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Christopher Pratt, chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, attends a company announcement in Hong Kong Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The airline company is ordering 27 new Airbus and Boeing jets to expand services, especially in Asia, and says profits tripled. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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National Public Radio says CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned in the aftermath of a fundraiser's remarks on hidden video. (Associated Press/NPR, Michael Benabib)
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Former Godfather's Pizza Chief Executive Herman Cain is among those cultivating the GOP grass roots in Iowa this week. (Herman Cain Presidential Exploratory Committee)
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An anti-Gadhafi rebel runs away as smoke rises following an airstrike by Libyan warplanes in Ras Lanouf, Libya, a key oil port on the Mediterranean coast, on Monday. (Associated Press)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray wants $76 million in new public school spending for the next fiscal year, but more budget cuts are possible. (Associated Press)
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An anti-government rebel sits with an anti-aircraft weapon in front an oil refinery, after the capture of the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, on March 5, 2011. Oil prices climbed to near $107 a barrel Monday as intense fighting between Libyan government forces and rebels appeared to be turning into a civil war and raised the prospect of a prolonged cut in crude exports from the OPEC nation. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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'PUSHED' FAR ENOUGH: Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said further domestic spending cuts would put "more kids out of school." (Associated Press)
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A tornado slammed Rayne, La., on Saturday, March 5, 2011, killing a young mother who was sheltering her child and injuring 11 other people. More than 100 homes were damaged, many of them destroyed, authorities said, and about 1,500 people were evacuated because of natural gas leaks. (AP Photo/The Lafayette Daily Advertiser, P.C. Piazza)
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Geoffrey Friedman of Baclays Capital keeps an eye on stock prices from his booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Specialist Frank Masiello, left, talks with trader James Riley on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Henry Becker directs trades in shares of MetLife on Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange, where investors watched stocks make substantial gains despite a surge in oil prices because of the turmoil in Libya and neighboring countries. (Associated Press)
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Audi connect is creating revolutionary infotainment and entertainment functionalities and taking automotive comfort and fun to a new level.
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A man drinks coffee outside of the state Capitol on Thursday in Madison, Wis., as campers wake up after spending the night. Demonstrators are in their 16th day of protests. (Associated Press)
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Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell wants to boost Alaska's declining energy production with tax cuts on oil and gas companies. His proposal, which modifies a tax structure implemented by former Gov. Sarah Palin, passed a House committee 7-2 this week. (Associated Press)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2 in San Francisco on Wednesday. It was his first public appearance since he began medical leave in January, and it prompted a standing ovation. (Bloomberg)
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Apple Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs stands under images of the iPad 2, left, and the iPad at an Apple event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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RESOLUTE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke recommends against deep spending cuts this year. (Associated Press)
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Banker Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower implicated in a tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG (left) and Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, hold a press conference in January 2010 before Birkenfeld reports to a federal prison. (Associated Press)
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The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is on display at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, in Chicago. General Motors' U.S. car and truck sales jumped 49 percent in February, aided by sweeter financing and lease deals. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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** FILE ** Rajat Gupta, chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, listens to a statement during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in June 2009. Federal regulators on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, charged Mr. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs board member, with insider trading. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella, File)
