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Demonstrators set up a barricade during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Women collect water next to their tents in a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. A month-old cholera epidemic in Haiti has killed at least 1,000 people and hospitalized thousands.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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earthquake refugees react after receiving tear gas during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski greets supporters at the Laborers International Hall, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)
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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2010, file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigns for Senate candidate Joe Miller, left in Anchorage, Alaska. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's stunning write-in victory was a political poke in the eye to Alaska's other favorite daughter, Sarah Palin. (AP Photo/Rob Stapleton)
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Timberlake Homes is building 28 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Poplar Hill Estates in Clinton. The homes have 2,434 to 3,464 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,900 to $489,900.
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The condominium homes at the Isabella at Monticello Mews include sleek kitchens with granite counters, an undermount sink, a breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances, pendant lighting and under-cabinet lighting.
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Della Ratta Inc. is building 144 condominium homes at the Isabella at Monticello Mews near Alexandria. The homes have 781 to 1,673 finished square feet, with base prices from $244,900 to $550,000.
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A diver loads 200-year-old bottles of Champagne into a crate after being rescued from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea in this undated photo released to the media on Nov. 17, 2010. The world's oldest Champagne was discovered in July in a shipwreck, 50 meters (yards) below the surface, in the waters south of Aaland, a Finnish-controlled archipelago of 6,500 islands in the Baltic sea. Photographer: Alex Dawson/Aalands Landskapsregering via Bloomberg
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A diver inspects 200-year-old bottles of Champagne at the site of a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea in this undated photo released to the media on Nov. 17, 2010. The world's oldest Champagne was discovered in July in a shipwreck, 50 meters (yards) below the surface, in the waters south of Aaland, a Finnish-controlled archipelago of 6,500 islands in the Baltic sea. Photographer: Alex Dawson/Aalands Landskapsregering via Bloomberg
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Associated Press A building site where the remaining apartments of a development were to have been built sits idle on the outskirts of Dublin on Monday. Debt-burdened Ireland is talking with other European Union governments about how best to handle its troubled finances, officials said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Four Loko is among the caffeinated alcoholic beverages that federal authorities say have created a "very important public health issue."
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A relative reacts as rescue workers, unseen, search for bodies and survivors amid debris after a four-story apartment building collapsed in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Dozens of residents were killed and scores injured when the 15-year-old building housing about 200 people collapsed late Monday night, police reports said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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A child with cholera symptoms is treated by volunteer American doctors at a hospital in Archaie, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and thousands have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti, with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A woman suffering cholera symptoms is carried to St. Catherine hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders, in the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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UN peacekeepers from Brazil patrols at a earthquake survivors refugee camp in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for an outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in Cap-Haitien, the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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A woman with cholera symptoms is helped after her arrival to a hospital in Archaie, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and thousands have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti, with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Members of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization attend morning prayers for Eid al Adha at a temporary shelter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov . 16, 2010. Thousands of villagers returned to ash-covered homes along the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano Monday, after the government said some areas well away from the fiery crater appeared out of danger from another eruption. (AP Photo)
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Members of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization attend morning prayers for Eid al Adha at a temporary shelter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Thousands of villagers returned to ash-covered homes along the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano Monday, after the government said some areas well away from the fiery crater appeared out of danger from another eruption. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Work continues to excavate what could become the foundation for a new nuclear power plant near the existing nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle (background), located in Waynesboro, Ga.
