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A former Taliban militant (center) holds the national flag of Afghanistan as other militants stand with faces covered during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. About 25 former Taliban members handed over their weapons and joined with the Afghan government as part of a peace-reconciliation program. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)
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Protesters demand the prosecution of Yemeni President Ali Abdulla Saleh, who has been igniting unrest for a year. (Associated Press)
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Angry youths protest and shout slogans Jan. 16, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria. For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers barricaded key roads in Nigeria's two biggest cities as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy. (Associated Press)
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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car-bomb attack outside Mosul, Iraq, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Mercedes Bagceci, an Army specialist, and her husband, Ismail, who met in Iraq, attended a job fair in the District dedicated to helping military spouses. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry bows his head in prayer at a Faith and Freedom Coalition prayer breakfast in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Sunday. No state is more under siege by the federal government than South Carolina, and the Texas governor is arguably the GOP field's best advocate for states' rights. (Associated Press)
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Protesters sit on the ground surrounded by Romanian police in University Square, the scene of the first anti-communist protest in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania. (Associated Press)
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Asmar Abboud, 31, wounded in a bombing attack on Shiite pilgrims on Saturday, is treated at a hospital in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (center) is welcomed by an unidentified Saudi official (left) as Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz (right) looks on before their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)
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Men grind pepper at a market in Obalende Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Nigeria's government will meet with labor unions in a last bid to halt a paralyzing national strike that now threatens oil production in Africa's most populous nation. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Shiite faithful pilgrims gather at the Imam Hussein Shrine in Karbala, for Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 45 mourning period after the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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A sketch distributed Jan. 13, 2012, by Thai police show a man suspected of planning a terrorist bombing in Bangkok. (Associated Press)
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Serbian army soldiers check the wreckage of a USAF F-117 stealth fighter after it crashed near Budjanovic, 30 miles northwest of Belgrade, in 1999. (Associated Press)
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The wreckage of a modified Black Hawk helicopter lies in the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces last May. (Associated Press)
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"Of course the Chinese have a political motive. How can they not have?" Wang Wen-tsung, 47, a food exporter and former town council member.
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Angry youths protest Jan. 12, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria, on the fourth day of a nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government. A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers threatened to shut down all production. (Associated Press)
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An Afghan border policeman, left, along with U.S. soldiers are seen near the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. A teenage suicide bomber slipped inside police headquarters in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, detonating his cache of explosives and wounding one officer, the chief of the headquarters said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Angry youths protest on the third day of nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012.Nigeria's government is warning that a paralyzing national strike risks "anarchy" in the oil-rich nation, as demonstrations over spiraling fuel prices and government corruption entered their third day Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Youths in Lagos, Nigeria, take to the street Wednesday, the third day of a nationwide strike called "Occupy Nigeria" following removal of a more-than-two-decade-old fuel subsidy. At least 10 people have been killed in demonstrations over rising fuel prices and government corruption. The national government warned of "anarchy." (Associated Press)
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Angelina Jolie, writer and director of "In The Land of Blood and Honey" speaks about the film to reporters Tuesday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. "The message is that there are these horrible things in our history, and we can't forget them," she said of the 1990s conflict in Bosnia. (Film District)
