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A Marine platoon faces off against an alien invasion in Los Angeles in Columbia Pictures' action thriller "Battle: Los Angeles."
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A bicyclist passes hundreds of motorists lining a Fukushima highway in hopes of filling their gas tanks. Massive shortages continue, and Fukushima residents are wondering whether they will ever be able to live again in areas around radiation leakages. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this video image taken March 11, 2011 from Japan's NHK TV, a wave from the tsunami heads to the coast in Miyagi Prefecture on the north east coast of Japan following a massive earth quake. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2004 file photo, Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide listens to a journalist's question during a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Rumors of Aristide's return have circulated in Haiti for weeks. Aristide built a following among the country's poverty-stricken population as a priest-turned-activist, among the leaders of the 1986 movement to oust the despotic Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. He became Haiti's first democratically elected leader in 1990 but was toppled a few months later by a military junta. He was ousted a second time, in the 2004 rebellion and flown into exile in South Africa. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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President of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Mohamed bin Hammam poses after the Vision Asia partnership signing ceremony at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Bin Hammam is refusing to reveal until Friday whether he will challenge Japan began rolling blackouts to conserve power Monday as it tried desperately to stabilize nuclear reactors at risk of meltdown in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. for the FIFA presidency. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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FILE - This Friday, Oct. 13, 1991 file picture shows part of the collapsed roof at the Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear power plant during a media tour of the facility. The idea of smothering and sealing Japan's overheated nuclear reactors in sand or concrete to stop the crisis is appealing. But experts say that it's too early for something that desperate and that it could be a big mistake that could make matters worse. Alex Sich, a nuclear engineer at Franciscan University in Ohio, who has lived in Chernobyl and published research on the disaster there, noted that Russian authorities dumped some 5,000 tons of sand, clay and other materials from helicopters in an attempt to smother that dangerous reactor. But the Japanese situation is different, he said. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano, center, speaks to journalists upon his arrival at Narita International Airport in Narita, near Tokyo Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Keisuke Kimura)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media about the nuclear emergency triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan before his takeoff to Japan at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Residents observes a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011, at the time when a strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan one week ago. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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DANGER: Thick smoke billows from the No. 3 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. A nearly completed new power line could restore cooling systems to the tsunami-damaged structure, its operator said Thursday. (Associated Press)
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President Obama signs the condolence book as Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., looks on during his visit to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Thursday. Mr. Obama placed a telephone call to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday to discuss Japan's efforts to recover from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant. (Associated Press)
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Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, China, after heavy rains last summer. Critical infrastructure controlled by computers, including dams, pipelines and factories, are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks in China than in other countries, security specialists say. Three Gorges is the largest dam in the world. (Associated Press)
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The Visual Performance Evaluation Lab (VPEL) affords technicians a controlled environment in which to test vehicle interior components to verify that they are lit properly and legible inside the vehicle environment.
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The Visual Performance Evaluation Lab (VPEL) affords technicians a controlled environment in which to test vehicle interior components to verify that they are lit properly and legible inside the vehicle environment.
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A Japan Self-Defense Forces helicopter scoops sea water off Japan's northeast coast on its way to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Japan, on Thursday morning, March 17, 2011. Helicopters dumped water on a stricken reactor at the plant in the country's northeast to cool overheated fuel rods inside the core. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Kenji Shimizu)
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An Environmental Protection Agency RadNet (radiation network) monitor is shown on the roof of the Bay Area Air Quality Management building in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Federal environmental regulators said they are adding more radiation monitors in the Western United States and the Pacific territories as concerns rise over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan. (AP Photo)
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Shoppers mob a supermarket for salt purchase in Lanzhou in northwest China's Gansu province Thursday, March 17, 2011. Residents in a few Chinese cities have gone on a buying spree of iodized salt in the belief that it would ward off radiation pollution as a result of the troubled nuclear reactors in Japan following an earthquake. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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Emperor Akihito tried to calm the nerves of his nation's people during a televised address on Wednesday. He expressed his condolences to those who have suffered since the earthquake and tsunami and urged them not to give up. (Associated Press)
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HOMELESS: A woman walks around the devastated area in snowy and cold Ofunato in northern Japan where her home used to be before the earthquake and tsunami on Wednesday. Emperor Akihito appeared on TV across Japan in a prerecorded message that lasted about six minutes. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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This satellite photo taken on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, and provided by DigitalGlobe shows the damage to the reactor buildings of Units 1, 3 and 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeast Japan. Steam can be seen venting from the Unit 2 reactor building, as well as from the Unit 3 reactor building. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)
