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The distorted main lithium-ion battery of the All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 that had to make an emergency landing is dismantled by investigators in Kyoto, Japan. (Japan Transport Safety Board via Associated Press)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Putin discussed financial situation surrounding restoration works in Russia’s southern town of Krymsk, severely affected by floods last summer. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, pool)
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In this photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, The inside view of the Adler-arena speed skating venue at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, with just one year till the opening ceremony of the winter Olympic 2014 Sochi Games. The Black Sea resort of Sochi is a vast construction site sprawling for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) along the coast and 50 kilometers (30 miles) up into the mountains, with no escape from the clang and clatter of the construction works, the drilling, jack-hammering and mixing of cement. (AP Photo/Igor Yakunin)
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In this photo dated Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, the Iceberg skating arena seen at night at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, with just one year till the opening ceremony of the winter Olympic 2014 Sochi Games. The Black Sea resort of Sochi is a vast construction site sprawling for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) along the coast and 50 kilometers (30 miles) up into the mountains, with no escape from the clang and clatter of the construction works, the drilling, jack-hammering and mixing of cement. (AP Photo/Igor Yakunin)
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File - In this file photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin locks a collar with a satellite tracker on the tranquilized five-year-old Ussuri tiger in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East as he took a part in the national program for preserving the population of the Ussuri tiger conducted by researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Animal-loving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been accused of staging his famous encounter with a tigress three years ago. St. Petersburg-based environmentalists Dmitry Molodtsov says that photos of the animal that Putin tagged with a GPS collar in 2008 and subsequent images of what preservationists claimed was the same tigress in fact showed two different animals, indicating that Putin's tigress never was let out into the wild. Molodtsov claimed Friday that Putin's tigress was borrowed from a local zoo for the occasion. A coordinator at the government-funded Amur tiger conservation project dismissed his claim as untrue.(AP Photo / RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
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associated press Maryland senior forward James Padgett made the most of being called on in Saturday’s 86-60 victory over Wake Forest. In just his second start of the conference season, he scored 12 points on 6-for-6 shooting from the field.
