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The bodies of the 58 male and 14 female massacre victims are seen inside the abandoned warehouse where they were found in San Fernando in eastern Mexico. They were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras trying to get to the United States. (Associated Press)
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Marleni Xiomara Suarez Ortega, weeps as she speaks to the press while holding up a photo of her late husband, Miguel Angel Carcamo, outside of her home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Saturday Aug. 28, 2010. Her husband purportedly was among the 72 migrants killed in northern Mexico by, what could be, a gang of drug traffickers.(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
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Supporters of National Council of Resistance of Iran in France protest the death sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, at Trocadero square in Paris, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Ms. Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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A U.S. marshals and local police task force in Oklahama rounded up more than 160 Tulsa street-gang members last week during operation "Operation Triple Beam" in an initiative the government hopes will serve as a model for future operations. It reportedly involved at least 40 federal, state and local law enforcement officers. (Shane McCoy / U.S. Marshals Service)
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USA's Rudy Gay shoots a basket during practice for the World Basketball Championship, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Michael Enright sits in a New York City courtroom, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, where he will face charges that include attempted murder as a hate crime. Mr. Enright is accused of slashing taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif with a hand tool on Tuesday, Aug. 24, after the driver said he was Muslim. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch, Pool)
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A navy officer guards a street where a funeral home is holding the bodies of 72 men and women that were purportedly killed by the Zetas drug gang are in San Fernando, just 100 miles from the the Mexican border with the U.S. near the city of Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras were executed. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
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R&B singer Chris Brown appears for a progress report hearing in Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting his pop star girlfriend Rihanna in Hancock Park after a pre-Grammy Awards party in 2009. He was sentenced to five years probation, ordered to complete 180 days of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling. (AP Photo/David McNew, Pool)
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A woman leaves the almost deserted Hillbrow Community Health Center in Johannesburg, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Doctors and activists say AIDS patients aren't getting treated because of a nationwide strike in the country, which has the highest incidence of the virus that causes AIDS. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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A group founded by former Rep. Dick Armey, Texas Republican, will be well-represented at this weekend's "Restoring Honor" grass-roots rally in Washington.
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Associated Press Former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman this week confirmed long-standing rumors that he is gay. GOP conservatives are not happy about his plans to campaign for gay marriage.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol on a speedboat near the California-Mexico border off the coast of San Diego in late July. The California-Mexico coastline has become a new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A sister of the Missionaries of Charity decorates a bust of Mother Teresa, the order's founder, during celebrations in Ahmadabad, India, marking her birth centenary on Thursday. Celebrations were planned across India and around the world.
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Fishermen arrive on shore in the fishing village of Popotla, Mexico, some 15 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, on July 14, 2010. Gambling their lives, illegal immigrants increasingly are looking to the ocean, as they consider crossing overland even more arduous and more likely to end in getting caught. U.S. agents have arrested 753 suspected illegal immigrants on Southern California shores and seas since October. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
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Michael Enright, right, confers with his attorney Jason Martin, during his arraignment in a New York City courtroom on charges that include attempted murder as a hate crime, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Mr. Enright is accused of slashing taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif with a hand tool on Tuesday, Aug. 24, after the driver said he was Muslim. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch, Pool)
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Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray beside her tomb in Calcutta, India, on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, to mark the centennial of her birth. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rev. Richard Mahan of Charleston, W.V., and other ministers who disapproves of gay pastors in the nation's largest Lutheran body, meet this week.
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Ecuadorean soldiers patrol the town of Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, made up primarily of Colombian refugees. Officials say the town is a haven for guerrillas fighting across the border in Colombia's civil war. (Kelly Hearn)
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An unchecked boat crosses the San Miguel River to Colombia. Residents of river towns in Ecuador are complaining about the Colombian guerrilla fighters who come to seek supplies, prostitutes and a respite from the fighting across the river. (Kelly Hearn)
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A young boy stands in a rainstorm in the refugee village of Providencia on Ecuador's San Miguel River. Residents of Providencia say Ecuadorean soldiers came to their homes, asking questions, and later were targeted as Colombian guerrilla collaborators. (Kelly Hearn)
