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Pope Benedict XVI arrives in his popemobile to celebrate an open air mass in front of the St. Mary's cathedral in Erfurt, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Lower-budget box office winners include "The Fighter" with Christian Bale (left) and Mark Wahlberg. (Associated Press/Paramount Pictures)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS German President Christian Wulff and Chancellor Angela Merkel welcome Pope Benedict XVI at Berlin's airport on Thursday, the start of a four-day visit.
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A former coat factory sits on the proposed mosque site in Lower Manhattan that faced fierce opposition from families of Sept. 11 victims. The Park51 Islamic community center, two blocks from the World Trade Center site, opened to the public Wednesday night. (Associated Press)
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Candidate Derrick Leon Davis votes at the Kettering Baptist Church voting precinct in Upper Marlboro on Tuesday during the 6th District special election in Prince George's County to fill Leslie E. Johnson's County Council seat. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Election judge Yvonne Barnes directs a voter to the check-in table at the Kettering Baptist Church precinct during Prince George's County special election on Tuesday. Winners of the Democratic and Republican primaries will face off in October. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A tear in a campaign banner for Sawsan Taqawi, a candidate in Bahrain's special parliamentary elections, show anti-government protesters in Muqsha, Bahrain. The election is being held Saturday to fill 18 seats vacated by Shiite lawmakers protesting the government's response to a spring uprising.
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In anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to his German homeland, the tabloid Bild Zeitung has covered its headquarters in Berlin with a giant reprint of its front page of April 20, 2005, when Benedict was elected. The headline reads, "We Are Pope!" (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Soldiers clean up a quake-hit house in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. At least seven people have died in the county after Sunday's strong temblor. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wen Tao)
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Members of the Greater Faith Christian Center Church hug each other after a shooting at the church in Lakeland, Fla., on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, wounded the pastor and associate pastor. (AP Photo/The Lakeland Ledger, Pierre DuCharme)
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Julija Kazdailyte, 27, a public servant who is nominally Catholic like many people in Lithuania, says basketball is her country's second religion. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Festival: Annual Greek Festival With the ancestral home of Western-style democracy facing financial collapse, Greece needs our support now more than ever. To that end, the regally named Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church is holding its annual fall festival. It'll feature the usual cultural knickknacks, like dancing and music and delicious food, but also "religious items" and Gyro-Souvlaki "drive-thru." All that's missing is a bailout booth. Sept. 16-17 at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 4115 16th St. NW. Phone: 202.829.2910. Web: http://www.schgoc.org/
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Gulnara Karimova has carved out an image as a fashionable jet-setter, but at home in Uzbekistan she is is viewed as a possible successor to her father, the country's aging authoritarian leader Islam Karimov. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters wave Bahraini flags during a peaceful march Friday in Muqsha, Bahrain. Bahrain's “Arab Spring” crisis is moving into its eighth month. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Members of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) — (from left) Barbara Blaine, Winfried Fesselmann, Emmanuel Henckens and Peter Isely — attend a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, in Voorburg, Netherlands, near The Hague, where a rights group has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy. (AP Photo/Rob Keeris)
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Chuvit Kamolvisit's pose in a coffin during a news conference in 2005 was to signify that his old life as Thailand's "Massage Parlor King" was over. Now a member of parliament, he is rooting out police corruption. (Associated Press)
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Susan E. Rice (second from right), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (Christian Science Monitor)
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Egyptian soldiers guard the shattered entrance of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on Sunday, two days after protesters stormed the building, prompting the evacuation of nearly the entire staff from Egypt in the worst crisis between the countries since their 1979 peace treaty. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian army officers arrest a suspected demonstrator at the site of clashes between protesters and anti-riot policemen near the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept.10, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, speaks to reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in Washington. (Michael Bonfigli/Christian Science Monitor)
