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Emergency workers look at an off-highway vehicle that lost control and barreled into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, during the California 200 off-road race at Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area near Lucerne Valley, Calif. Eight people were killed and 12 injured, authorities say. (AP Photo/Kris Reilly, Victor Valley Daily Press)
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Pakistani flood affected villagers sit in the rubble of their houses, in Aza Kheil near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Residents of camps set up for people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake demonstrate in front of the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010. Demonstrators said the government is failing on its promises to provide housing as private landowners pressure the camp residents to leave. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This image provided by NASA of the Petermann Glacier and the new iceberg was acquired from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Thursday Aug. 12, 2010. It covers an area of 49.5 by 31.5 kilometers (30.7 by 19.5 miles), four times the size of New York's Manhattan island. According to scientists the recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years. (AP Photo/NASA)
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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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A Russian Emergency Ministry Ka-32 helicopter spews water onto a burning a forest in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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A firefighter battling a fire in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug. 13 , 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, cut a tree, as they try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 made available Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 photo a volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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Oleg Mikhailov, 42, whose house burned to the ground cleans some coins he found at the site of a fire in the village of Kartonosovo affected by a wildfire, Ryazan region, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Hundreds of wildfires sparked by the hottest summer ever in Russia have engulfed large areas. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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**FILE** In this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), the reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen, just outside the port city of Bushehr 750 miles (1245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, in this Nov. 30, 2009 file photo. Russia's nuclear agency spokesman Sergei Novikov said Friday Aug. 13, 2010 it will load fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant next week, marking the start of its launch. (AP Photo/ISNA, Mehdi Ghasemi) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES
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In this photo released by Sincrocine Producoes Cinematograficas , Brazilian actor Guilherme Berenguer touches the 15-month-old jaguar named Catarina in Santarem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 2010. Catarina, an endangered spotted jaguar rescued from poachers, is one of the stars of a soon-to-released feature film shot in the Brazilian Amazon, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sincrocine Producoes Cinematograficas)
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee exchange documents after signing the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, during a ceremony at the State Department, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee clasp hands after signing the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy during a ceremony at the State Department, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Residents remove belongings from their home as water from the South Skunk River floods neighborhoods in Colfax, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)
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A1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk,Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea, and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)
