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Workers remove debris from a collapsed pedestrian bridge near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The bridge, under construction near the Commonwealth Games main stadium, collapsed Tuesday, injuring at least 23 workers, police said. (Associated Press)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo in Corolla, N.C. a tour group looks at wild horses. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo, wild horses are seen in Corolla, N.C. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo in Corolla, N.C. a tourist and a dog get a little too close to a wild horse. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo in Corolla, N.C., Karen McCalpin, left, Executive Director of the Corolla Wild Horse Fund and Herd Manger Wesley Stallings are seen looking for wild horses. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo in Corolla, N.C. a wild horse lays down for a rest on the beach as vehicles drive by. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo in Corolla, N.C., wild horses walk on the beach as vehicles drive by. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 photo in Corolla, N.C. wild horses are seen in a herd. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's Outer Banks, and now the herd itself may shrink along with its habitat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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A portion of the collapsed bridge is seen near Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. The footbridge under construction near the Commonwealth Games main stadium collapsed on Tuesday. The games are scheduled to be held from Oct. 3-14. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
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FILE - In this March 15, 2004 file photo, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Hua Mei, an American-born giant panda, eats bamboo at the Wolong Nature Reserve in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Hua Mei gave birth to her eighth cub on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, in southwest China, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders. (AP Photo/Xinhua,Chen Xie, File)
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This undated product image released by AT&T, shows the TerreStar Genus phone. On Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, AT&T will start selling its first phone that includes a backstop for AT&T's own network, over a satellite. The new phone, TerreStar Genus, could be an important tool for boaters, fishermen, forest wardens, emergency crews and others who go outside regular cellular coverage. (AP Photo/AT&T) NO SALES.
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In this Sept. 13, 2010 photo, a malnourished Pakistani boy, who came from a camp for people displaced by floods, rests on his bed during a power outage at the Railway Hospital in Sukkur, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. Medical experts warn the real catastrophe is moving much slower than the floodwaters. Children already sick or weak in poor rural areas prior to the floods are now fighting to stay alive as diarrhea, respiratory diseases and malaria attack their emaciated bodies. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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People stand in late August outside the national palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was damaged by a massive earthquake in January. (Associated Press)
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Two men remove rubble in late August from a building destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Most Haitians just live and work around the piles of debris. (Associated Press)
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The remains of a burned house is shown on Monday Sept. 20,2010 in Herriman, Utah after a fire swept though burning more than four homes that were destroyed overnight. A wind-stoked wildfire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across thousands of acres Monday. (AP Photo/Jennifer Dobner)
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Small fires continue to burn near homes in Herriman, Utah on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. A wind-stoked wildfire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across thousands of acres Monday as crews rushed to keep it from burning more than four homes that were destroyed overnight. The fire moved back on itself Monday as the Utah National Guard acknowledged it wasn't the first time that live-fire exercises had sparked a fire at Camp Williams, a sprawling compound 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Scott G Winterton, Pool)
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Ron Stotish, chief executive officer of AquaBounty, the company that applied with the Food and Drug Administration to market genetically modified salmon, speaks to reporters during a break at an FDA advisory committee hearing in Rockville, Md., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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This undated handout photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies shows two same-age salmon, a genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. The Food and Drug Administration pondered Monday whether to say, for the first time, that it's OK to market a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat. (AP Photo/AquaBounty Technologies)
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Local villagers look through a damaged gate of a house that was allegedly raided by international security forces at Matun district of Khost province in Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. One person was allegedly killed and two were taken away after the operation. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)
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Indian villagers move through floodwaters in Bareily in India's Uttar Pradesh state on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of the northern part of the country over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Manjusha Verma)
