Nicky Loh/Reuters)

Israeli Oded Davidov discussed the American elections with his hairdresser Reuven Reuven as he read the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Israel Today, which carried the headline “America Chooses,” Tuesday in Tel Aviv. Israeli media are devoting much of their coverage to the U.S. presidential race.(David Silverman/Getty Images)

Supporters of a Pakistani religious student group, Islami Jamiat Tulba, shouted slogans during a rally against U.S. missile strikes in the country’s tribal areas, Tuesday, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The next U.S. president must halt missile strikes on insurgent targets in northwest Pakistan or risk failure in its efforts to end militancy in the Muslim country, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warned Tuesday.(Anjum Naveed/Associated Press)

Devotees worshiped the Hindu Sun god during the religious festival of Chhat Puja in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on Tuesday. Hindu devotees fast all day for the betterment of their family and society during the festival.(Ajay Verma/Reuters)

Refugees lined up to receive high-energy biscuits at a clinic of the International Medical Corps, in Kibati, north of Goma, in eastern Congo, Tuesday.(Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

A homeless man rested inside a water pipe in suburban Manila, Philippines, Tuesday. Large numbers of Filipinos have migrated to the bustling capital, Manila, in search of jobs and a better life in recent years, but many have failed to find any and ended up homeless or in shantytowns, where health problems and a lack of basic needs like water are a key concern.(Aaron Favila/Associated Press)

Pictures of Hungarian martyrs were seen through a hole in a revolutionary national flag in the cemetery in Budapest Tuesday. Russian tanks crushed Hungary’s uprising against communist rule 52 years ago today.(Karoly Arvai/Reuters)

Children played in a puddle of water caused by a broken water pipe along a street in Manila, Philippines, Tuesday.(Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)

Police officials surveyed the site of a car bomb that exploded near an outdoor meeting of village chiefs in southern Thailand’s Narathiwat province Tuesday. A car bomb and a second device hidden in a motorcycle 100 meters away exploded two minutes apart, wounding 73 people.(Surapan Boonthanom/Reuters )

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, center, arrived with the director general of Dubai’s International Financial Center, Omar bin Suleiman, right, to address the Young Arab Leaders forum in Dubai on Tuesday. Mr. Brown, a former finance minister, said he believed Gulf states would announce extra money for an IMF bailout fund at this month’s G20 summit in Washington, D.C. on the world financial crisis.(Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain waved to a crowd at a midnight campaign rally in Prescott, Ariz., Tuesday.(Brian Snyder/Reuters)

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, voted at the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School in Chicago Tuesday.(Jason Reed/Reuters)

A voter’s hand was seen through a crack in the curtain of a voting booth in New York Tuesday.(Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
A woman rode her bicycle through a flooded street in Hanoi Monday after floods triggered by torrential rains in northern and central Vietnam killed at least 65 people. Vietnamese authorities warned of cholera and dengue fever outbreaks. About 34 people were killed in southwestern China. (Kham/Reuters)

Protesters clashed with riot police in the streets of Vichy, France, Monday during a demonstration against a gathering of 27 European Union ministers who were discussing the integration of ethnic minorities. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Troy Hoskinson held his 2-year-old daughter during an almost three-hour wait to cast his presidential ballot Monday in Newark, Ohio. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Diana Levine, second right, and her attorney spoke to reporters as they left the Supreme Court Monday. The Bush administration and a drug maker urged the court to throw out a multimillion dollar verdict to the Vermont musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection to relieve nausea. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sat in a tent pitched in a Kremlin garden Saturday. The countries are negotiating a deal under which Moscow would build nuclear research reactors for the North African state and supply fuel. (Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti via Reuters)

U.S. Cardinal John Patrick Foley collected his thoughts during a Mass Monday inside Saint Peter’s Basilica celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for recently deceased cardinals and bishops. (Pier Paolo Cito/Associated Press)

A man in a ski mask waved an American flag and a handgun, which officers later discovered was unloaded, on a major California freeway overpass. The roadway was closed for about three hours before the man surrendered. (Rafael Maldonado/News-Press via Associated Press)

Villagers walked home from tending their crops after a heavy rain in Lamongan, East Java, Indonesia, Monday. (Dita Alangkara/Associated Press)

Construction workers installed parts of a controversial Israeli barrier Monday at the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

A Palestinian boy held his arms up after lifting his shirt during an Israeli military operation Monday in the Al-Farah refugee camp near Jenin, West Bank. The Israeli army carries out such raids in search of wanted militants. (Mohammed Ballas/Associated Press)

Kashmir Muslims showed their support of pro-India Kashmiri leader and president of the National Conference party Omar Abdulla (unseen); Mr. Abdulla just filed his nomination papers. The troubled Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir will vote for a new state government starting Nov. 17. The area has been under government rule since the July collapse of state government. (Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency)

Bus passengers waited in traffic in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday. Many people expect layoffs and rising prices next year in Thailand. (David Longstreath/Associated Press)

Democratic Progressive Party supporters shouted and held banners as they attended the first of a three day sit-in protest in Taiwan against China. China’s top negotiator is on the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own to talk trade and transit. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)

Pakistani lawyers and supporters of opposition political parties shouted slogans Monday for the restoration of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry as lawyers across the country observed the first anniversary of emergency rule by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. (Rehan Khan/European Pressphoto Agency)

A souvenir shop employee adjusted a banner featuring Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama Monday in Obama, Japan. The city by the same name is going crazy for the candidate. (Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)

Sister and brother Tae and Kaleb Llewellyn dressed as Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain Sunday for an Owensville, Ohio, campaign event. (David Kohl/Associated Press)

Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, attended a Tampa, Fla., campaign rally Monday. Sen. McCain plans to visit seven states in an effort to win Election-Day votes. (Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Bruce Springsteen stood on a stage with Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their two children during a Columbus, Ohio, rally Sunday. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
Zambian election observers looked on as results were announced at the election center in Lusaka, Zambia, on Friday. Commission head Florence Mumba said results from 19 of 150 constituencies have been counted from Thursday’s vote to replace President Levy Mwanawasa, who died in August.(Themba Hadebe/Associated Press)

A street vendor sold McCain, Obama and Palin condoms in New York’s Times Square on Friday.(Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Fans cheered as a flatbed carrying members of the Philadelphia Phillies headed south down Broad Street during a parade in downtown Philadelphia on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of spectators packed downtown for the parade celebrating the Phillies World Series victory against the Tampa Bay Rays.(Jacqueline Larma/Pool/Reuters)

Men sat and stood on top of a wall at a USAID help center next to a refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday. The U.N. said today that it had credible reports of Congolese rebels looting and burning refugee camps, sparking a new exodus of 50,000 refugees in a widening humanitarian crisis in the country.(Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Residents in the Elizabeth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., looked at the Great Pumpkin wall made up of jack-o-lanterns and an Obama sign Wednesday. This is the fifth year that the community has erected the wall with a political-Halloween theme.(Byron Baldwin/Associated Press)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain saluted a crowd at a rally at Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio, Thursday.(Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama shook hands at a rally at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., Thursday.(Alex Brandon/Associated Press)

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke at a rally at Bowman Field in Williamsport, Pa., Thursday.(Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise)

Supporters of Sen. McCain listened to him speak at Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio, Thursday.(David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)

Supporters of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burned symbolic American flags as they demonstrated against the proposed security pact between Iraq and the U.S., in Baghdad’s Shiite stronghold of Sadr City last Friday.(Karim Kadim/Associated Press)

Palestinian and international activists stood amid tear gas during a demonstration against Israel’s separation barrier in Bilin, near Ramllah, in the West Bank Friday. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad warned earlier this week that peacemaking was “teetering,” partly because of the barrier.(Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

Displaced people walked on the road Friday near Kibati, just north of Goma, in eastern Congo. Thousands of war-weary refugees returned to the the road Friday, taking advantage of a cease-fire to try to reach home beyond the front lines of this week’s battles in eastern Congo.(Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk, center, tried to speak as deputies of Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc blocked a platform during debates on anti-crisis measures in Kiev on Friday. A package of legislation demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release an emergency loan worth $16.5 billion is in the second of two readings.(Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

An investor in financial products related to failed U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers shouted slogans during a protest outside a local Bank in Hong Kong Friday. Several Hong Kong investors in financial products linked to Lehman Brothers have scuffled with security guards at a local bank, as some 200 people protested in the territory’s central financial district at the offices of different banks that sold the products.(Vincent Yu/Associated Press)

A worker walked past chicken eggs stored at a major eggs production factory in suburban Beijing Friday. Three more Chinese brands of eggs containing melamine were identified and a local government acknowledged that officials knew about the contamination for a month before it was publicly disclosed.(Andy Wong/Associated Press)

Tourists treked on the Perito Moreno Glacier at the Los Glaciares National Park in the Patagonia region in southern Argentina, on Thursday. The park was declared by the UNESCO as a Natural World Heritage Site.(Eduardo Di Baia/Associated Press)

A panda received a physical examination at a hospital in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, on Thursday. The 20-year-old panda, who is from the quake-hit Sichuan province, received a dental operation.(Reuters/China Daily)
A blindfolded Palestinian student sat next to an Israeli soldier after he and others were arrested at the Palestine Technical College near Hebron, in the West Bank, Thursday. The students were arrested for throwing stones at Israeli civilian cars in the area, Israeli army sources said.(Nasser Shiyoukhi/Associated Press)

Former casualties of war in El Salvador protested against the government near the convention center of the annual Ibero-American Summit in the capital San Salvador Thursday.(Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters )

Early voters waited to cast their ballots Thursday in the general election at the Los Angeles County Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk office, in Norwalk, Calif.(Ric Francis/Associated Press)

Baker Julien Wagner put two loaves of bread into an oven with stencils of presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain Thursday at a bakery in Alameda, Calif.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

A donkey with Israeli license plates attached to his back and front was tied to a tree in the West Bank town of Dahariya Thursday. No reason was given for why the license plates were on the donkey.(Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)

A Philadelphia Phillies fan celebrated on an overturned vehicle near Citizens Bank Park in South Philadlephia after the Phillies won the World Series Wednesday. The Phillies defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in five games.(Jim MacMillan/Associated Press)

Belgium’s Guy Smet led the breakaways during the seventh stage of the 22nd Tour du Faso cycling race between Yako and Ziniare, Burkina Faso, on Thursday. The Tour du Faso represents the major cycling meeting in the riding calendar on the African continent.(Christophe Ena/Associated Press)

President Bush joked with FBI graduate T.A. Staderman II, who received the physical training award, Thursday, during a graduation ceremony for FBI Special Agents in Quantico, Va.(Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

Reggie Love, Sen. Barack Obama’s special assistant, prepared to catch a pumpkin thrown to him by Obama’s campaign trip director Marvin Nicholson, as they boarded Obama’s campaign plane in Sarasota, Fla. on Thursday. Sen. Obama, who campaigned in Florida, Virginia and Missouri Thursday visited a pumpkin patch and bought pumpkins on the eve of Halloween.(Jason Reed/Reuters )

Thousands of antigovernment protesters marched down a busy street blocking traffic and asking for the extradition of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Thursday in Bangkok. The rally came after a bomb injured ten people, reported to be volunteer security guards, outside the government house compound where the People’s Alliance For Democracy have been camped out since late August. The incident heightened fears that the ongoing political tensions were getting worse between the two factions. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Hundreds of thousands of teachers, students and parents gathered in Piazza del Popolo in Rome Thursday to protest conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s multi-billion-euro education cuts. The Senate on Wednesday approved cuts of more than nine billion euros ($11.6 billion) in education spending with the loss of 130,000 jobs in primary schools. The reforms include a return to the practice of having only one teacher per primary school class and cutting the amount of teaching time starting in the 2009-10 academic year.(Filipo Monteforte/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Syrian students shouted slogans against the U.S. during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday. Thousands of Syrians held a government-backed demonstration to protest against a U.S. military raid in the east of the country that has put a further strain on U.S.-Syrian ties. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters)

An Iraqi policeman stood guard as passengers walked at al-Alawi railway station in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. The Iraqi Railways providing urban service inside Baghdad launched for the first time after the U.S.-led invasion — which officials said indicates security has improved. Transport Minister Amir Abdul-Jabar said the service will relieve traffic jams in the Iraqi capital. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)

A Pakistani man carried his belongings from the debris of his house, which was destroyed in an earthquake in Ziarat, 81 miles south of Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday. Rescue workers searched Thursday through the rubble of villages destroyed by the powerful earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that killed more than 200 people. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)

Congolese displaced people walked past a U.N. armored vehicle, which stood outside their headquarters in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday. The governor of Goma, Julien Mpaluku, acknowledged Wednesday that panic was spreading, but stressed that U.N. peacekeepers were still in charge and rebels had not yet entered the city. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

People carried a seriously wounded man near a blast site in Gauhati, India, Thursday.Police said at least 61 people were killed and dozens wounded as bombs exploded across India’s northeastern state of Assam. (Anupam Nath/Associated Press)

A man waved the Palestinian flag atop a destroyed house during a visit of international activists in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. A boat carrying international activists, including a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, docked in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after sailing from Cyprus despite an Israeli naval blockade on the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

An elderly Zambian woman cast her vote at a school in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday. Zambians are electing a replacement for their president who died in office. (Themba Hadebe/Associated Press)

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso spoke during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo on Thursday. The prime minister unveiled Japan’s second economic package in about two months that includes spending worth 5 trillion yen ($50.8 billion) as the global credit crisis pushes the world’s No. 2 economy into a recession. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)

U.S. Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama embraced former President Bill Clinton Wednesday after he was introduced at a campaign rally in Kissimmee, Fla., marking the first time they have campaigned together. (Kevin Kolczynski/Reuters)

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke at a rally in front of Ross County Courthouse in Chillicothe, Ohio, Wednesday. (Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press)

An image taken by Hubble Space telescope and released on Thursday by European Space Agency showed a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147, photographed on October 27-28, 2008. Arp 147 lies in the constellation of Cetus, more than 400 million light-years away from Earth. (LIVIO/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Taiwan’s military fired a cannon during a live-fire exercise Wednesday on the island of Kinmen, less than two miles off the coast of China. The exercise comes days before a visit from China’s most senior level envoy. (Associated Press)

Emmett Curran posed with his prescription medication at his Lynn, Mass., apartment Tuesday. After 10 years of taking the cholesterol medicine Lipitor, which has no low-cost generic equivalent, Curran’s new insurer under Medicare refused to cover it. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Associated Press)

Bulgarian riot police officers clashed with farmers during a protest Wednesday in Sofia. Four Bulgarian farmers were arrested as some 300 demonstrators blocked major streets and tried to storm government buildings in protests over farming subsidies, the interior ministry said. (Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Homeowners gathered on the steps of Fannie Mae Wednesday in Washington in a bid to open dialogue with the lender about their home loans. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)

Iraqi children watched as a U.S. soldier searched a house for weapons Wednesday in Baqouba, where bombs killed a 5-year-old girl. Meanwhile, Iraq wants a security agreement with the U.S. to include a clear ban on U.S. troops using Iraqi territory to attack Iraq’s neighbors. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

Artisans cleansed their tools with milk on Vishwakarma Day in Amritsar, India, Wednesday. Thousands of devotees are holding special prayers to help them enhance their skills. Vishwakarma is the deity of all those who are engaged in productive enterprises. (Narinder Nanu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” signed autographs after appearing at a rally with Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Bowling Green, Ohio, Wednesday. (Amy Sancetta/Associated Press)

Uruguayan United Nations soldiers played with Congolese children as they deployed to an observation post near the village of Kibati Wednesday. The U.N. peacekeeping force is stretched to the limit there as it tries to subdue a rebel uprising. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

Riot police awaited orders to intervene during a protest Wednesday as lawmakers voted on Italy education reforms in Rome. Students hurled chairs in Rome’s Piazza Navona and protested noisily in various cities while the lawmakers gave final approval to bitterly contested school reforms, which include flunking pupils for bad conduct. (Max Rossi/Reuters)

Palestinians carried the body of a 68-year-old shepherd, who Israeli troops killed Wednesday in the West Bank. Mourners said the victim was carrying a shotgun for protection, but the Israeli army claimed that the man opened fire on soldiers. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)

A man took his lunch break Wednesday in Beijing next to last year’s financial newspaper forecast of Chinese stock markets. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday urged China and oil-rich Gulf states to fund the bulk of a major increase in the International Monetary Fund’s bailout pot. (Andy Wong/Associated Press)

Turkish students carried a portrait Wednesday of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern-day Turkey, during a parade marking the 85th anniversary of Republic Day. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

A villager walked though the debris of his Ziarat, Pakistan, house damaged Wednesday by a strong and deadly earthquake. (Arshad Butt/Associated Press)

An Iraqi soldier stood guard at an armed forces parade Wednesday as the U.S. Army formally handed over the Shiite province of Wasit. Commanders had previously said that Iranian groups used the area to smuggle weapons. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy McCain, boarded their campaign plane Tuesday in Fayetteville, N.C. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama was seen silhouetted while he spoke at a Norfolk, Va., rally Tuesday. The candidate’s national, 30-minute infomercial airs Wednesday night. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

Lightning illuminated the sky above Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday during a thunderstorm. (Jamal Saidi/Reuters)
A boy lighted candles Monday in Allahabad, India, on the eve of Diwali, a major Hindu festival of lights. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)

A schoolgirl threw flowers into the sea Tuesday in Havana in homage to Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos, who disappeared at sea Oct. 28, 1959, while flying his small plane during a mission for Fidel Castro. (Adalberto Roque/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Students demonstrated Tuesday in front of the Italian Senate in Rome during a protest against the government’s education reform plans. Proposals include deep budget cuts, which could bring about strikes. (Vincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A worker cleared a ballot-sorter jam Tuesday at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana, Calif., as election day nears. (Chris Carlson/Associated Press)

Horses charged from the starting gate during a race as snow fell Tuesday at Philadelphia Park in Bensalem, Pa. (Barbara Weidl/Equi-Photo via Associated Press)

Workers began construction of the presidential inaugural viewing stands in front of the White House Tuesday. The Nov. 4 election will see either Republican Sen. John McCain or Democratic Sen. Barack Obama as the 44th president come Jan. 20. (Karen Bleier/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A worker rode his tricycle in front of a power plant on the outskirts of Beijing Tuesday. China wants rich countries to commit 1 percent of their economic worth to help poor nations fight global warming, and says it will push to spread “green” technology. (Reinhard Krause/Reuters)

A stock broker spoke on his cellphone at Germany’s stock exchange in Frankfurt Tuesday. Volkswagen’s shares spiked 93.27% in early morning trading on details from Porsche on how it plans to take over the company. (Martin Oeser/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Mustanseriyah University students waved the Iraqi national flag as they demonstrated Tuesday against a U.S.-Iraq deal that will decide how long foreign forces will stay in the country. The Iraqi Cabinet on Tuesday authorized Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to reopen talks with the U.S. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

An Iraqi soldier secured a Baghdad street in the al-Jihad neighborhood where a car bomb exploded Tuesday, killing at least three people. In Mosul, insurgents killed at least nine people, including four police officers. (Ali Yussef/Agence-France-Presse/Getty Images)

A U.S. soldier of Duke Task Force patrolled near the Pakistan border in Kunar province, Afghanistan, Tuesday. In a major policy shift, the U.S. is considering talks with the Taliban, which may reverse a downward spiral in neighboring Pakistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)

People threw stones at a United Nations peacekeeping tank in Kibati, Congo, Tuesday to vent their frustrations about the U.N.’s failure to halt a rebellion that has left thousands homeless. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

Children watched cyclists ride during the fifth stage of the 22nd Tour du Faso Tuesday. The tour is Africa’s major cycling event. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press)

A Palestinian man covered in a blanket walked on a flooded street Tuesday after heavy rain in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

Kuwaitis expressed their views Tuesday at a parliamentary session after the government approved a bill to guarantee local bank deposits amid investor jitters. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have enacted similar measures. (Yasser al-Zayyat/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

An undated MySpace picture shows Daniel Cowart holding a weapon. Mr. Cowart is among two white supremacists who were arrested in Tennessee for threatening to kill Sen. Barack Obama and other black people. (Ho/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama shook hands with supporters Monday at a Pittsburgh rally amid a sea of Secret Service members. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)

Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain shared a laugh at a Hershey, Pa., campaign stop Tuesday. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Thousands of people fled fighting near Kibumba, Congo, Monday as Tutsi rebels advanced toward Goma. Also Monday, President Laurent Kabila shook up his cabinet and named a new government of “combat and reconstruction.” The move comes after fighters overran an army base Sunday, defying a U.N. Security Council call for them to lay down their arms. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press )

Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik, left, won game 10 against world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, of India, Monday in Bonn, Germany, to keep their title match going. Mr. Kramnik now trails 6-4 in the 12-game match and must win the next two games to force a playoff. (DPA/Landov)

Two women offered up Christian and Muslim prayers for Oscar-winning actress/singer Jennifer Hudson outside her family’s Chicago home Monday. Also Monday, an FBI official said that a body found in an SUV is believed to be that of Ms. Hudson’s missing 7-year-old nephew. Her mother and brother were found shot to death in their home. (Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press)

Cuba’s Dayron Robles, winner of the 110-meter hurdle at the Beijing Olympic Games, attended a news conference in Havana Monday to demand the end of U.S. economic sancations against Cuba. (Javier Galeano/Associated Press)

Traders worked the floor of the New York Merchantile Exchange Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended with a 203.18-point loss, off 2.4%, in a disappointing end to a session that had included triple-digit intraday gains. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

An Israeli protester sat blindfolded in a cage during a demonstration Monday calling for the release of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Schalit, held captive for more than two years by Palestinian militants in Gaza. Behind the cage, Israeli officials were pictured with their eyes blacked-out to the injustice. (Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press)

Relatives mourned loved ones who were apparently killed Sunday in an airstrike on the village of Al-Sukkiraya, on the Syria-Iraq border. Damascus officials said eight people were killed. A U.S. military official said special forces conducted the raid to target al Qaeda-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria. (Ramzi Haidar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A car bomb killed two people in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday. Elsewhere, a suicide attacker demolished a checkpoint, injuring eight police officers and troops. Meanwhile, Pakistani officials said missiles from a pilotless U.S. drone killed at least eight people, including a low-level Taliban commander. (Arshad Butt/Associated Press)

Protesters displayed a banner Monday in Manila, Philippines, at the Global Forum on Migration and Development meeting there. Demonstrators urged their government to respect their labor rights as undocumented migrant workers arrive. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

South Korean activists campaigning for human rights in North Korea released 100,000 plastic, anti-Pyongyang leaflets Monday near Seoul. The leaflets bore the names of South Koreans believed to be held in the North. (Lee Jong-kun/Yonhap/Reuters)

Former Colombian lawmaker Oscar Lizcano, who is reportedly in poor health, gave a thumbs-up sign Sunday after Colombian soldiers freed him with the help of a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia deserter. FARC rebels are accused of kidnapping Mr. Lizcano more than eight years ago. (Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters)

Israel’s president announced Monday that the country is headed toward new elections after he met with party leaders, including Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. The moderate Ms. Livni is expected to face off against rival Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister. (Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press)

A South Korean man cleaned a window reflecting prices at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul Monday. South Korea’s central bank slashed its key interest rate Monday in a bid to boost the economy and stock market amid the global financial crisis. (Lee Jinman/Associated Press)

Anxious Kuwaiti traders closely followed another day of falling prices Monday at their stock exchange. U.S. stocks also took a dive in early trading Monday. (Yasser al-Zayyat/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a Fort Collins, Colo., rally Sunday. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain was reflected in a teleprompter as he was introduced at a high school rally Sunday in Zanesville, Ohio. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)
A U.S. Army honor guard held 14 flags during a group burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,Va., Frida, for 14 troops who died in an August helicopter crash in Iraq. (Lawrence Jackson/Associated Press)

A Palestinian woman supporting Islamic Jihad attended a Gaza Strip rally Friday marking the 13th anniversary of the death of the group’s leader, Fathi Shekaki. Supporters claim Israel was behind his shooting death. (Adel Hana/Associated Press)

Undeterred by rain, Indian schoolgirls formed a human chain Friday in protest of ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka. The protest comes as a political group put pressure on the Indian government to stop the war. (Babu/Reuters)

A picture released Thursday shows a father and his two sons near a placard that reads, “Mr. Brown, we are not terrorists.” The “Icelanders are not terrorists” campaign comes after Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde accused London of “bullying a small neighbor” over funds frozen in an online bank. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Karen Moynihan, of Ellie’s Farm Market, showed off two pumpkins Friday in Berlin, Vt., that were carved in Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama’s likenesses. (Toby Talbot/Associated Press)

In a final push before Election Day, Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin shook hands with Thursday with members of a Beaver, Pa., high school football team during a campaign rally. (Michael Henninger/Associated Press)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain addressed supporters at a Sarasota, Fla., campaign stop Thursday. (Stephan Savoia/Associated Press)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama waved as he arrived at an American Legion Mall campaign stop Thursday in Indianapolis. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

The flag-draped coffin of a German soldiers was carried away after a memorial service Friday at Alexander’s Church in Zweibruecken. Two German troops were killed during a suicide bombing near Kunduz, Afghanistan, Monday. (Miguel Villagran/Associated Press)

A U.S. solider from Duke Task Force briefed troops Friday about an operation in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)

Police officers chased away protesters in Srinagar, Kashmir India, Friday. Shops and schools remained closed following a strike call after separatists requested a referendum on a United Nations resolution over the disputed Himalayan region. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

Private pension company employees protested Thursday in Buenos Aires over Argentina’s plan to nationalize such funds. President Cristina Kirchner said her surprise plan to take over 10 private pension funds is meant to protect retirement money from the global financial crisis. (Eduardo Di Baia/Associated Press)

A woman held up peace signs as federal riot police clashed with supporters of former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Thursday in Mexico City, outside the Senate. Mexico’s Senate began passing legislation aimed at helping the slumping state-run oil industry by bringing in help from the private sector. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)

Public transportation drivers stood on top of vehicles and held signs to demand a decrease in diesel and gasoline prices outside of Shell’s Manila, Philippines, office Friday. Protesters also set their sights on two other big oil companies: Caltex and Petron. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

Indian soldiers waited for events to start for United Nations Day in Goma, Congo, Friday. The U.N. Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo started with a charter in 1945. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

A calf ran out of a tunnel beneath the Egypt-Gaza border Friday. Hundreds of Gaza merchants wait around the border area to pick up merchandise coming from Egypt. Underground livestock smuggling has increased ahead of Eid Al-Adha on Dec. 10, a day when Muslims slaughter animals and feed the poor to seek God’s forgiveness. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Ground crew members assisted Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov after the Russian Soyuz space capsule landed not far from Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, Friday. (Dmitry Kostyukov/Reuters)

Traders worked in the crude-oil options pit of the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday. Oil prices fell sharply to around $63 a barrel early Friday amid weakening global demand for crude, despite a decision by OPEC cartel to cut production starting next month. (Jin Lee/Associated Press)

Three separate undated photos show the restoration process of Italian artist Raphael’s 1506 oil-on-wood painting “Madonna of the Goldfinch,” which had been shattered into 17 pieces then nailed back together following a house collapse. After 10 painstaking years of work, the Italian Renaissance artwork is returning to the public. (Reuters/Opificio Delle Pietre Dure/Handout)
Trader Bradley Silverman worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. Wall Street tumbled again Wednesday as investors worried that the global economy is poised to weaken even as parts of the credit market slowly show signs of recovery. (Richard Drew/Associated Press)

A Bowling Green police officer detained an unidentified person on the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky., on Wednesday. The school was locked down for about three hours Wednesday after reports of gunmen on campus, but officials said they could find no evidence that shots had been fired or that anyone had a weapon. (Armando Sanchez/Associated Press)

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain sat down Thursday for a cup of coffee with small business owners at the Starlite Diner in Daytona Beach, Fla. With less than two weeks left before the U.S. presidential election, Sen. McCain will campaign in the swing states of Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa over the next four days. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao showed the way to German Chancellor Angela Merkel before they inspected an honor guard during an official welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. Dozens of Asian and European leaders, representing half the global economy, gathered in Beijing this week at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) starting Friday. (Jason Lee/Reuters)

Israel’s President Shimon Peres was greeted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, left, upon Mr. Peres’ arrival to Sharm el-Sheikh on Thursday. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Handout/Reuters)

Lawyers chanted antigovernment slogans during a protest in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday. Lawyers gathered to demand the reinstatement of sacked judges dismissed by former President Pervez Musharraf during his emergency rule in November 2007. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)

Kashmiri protesters ran for cover as a tear gas shell exploded near them during a clash in Srinagar, India, on Thursday. Kashmiris clashed with government forces during protests against the arrest of two separatist leaders, including Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Mohammed Yasin Malik, for holding an anti-election rally. (Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press)

Los Angeles City firefighters battled a wildfire that broke out early Thursday morning and quickly spread to the west Los Angeles area off of Sepulveda Boulevard near the Getty Center Museum. Authorities said the wildfire was burning at least 150 acres and a portion of the San Diego Freeway has been shut down. (Gus Ruelas/Associated Press)

A Chinese soldier struggled against the wind as he held a flag during the official welcoming ceremony for Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende of the Netherlands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. Dozens of Asian and European leaders gathered in Beijing this week to trade views on the global downturn, climate change and international security. (David Gray/Reuters)

Iranian women shouted their support for Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as she arrived at the Italian parliament in Rome, on Thursday. A European Union court on Thursday annulled a 2007 move to freeze the assets of an exiled Iranian opposition group in the latest legal setback for an EU blacklist of suspected terrorist groups. But the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) — which exposed Iran’s covert nuclear program in 2002 — was due to stay on the blacklist for now because the ruling did not affect a separate EU decision this year reaffirming the policy. (Max Rossi/Reuters)

Children waited to get free meals at a food center of the World Mission Church, a nongovernment agency, as part of a feeding program at a slum area in Manila, the Philippines, on Thursday. A recent survey by the independent pollster Social Weather Stations published in a local newspaper on Tuesday showed that about 3.3 million Filipino families, or 18.4 percent, went hungry at least once in the last three months. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

Children from the Cape Mental Health’s Imizamo Yethu Special Care Centre flew kites in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday. As part of the Cape Town International Kite Festival being held this week, professional kiters arranged a preview for the mentally disabled children. Integration and inclusion of people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities is a key component of the work done by the Cape Mental Health society that sponsors the biggest kite festival in Africa. (Nic Bothma/European Pressphoto Agency)