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U.S. soldiers with C Troop 1-71 CAV are pictured during sunrise at a temporary checkpoint in Dand district, south of Kandahar, June 21, 2010.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, speaks with U.S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and other NATO officers at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, April 10, 2010.

Then U.S. Senator Barack Obama listens (left) as Gen. David Petraeus (right) discusses security improvements in Baghdad while giving him an aerial tour of the city on July 21, 2008.

Agents of the investigative police talk outside a bar where two people were gunned down in Monterrey, May 31, 2010.

Orania Mayor Carel Boshoff says the extension of the right to vote to all South Africans is a good thing, but he adds that the past two decades have also been accompanied by a victimization and marginalization of Afrikaners.

Sexy is, truly, in the eye of the beholder.

Ethnic Uzbeks are seen on a street in the village of Vlksm, destroyed during recent clashes, some 12 miles west of the city of Osh on June 16, 2010.

Taliban tank firing, Kabul, November 1996.

U.S. President Barack Obama; BP CEO Tony Hayward.

Supporters of South Africa celebrate their first goal of the 2010 World Cup tournament against Mexico, in Johannesburg, June 11, 2010.

The Hamad family stands outside their unstable, half-destroyed home, which they've been unable to rebuild after last year's war.

Oil is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico in an aerial view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Mobile, Ala., in this photograph taken from a U.S. Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft on May 6, 2010.

Japan's Finance Minister Naoto Kan enters a news conference at the Democratic Party of Japan's headquarters in Tokyo, June 3, 2010. The posters of Yukio Hatoyama behind Kan read, "Change in Government" and "Keeping campaign promises."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responds to a question during a news conference at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California on May 26, 2010.

The latest trend at McDonalds' Italy restaurants is the so-called kiwi-stick, fruit that can be eaten on-the-go as if it were an ice cream cone or lollipop.

Residents of Okinawa do not like having these U.S. planes land on their island. Here, a Hercules military aircraft approaches U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan on Okinawa May 3, 2010. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is facing an angry response to his decision that the U.S. air base would be able to stay on Okinawa.

A stock index board is reflected in a rain drop on a car window in Tokyo, May 20, 2010. Japan's Nikkei average hit a three-month closing low on Thursday, after dropping below 10,000 at one point, as weakness in the euro pushed shares of exporters lower.

A statue of Buddha and a torn Thai national flag remain in front of Bangkok's Central World shopping mall, which was gutted by fire after army soldiers advanced towards an encampment of thousands of anti-government "red shirt" protesters, May 19, 2010.

Ang Ladlad, the Philippines' gay political party, participated in national elections this week for the first time. They are vying for three congressional seats allotted to minority groups. If they win, first on their agenda is to re-file the anti-discrimination bill. Here, Filipinos display placards that say "Pass the anti-discrimination bill" during a lesbian and gay parade in Manila.

Demonstrators clash with police by the Greek Parliament in Athens.

Dr. Henry Morgentaler speaks to the media in Toronto, July 2, 2008. Morgentaler was named a member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honor, after spending decades of his life advocating the legalization of abortion in Canada.

A man walks near a house that neighbors say belongs to the family of Faisal Shahzad at a village in Pabbi, a small town near the main northwestern city of Peshawar May 5, 2010. Pakistan on Tuesday made several arrests in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb attack in New York.

Seven years of junk await the troops at Contingency Operating Base Qayyrarah West in Iraq.

Bluefin tuna (above), sea turtles, oysters and shorebirds are all in danger from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

People hold signs as they protest against Senate Bill 1070 outside the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, April 25, 2010.

Turkish-Armenia journalist Hrant Dink, a newspaper editor and voice for Turkey's Armenians, was fatally shot in front of the headquarters of the bilingual Armenian weekly Agos in 2007.

A boy collects recyclable materials at a garbage dump in the old quarters of Delhi, Dec. 8, 2009.

An aerial shot of the ash cloud rising 6,700 meters at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland, April 14, 2010. The plume of smoke continues to delay air travel across Europe, likely through Saturday.

A Chilean soldier helps to build a shack at Dichato town, south of Santiago, April 12, 2010.

Members of a welcoming party wait on the tarmac to greet of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as he arrives ahead of his participation in the nuclear security summit in Washington called by U.S. President Barack Obama, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, April 11, 2010. Jonathan Ernst -- Reuters

Fishermen strip the blubber from a nine-meter Baird's beaked whale in Wada, a whaling village on Japan's Pacific coast.

An Iraqi worker gestures as he kisses an oil pipeline at one of the Fakka wells near Amara, 300 km (186 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Dec. 25, 2009.

Nguyen Thi Thanh, 53, and her daughter, Tran Thi Le Huyen, 26. Tran Thi Le Huyen sits in a wheelchair and lies in bed all day with spina bifida. Her mother says she worries about what will happen to her daughter when she dies.

Brazilian Estevao Silva da Conceicao jokes with his daughter at the garden of his house at Paraisopolis favela in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Hughie Winlass and Barka Bryant, representatives of the Australian Aborigines who inhabited the Maralinga lands in South Australia, attend a press conference on Oct. 8, 1991 in London where they described their efforts to have the British government clean up the nuclear waste left behind during atomic tests in the 1950's.

Alicia Morales shows her present kitchen, living, and dining room in the shantytown. Squatters had to move their shacks further down the road for building to begin on their dream: a solid home.

A person poses with a magnifying glass in front of a Google search page in this illustrative photograph taken in Shanghai, March 23, 2010. The Chinese characters read "Welcome to the new home for Google searching in China".

A young couple in Shanghai view a photograph taken on an Apple i product.

A demonstrator protests the arrival of Mexican President Felipe Calderon holding a sign reading "More green areas, less greens in the area," referring to soldiers, in Ciudad Juarez, February 17, 2010.

Manny Pacquiao celebrates his 12 round TKO victory against Miguel Cotto during their WBO welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Nov. 14, 2009, in Las Vegas.

Qamis Awadh, right, and his sisters, niece, and nephew leave a polling station after voting near Ramadi. Photo by Jane Arraf

Locals in Concepcion hunker down with guns and hand-held radios, while mobs run free and the military tries to gain traction. Photo by Francisco Negroni

Residents gather their belongings near a fishing boat washed up by a wave generated by an earthquake in Talcahuano Port. Photo by Reuters

Phearum Sia, director of the Housing Rights Task Force, (right) talks with Park Chany (left), whose home has been slated for eviction, along with 20 other families from Tuol Kork, an area where expensive villas are being built. Eung Minea (right), a 17-year-old orphan whose parents left her a run-down shack, says, "I'm afraid I won't have anyplace to live."