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Posted: 2/27/2013 6:43:21 AM EST
Malian soldiers look on as weapons, munitions, and other paraphernalia seized from radical Islamist rebels are displayed at the French army base in Gao, Mali, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. The Chadian army said Saturday that its troops had killed 65 Islamic extremist rebels and destroyed five vehicles in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains of northeastern Mali. According to the statement, 13 Chadian soldiers were also killed and six were wounded in the fighting Friday.(AP Photo)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 11:43:31 AM EST
Newly appointed Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses reporters during a press conference held in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Four suspects belonging to a radical Islamist group have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder of a leftist politician that plunged the country into a crisis, but the killer himself remains at large, Tunisia's Interior and Prime Minister said Tuesday. Ali Larayedh said the Tunisian suspects, some of whom had been arrested in the last 48 hours, were accomplices to the murder and that the identity of the assassin is known. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 11:43:30 AM EST
Newly appointed Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses reporters during a press conference held in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Four suspects belonging to a radical Islamist group have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder of a leftist politician that plunged the country into a crisis, but the killer himself remains at large, Tunisia's Interior and Prime Minister said Tuesday. Ali Larayedh said the Tunisian suspects, some of whom had been arrested in the last 48 hours, were accomplices to the murder and that the identity of the assassin is known. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:43:40 PM EST
FILE In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, an unidentified man takes a picture of the charred remains of trucks used by radical Islamists, on the outskirt of Diabaly, Mali. An instruction on camouflaging cars is one of 22 tips on how to avoid drones, listed on a document left behind by the Islamic extremists as they fled northern Mali from a French military intervention in January. The tip sheet, found Feb. 6 by an AP reporter in Timbuktu, reflects how al-Qaida’s chapter in North Africa anticipated a military intervention that would make use of drones, as the battleground in the war on terror worldwide is shifting from boots on the ground to unmanned planes in the air.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:43:40 PM EST
FILE In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, French troops inspect the charred remains of trucks used by radical Islamists, on the outskirts of Diabaly, Mali. An instruction on camouflaging cars is one of 22 tips on how to avoid drones, listed on a document left behind by the Islamic extremists as they fled northern Mali from a French military intervention in January. The tip sheet, found Feb. 6 by an AP reporter in Timbuktu, reflects how al-Qaida’s chapter in North Africa anticipated a military intervention that would make use of drones, as the battleground in the war on terror worldwide is shifting from boots on the ground to unmanned planes in the air.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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Posted: 2/20/2013 1:20:42 PM EST
The Vatican emblem is seen from inside the Vatican state February 20, 2013. Pope Benedict's shock resignation has robbed Italians of the one element of certainty in a time of deep doubt, with the country beset by graft scandals and heading for an election that will not bring the radical change so many crave. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 2/20/2013 1:20:42 PM EST
The Vatican emblem is seen from inside the Vatican state February 20, 2013. Pope Benedict's shock resignation has robbed Italians of the one element of certainty in a time of deep doubt, with the country beset by graft scandals and heading for an election that will not bring the radical change so many crave. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 2/20/2013 8:51:59 AM EST
The Vatican emblem is seen from inside the Vatican state February 20, 2013. Pope Benedict's shock resignation has robbed Italians of the one element of certainty in a time of deep doubt, with the country beset by graft scandals and heading for an election that will not bring the radical change so many crave. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 2/20/2013 8:51:59 AM EST
The Vatican emblem is seen from inside the Vatican state February 20, 2013. Pope Benedict's shock resignation has robbed Italians of the one element of certainty in a time of deep doubt, with the country beset by graft scandals and heading for an election that will not bring the radical change so many crave. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 2/20/2013 8:08:16 AM EST
The Vatican emblem is seen from inside the Vatican state February 20, 2013. Pope Benedict's shock resignation has robbed Italians of the one element of certainty in a time of deep doubt, with the country beset by graft scandals and heading for an election that will not bring the radical change so many crave. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 2/18/2013 3:58:45 AM EST
FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., waits to make a statement in opposition to President Barack Obama's choice of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon as a bitterly divided Senate Senate Armed Services Committee considers the nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a talk show Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, Graham said critics were "doing our job to scrutinize ... one of the most unqualified, radical choices for secretary of defense in a very long time." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 2/15/2013 5:53:40 AM EST
In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 15, 2013 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Sports – Sports Features Stories by Jan Grarup, Denmark, for Laif, shows the Somali basketball association pays armed guards to watch over and protect Suweys and her team when they play. In Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, young women risk their lives to play basketball. Suweys, the 19-year-old captain of a women's basketball team, and her friends defy radical Islamist views on women’s rights. They have received many death threats from not only al-Shabaab militias and radical Islamists, but some male members of their own families. "I just want to dunk," said Suweys. It is on the basketball court she feels happiest. "Basketball makes me forget all my problems,” Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Jan Grarup, Laif)
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Posted: 2/13/2013 12:28:36 PM EST
Travelers driving from Niamey, Niger, line up to be searched at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to this embattled city in northern Mali. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Posted: 2/13/2013 12:28:36 PM EST
Travelers driving from Niamey, Niger, line up to be searched at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to this embattled city in northern Mali. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Posted: 2/13/2013 12:28:36 PM EST
Travelers driving from Niamey, Niger, line up to be searched at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to this embattled city in northern Mali. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Posted: 2/13/2013 12:28:34 PM EST
Travelers driving from Niamey, Niger, line up to be searched at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to this embattled city in northern Mali. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Posted: 2/12/2013 8:43:36 AM EST
Workers stand at the entrance to an office block in Sandvika February 4, 2013. Two office blocks by the Oslo fjord will generate more power than they use from 2014 after a radical refit meant to show that the world's energy-squandering building sector can do more to fight climate change. REUTERS/Alister Doyle
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Posted: 2/10/2013 9:58:51 AM EST
Moncef Marzouki, President of Tunisia, shows his "Liberty passport" he was given as he was living in exile in France years ago and was forbidden to return his native country, during a statement at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Feb.6, 2013. Marzouki, who is from a secular party in the governing coalition, was in Strasbourg addressing the European Parliament and said the assassination was a threat against all of Tunisia. Chokri Belaid, a Tunisian opposition leader critical of the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims was shot to death Wednesday _ the first political assassination in post-revolutionary Tunisia. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 2:03:34 AM EST
In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 photo, Pakistani artists prepare colorful panels for rickshaws in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani youth leader Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi, has an innovative plan to counter the relentless message of violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups in the country and is stealing a trick from their playbook to do it. His weapon: the three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that buzz along Pakistan’s streets carrying paying customers. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 2:03:34 AM EST
In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 photo, Pakistani artists prepare colorful panels for rickshaws in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani youth leader Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi has an innovative plan to counter the relentless message of violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups in the country and is stealing a trick from their playbook to do it. His weapon: the three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that buzz along Pakistan’s streets carrying paying customers. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
