CAPTAIN TAREK DREAM: Memories of 2008

Young Tibetan monks played a game outside a Buddhist monastery in Shimla, India, Wednesday. The monks attended a summit of Tibetan exiles where many young leaders are pushing for a declaration of independence from China. (Anil Dayal/Associated Press)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, was seen between Navy troops during the fall military ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris Wednesday. (Eric Feferberg/Reuters)

Israeli pilots walked past an Apache helicopter at Ramon Air Base in southern Israel Wednesday. The country displayed the air power it could use to attack Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons project if diplomacy fails to persuade Iran from halting uranium enrichment. (Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)

Leaders of the U.S. automotive industry testified Wednesday at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. From left are General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner, Chrysler Chairman/CEO Robert Nardelli and Ford President/CEO Alan Mulally. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

A child ate lunch Wednesday in Detroit’s Capuchin Soup Kitchen. An estimated one in three Detroit residents lives in poverty, making it the poorest large city in America. Detroit is home to the Big Three U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A police officer stood guard as Kashmiri people attended an event Wednesday in Mamar, India, for one of the seven phases in a long state election process there. Voter turnout in the disputed area of Jammu and Kashmir state has been high, despite many anti-India protests this year and calls for a boycott. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)

A woman held up a gun Wednesday in Jenin, West Bank, as she celebrated the 1988 symbolic declaration of independence and statehood by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (Saif Dahlah/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

People searched for usable coal at a dumpsite in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, Wednesday. Coal, which produces more climate-warming carbon dioxide than oil or gas, will remain the world’s main source of power until 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. (Reuters)

European tobacco growers set a pile of tobacco leaves on fire during a demonstration Wednesday outside European Union headquarters in Brussels. They protested against planned EU subsidy cuts. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press)

A wounded government soldier sat in a hospital Wednesday, one day after militia-troop clashes in Kayna, Congo. Also Wednesday, rebels appeared to be pulling back from Rwindi, Congo, as promised. Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has said he’s fighting to protect Tutsis from Hutus, but critics claim Gen. Nkunda is interested in power and Congo’s mineral wealth. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI delivered his blessing Wednesday as he left Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican, protected by the popemobile. (Pier Paolo Citoi/Associated Press)

A woman placed a flower bouquet on a coffin of remains found in a mass grave in Najaf, Iraq. Iraqi officials flew the bodies of the 150 Kurds — men, women and children — home to Kurdistan Wednesday after a ceremony paid tribute to victims under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to leaders while attending the opening of the first Asian Mayors Forum in Iran Wednesday. The mayors of Caracas, Venezuela; Tehran, Iran; and Moscow City were among those in attendance. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)

A woman walked among trees in a park during the first snowy day in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)
A Chinese man took pictures while awaiting the arrival of Chinese President Hu Jintao in Cuba Tuesday. Mr. Jintao toured Havana one day after his country agreed to buy nickel and sugar from Cuba and to send food to the island following three hurricanes there. (Javier Galeano/Associated Press)

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) talked to reporters Tuesday after his closed-door Capitol meeting. Democrats decided to let the senator keep his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, despite having backed Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) for president. However, Sen. Lieberman will lose his post on the Environment and Public Works panel as punishment for criticizing President-elect Barack Obama. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

At left, eight alleged Somali pirates sat in police custody Tuesday in Mombasa, Kenya. They are accused of trying to hijack a cargo ship off the Horn of Africa. Also Tuesday, pirates hijacked a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, the latest in a series of similar attacks. They were believed to be heading to Somalia. (Associated Press)

A woman checked her watch Tuesday at a European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, about the economy. France, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called for regulators to show flexibility to assist struggling European automakers and to hammer out a plan for the financial crisis. (Frederick Florin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Inmates in Athens’ high-security Korydallos Prison lighted fires Tuesday as part of a hunger strike. Thousands of prisoners in 21 facilities have refused to eat for the past 15 days. They are demanding an end to imprisonment for drug addicts, reduced sentences, an end to overcrowding and better health services. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

U.S. tennis great John McEnroe kissed the net during an exhibition match against Sweden’s Bjorn Borg in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday. (Zainal Abd Halim/Reuters)

A victim’s relatives wailed at the site of a flooded coal mine in Jiaxian County, Henan province, China, Tuesday. Rescuers have saved 32 out of 34 miners who had been trapped. (Reuters)

The death toll from a subway tunnel collapse in Hangzhou, China, rose to eight Tuesday as rescuers battled through a sea of mud to locate 13 other missing people. Officials said there is little hope of finding them alive. (Aly Song/Reuters)

The Iranian Parliament approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s interior minister nominee Tuesday after firing his predecessor, Ali Kordan, for presenting a fake degree from the United Kingdom’s University of Oxford. Sadeq Mahsouli, the new minister, is one of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s closest aides. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters )

Thousands of Ukrainian Trade Union Federation members rallied Tuesday in Kiev. They demanded Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko increase salaries and reduce the price of goods. (Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A Zimbabwean riot police officer stood in front of doctors and nurses who demonstrated Tuesday in Harare against the country’s deteriorating health systems. They vowed to stay away from work until a recent cholera outbreak is controlled, and they requested the government review their salaries. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Israeli soldiers stood guard next to a blindfolded Palestinian man at a checkpoint near Nablus, West Bank, Tuesday. According to an army spokesperson, the man was caught carrying a pipe bomb. (Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters)

Iraqi girls attended class Tuesday in northwestern Mosul, Iraq. (Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press)

Israeli President Shimon Peres sat under a ceremonial sword at the Mansion House in London, where he received an honorary doctorate Tuesday. Mr. Peres will discuss Israel-Great Britain cooperation during talks with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press)

A man worked inside the HSBC Holdings PLC headquarters in Hong Kong Tuesday. The bank will lay off 500 employees in Asia, 90% of which will be in Hong Kong. HSBC cited deteriorating economic conditions. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)

Balloons hovered over the Palote Dam during the Hot Air Balloons Festival in Leon, Mexico, Tuesday. (Mario Armas/Reuters)
Winds were calm Monday, allowing firefighters to make gains on two raging wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee in California. At left, a water-dropping helicopter soared over the setting sun as smoke created an orange glow in the sky in Diamond Bar, Calif., Sunday. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press)

More than 500 supporters of the far-right Workers’ Party clashed with police Monday when they marched in Litvinov, Czech Republic. At least seven police officers and seven protesters were injured as activists hurled stones, firecrackers and other objects. The interior minister has labeled the Workers’ Party as extremist and said the government is in the process of disbanding it. (Michal Cizek/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A reindeer lounged in a snowy field Monday in Lapland, Finland. (Olivier Morin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails outside the U.S. Embassy Monday in Athens, Greece. About 10,000 people braved a thunderstorm to mark the 35th anniversary of a student uprising against a military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. (John Kolesidis/Reuters)

U.S. Army Spc. Derrek Lucas, of Dyer, Ind., was surrounded by children Monday in Iraq’s Al Islah Al Serai neighborhood. Iraq’s cabinet approved a security deal Sunday that calls for American troops to leave by the end of 2011. The Iraqi Parliament will soon decide the issue. (Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press)

People gathered at the scene of a gas pipe explosion in the northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Monday. According to police, nine people were injured in the blast. (Shwan Mohammed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo worked on a ceiling painting in a room at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. Mr. Barcelo was commissioned to undertake the most extensive work of art in the history of the United Nations. The Chamber for Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilizations room will be officially revealed Tuesday. (Agusti Torres/Handout/Reuters)

A firefighter walked through foam as he demonstrated mass decontamination operations procedures for the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, Monday. Security is also high after police arrested a man Monday with 36 grenades in his backpack. Authorities said insurgents killed three officers Sunday. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

From left to right, German Parliament Vice President Wolfgang Thierse, German President Horst Koehler, Peter Mueller, president of German Bundesrat, and Federal Constitutional Court President Hans Juergen Papier placed wreaths at an anti-war memorial during a ceremony in Berlin Sunday. Germany honored the victims of World War I, World War II and Nazi rule. (Johannes Eisele/Reuters)

Police detained a supporter of Eduardo Montealegre, of the Constitutional Liberal Party, during clashes with supporters of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front in Leon City, Nicaragua, Sunday. In another standoff, one person from each side was shot and six police officers were injured. The conflicts involve alleged voter fraud in the Nov. 9 contests. (Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)

People lighted candles Sunday in memory of the victims of a Petrila, Romania, mining accident. At least 12 miners were killed and 13 injured in two explosions in a coal mine Saturday. Several miners said their bosses forced them to work prior to the accident, despite high methane gas levels being present. (Mihai Barbu/Reuters)

A Congolese woman prayed Sunday at a Catholic church. Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda also promised a United Nations enovy Sunday that he would back a cease-fire. On Monday, a military court sentenced four government troops to life for looting and rape. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

Kudakwashe Chiveura dug for crickets to eat in Mutoko, Zimbabwe, Saturday. People are also scaring up rabbits, rodents and other small animals for cooking, and hunting jackals and baboons. The United Nations estimates more than 5 million people will need food aid by the beginning of next year as Zimbabwe’s inflation spirals out of control. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)

Greenpeace members demonstrated against CO2 emissions in front of the cooling towers at the Staudinger coal power plant in Grosskrotzenburg, Germany, Monday. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Children played as the sun set in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday. In northwest Pakistan, a suicide car bomber attacked an army post Monday, killing four security personnel, while violence elsewhere in the region left at least five suspected militants dead, authorities said. The violence comes amid a financial crisis. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)
Soldiers prevented Palestinian and some Israeli activists from removing concrete blocks from a road that connects the West Bank villages of Dier Ibzi and Ras Karkar Friday. Israeli troops closed the road in 2000. Also Friday, Hamas fighters launched rockets at Ashkelon and Sderot, but no serious injuries were reported. (Abbas Momani/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Protesters wore masks of leaders from Italy, Canada, Germany, Britain, France, the U.S., Russia and South Korea during a rally in front of the White House Friday. Heads of the G-20 nations are meeting there to discuss the global financial crisis. (Landov)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Peterson, from Karnes City, Texas, was on patrol Friday in Mosul, Iraq. The bridge in the background connects the city’s east and west sides. (Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press)

A 92-year-old woman sat outside her soon-to-be-razed Beijing house Friday. Despite the economic slowdown, Chinese developers continue to demolish old neighborhoods to make way for new ventures. (Elizabeth Dalziel/Associated Press)

A worker cleaned an industrial container used for molten steel at ArcelorMittal in Warsaw Friday. ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker by output, is cutting production by 35% and U.S. Steel plans layoffs. (Peter Andrews/Reuters )

Artist Robert Wolf was painted black with the ash of burnt banknotes at Zurich’s old exchange Friday to highlight the world “financial debacle.” (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)

A specialist working his post Friday at the New York Stock Exchange donned a clown nose. The Big Apple Circus, which rang the opening bell, handed out the noses on the trading floor. Dow industrials sank about 348 points, or 3.9%, to close at 8497.31 Friday. (Richard Drew/Associated Press)

Workers hoisted this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree into place Friday in New York. The 72-foot-tall, 8-ton Norway spruce came from a Hamilton, N.J., lawn. In 1931, the Varanyaks planted the then-7-foot-tall tree outside. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Tens of thousands of Muslims prayed on the opening day of a 10-day Islamic peace conference in Mumbai, India, Friday. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

Followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held up his picture and the Iraqi flag as they marched Friday in Sadr City against a proposed Iraq-U.S. security pact that would keep forces in Iraq for three more years. Mr. Sadr has renewed threats to resume attacks against U.S. forces. A top Iraqi negotiator said Friday that he believed the Iraqi government would approve the pact. (Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press)

A wounded Japanese journalist waited in an ambulance outside an Islamabad, Pakistan, hospital after he was shot in Peshawar. It was the third such attack there against foreigners in three days. Also Friday, an apparent U.S. drone struck a house in Pakistan’s tribal area, killing at least 12 people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

South Korean investors scuffled with bank security guards Friday as they tried to enter Woori Bank headquarters in Seoul. The investors, angered by losses in the global credit crunch, claim the bank failed to properly advise them. (Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)

A red haze of flare smoke rose outside of Rome’s parliament Friday as students continued to protest recently passed education reforms. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pushed for the changes, which include deep budget cuts and new student disciplinary measures. (Max Rossi/Reuters)

Firefighters battled a wildfire as a mansion burned in Santa Barbara, Calif. The flames charred at least 2,000 acres, destroyed 100 homes — including some in the celebrity enclave of Montecito — and injured at least 13 people. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

The moon rose above snow-capped Mount Fuji Friday in Shizuoka, Japan. (Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)
A woman left the United Socialist Party of Venezuela’s campaign office, painted with a picture of President Hugo Chavez, Wednesday in Caracas. Venezuelans head to the polls Nov. 23 to elect state governors and city mayors. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Venezuelan National Guard officers stood watch Thursday in Caracas over broken coconuts that were found to contain about 639 pounds of cocaine. (Ariana Cubillos/Associated Press)

Job seekers waited in line Thursday for applications at a job fair hosted by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. Thousands of people attended the fair, where 50 companies were recruiting. (Robert Sullivan/Getty Images)

Shawn Hinz checked the progress of pumps Thursday after his Snoqualmie, Wash., basement was flooded by heavy rains. The nearby Snoqualmie River overflowed and Mr. Hinz said his furnace and water heater were destroyed in the flood. Flooding also hit Oregon. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press)

People lighted hundreds of candles Thursday in Vienna to point out Austria’s growing poverty problem. (Dieter Nagl/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

An employee worked at the Nexis Fibers AG factory in Emmenbruecke, Switzerland, Thursday. The company, created in 1906, designs, develops and manufactures industrial yarns. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)

Nestle USA employee Deborah Collins called for help for “injured” colleague Jake Crary during a mock earthquake drill Thursday in Glendale, Calif. They were among millions of residents to simultaneously take part in the Great Southern California ShakeOut, the biggest such drill in the U.S. Officials said the region’s 22 million inhabitants need to prepare for the inevitable. (Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Hedge-fund manager George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, was in the hot seat Thursday as he testified about industry regulation before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (Tim Sloan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Iranian photographer Mahjabin Ghahremankhah was photographed taking pictures of police officers Thursday at a Tehran parade. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)

Orphans and children separated from their parents in the Congo conflict rested Thursday at a center in Goma. Fighting intensified in August and has since displaced at least 250,000 people, despite a visible United Nations peacekeeping force. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

A grieving father was consoled as his son’s coffin was taken for burial in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday. Ali Jassim, 21, was one of several people killed in a string of bombings to rock Baghdad this week. Elsewhere in Iraq, a U.S. civilian cargo aircraft with up to six people on board crashed shortly after takeoff in western Iraq Thursday. No immediate casualties were reported. (Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press)

Relatives mourned at a funeral Thursday in Bolshoi Kamen, Russia, for victims of an accident on a Russian submarine. Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a sailor suspected of triggering the accident that killed 20 people over the weekend. A fire extinguishing system was turned on, releasing a gas that asphyxiated the victims. (Yuri Maltsev/Reuters)

A resident walked across a street on a hazy and rainy day in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China, Thursday. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said rich nations must abandon their “unsustainable lifestyle” to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations. (Reuters)

Women in traditional costumes took pictures of an evening light show at the famous Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto, Japan, Thursday. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)

A child searched for fancy boats and coins offered earlier by Hindu devotees during the Karthik Purnima festival at the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press)

NASA announced Wednesday that the Mars rover Spirit’s status remains unknown. A dust storm on Mars has cut into the amount of sunlight reaching the solar equipment on Spirit, leaving it dusty and in a vulnerable state. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Handout/Reuters)

A crocodile bit a zebra’s head as the zebra crossed the Mara River in Kenya Thursday. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
Shamia, left, an Afghan schoolgirl, recovered at a hospital after two men on a motorbike threw acid on her and five other girls Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Also Wednesday, a suicide bomber driving an oil tanker detonated explosives outside a government office. (Allauddin Khan/Associated Press)

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, (D., Md.), talked to reporters while test-driving a Chevrolet in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday. Sen. Mikulski plans to introduce a bill that would make car-loan interest payments, car sales tax and car excise tax deductible. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Police officers took up positions Wednesday during a drug-trafficking raid in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana district. At least three alleged drug traffickers died and three police officers were injured, authorities said. (Ricardo Moraes/Associated Press)

Job seekers waited in a long line along Broadway to enter a Monster.com job fair Wednesday in New York. (Kathy Willens/Associated Press)

Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres attended a news conference Wednesday in New York at the United Nations’ Culture of Peace event. Ms. Livni distanced herself Tuesday from comments by outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who spoke of painful territorial concessions for Middle East peace. (Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Algerian lawmakers voted 500 to 21 Wednesday in favor of constitutional amendments that will allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a third term. Critics said the reform was a step away from democracy and favored the political and military elite. (Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Refugees walked past the body of a Congolese government soldier on a road near Kibati, Congo, Wednesday. The soldier was one of two who were shot during a heavy gunfire exchange Tuesday close to a camp for the displaced. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, center in white, is believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha. Mr. Bamjan attracted monks and other devotees Wednesday near Katmandu, Nepal. He had retreated the previous year into a jungle. (Binod Joshi/Associated Press)

A travel company launched camel polo Wednesday at a Dubai, United Arab Emirates, equestrian club. The camels replace horses, which are traditionally used in the game. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)

French investigators combed through Montpellier University student housing Wednesday after an explosion injured seven people, two critically. About 100 people were forced to evacuate the building. The incident is under investigation. (Pascal Guyot/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Students marched in the streets of Berlin Wednesday to protest long school days, class sizes and pressure to excel. Their sign, which pictured Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, read “Nobody has the intention to erect an educational wall.” Tens of thousands of pupils demonstrated across Germany. (John Macdougall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

An Iraqi boy inspected a car destroyed by a car bomb in Baghdad’s Shiite-dominated Shaab neighborhood Wednesday, after a deadly explosion. (Karim Kadim/Associated Press)

Iran Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar said Wednesday that his country successfully test-fired a new long-range missile using solid fuel, making it more accurate. The U.S. countered that Iran’s claim is “completely inconsistent” with its international duties and warned Tehran to refrain from future tests. (Vahid Reza Alaei/Fars News Agency via Associated Press)

Palestinian refugees received food cards at a United Nations center in Shati, Gaza City, Wednesday. Israel allowed food supplies into the area amid warnings from the U.N. Meanwhile, Israeli troops and Palestinian militants fought along the Gaza-Israel border Wednesday, raising new concerns that a truce might collapse. (Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A Thai man offered prayers Wednesday during Loy Krathong at Lumpini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. Small, highly decorated rafts are set adrift during the festival in belief that sins and bad luck will be carried away. (David Longstreath/Associated Press)

Ukraine Parliament deputies fought Wednesday during a session in Kiev in which lawmakers voted to dismiss a close associate of President Viktor Yushchenko as its speaker. Mr. Yushchenko has indicated that early elections would be delayed until next year. (Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A U.S. Army soldier, of Iron Hawk, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, was seen on foot patrol Tuesday in Tal Kaeef, north of Baghdad. (Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press)

An Iraqi Sunni, left, and Shiite shook hands Tuesday at the opening ceremony for the Imams Bridge in northern Baghdad, Iraq. The bridge was barricaded three years ago after a stampede killed almost 1,000 people. It remained shut during sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007. (Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press)

Palestinians waved flags during a rally Tuesday in Ramallah, West Bank, marking the fourth anniversary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death. (Eliana Aponte/Reuters)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys destroyed election campaign posters of ultra-Orthodox mayoral candidate Meir Porush Tuesday in Mea Sharim, Israel. Mr. Porush, who faced opposition from secular businessman Nir Barkat in the Jerusalem election, has branded himself as a crossover candidate, appealing to both secular and religious people. (Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

World War I veterans, from left to right, Henry Allingham, Harry Patch and Bill Stone posed for photographers before taking part in the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day in central London Tuesday. The men are among the last surviving British troops who served in World War I. (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)

A leprosy patient looked on during an official state visit from Belgium’s King Albert II and Queen Paola to the Damien Foundation near Tiruchirapalli, India, Tuesday. (Francois Lenoi/Reuters)

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. workers gathered in Barcelona Tuesday after the Japanese automaker announced it would cut 1,680 jobs there. The head of the Renault-Nissan automaker group said that the worst has yet to come. (Josep Lago/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Security officials brought down a Greenpeace activist during a protest Tuesday in Sumatra, Indonesia, at a port. The environmental group blocked three tankers used to transport crude palm oil to China and Europe. (John Novis/Greenpeace/Handout/Reuters)

A member of a Philippine military honor guard waited to play “Taps” during a Veterans Day ceremony at the American Cemetery in Manila Tuesday. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters)
Veterans gathered Sunday at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall, England, to honor the country’s war dead. Queen Elizabeth II led the ceremony. (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)

Steven Mathews, 22, of Sturgis, Mich., said goodbye Monday to Kayla Howard, 17, as 120 soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve’s 855th Quartermaster Company departed from South Bend, Ind., for Fort McCoy in Wisconsin for training before deployment to Iraq. (Jim Rider/South Bend Tribune via Associated Press)

A worker put up scaffolding Monday at a Beijing construction site. The country has unveiled a nearly $600 billion stimulus plan, the latest move in the global effort to avoid the worst economic downturn in decades. (Jason Lee/Reuters)

A Congolese girl living at in improvised shelter used a plastic tub to cover herself from the rain Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people in the region have fled their homes as an armed conflict has engulfed the region. (Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A Palestinian smuggler climbed from a tunnel that also carries a hose pumping fuel from Egypt to Gaza. Israel has blocked deliveries of EU-funded fuel to the enclave for the past week in response to a surge in cross-border rocket attacks, but said it would allow resumption of fuel shipments on Tuesday. (Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)

A Palestinian held his daughter during a protest against power cuts in Gaza Monday. The fuel shortage forced the Gaza Strip’s main power station to shut down, leaving about half the residents of the Hamas-controlled territory without electricity. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

Men from the Paraguayan Sanapana indigenous group, dressed in feathers, protested outside their Congress Monday. Indians from the Chaco region demanded more land and support to their communities from the government. (Jorge Saenz/Associated Press)

Demonstrators rallied outside a German radio station near Kigali, Rwanda, Monday. Thousands protested in Rwanda’s capital against Germany’s arrest of a senior Rwandan official wanted by France in connection with the presidential assassination that preceded the African nation’s 1994 genocide. (Aimable Twahirwa/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A visitor looked at pictures of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Israeli police arrested two clergymen Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, believed to be Christ’s burial place. An argument erupted between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks after the Greeks objected to a procession without one of their monks present. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)

Members of an Egyptian student resistance movement protested Monday against the recent arrests of some of their members by Cairo police. The students, who advocate for freedom, have been threatened with expulsion. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters)

At least 31 people were killed and dozens were wounded in a double bombing in a Baghdad market Monday, the deadliest attack to rock the Iraqi capital in weeks, security officials said. (Ali al-Saadi/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Afghan men looked at a vehicle that was damaged in a gunfight in Khoni Khowar, Afghanistan, Monday. The governor of the eastern province of Khost said an airstrike killed 14 Afghan security guards working at a road construction project. (Elyas Wahdat/Reuters)

Conservative protesters, holding pictures of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, marched Monday in support of U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement talks. Mr. Obama has said he opposes the deal unless it is renegotiated to grant greater access to the Asian market for U.S. automakers. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)

Workers from Bulgaria’s largest steelmaker, Kremikovtzi AD, protested in central Sofia Monday over unpaid salaries. The workers want their government to find a foreign buyer for the company. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)

A man walked past pregnant women with pictures of, from left to right, Spain’s Equality Minister Bibiana Aido, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and former Minister of Culture Carmen Calvo on their bellies during an anti-abortion protest Monday outside Madrid’s parliament. (Susana Vera/Reuters)

Muslims shouted “God is great” as the bodies of brothers Ali Ghufron and Amrozi Nurhasyim arrived at their mother’s Tenggulun, Indonesia, house Sunday. Indonesia executed the brothers and a third man, Imam Samudra, for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

Anti-nuclear activists slept in front of a Gorleben, Germany, storage facility Monday in protest of the arrival of containers of spent German nuclear fuel. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
Soldiers in historical uniforms participated in a military parade in Moscow’s Red Square Friday to mark the anniversary of Soviet troops marching to the front lines of World War II in 1941. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)

A child stood amid makeshift tents in front of a United Nations peacekeeping base in Kiwanja, near Goma, Congo, Friday. For two days, fighters from the Congress for the Defense of the People clashed with local Mai-Mai militias. (Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A mother carried her daughter’s body, who was killed Friday in a Petionville, Haiti, school collapse. At least 30 people were killed. A teacher said the building was poorly reconstructed after a partial collapse eight years ago. (Thony Belizaire/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, was seen speaking to General Motors Corp. Europe President Carl-Peter Forster Friday after the auto giant opened a plant near Saint Petersburg. (Alexander Nikolayev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Cheyenne, Wy., resident Linda Reid tried to walk outside her front door Thursday after high winds caused tumbleweeds to block the entrance. (Michael Smith/Wyoming Tribune Eagle via Associated Press)

Spectators looked up in amazement as they watched the Indian air force Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team conduct maneuvers at the seventh China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition Friday. (China Photos/Getty Images)

German police patrolled railroad tracks Friday near Dannenberg, Germany, two days ahead of the arrival of nuclear waste from a northwestern France processing plant. Protesters are expected to demonstrate. (Nigel Treblin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice laughed as she walked with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after their meeting Friday in Ramallah, West Bank. Secretary Rice on Friday denied that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, advocated by President George W. Bush, is a failure. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Reuters)

Bolorerdene Bundgaa, of Mongolia, walked Thursday in Rapid City, S.D., amid a blizzard that paralyzed the western part of the state. The Mongolian transplant is a student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. (Ryan Soderlin/Rapid City Journal via Associated Press)

Men, one with his face colored with brown makeup, held posters Friday in Rome apologizing to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and the American people after Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi called Mr. Obama “young, handsome and even tanned.” (Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press)

Communist supporters marked the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday. Ninety-one years to the day after Vladimir Lenin led a revolt that overthrew the Russian government, today’s Communists have said the economic crisis proves capitalism is a bad idea. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)

Worshipers held up a poster of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a Shiite religious leader and father of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, as they demonstrated Friday against a proposed Iraq-U.S. security pact. The Iraqi cabinet plans to meet Sunday on the deal, which could see troops leave Iraq by the end of 2011. (Karim Kadim/Associated Press)

A suicide attack in Mingora, Pakistan, Thursday left security forces dead and a police building heavily damaged. (Sherin Zada/Associated Press)

A Sri Lankan military helicopter fired anti-missile flares over the outskirts of Madhu Friday. Troops gained control of the area six months ago from Tamil Tiger rebels. (Eranga Jayawardena/Associated Press)

Protesters demonstrated against the fighting in eastern Congo in front of an European Union summit on the financial crisis Friday in Brussels. (Thierry Charlier/Associated Press)

Bowling Green State University, Ohio, police officers search for evidence in a field near the campus Friday after someone fired a gun in a parking lot; no one was injured. A student is in custody and is being questioned about the incident. (Aaron Carpenter/Sentinel-Tribune via Associated Press)

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, (D., Ill.), talked to reporters about his new position as President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff after leaving his Chicago office Thursday. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)

European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso arrived at the start of an EU summit in Brussels this Friday before next Friday’s G-20 meeting in Washington, where the credit crisis will top the agenda. (Ezequiel Scagnetti/Reuters)

Some of the thousands of people who work at Rio de Janeiro’s Gramacho garbage dump were pictured Thursday. Due to ecological concerns, the massive site will be closed, threatening incomes at the trash heap. (Antonio Scorza/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A boy jumped into the water near a ferry to the Nusakambangan prison island Friday in Java, Indonesia. (Tatan Syuflana/Associated Press)
China warned Tibetans Thursday that the door to their independence will remain firmly shut after meeting with the Dalai Lama’s envoys ahead of a gathering of Tibetan exiles. The spiritual leader, pictured jokingly trying to put a microphone in his mouth, was in Tokyo Thursday to deliver a speech. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

A Secret Service team member had his assault weapon at the ready while sitting in a motorcade that escorted President-elect Barack Obama Thursday to a private meeting at Chicago’s FBI building. Also Thursday, two white supremacists pleaded not guilty in a plot to kill Mr. Obama. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

A police officer stood next to a poster of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during a Buenos Aires event Thursday in support of nationalizing private pension funds. The leader plans to nationalize billions in private assets. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)

Jesus Torres rings, 63, rang a bell at a Copacabana, Colombia, cemetery Thursday. For almost 40 years, every day of November, Mr. Torres has “waked the souls of the dead to guide them.” (Raul Arboleda/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

FK Partizan Belgrade, Serbia, football fans set off fireworks during a match against Stuttgart at the Mercedes-Benz Arena Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart won 2-0. (Oliver Lang/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A man walked through a memorial Thursday at the former Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hanover, Germany. The country is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1938 “Reichskristallnacht” program, in which Jewish people were murdered and thousands of their synagogues and shops were destroyed. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)

A Pakistani boy sat at the Katcha Garhi camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday. Nearly 200,000 people have fled the area fighting. Two suicide bombers killed at least 19 people Thursday in separate attacks. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)

Thousands of hand-written messages to President-elect Barack Obama filled a 24-foot-wide board between the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool in Washington Thursday. An environmental group erected the board. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

A would-be immigrant rested after arriving at the port of Los Cristianos on Spain’s Canary Island Thursday. Some 67 people were intercepted on their way to European soil from northern Africa, according to authorities. (Santiago Ferrero/Reuters)

President George W. Bush, accompanied by first lady Laura Bush, gave an emotional wave of appreciation after speaking to staff Thursday about the upcoming presidential transition. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)

Women and a child washed clothes Thursday in Panchari, India. (Amit Gupta/Reuters)

Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda’s soldiers showed off their training during a mock attack Thursday at their Tebero, Congo, base. A fragile cease-fire between Mr. Nkunda and the Congolese army appeared to be unraveling Thursday as battles spread. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

A pro-Taiwan supporter stood on top of a barricade in protest of a visit from China’s top negotiator, Chen Yunlin, Thursday. Mr. Yunlin has already signed agreements opening up trade between the two sides, which in past years have edged toward the brink of war. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)

Party rivals of Egypt’s most prominent jailed dissident, Ayman Nour, stormed his party’s headquarters in Cairo and set it on fire Thursday, injuring several people. Egyptian riot police arrested a photographer as he attempted to take pictures of clashes at the scene. (Amr Dalsh/Reuters)

It was a cramped morning commute Thursday in Paris due to a 24-hour conductor strike. Two unions are protesting management demands and want more flexible work conditions. (Remy de la Mauviniere/Associated Press)

A Niehl, Germany, Ford Motor Co. factory worker depicted the company as a suit-wearing, cigar-smoking conglomerate as he carried fake bundles of money during a walkout. IG Metall union workers are demanding an 8% wage increase. The union and auto-industry leaders will meet Nov. 11. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet was seen on TV at the Frankfurt stock exchange Thursday. The ECB slashed its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point. (Michael Probst/Associated Press)

Astronaut Greg Chamitoff wore a communication headset while looking through a window at Earth from the International Space Station Sunday. NASA plans to launch Endeavour on Nov. 14 to the space station. (Associated Press/NASA)

A solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, Spain, photographed Thursday uses mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays in order to produce steam, which drives a turbine that produces electricity. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)