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Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, who signs his work as 'Zapiro', poses for a photo next to a local newspaper at his office in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. South Africa's president has filed a $700,000 defamation suit over a cartoon depicting him with his pants undone, preparing to rape a blindfolded, female figure symbolizing justice, a lawyer said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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The Supreme Court's newest member, Justice Elena Kagan, is recusing herself from cases she handled as solicitor general. (Associated Press)
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Rapper Ja Rule leaves court in New York, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. He pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon stemming from a July 2007 stop of his luxury sports car. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Supporters of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, hold posters with his photo during a protest in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on alleged sex crime charges.(AP Photo )
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A police officer looks on as a car is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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A police officer cordons off the area before a car, center, is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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The media gather as a police officer walks outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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Head of Swedish Security Police, SAPO, security department Anders Thornberg, left, and Chief prosecutor Thomas Linstrand, right, talk to the media during a press conference Monday Dec. 13, 2010 in Stockholm. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Pontus Lundahl)
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In this image from video, showing emergency services as they attend the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm on Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. Two separate explosions shook the busy shopping area in central Stockholm on Saturday. This car exploded and another unexplained explosion happened shortly after leaving one person dead, rescue officials said. (AP photo/TV4)
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Rapper Ja Rule, left, is seen inside a vehicle outside Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion charges, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Newark, N.J. Ja Rule admitted he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million earned between 2004 and 2006. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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In this photo released by state-run Press TV, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, stands in the courtyard of her home in the city of Osku, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2010. The 43-year-old mother of two was brought from the prison to her home in northwestern Iran to "produce a visual recount of the crime at the murder scene," Press TV announced, denying reports that she had been released. (AP Photo/Press TV) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.
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Claes Borgstrom (left), the lawyer for the two women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Sweden in August, talks to the media at his office in Stockholm on Wednesday. Mr. Borgstrom, whose office is under police protection, denied that the case had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the current U.S. interest in Mr. Assange. (Associated Press)
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Marianne Ny (back left), Swedish director of public prosecution, answers questions at police headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Tuesday. She said in a statement that she had moved to have Mr. Assange extradited to Sweden on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. (Associated Press)
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Sidney, N.Y., town Supervisor Robert McCarthy reacts to pleas from town residents for an apology for an earlier injunction sought against a Sufi cemetery. (Associated Press)
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This image provided by NASA, taken Oct. 6, 2004, by the Cassini Saturn Probe, shows the planet Saturn and its rings. One of the most evocative mysteries of the solar system, where Saturn got its stunning rings, may actually be a case of cosmic murder with an unnamed moon of Saturn, that disappeared about 4.5 billion years ago, as the potential victim. Suspicion has fallen on a disk of hydrogen gas, that surrounded Saturn when its dozens of moons were forming, but has now fled the scene. And the cause of death? A possible forced plunge into Saturn. (AP Photo/NASA)
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A good Samaritan tries to help free a woman's car from the snow as a winter storm hits St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
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A large image of the Virgin of Guadalupe looms over the plaza where rival gangs held a gunbattle in Tecalitlan, in Mexico's Jalisco state, late Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. At least 11 people were killed, the Jalisco state attorney general's office said. (AP Photo/Raul Aguilar)
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This image from video shows emergency services as they attend the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Two separate explosions shook the busy shopping area in central Stockholm on Saturday. This car exploded and another unexplained explosion happened shortly after leaving one person dead, rescue officials said. (AP photo/TV4)
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Denver Broncos rookie cornerback Perrish Cox is seen in a photo provided Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 by the Douglas County, Colo., Sherrif's Office. Police in a south Denver suburb say Cox has been arrested for investigation of felony sexual assault. Michelle Kivela, the public information officer for the city of Lone Tree, Colo., says Cox was arrested Thursday night following an investigation into an Oct. 28 incident. The case filing has been sealed at the request of the district attorney's office. (AP Photo/Douglas County Sherrif's Office)
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010.(AP Photo/John Raoux)
