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Hard-line Islamist Al-Shabab fighters conduct military exercises in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood in Somalia Monday Aug. 23, 2010. The group's senior officials said the young fighters have recently completed training to join what they said to be a global war against the enemy of Allah. (AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman (left), the former chief executive of eBay, and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who is challenging Sen. Barbara Boxer, a liberal stalwart reviled by conservatives, are both in dead heats, some polls say.
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PRIMARY CONCERN: Rep. Kendrick B. Meek greets diners Monday at the West Tampa Sandwich Shop in his last-ditch effort to fend off another businessman and political newcomer, Jeff Greene, in Florida's Democratic Senate primary Tuesday. Alaska, Arizona and Vermont also hold primaries Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Senate candidate Joe Miller has been campaigning door to door in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Miller has the support of the "tea party" movement and the backing of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (Associated Press)
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CORPORATE CAMPAIGNING: GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Snyder, who has shocked many with his sucess, is among the several businesspeople who have entered the political spectrum this year. (Associated Press)
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Billionaire Jeff Greene, Democratic candidate for Florida Senate, is laying out a reported $24 million to challenge Rep. Kendrick B. Meek. (Associated Press)
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Police and SWAT members rush a tourist bus to rescue hostages on Monday in Manila, Philippines. Rolando Mendoza, an ex-policeman armed with an automatic rifle, seized the bus and demanded reinstatement. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero talks during a brief press conference in Madrid, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Israel and the Palestinians will resume long-stalled direct peace talks in Washington early next month with the aim of reaching a settlement in a year's time, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.(AP Photo/Atef Safadi, Pool)
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Federal police officers examine one of their vehicles after it crashed during a gunbattle in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Saturday. At least one gunman was killed and three police officers were injured. (Associated Press)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he decided to ban private security firms in his country because they were contributing to corruption. (Associated Press)
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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, and former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, a Republican, are vying for the seat being vacated by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Marleine Bastien speaks to attendees at the first of two congressional candidate forums in North Miami, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Haitian-Americans have the best opportunity yet to represent themselves in Congress, with an open House seat in a South Florida district that includes more Haitians than any other district in the country. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Haitian-born singer and presidential candidate Wyclef Jean, right, exits a hotel room after Haiti's Electoral Council rejected his presidential candidacy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The council's spokesman Richard Dumel announced Friday that it has accepted 19 presidential candidacies and has rejected 15 others for the upcoming Nov. 28 presidential election, including Jean's because he did not meet the residency requirement of having lived in Haiti for five years before election. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducts his weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Mr. Netanyahu spelled out his opening position for the new round of Mideast peace talks set to begin next week, insisting on key security conditions and saying an agreement would be "difficult but possible." (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, leader of the Labor Party, poses for a photo with an unidentified man in her hometown of Altona in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. It could take more than a week to learn who will govern Australia after a cliffhanger election, the closest in nearly 50 years, and the winner may have to woo the support of a handful of independent lawmakers in order to assume power. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)
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Liberal party leader Tony Abbott arrives on stage at a hotel in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010 on election night to address supporters. Australians chose Saturday between giving their first female prime minister her own election mandate and returning to a conservative government after just three years. With more than 75 percent of the votes counted, the results were too close to call. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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U.S. Army Capt. Mark Fisher, left, leans down to kiss his daughter Madeline, 2, as he sits to have lunch with her and another daughter after arriving at nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord the evening before Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in DuPont, Wash. Fisher had just returned from a nearly one-year tour in Iraq, his second there. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama's Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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The last in a convoy of U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicles leave Iraq at the Khabari border crossing into Kuwait, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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A South Korean journalist looks at a computer screen showing an alleged North Korean Facebook account which carries content condemning "warmongers" South Korea and the U.S. in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Reclusive North Korea appears to have added Facebook to the list of social network services it has recently joined to ramp up its propaganda war against South Korea and the U.S. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
