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People clean up after a car bomb attack hit a Shiite mosque in the neighborhood of Bayaa, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July. 29, 2013. A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing scores in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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A firefighter walks amongst the the wreckage of a bus and a blood-stained guardrail hours after the bush crashed off a highway near Avellino, southern Italy, Monday, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
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Huma Abedin for mayor? She's been suggested as an alternate candidate for mayor of New York by some political observers in the wake of the sexting scandal involving her husband, Anthony D. Weiner. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, on Sunday won an early straw poll for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But Mr. Cruz isn't discussing White House aspirations yet. "At this point, 100 percent of my focus is on the U.S. Senate," he said. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, July 28, 2013. Mr. Netanyahu urged his skeptical coalition partners Sunday to agree to free Palestinian prisoners as part of U.S efforts to resume peace talks, calling the deal a "tough decision" that he took for the good of the country. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)
