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President Obama listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks across the table from him Tuesday during the East Asia Summit at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Associated Press)
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An Israeli security officer stands next to a blown-up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv on Nov. 21, 2012. The bomb ripped through the bus near the nation's military headquarters, wounding several people, Israeli officials said. The blast came amid a weeklong Israeli offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza. (Associated Press)
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Israeli police officers examine a blown-up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 19, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama "douses 11 flames" as he tours the Shwedagon Pagoda with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Yangon, Myanmar. Little noticed during Obama's landmark visit to Myanmar was a significant concession that could shed light on whether that nation's powerful military pursued a clandestine nuclear weapons program, possibly with North Korea's help. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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A man feeds pigeons outside the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the targets of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. India executed the lone surviving Pakistani gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai early Wednesday, providing Indians much-needed closure over the three-day rampage that shook the nation's core and deepened enmity with neighbor Pakistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, says he will block any nomination of Susan E. Rice to become secretary of state. (Associated Press)
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Committee on Government Operations Chairman Muriel Bowser, Ward 4 Democrat, asks a question of D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan on ways to improve campaign finance rules during a meeting Tuesday with other D.C. Council members. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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At the invitation of Muriel Bowser, chairman of the D.C. Council’s Committee on Government, Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan discusses Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s proposal to overhaul campaign finance on Tuesday with members of the panel. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, is flanked by From the left, Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James F. Amos (left) and Lt. Col. Jeffrey Scott to inaugurate Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 on Tuesday in Yuma, Ariz. (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.)
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"Inaugural chic" is percolating at Isabelle’s Okyo Salon, home of the trusted hairdresser for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. John F. Kerry, among others. (Art Soiree)