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Posted: 5/18/2013 11:45:43 AM EST
Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf gestures during a news conference on the business tax reform III in Bern May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener
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Posted: 5/18/2013 11:45:43 AM EST
Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf gestures during a news conference on the business tax reform III in Bern May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener
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Posted: 5/18/2013 9:13:40 AM EST
In this photo taken June 29, 2011, photo Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Whitehouse is among a small group in the Senate pushing campaign finance reform measures that would force outside groups to disclose their donors. The Internal Revenue Service has endured withering criticism for its scrutiny of conservative political groups during the 2012 elections. "The IRS goes AWOL when wealthy and powerful forces want to break the law in order to hide their wrongful efforts and secret political influence," he says. "Picking on the little guy is a pretty lousy thing to do." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Posted: 5/16/2013 8:25:52 PM EST
A child looks up as she rides among Mexican and American flags during the International Workers Day and Immigration Reform March on May Day in Los Angeles, California May 1, 2013. REUTERS/David McNew
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Posted: 5/16/2013 2:16:02 AM EST
In this Tuesday, May 14, 2013 photo, workers are silhouetted at a construction site of a residential project in Rizhao city in east China's Shandong province. President Xi Jinping and other leaders have pledged to make the economy more productive but have yet to make clear how far they will go in curbing the dominance of state industry and making other changes reform advocates say are required. It is a politically thorny challenge but reform might be driven by slowing growth and concern about tensions due to a lack of new jobs. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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Posted: 5/15/2013 6:52:06 PM EST
A man holds an immigration reform protest sign during a rally for immigration reform near Senator Dianne Feinstein's office, in Los Angeles, California, April 10, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
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Posted: 5/15/2013 4:22:57 PM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi attends a bi-lateral signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. In their latest face-off with Egypt's Islamist rulers, the country's top council of judges decided Wednesday, May 15, 2013 to suspend its participation in a government-backed judicial reform conference following a renewed push by lawmakers on a controversial bill that would force thousands of their colleagues into retirement. The Supreme Judicial Council said in statement published by the state news agency MEAN that it was backing out of the "Justice Conference" expected for later this month. It had been sponsored by Egypt's Islamist President Morsi, and judges were supposed to come up with a plan to remake their institution. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 2:38:21 PM EST
Rosa Ayala carries a Resident Alien placard during the International Workers Day and Immigration Reform March on May Day in Los Angeles, California May 1, 2013. REUTERS/David McNew
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Posted: 5/14/2013 6:22:19 PM EST
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., second from right, speaks about immigration reform during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senators weighing a landmark immigration bill defeated an effort by Republicans Tuesday to require biometric identification _ such as fingerprinting _ to track who is entering and leaving the country. The amendment by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., would have required a biometric system to be in place before any immigrant here illegally could obtain permanent residency or citizenship. From left are, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Charles Schumer, Graham, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 5/14/2013 8:41:38 AM EST
A protesting teacher gestures, during a peaceful demonstration in central Athens on Monday, May 13, 2013. Greece's conservative-led government has issued a civil mobilization order forcing state school teachers to work during university entrance exams later in May. Teachers' unions had been planning strikes during the exams, to protest planned increases in working hours and involuntary staff transfers _ as part of the financially-distressed country's austerity and reform program. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
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Posted: 5/14/2013 8:41:38 AM EST
Greek state school teachers dressed in army fatigues to mock a civil mobilization order hold a banner comparing government policies to those of the Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship, during a peaceful protest in central Athens on Monday, May 13, 2013. The banner, over the insignia of the dictatorship, reads: "A Greece of Mobilized Greeks, Metro Employees, Ferry Crews, Teachers - Tomorrow Everyone." Greece's conservative-led government has issued a civil mobilization order forcing state school teachers to work during university entrance exams later in May. Teachers' unions had been planning strikes during the exams, to protest planned increases in working hours and involuntary staff transfers _ as part of the financially-distressed country's austerity and reform program. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
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Posted: 5/14/2013 8:41:38 AM EST
A state school teacher shouts slogans, in front of a banner that reads "No to The Civil Mobilization" during a peaceful protest in central Athens on Monday, May 13, 2013. Greece's conservative-led government has issued a civil mobilization order forcing state school teachers to work during university entrance exams later in May. Teachers' unions had been planning strikes during the exams, to protest planned increases in working hours and involuntary staff transfers _ as part of the financially-distressed country's austerity and reform program. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
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Posted: 5/14/2013 1:50:13 AM EST
Liu Tienan, then deputy chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), attends a news conference in Beijing in this February 27, 2009 file photograph. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
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Posted: 5/13/2013 6:30:39 PM EST
Teachers wearing tee shirts that read "No to the Civil Mobilization" take part in a protest in central Thessaloniki on Monday, May 13, 2013. Greece's conservative-led government has issued a civil mobilization order forcing state school teachers to work during university entrance exams later in May. Teachers' unions had been planning strikes during the exams, to protest planned increases in working hours and involuntary staff transfers _ as part of the financially-distressed country's austerity and reform program. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 11:50:55 PM EST
FILE - In this April 29, 2009 file photo, Liu Tienan, then the vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, speaks during a press conference in Shanghai. China's top anti-graft committee is investigating the deputy chairman of the country's economic planning agency, the latest high-level official to be ensnared by the new leadership's anti-corruption drive. ( AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 7:13:22 PM EST
Illinois Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, argues pension legislation while on the Senate floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Springfield Ill. The Illinois Senate has approved a union-supported pension reform bill. But the measure faces an uncertain future in the House, where lawmakers passed a competing proposal last week. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 7:13:22 PM EST
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, argues pension legislation while on the Senate floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Springfield Ill. The Illinois Senate has approved a union-supported pension reform bill. But the measure faces an uncertain future in the House, where lawmakers passed a competing proposal last week. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 4:16:23 PM EST
Immigration reform advocates pray before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in the Senate Hart Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. A bill to enact dramatic changes to the nation's immigration system and put some 11 million immigrants here illegally on a path to citizenship is facing its first congressional test as lawmakers begin considering proposed changes to the 844-page legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 4:16:23 PM EST
Immigration reform advocates pray before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in the Senate Hart Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. A bill to enact dramatic changes to the nation's immigration system and put some 11 million immigrants here illegally on a path to citizenship is facing its first congressional test as lawmakers begin considering proposed changes to the 844-page legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 4:16:23 PM EST
Immigration reform advocates pray before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in the Senate Hart Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. A bill to enact dramatic changes to the nation's immigration system and put some 11 million immigrants here illegally on a path to citizenship is facing its first congressional test as lawmakers begin considering proposed changes to the 844-page legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
