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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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**FILE** A Pakistani police officer guards a U.N. car destroyed in June 2009 by suicide bomber at the Peshawar Pearl Continental Hotel. An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan triggered a spike in the number of civilians killed or wounded in 2009, pushing South Asia past the Middle East as the top terror region in the world, according to new figures compiled by a U.S. intelligence agency. (Associated Press)
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A Nigerian soldier stands guard outside the central mosque in Jos, Nigeria, in January after violence resulted in the deaths of both Christians and Muslims. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom puts Nigeria in the company of China, Iran and other top violators of religious freedom. (File photo, Associated Press)
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Middle school students in Hacienda Heights, Calif., learn Chinese language and culture as part of the Confucius Classroom grant program. The middle-class town, about 16 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a history of racial tensions between longtime residents and relatively recent Chinese newcomers. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, Arizona Republicans, listen on April 19 as Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Paul R. Babeu (left) calls for more National Guard troops for border security. Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Larry A. Dever (right) concurred. (AP Photo)
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A Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce's "Bayi Aerobatic Unit" J-10 fighter jet taxis back upon landing as an air force personnel stands guard at a base of the PLA Airforce's 24th Division in Yangcun, Tianjin, China, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The media, along with about 51 military attaches from embassies in Beijing, including the United States, Britain and Israel, witnessed a 15-minute demonstration by four pilots from the 24th Air Division in China's domestically developed J-10 fighters. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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** FILE ** A Sudanese street vender waves Sudanese flags at a traffic line in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wave Iraqi flags as they destroy a symbolic model of a U.S. Army tank during a rally marking the seventh anniversary of the fall of the Iraqi capital to American troops in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, April 9, 2010.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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** FILE ** Abu Obeida, center, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas' military wing, holds a press conference in Gaza City, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Abu Obeida, center, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas' military wing, holds a press conference in Gaza City, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, Saturday, March 20, 2010. A Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with Israeli troops in Iraq Burin, medical officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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Palestinians hold up a banner with a swastika during clashes with Israeli soldiers, not pictured, near the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) ** FILE **
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This photo, also from the Imperial War Museum in London, shows a "defiant garden" that was planted in a crater in front of Westminster Cathedral in London during World War II. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Grenades allegedly belonging to soldiers who were killed by rebels sit on the ground in Corinto in southern Colombia in November. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Colombian army soldiers unload supplies from a helicopter during a February operation to relieve troops in Alto Guaduas, Caqueta state, in southern Colombia, a region with a strong presence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Al Qaeda makes its presence known in a Muslim area of Kano, Nigeria. The increasingly active and growing Islamic Maghreb is threatening to further destabilize fragile governments in heavily Islamic North Africa. (Associated Press)
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Marines carry a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter after an improvised explosive device detonated near their armored vehicle in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Somali Islamist militant patrols the streets of Mogadishu. Al-Shabab Islamic insurgents, with links to al Qaeda, last year looted two United Nations compounds in southern Somalia. The Somali capital sees almost daily attacks aimed at disrupting the weak government. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with the Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, takes off at a forward operating base south of Marjah, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday Feb. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** Secretary of State James Baker speaks at a State Department press conference concerning U.S. troop movements in Panama, Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
