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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping can be seen on a video screen as he speaks Wednesday to the U.S.-China Business Council in Washington. "Despite some twists and turns, U.S.-China relations have continued moving forward," he said. "It is on a course that cannot be stopped or reversed." (Associated Press)
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The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas offers such fare as "bypass" burgers, "flatliner" fries and "butterfat" shakes on its menu. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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President Obama shakes hands with DiAndre Jackson as he is introduced Feb. 15, 2012, at the Master Lock Company in Milwaukee, where he spoke about the importance of American manufacturing. (Associated Press)
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In this combination of images made from surveillance video on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, three Iranian bomb-plot suspects, identified by police as (from left) Saeid Moradi, Mohammad Kharzei and Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, walk down the middle of a residential street in Bangkok after a blast at an explosives-filled house where the three were staying. (AP Photo/National Thai Police)
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From left; Former Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., her husband Mark Kelly, and Roxanna Green, obscured, the mother of the nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green who was killed while attending the meeting of constituents when Giffords was shot, attend a ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, to unveil the USS Gabrielle Giffords. The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2012, file photo, Beaux Barfield poses on the start/finish line after he was named to replace Brian Barnhart as the IndyCar race director during an announcement at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. With the IndyCar Series still recovering from Dan Wheldon's death, Barfield said Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, double-file restarts would be scrapped at Indianapolis, Texas and Fontana and more changes to improve safety could be announced before next month's season-opener at St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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IndyCar Series race director Beaux Barfield made the decision to scrap double-file restarts at three tracks after talking directly with drivers. (Associated Press)
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Edwin Jackson signed a one-year deal with the Nationals worth $11 million. The rest of the starting rotation will make a combined $17.5 million in 2012. (Associated Press)
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Shoppers visit a store at the Dragon Mart in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. China is forging deeper ties to Saudi Arabia and other U.S.-allied Arab nations across the Gulf. Chinese firms are helping build the Gulf's railways, Arab investors are pumping cash into Chinese banks and the Dubai airport is racing to keep its duty-free shelves stocked with Chunghwa cigarettes coveted by businessmen from Beijing. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken on Feb. 3, 2012, Maximiliana Quillahuaman, left, talks as Micaela Flores looks on after an interview in Lima, Peru. Quillahuaman and Flores were both coerced into being sterilized during a 1995-2000 program that sterilized more than 300,000 women, mostly poor, illiterate Indians. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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Thai explosive ordnance disposal officers examine the site in Bangkok at which an Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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A new bronze statue depicting the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (right) and his father, Kim Il-sung, stands on the grounds of the Mansudae Art Studio after it was unveiled in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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An $13 million campaign aims to persuade city residents to change their travel patterns to ease the strain on public transport. (Transport via Associated Press)
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The Angels lured slugger Albert Pujols from St. Louis to the West Coast with a 10-year, $240 million deal. It was the biggest free agent signing off the offseason. (Associated Press)
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Delegate Robert G. Marshall holds a book as he reads to the House during debate on a bill defining life at the moment of conception during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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The city of Havana can be seen in the background as people fish from a dock in Havana Bay. The United States imposed an economic embargo on Cuba 50 years ago to pressure the regime of Fidel Castro. (Associated Press)
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Ongoing operations to remove fuel from the half-sunken hulk of the luxury ship Costa Concordia a month after it ran aground are seen outside the port of Isola del Giglio, off Italy's Tuscan coast, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Giorgio Fanciulli)
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**FILE** Sarah Ryan (left) and Shelby Knox of Change.org arrive Feb. 9, 2012, at the Apple store at Grand Central Terminal in New York to deliver petitions asking Apple to change its manufacturing practices and to address criticism of worker conditions at manufacturing partners operating in China. (Associated Press)
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Olli Rehn, European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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**FILE** Morgan the cow stops to eat grass on her way to being milked at a rally held by Grassfed on the Hill at Upper Senate Park in Washington on May 16, 2011. The rally was held to protest the sting operation the FDA conducted against Pennsylvania dairy farmer Daniel Allgyer and his private buying customers. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
