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ASSOCIATED PRESS The loan of $26 million from a World Bank branch to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal for a luxury hotel in Ghana has drawn criticism.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Amended guidelines that ban smoking in more indoor public venues in China went into effect Sunday, but the changes were not expected to have a dramatic impact. Nearly 30 percent of adults in China smoke.
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Angela Gray, of Cullman, Ala., weighs her future as she waits for help on the steps of the Cullman County Courthouse on Thursday. Her home was destroyed by a tornado.
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The center-island kitchen in the Harvard model features stainless steel appliances, granite counters, hardwood flooring and a pantry.
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Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun (left), shown with Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, has a financial stake in his team's Academic Performance Rating.
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The mounting federal debt is "the most important problem, at least in the longer term, that the United States faces," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Hubert "Hub" Schlafly helped invent the teleprompter and he won an Emmy Award for developing the first cable system that permitted subscribers to order special programs. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus defends real estate mogul Donald Trump as a possible GOP presidential candidate who should be allowed to speak his mind about any issue, even the “birther” one.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Investigators collect evidence at King Soopers grocery store morning in Boulder, Colo., where a suspect in a case involving an undetonated pipe bomb and two propane tanks at a Denver-area shopping mall on April 20 was arrested.
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Michelle Schlesinger of Baltimore prays Sunday after receiving Communion during Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Ms. Schlesinger was in town spending the Easter holiday with her sister, who lives in Washington. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Dean West and his wife, Nancy, show off the 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle he has converted to run on all-electrical power in the garage of his home in Milton, Wash. Electric-car advocates say the state of Washington risks alienating Mr. West and others like him with proposed legislation that would impose a $100 annual fee on electric cars to make up for lost gas-tax revenue. (Associated Press)
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Customers peruse cameras and other electronics at the 40,000-square-foot store, which offers merchandise ranging from shoes to samurai swords at between 20 percent and 80 percent off. (Associated Press)
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This space in the attic of the Passive House in Bethesda, Md., shows one of the SIPs, or structurally insulated panels. All joints are taped and/or insulated to help prevent any air leaks. The insulation and sealing are two of the most important components of the Passive House. According to Brendan O'Neill Jr. with the O'Neill Development Corporation, a governing body must certify all work in the house to make sure it meets Passive House standards. This image was made Monday, April 18, 2011. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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The O'Neill Development Corporation and Peabody ArchItects are building the area's first Passive House in Bethesda, Md. Although it looks like a normal house from the outside, it is completely energy efficient and designed to save an average of 90 percent of the cooling and heating energy of a standard home. Some of the features that help are 8-inch-thick walls, triple-glazed windows, and extra insulation and sealing. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Crude gushes from the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the Deepwater Horizon wellhead to house the containment cap at the site of the leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The 2010 explosion at the offshore platform released an estimated 170 million gallons of crude into the Gulf. (Associated Press)
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STOCK SHOCK: Jarrett Johnson (top) of Cohen Capital Group talks to fellow traders Monday at the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks plunged after S&P's credit warning. (Associated Press)
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An above-ground Metrorail station at Washington Dulles International Airport would be located here, outside Daily Garage 1, at the airport in Chantilly, Va. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A victim of a narco-crime is found along a road on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half-dozen words for drug cartel informants and double that for drug war dead, but Mexicans worry that developing a kind of offhand jargon anesthetizes people by making violence seem routine. (Associated Press)
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A trading post undergoes modernization on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 18, 2011. Stocks are sharply lower after Standard & Poor's issued a warning on U.S. government debt. Fears about Europe's debt problems are also pushing markets lower. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
