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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:42 PM EST
In this Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 photo, a Pakistani girl stands at the blackboard to answer a teacher's question, while other students sit on the ground during their daily class at a makeshift school, set up by volunteers in a public park in Islamabad, Pakistan. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:42 PM EST
Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, play in their school yard during a break, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:42 PM EST
Pakistani students, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, chant a song with their teacher, not pictured, during their daily school in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. Both sexes have suffered from the lack of funding, but girls, who have lower rates of literacy and school attendance, are in a particularly perilous position. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:42 PM EST
In this Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, photo, a Pakistani student, stands on a chair to the reach the blackboard and write on it, during a class at the EHD foundation school, in Islamabad, Pakistan. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:42 PM EST
In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, photo, seen through the window of school's classroom, a Pakistani student, who was displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, sits on a bed during a break, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:42 PM EST
In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, photo, Afghan refugee and Pakistani children, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, are examined by their teacher during their daily class to learn how to recite verses of the holy Quran, in a mosque, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/19/2012 1:13:41 PM EST
In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, photo, Pakistani teacher Dolores Arif, 40, teaches the alphabet to children in a church in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan. A teenage activist recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
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Posted: 10/17/2012 11:08:29 AM EST
FILE - In this July 25, 2011 file photo Goran Hadzic is seen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia( ICTY) during his initial appearance in The Hague, Netherlands. Twenty years after war in Croatia catapulted Hadzic from warehouse worker to rebel Serb president, he is in the dock in the final trial at the ICTY. Hadzic's trial, in its second day Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, underscores that international courts, often maligned for their failure to get suspects into custody, can bring to justice once-untouchable leaders accused of atrocities. Hadzic is defendant number 161, out of 161 indicted, to go on trial at the Yugoslav tribunal. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool, File)
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Posted: 10/17/2012 7:06:45 AM EST
Cambodian royal officers carry the coffin of former king Norodom Sihanouk to put it on a royal truck during its arrival at Phnom Penh international airport October 17, 2012. Tens of thousands poured into Cambodia's capital to witness the procession on Wednesday of the body of Sihanouk, a revered figure who ruled through the triumph of independence to the tragedy of its brutal civil war. Mourners dressed in white lined the 10-km (6-mile) route to welcome the return of Sihanouk, the flamboyant former monarch who died at 89 of heart failure on Monday in Beijing, his residence since abdicating eight years ago. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
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Posted: 10/17/2012 6:51:05 AM EST
People pray as they see the coffin of former king Norodom Sihanouk on a royal truck along a street in Phnom Penh October 17, 2012. Tens of thousands poured into Cambodia's capital to witness the procession on Wednesday of the body of Sihanouk, a revered figure who ruled through the triumph of independence to the tragedy of its brutal civil war. Mourners dressed in white lined the 10-km (6-mile) route to welcome the return of Sihanouk, the flamboyant former monarch who died at 89 of heart failure on Monday in Beijing, his residence since abdicating eight years ago. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
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Posted: 10/17/2012 5:38:29 AM EST
In this Oct. 12, 2012, photo, Hector Guzman poses for a photo in front of the post office in O'Brien, Ore., where cuts to sheriff's patrols prompted by the failure of a tax levy have inspired some local residents to organize armed patrols of the rural area of about 750 residents. Guzman, whose home was burglarized several years ago, said he likes the idea of people watching out for each other. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
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Posted: 10/16/2012 11:53:32 AM EST
FILE- In this April 30, 2010, file photo, from right, A123 Systems, President and Chief Executive Officer David Vieau, A123 Systems electrical engineer James Fenton and A123 Systems design engineer Antonio Biundo, stand next to President Barack Obama, as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administration’s funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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Posted: 10/16/2012 11:53:32 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2007, file photo, President Bush, center, listens to Dave Vieau, President and CEO of A123 Systems, right, as he is shown a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid car utilizing a lithium power battery during a demonstration of alternative fuel automobiles on the South Lawn of the White House. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administration’s funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Posted: 10/14/2012 10:28:42 AM EST
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 10/14/2012 7:18:28 AM EST
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle speaks to the media after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, during a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria.(AP Photo)
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Posted: 10/13/2012 12:13:28 PM EST
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu shake hands before a meeting during a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria.(AP Photo)
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Posted: 10/13/2012 12:13:28 PM EST
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 10/9/2012 1:37:04 PM EST
International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department Olivier Blanchard (2nd R), Deputy Director Jorg Decressin (2nd L), Division Chief Thomas Heibling (R) and Senior Press Officer Gita Bhatt hold a news briefing on the World Economic Outlook (WEO), at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo October 9, 2012. The IMF said the global economic slowdown is worsening as it cut its growth forecasts for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump. REUTERS/International Monetary Fund/Stephen Jaffe/Handout
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Posted: 10/9/2012 6:19:52 AM EST
International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department Olivier Blanchard (2nd R), Deputy Director Jorg Decressin (2nd L), Division Chief Thomas Heibling (R) and Senior Press Officer Gita Bhatt hold a news briefing on the World Economic Outlook (WEO), at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo October 9, 2012. The IMF said the global economic slowdown is worsening as it cut its growth forecasts for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump. REUTERS/International Monetary Fund/Stephen Jaffe/Handout
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Posted: 10/9/2012 5:49:09 AM EST
International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department Olivier Blanchard (2nd R), Deputy Director Jorg Decressin (2nd L), Division Chief Thomas Heibling (R) and Senior Press Officer Gita Bhatt hold a news briefing on the World Economic Outlook (WEO), at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo October 9, 2012. The IMF said the global economic slowdown is worsening as it cut its growth forecasts for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump. REUTERS/International Monetary Fund/Stephen Jaffe/Handout
