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** FILE ** Cuba's Fidel Castro delivers a speech during the 50th anniversary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution on Sept. 28, 2010, in Havana. Mr. Castro said on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, that he resigned five years ago from all his official positions, including head of Cuba's Communist Party, a position he was thought still to hold. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)
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UEFA president Michel Platini of France smiles to acknowledge applause after being re-elected during the 35th Ordinary UEFA Congress at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Platini has been re-elected as UEFA President until 2015 by acclaim of Europe's 53 football nations. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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**FILE** Actor Denzel Washington speaks Dec. 11, 2010, at a press conference before a concert in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo. (Associated Press)
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In this undated theater publicity image released by The Publicity Office, Kristen Bush, left, and Laura Heisler are shown in a scene from "Kin," a play by Bathsheba Doran, performing off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in New York.(AP Photo/The Publicity Office, Joan Marcus)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a graduation ceremony for Afghan military officers at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Mr. Karzai said Afghan security forces soon will take charge of securing seven areas around the country. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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An anti-government protester salutes Yemeni army soldiers who joined them during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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**FILE** A photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an F-15E Strike eagle in-flight over Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2008. (Associated Press/U.S Air Force/Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon)
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An Iranian cleric tours a battlefield from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war on Sunday, the eve of the Persian New Year. President Obama's holiday message criticized Iran's "campaign of intimidation and abuse." (Associated Press)
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THIS WAY TO THE FRONT: Libyan rebels observe the front line on the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, in eastern Libya on Monday. The international military intervention in Libya is likely to last awhile, a top French official said. (Associated Press)
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President Obama delivers a speech to all Latin Americans from the Centro Cultural La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile, on Monday. "Today, there are no senior partners and there are no junior partners, there are only equal partners," he said about U.S. ties with Latin America. (Associated Press)
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A veteran of Haiti's former army speaks in a tent adorned with a painting of Haiti's independence hero Jean Jacques Dessalines. Laurent Dubois, a Haitian historian, says the key for the country is to determine what role a new military will have. (Associated Press)
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Civilian volunteers receive military instruction from veterans of Haiti's former army in Port-au-Prince. Haiti has been without an army since 1995, when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide disbanded the military after he was deposed in a coup and then restored to power with the help of U.N. forces. The two candidates who faced off in Sunday's presidential vote say they support restoring the armed forces in some form. (Associated Press)
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AT&T on Sunday announced plans to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion. The transaction, which would catapult AT&T past Verizon as the largest cellphone company in the U.S., still needs regulatory approval from the federal government. (Associated Press)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and wife Callista are now documentary filmmakers. The documentary explores the effect the visit had on Poland's anti-communist opposition. (Associated Press)
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Greg Kinnear portrays President John F. Kennedy in "The Kennedys," originally intended for airing on the History Channel. (www.reelzchannel.com)
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Former Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao sought to overturn a federal campaign finance restriction. (Associated Press)
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President Obama said Monday at La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile, that it will be a matter of "days" before the U.S. turns over leadership of the air attacks on Libya to others. (Associated Press)
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President Obama delivers a speech to all Latin Americans from the Centro Cultural La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile, on Monday. "Today, there are no senior partners and there are no junior partners, there are only equal partners," he said about U.S. ties with Latin America. (Associated Press)
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Protesters demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a demonstration Monday in the national capital, Sanaa. (Associated Press)
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UEFA president Michel Platini of France smiles to acknowledge applause after being re-elected during the 35th Ordinary UEFA Congress at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Platini has been re-elected as UEFA President until 2015 by acclaim of Europe's 53 football nations. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
