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Lebanese lawmaker Nagib Mikati, a billionaire businessman with close relations to Syria, is emerging as a candidate favored by Hezbollah to head Lebanon's next government. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil, File)
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Rescuers carry away a man wounded in a blast at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. The explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at the airport, the city's busiest, killing 31 people and wounding 170 others, officials said. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the bombing a terror attack. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is putting together an interim peace plan that would grant the Palestinians limited independence in an attempt to blunt their efforts to win international recognition of an independent state, a government official said Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
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Yemeni students chant slogans calling on their president Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the government and follow Tunisian ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile during a protest Saturday in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)
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A young Tunisian girl waves the Tunisian flag in Tunis, Sunday Jan. 23, 2011, during a demonstration. More than 200 Tunisians who walked or hitchhiked to the North African country's capital are protesting to call for the government to be rid of holdovers from the former president's regime.(AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
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OPPOSING VIEW: Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, will present his party's counterpoints to the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speaks on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. The new House majority leader said he believes President Obama is a citizen, he but refused to characterize people who question Mr. Obama's citizenship as "crazy." (NBC via Associated Press)
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Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia says on "Meet the Press" that he wants to hear what President Obama will say in Tuesday's address to Congress. "The question will be ... whether he will demonstrate that he no longer wants to adhere to more spending," said the new House majority leader. (NBC via Associated Press)
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OPPOSING VIEW: Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, will present his party's counterpoints to the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. (Associated Press)
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A street artist entertains in Istanbul. Turkey, as an emerging power, is struggling to reconcile sharp differences within its society, which is marked by extremes of rich and poor, modern and traditional, secular and Islamic, as well as democratic and authoritarian. (Associated Press)
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Opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov casts his ballot as his wife, Irina Khalip, and son, Danil, look on at a polling station in Minsk last month. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement Sunday about an Israeli government probe of the 2010 Gaza Strip flotilla raid. The military and government were cleared of wrongdoing. Nine passengers were killed in the clash with commandos. (Associated Press)
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"We're not happy with Sen. Lugar's progressive, liberal stance that has worsened over the years," says Monica Boyer, president of the Kosciusko County, Ind.-based tea party group Silent No More. (Associated Press)
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People hold up signs with letters forming a phrase that reads "No more communism" in Spanish during a demonstration Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela, marking a new anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuela's last dictator Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez. Opposition supporters gathered along an avenue in eastern Caracas and chanted anti-government slogans while waving Venezuelan flags. (Associated Press)
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People chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela, marking a new anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuela's last dictator Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez. Opposition supporters gathered along an avenue in eastern Caracas and chanted anti-government slogans while waving Venezuelan flags. (Associated Press)
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A woman dressed as a prisoner holds up chains during a demonstration Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela, marking a new anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuela's last dictator Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez. Opposition supporters gathered along an avenue in eastern Caracas and chanted anti-government slogans while waving Venezuelan flags. (Associated Press)
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A woman, wearing a T-shirt that reads in Spanish "Say no to communism" and holding up a sign that reads in Spanish "No more dictatorship," looks on Sunday during a demonstration in Caracas, Venezuela, marking a new anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuela's last dictator Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez. Opposition supporters gathered along an avenue in eastern Caracas and chanted anti-government slogans while waving Venezuelan flags. (Associated Press)
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A woman wears a gag during a demonstration Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela, marking a new anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuela's last dictator Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez. Opposition supporters gathered along an avenue in eastern Caracas and chanted anti-government slogans while waving Venezuelan flags. (Associated Press)
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People holds up Venezuelan flags during a demonstration Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela, marking a new anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuela's last dictator Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez. Opposition supporters gathered along an avenue in eastern Caracas and chanted anti-government slogans while waving Venezuelan flags. (Associated Press)
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In this photo provided by NBC television, Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speaks Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington. The new House Majority leader said he believes Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question. He refused to call people who question Obama's citizenship "crazy," saying it's not nice to call anyone crazy. (Associated Press/NBC, William B. Plowman)
