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FILE - In this June 26, 2010 file photo, Uruguay's Luis Suarez celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Uruguay and South Korea at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Liverpool said it expected to complete the signing of Uruguay forward Luis Suarez from Ajax for euro 26.5 million ($36 million). (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
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Sen. Mark Warner (left), Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican, are working on a bill that incorporates controversial recommendations from the president's fiscal commission. Mr. Warner said Monday that Congress must cut federal spending, "including entitlement programs," enact comprehensive tax reform and "grow the economy by adopting an innovation and growth agenda." He added, "It will require all three of those elements because no single one of them alone will get the job done." (Associated Press)
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A man identified only as Fathi, wearing the uniform of a captain in the Egyptian army, is carried by demonstrators on Tahrir, or Liberation Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday Jan. 31, 2011. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified leadership was emerging for Egypt's powerful but disparate protest movement. In an apparent attempt to show change, Mubarak named a new government, but the lineup dominated by regime stalwards was greeted with scorn by protesters. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Egyptian protesters gather in front of razor-wire barricades, used to blocked Tahrir square, to prevent others from removing it in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 11, 2011. Protesters remain barricaded in Cairo's central square to demand the removal of the military council ruling Egypt, infuriated after soldiers stormed their protest camp Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring 71 others. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde talks with migrants at a shelter in Chahuites, in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state, on Jan. 8. He warns migrants of their risk of being abducted and perhaps killed by the Zetas-linked kidnappers. (Associated Press)
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A migrant from Central America stands outside a migrant house, as do local police in the town of Arriaga, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, on Jan. 6. More than forty such migrants were abducted in Oaxaca in a December incident; 20 subsequently escaped. (Associated Press)
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Police officers detain an opposition activist during a banned anti-Kremlin protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Opposition groups have been calling rallies on the 31st day of each month to honor Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. Most of the rallies have been banned or dispersed by police as unsanctioned. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Opposition leader Eduard Limonov, center, is seen during a rally in central Moscow, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Opposition groups have been calling rallies on the 31st day of each month to honor Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. Most of the rallies have been banned or dispersed by police as unsanctioned. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Opposition leader Eduard Limonov, left, and a supporter are seen in a police van after they were detained during a rally in Moscow on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Opposition groups have been calling rallies on the 31st day of each month to honor Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. Most of the rallies have been banned or dispersed by police as unsanctioned. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Russian police officers cordon off an area during a rally in central Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Opposition groups have been calling rallies on the 31st day of each month to honor Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. Most of the rallies have been banned or dispersed by police as unsanctioned. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, center, gestures as he speaks to people during a rally in central Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. At left is Solidarity movement activist Ilya Yashin, at right is prominent rights activist Lev Ponomaryov. Opposition groups have been calling rallies on the 31st day of each month to honor Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. Most of the rallies have been banned or dispersed by police as unsanctioned. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows an undercover video at City Hall in New York on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, in which, Mr. Bloomberg said, undercover investigators working for the city were not required to pass a background check at a Phoenix gun show when they bought a pistol with an extended magazine. (AP Photo/New York City Mayor's Office, Edward Reed)
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Anti-government protesters offer their evening prayers Monday in front of an Egyptian army tank securing the area during a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (Associated Press)
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Commissioner Linda Bond, a Canadian, will take office as general of the Salvation Army on April 2, 2011. She will be the third female international leader in the movement's history. [Photo by Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times]
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** FILE ** Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, in August 2010. (AP Photo/International Iran Photo Agency, Ebrahim Norouzi, File)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius,left, and Agriculture Tom Vilsack, take part in a press conference at George Washington University in Washington, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, announcing new dietary guidelines to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront obesity epidemic. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Myanmar security police officers check a bus carrying elected representatives towards the parliament building Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar opened its first parliament in more then two decades Monday, an event greeted with cautious optimism by opposition lawmakers despite the military's tight management of the event. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, swears in Cabinet Minister for Communications and Information Technologies Tariq Mohamed Kmel Mamoud, front left, during a ceremony Monday Jan. 31, 2011. ( AP Photo / Egypt State TV)
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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2010, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi waits through a stoppage in play against the San Antonio Silver Stars in Game 1 of the WNBA Western Conference basketball semifinal series in Phoenix. On Sunday, Taurasi told The Associated Press in her first interview since testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug that she never took any banned substance. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)
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On the presidential campaign trail in Anderson, S.C., on Feb. 6, 1980, Ronald Reagan marks his 69th birthday, pulling up a chunk of the cake along with the candle, as wife Nancy looks on. Festivities will mark his birth centennial this week. (Associated Press)
