A Palestinian man demonstrated against the barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah, Friday. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)

A rider crashed during a practice session Friday at the Ricardo Tormo racetrack in Cheste, ahead of the Valencia Grand Prix. (Heino Kalis/Reuters)

A man held his briefcase Friday at a New York City job fair that attracted hundreds. The U.S. unemployment rate reached 10.2% in October, its highest level since 1983. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NASCAR will honor the fallen soldiers at Fort Hood during a race weekend that is just 170 miles from the site of the massacre that left 13 people dead. At left, the flag at half-mast during practice Friday at Texas Motor Speedway. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images for NASCAR)

A Palestinian worker repaired a bullet-ridden wall at a factory in the northern Gaza Strip. The building was damaged during the three-week offensive Israel launched last December. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Mariana Flores, a supporter of Honduras’s ousted President Manuel Zelaya, stood in front of a Honduran flag with protesters demanding Mr. Zelaya’s return to power in Tegucigalpa Monday. The Congress is expected to consider a U.S.-brokered agreement that could end the country’s political crisis. (Arnulfo Franco/Associated Press)

Children covered their mouths and ears as a form of protest against violence, and in particular the death of a young man who was killed during a police operation last week in the Mandela slum in Rio de Janeiro. Authorities have pledged to crack down hard on the criminals to ensure safety for the upcoming Olympic Games. (Silvia Izquierdo/Associated Press)

A Muslim woman in Tuzla, Bosnia, watched a television broadcast of Radovan Karadzic’s trial in front of a wall covered with photos of victims of the Srebrenica massacre. Mr. Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his “fundamental rights have been violated” by judges who started without him. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)

Laurie A. Lewkowski, center, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. David R. Baker, is overcome with emotion during the playing of “Taps” at his burial service in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday. According to military officials, Cpl. Baker died while supporting combat operations in Afghanistan. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

A voter grabbed a sticker after voting in Augusta County, Va., on Tuesday. Republicans wrested Virginia’s governorship from Democrats as the GOP looks to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008. (Pat Jarrett/Associated Press)

Actress Julie Dreyfus posed during a red carpet events as a staffer guided her into position at the Japan premiere of “Inglorious Basterds, in Tokyo on Wednesday. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Somali women carried their babies as they waited behind barbed wire at a supplementary feeding center in Dadaab, Kenya, on Wednesday. Dadaab is Africa’s biggest refugee camp, home to over 250,000 people who have fled the continuing conflict in Somalia. (Kate Holt/AFP/Getty Images)

Russian ultra-nationalists carried the historic flag of the Russian empire during a demonstration on the outskirts of Moscow, as they celebrated National Unity Day on Wednesday. (Denia Sinyakov/Reuters)

Tadashi Yamashina, senior managing director of Toyota Motor and chairman of Toyota Motorsport, cried during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. Toyota, the world’s largest car maker, will withdraw from the Formula One racing championship as the company cuts costs amid record losses. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)

A young man wore a gas mask as he rode a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Wednesday. The World Health Organization said it was valid to assume that most of the cases of influenza reportedly sweeping through Ukraine were caused by the swine flu. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images)

A burned U.N. bullet proofed vest and a helmet are seen in the destroyed guest house that left five U.N. staffers dead in Kabul on Thursday. The U.N. is temporarily relocating more than half its international staff in Afghanistan after last week’s deadly Taliban attack against U.N. workers, the most direct targeting of its employees during decades of work in the country. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press)

A man fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan waited for his turn to receive handouts with others at a food distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Thursday. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

Afghan National policemen participated in a training exercise taught by the U.S. Army at the outpost in Pech Valley, Afghanistan, on Thursday. The man kneeling was learning how to disarm an aggressor. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)

Adam Smith, a Navy sailor serving aboard the USS New York, center left, celebrated with fans in New York’s Times Square after the Yankees won the World Series. (David Goldman/Associated Press)

A man protesting the pending health-care overhaul needed medical attention is tended to by paramedics during a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday. (Oliver Douliery/Abacausa.com)

Sgt. First Class Noe Figueroa waited to get back on base outside Fort Hood’s Clear Creek gate in Killeen, Texas, on Thursday after an Army officer opened fire and killed 12 people in one of the worst cases of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. military history. (See related article) (Jay Janner/Associated Press)

A fan reacted in Times Square in New York Wednesday night after the New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

A model got ready for the catwalk at China’s Fashion Week in Beijing Thursday. (Elizabeth Dalziel/Associated Press)

Fruit vendors waited for customers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press)

Russian soldiers dressed in World War II uniforms waited in Red Square in Moscow Thursday to rehearse for a parade to mark the 68th anniversary of a parade by soldiers going directly to the front in World War II. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated press)

A man walked past piles of rubbish in Marseille, France, Wednesday, the seventh day of a garbage collectors strike in the city. (Philippe Laurenson/Reuters)

Flames leapt more than 400 feet high after a natural gas line explosion rocked Bushland, Texas, early Thursday. (Michael Schumacher/Amarillo Globe-News via Associated Press)

A United Nations official on Thursday walked through a guesthouse destroyed last week in a Taliban attack in which five U.N. workers were killed. The organization said Thursday that it is temporarily relocating more than half its international staff in Afghanistan. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press)

The snow-covered Kitzbueheler Alps were reflected in a lake in Kitzbuehel, Austria, Thursday. (Kerstin Joensson/ASsociated Press)

A tribal leader asked U.S. President Barack Obama a question at the White House Thursday. Making good on a campaign promise to hold a yearly summit with American Indians, Mr. Obama told tribal leaders that he is determined to reverse the federal government’s history of marginalizing Indian nations. (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A dairy farmer poured milk over severed cow heads to protest against low dairy prices and cheap imports from the European Union in Budapest Thursday. (Karoly Arvai/Reuters)

A mental patient participated in a therapy session at the Galuh foundation in East Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday. The facility houses underprivileged mental patients. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

An employee arranged copies of former French President Jacques Chirac’s memoirs in a bookstore in Paris. The the first volume, out in France this week, is titled “Each Step Should Be a Goal.” (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

Barcelona’s Omer Asik tried to block Croatia’s Luksa Andric, left, during their Euroleague match in Istanbul Wednesday, in the continent’s top basketball competition. (Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

An Indonesian maid rested her hands in her lap as she talked about being beaten by her Malaysian employer in a shelter at the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)

Flood victims lined up for U.N. help in Manila Thursday. Back-to-back storms in October killed nearly 1,000 people, destroyed valuable tracts of farmland and flooded a large chunk of the capital. (Jay Directo/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Once a refuge for wealthy San Francisco residents after the 1906 earthquake, the neighborhood– a 20-square-block area just east of the Golden Gate Park — fell into disrepair in the 1960s. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

Cheap rent helped draw beatniks and students to the area in the late 1960s, culminating in the 1967 “Summer of Love,” when tens of thousands of people converged on the neighborhood, many practicing free love, using drugs and advocating for the creation of a money-free, utopian society. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

These days, the neighborhood has evolved into a bustling tourist attraction featuring psychedelic murals and hippie-themed head shops that sell marijuana-related paraphernalia. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

Residents say they are eager to move past the “hippie theme park” reputation emphasized by the head shops. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

A group led by Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics founder David E. Smith is planning a “library museum” of the free-clinic movement, which began in the Haight in the 1960s to provide free health care to residents. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

Another effort, led by local artist David Wills, will chronicle the neighborhood’s history from its late 1800 farming days to the Summer of Love. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

The groups, which are seeking funding from a mix of sources, estimate it will take millions of dollars to get the museums off the ground, though they declined to be specific. Mr. Wills’s museum is seeking donations from high-tech entrepreneurs, while Mr. Smith’s library museum would be funded mostly from his own resources and membership fees. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

Mr. Smith said he began considering a library museum after visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland in the 1990s. “Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, all did benefits for our clinic, and why is there this great museum in Cleveland and not in San Francisco where it all happened?” Mr. Smith said. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

Mr. Wills, meanwhile, came up with his museum idea at a local art show two years ago and kick-started the effort in January. With another Haight resident, Andy Bayowski, he started a seven-month site-selection process; the two now are in talks with a property owner in the neighborhood. (Michael Mullady for The Wall Street Journal)

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (left) talked with Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) before testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday. He asked Congress to change federal law to protect sports leagues’ collectively bargained steroid policies from state law challenges. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

People entered U.S. Bankruptcy Court Tuesday in New York as the initial hearing took place in the Chapter 11 filing by CIT Group Inc. The lender won court approval to take steps to continue operating as it began what it hopes will be a quick trip through bankruptcy court. (David Goldman/Getty Images)

Members of a Russian right-wing ultrantionalist group punched and fought with members of an anti-fascist movement at a rally in St. Petersburg Wednesday on a new national holiday that the Kremlin tried to portray as a celebration of Russia’s ethnic diversity. Riot police moved in to break up the rally and pull the protesters to safety. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence-France Presse/Getty Images)

Tadashi Yamashita of Toyota got emotional during a press conference in Tokyo Wednesday to announce the company’s withdrawal from Formula One racing. The world’s largest automaker said it needs to cut costs and focus on its core business. (Junji Kurokawa/Associated Press)

Partners Lisa Brackbill, left, and Lisa Pugh, right, both from Buckfield, Maine, consoled one another and Darlene Huntress, of Portland, in Portland early Wednesday after learning that the state’s voters had rejected a law allowing same-sex couples to marry in a closely fought referendum. (Pat Wellenbach/Associated Press)

Workers of German mail-order business Quelle sobbed during protests in the southern German city of Nuremberg Wednesday. The closure of Quelle, which was announced in October, is expected to lead to a loss of around 7,000 jobs across Germany. (Timm Schamberger/Agence-France Presse/Getty Images)

Hajra Catic, 64, a Bosnian Muslim from Srebrenica, watched a television broadcast of the trial of Radovan Karadzic in Tuzla, Bosnia, surrounded by photos of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Mr. Karadzic is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, including two for genocide. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)

The Chinese air force’s J-7GB fighter jet aerobatic team rehearsed on the outskirts of Beijing for the upcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of the air force. (Joe Chan/Reuters)

Kenyans held a procession on the sidelines of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria conference in Nairobi Wednesday to call for donor support in research and distribution of drugs to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The activists chanted, “Yes We Can,” a slogan from U.S. President Barack Obama’s election campaign. (Mohamed Dahir/Agence-France Presse/Getty Images)

Male school students who are members of Basij militia burned a U.S. flag, in a demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the embassy by militant Islamic students, who held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)

Firefighters worked to control a fire in the Lenformash plastics factory in central St. Petersburg, Russia, early Wednesday. Two (Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)

Police responded with batons and released teargas to disperse “fair price shop” employees protesting in Patna, India, Wednesday. Fair price shops, or ration shops, are licensed by the state to sell essentials at a subsidized price to the poor. The employers were demanding to be treated as government employees. (Aftab Alam Siddiqui/Associated Press)

People walked along a flooded railroad in Binh Dinh province, Vietnam, Tuesday. The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 91 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the country’s central region. (Thai Son/Vietnam News Agency/Associated Press)

Tina Griekspoor held a sign in front of the county courthouse in Bedford, Pa., Tuesday. Ms. Griekspoor and her mother, Evelyn Border, stole a gift card a girl had set on a shelf while a Walmart employee helped her, said Bedford County District Attorney Bill Higgins. Because the women agreed to hold the signs, Mr. Higgins said he’ll ask for probation instead of jail when the pair plead guilty. (Bedford County District Attorney’s Office/Associated Press)

Men from the London Santa school, dressed in Christmas outfits, posed by telephone boxes in central London Wednesday. (Sang Tan/Associated Press)

Gubernatorial candidate State Sen. Creigh Deeds, a Democrat, hugged his wife after voting in the election in Millboro, Va., Tuesday. Mr. Deeds trailed Republican Bob McDonnell in the polls by double digits heading into the race. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Re-elected President Hamid Karzai vowed to eradicate corruption and offered an olive branch to Taliban insurgents during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. A runoff election was canceled when the challenger dropped out. (Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A young member of Brazil’s Xikrin nation took in the sights at the Indigenous Nations’ Games in Paragominas, Brazil, Monday. Hundreds of Brazilian Indians from various ethnic groups are competing in events that include tug of war, spear throwing and soccer. (Alex Almeida/Reuters)

Two women departed from conventional women’s attire at horse races at the Melbourne Cup in Australia Tuesday. A horse called Shocking captured the $5 million prize for his second win in four days. (William West/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A volunteer grabs the hand a victim of a train collision in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday. A passenger train rammed into a cargo train after the driver apparently missed a signal to stop, killing at least 10 people, including an infant, officials said. More than 30 people were injured. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

Pierre Lueders piloted a bobsleigh during practice at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, Monday. The venue will host bobsleigh, luge and skeleton events during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via Associated Press)

Delegates dressed in traditional clothing to launch the Institute of African Royalty in Johannesburg Tuesday. Kings, queens and chiefs of Africa say they have a role to play in democracy and development on the continent. (Themba Hadebe/Associated Press)

New Orleans Saints running back Pierre Thomas dove into the end zone over Atlanta Falcons linebacker Stephen Nicholas during their game at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Monday. The Saints won 35-27. (Matt Bush/Hattiesburg American via Associated Press)

The Philadelphia Phillies’ Ryan Howard jumped out of the way as the New York Yankees’ Mark Teixeira dove for a ball during Game 5 of the World Series in Philadelphia Monday. The Phillies won 8-6; the Yankees lead the series 3-2. (Matt Slocum/Associated Press)

Cpl. Casey Liffrig leapt for cover as Lt. Thomas Goodwin ducked while Taliban fighters ambushed soldiers on patrol in the Pech Valley, Kunar province, Afghanistan, Tuesday. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)

A worker sprayed the inside of homes in Havana Monday to stop the spread of dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes a potentially deadly fever. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

Palestinians walked about during heavy rain in Ramallah, West Bank, Monday. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

Crews were able to significantly reduce a towering fountain of water gushing onto a Los Angeles street from a ruptured water main. The 54-inch water main sent thousands of gallons of recycled water pouring onto Van Nuys Boulevard on Monday. (Mike Meadows/Associated Press)

A woman panned for gold at a river bank in Aceh province, Indonesia, Monday. The villagers can make up to $28 a day, depending on how much gold they collect. (Tarmizy Harva/Reuters)

A man painted in the flooded Saint Mark’s Square in Venice Tuesday. (Alberto Pizzoli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A man danced under a rainbow flag during a gay pride parade in Rio de Janeiro Sunday. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

A runner wearing a Lady Liberty crown grabbed a piece of cake during the Brooklyn leg of the ING New York City Marathon Sunday. Ethiopia’s Derartu Tulu came in first for the women; Meb Keflezighi became the first American man to win the race since 1982. (David Goldman/Associated Press)

Ajmal sat next to his brother’s body at a hospital morgue near Islamabad Monday. A suicide bomber killed at least 34 people outside a bank in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addressed the media in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a visit Monday. The country called off a runoff election after the runner-up withdrew; Hamid Karzai was named president. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)

Snow covered streets and these bicycles in Beijing Sunday in the capital’s first heavy snowfall this winter. (Feng Li/Getty Images)

A street vendor worked near graves on the “Day of the Dead” on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Sunday. Every year, thousands of people visit cemeteries in Peru and elsewhere to honor their deceased loved ones. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)

Children carried crosses to rally against violence Monday in Rio de Janeiro’s Mandela slum after a young student died during a shootout between police and drug dealers last week. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

People suspected of carrying the H1N1 flu virus waited to be examined at a hospital in Minsk, Belarus, Monday. (Viktor Drachev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Legendary horse trainer Bart Cummings, who is vying for his 13th victory in the Melbourne Cup, reflected in his shades, attended a news conference ahead of the race in Melbourne Monday. Mr. Cummings has three horses entered. (William West/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Sikh faithful crowded around at Golden Temple for the 541st birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, who founded the Sikh religion, in Amritsar, India, Monday. (Prabhjot Gill/Associated Press)

Maoist activists rallied with torches in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday in a nationwide protests aimed at toppling the government over the firing of army Gen. Rookmangud Katawal, who allegedly refused to take orders from the civilian government. (Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters)

Former President Bill Clinton greeted ethnic Albanians in Pristina, Kosovo, Sunday. Mr. Clinton, who was key in the 1999 NATO bombing against Yugoslavia, helped unveil an 11-foot statue of himself in the capital. (Armend Nimani/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with steel from the World Trade Center, arrived in its namesake city Monday to a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, relatives of Sept. 11 victims and the public gathered at the waterfront. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters )

England’s Ross Fisher beat American Anthony Kim, left, in the final of the World Match Play Championship golf tournament in Casares, Spain, Sunday. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press)

Greenpeace activists hung a banner that read “Save the climate” at the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona Monday. Thecity is host to the final round of climate talks before December’s United Nations convention on climate change in Copenhagen. (David Ramos/Associated Press)

Rescuers searched for survivors involved in a train accident at al-Ayyat in Girzah district, south of Cairo, on Saturday. Two Egyptian passenger trains collided Saturday south of Cairo, killing 18 and leaving passengers trapped in the wreckage after a carriage overturned. (See related article.) (Reuters)

A masked Palestinian youth set a tire on fire during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem’s old city Sunday. Dozens of people were wounded in confrontations between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a site holy to Muslims and Jews alike. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

An Iraqi man wept as he walked away from the offices of the justice and labor ministries after a suicide bombing in Baghdad Sunday. A pair of suicide car bombs blasted the Justice Ministry and the provincial offices, killing at least 147 people and injuring more than 500. (See related article.) (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

PAR-TAY! Bolivian President Morales bit into a cake during a rally in Batallas, Bolivia, on Monday. Mr. Morales, who celebrated his 50th birthday Monday, is campaigning for a re-election ahead of a December vote. (David Mercado/Reuters)

Boys played soccer in the Morro dos Macacos slum in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Criminals there drew international attention last week when bloody shootouts left more than 40 people dead, just days after Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Olympic Games. (Felipe Dana/Associated Press)

A police officer beat a man who was fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan for jumping a queue while waiting with hundreds of others at a food distribution point for internally displaced persons in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Tuesday. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)

Fire and smoke spewed from the bow of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama in Kammon Straits, Japan, Tuesday. The Japanese destroyer collided with a South Korean container ship, leaving a crew member injured. (Mainichi Shimbum/Reuters)

In a refugee center in Bosnia on Tuesday, a Bosnian Muslim woman listened to a radio news report on the trial of Radovan Karadzic. U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide case against Mr. Karadzic, despite his continued boycott of the case, calling him the “undisputed leader” and “supreme commander” of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia’s brutal four-year war. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)

A German man with a broken foot was carried away from the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday. Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in the early morning assault raising serious issues about security before the presidential runoff election in less than two weeks. (See related article.) (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

A protester was carried off by police after he was arrested during a sit-in inside of One Liberty Plaza in New York Wednesday. Advocates for “Medicare for All” in New York engaged in an act of civil disobedience at WellPoint. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

Philippine Coast Guard personnel retrieved a dead 17-foot whale shark found by fishermen at the Manila Bay breakwater Wednesday. Coast guard members who arrived on the scene said they did not find injuries in their inspection except for a wound on the tail. The whale shark’s cause of death is still unknown. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

A Indian child performer walked on a rope as she entertained festival-goers at the Pushkar Mela in Pushkar, India, on Wednesday. The festival attracted thousands of livestock dealers and tens of thousands of camels, horses and cattle. The Pushkar Mela has been an annual event for hundreds of years. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)

The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip, and the president of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, inspected the Irish guards during Ms. Patil’s visit to Windsor, England, on Tuesday. Ms. Patil was the first Indian woman elected to the ceremonial role of president of India. (Steve Parsons/Getty Images)

Cuban school children threw flowers into the sea at the Malecon seafront in Havana on Wednesday on the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos, who disappeared at sea in 1959 while flying on his small plane during a mission for Fidel Castro. (Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images)

A statue of Saint Jude, the saint of lost causes, sat in the metro in Mexico City on Wednesday. Thousands flocked to the church of St. Jude Thaddeus on Wednesday as part of an annual pilgrimage in his honor. (Gregory Bull/Associated Press)

Sri Lankan asylum seekers protested on board a wooden boat at Merak seaport, Indonesia, Wednesday. The protesters demanded that the U.N. High Commission for Refugees provide help to a group of 255 refugees who have remained on their boat after they were stopped by Indonesia authorities on their way to Australia. Seventy-eight asylum seekers rescued by Australian customs will be taken to immigration detention centers. (See related article.) (Mast Irham/EPA)

A man pushed an improvised float in the flood-stricken town of Binan, Philippines, Wednesday. The Philippines’ national disaster administrator has urged Filipinos in the country’s northern regions not to visit farflung cemeteries during the weekend’s All Saints’ Day commemorations because the fourth storm to threaten the country in less than two months could trap them there. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)

A Pakistani soldier crouched down as a Pakistani army helicopter took off on top of Kund mountain, Pakistan, Thursday. The Pakistani army is zeroing in on two major Taliban sanctuaries in the South Waziristan bastion. (Nicolas Asfouri/Reuters)

U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner spoke about a health-care reform bill during a conference on Capital Hill on Thursday. Mr. Boehner was joined by other members who voiced concern over a health-care reform bill being pushed by House Democrats. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

U.S. President Barack Obama saluted during the dignified transfer of Sergeant Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday. Mr. Obama traveled to the base to meet the plane carrying the bodies of 18 U.S. personnel killed in Afghanistan on Monday. (See related article.) (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

The British Museum showed off its “Day of the Dead” altar, by Mexican artist Adriana Amaya, Friday in London. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A model got her makeup done backstage at the DFashion show in Mexico City Thursday. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)

A bodybuilder posed for judges during the Mr. Universe competition in Southport, England, Oct. 24. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Children watched as a cemetery caretaker used a saw to cut a mummified corpse into three pieces so it could be transferred to a smaller tomb in Navotas, Philippines, Friday. Millions of Christians will flock to cemeteries to visit departed relatives as part of All Saints’ Day Sunday. (Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A huge fire that has killed at least six workers and injured 150 people at an oil depot in Jaipur, India, will be allowed to burn out, officials said Friday. Huge explosions were heard before the fire broke out; on Friday, onlookers watched the flames, which had been burning for nearly 24 hours. (Mustafa Quraishi/Associated Press)

A sculpture of eyes was displayed at the “Sculpture by the Sea” exhibit at Bondi Beach in Sydney Thursday. The annual exhibit is expected to have 500,000 visitors. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

A protester dressed as a panhandling Uncle Sam stood in New York’s Time Square Wednesday as a reminder of the U.S. debt. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Police took up positions against university students holding a puppet of President Mahinda Rajapaksa during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday. The students called for the end of the “privatization” of education by the government. (Reuters)

Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn told reporters in Beijing Thursday that Nissan’s electric cars will have a price competitive with comparable gasoline-fueled cars in three years – even without government subsidies. (Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, did not acknowledge a connection between head injuries on the field and later brain diseases while defending the league’s policies on concussions at a House Judiciary Committee in Washington Wednesday. Former player Brent Boyd rubbed his head during the hearing. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Volunteers rescued a survivor from rubble after a car blast killed at least 105 people in a Peshawar, Pakistan, market Wednesday. Separately, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday Pakistan has squandered opportunities to capture or kill al Qaeda leaders responsible for Sept. 11. (A. Majeed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) hugged Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.) after they announced a retooled health-care overhaul bill in Washington Thursday. The bill includes a compromise version of a public insurance option and carries an overall cost of $894 billion over 10 years. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel, a victim of East Germany’s secret police, began a weeklong re-enactment of his imprisonment in Berlin Thursday. Mr. Holzapfel was imprisoned in the 1960s for protesting against the regime. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

A statue of Saint Jude, the saint of lost causes, stood on a train in Mexico City Wednesday. Thousands flocked to the Church of Saint Jude Thaddeus as part of an annual pilgrimage in his honor. (Gregory Bull/Associated Press)

The New York Yankees’ Nick Swisher climbed a wall to try and catch a ball in Game 1 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies in New York Wednesday. The Phillies won 6-1. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press)

Motorcycle riders crowded on a Taipei street during rush hour Thursday. There are around 8.8 million motorcycles and 4.8 million cars on Taiwan’s roads. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)

Hundreds of farmers protested the government’s failure to pay millions of euros in subsidies outside the Finance Ministry in Bucharest. The agriculture minister met with union officials and offered to pay the subsidies in three installments, but the offer was rejected, local media reports. (Daniel Mihailescu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A Brawn GP technician, shielded by an umbrella in the sun, checked tires at the Yas Marina racetrack in Abu Dhabi Thursday. The Emirates Formula One Grand Prix is Sunday. (Luca Bruno/Associated Press)

A man tried to sell a fish hanging from a tree in Havana Wednesday. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

Tom Noonan, of the U.S., and Ganesh Pandey, of Nepal, performed a tandem skydive near the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest , in the background in Nepal Thursday. Their dive is believed to be the highest-altitude skydiving stunt, an organizer said. (Wendy Smith/Reuters)

Luke Wharton-Jones, 8, ran across the world’s biggest copy of the “Mona Lisa” during its unveiling in Wrexham, Wales, Wednesday. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A child ran through fallen leaves in London’s Hyde Park Wednesday. The city is experiencing an unseasonably warm autumn. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Livestock dealers tended to their camels at the Pushkar Mela fair in Rajasthan, India, Wednesday. The festival, which involves other animals, has been around for hundreds of years, according to locals. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)

Authorities indefinitely closed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after a rod and a metal brace, erected last month for an emergency repair job, fell Tuesday, startling a pair of drivers who collided. Hundreds of drivers were stuck for hours. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle via Associated Press )

Light-transmitting concrete was shown off in Csongrad, Hungary, Wednesday. Hungarian Aron Losonczi invented the concrete in 2001. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

Seventy-eight Sri Lankan asylum-seekers are refusing to disembark from a vessel off Indonesia’s Bintan island, officials said Wednesday. The Australian navy rescued the migrants 11 days ago; they are demanding that they be taken to Australia. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

Forensic experts began exhuming a mass, unmarked, civil-war-era grave in Alfacar, Spain, Wednesday. It could hold the remains of acclaimed poet Federico Garcia Lorca. (Jorge Guerrero/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A German man with a broken foot was taken to safety after militants stormed an international guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, killing 11 people. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

A police officer’s blood-stained hands held a weapon after the attack on an international guest house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday. The Taliban staged attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 100 people as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the region. (Altaf Qadri/Associated Press)

An Arabic translator censored images and articles from newspapers Tuesday before Guantanamo Bay detainees were permitted to read them. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Brazil’s Athos Schwantes, left, and Argentina’s Marcelo Mendez competed at the South American Championship IX Fencing in Sabaneta, Colombia, Tuesday. (Raul Arboleda/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

An impersonator’s shadow was cast on the red carpet during the Taipei premiere of “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” Wednesday. According to studio estimates, late-night screenings earned $2.2 million at the North America box office. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)

Los Angeles Lakers won 99-92 against the Los Angeles Clippers in Los Angeles Tuesday. Lakers player Kobe Bryant delivered 33 points toward the win; teammate Ron Artest is pictured. (Gus Ruelas/Associated Press)

A base jumper fell off the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Malaysia Wednesday. A group of base jumpers were attempting to set a Guinness record, striving to have 24 people base jump every hour for 24 hours from the communication tower. (Mark Baker/Associated Press)

A Palestinian boy wearing a military uniform held a toy gun in the al Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, West Bank, Monday. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

President Pratibha Patil walked by honor guards during a welcoming ceremony at Windsor Castle in England Tuesday. She will join Queen Elizabeth to launch the baton relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Ms. Patil is the first Indian head of state to visit the country’s former colonial ruler in almost 20 years. (Stefan Wermuth/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

President Evo Morales was welcomed at a rally in Batallas, Bolivia, Monday. Mr. Morales, who celebrated his 50th birthday Monday, is campaigning ahead of a December election. (David Mercado/Reuters)

A nun held her headdress as Marine One, with President Barack Obama aboard, took off from the White House in Washington Monday. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)

A farmer showed a dried patch of land on his farm in Hefei, Anhui province, China, Monday. Drought has destroyed most of his crop and others in southern and eastern China. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

NASA tried for hours Tuesday to launch its new Ares I-X rocket, reflected in water near an alligator in Cape Canaveral, Fla., but clouds, high winds and technical issues kept it grounded. The rocket is the first step in a tentative back-to-the-moon program. A new launch is set for Wednesday. (Bruce Weaver/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A boy enjoyed himself at Leme Beach in Rio de Janeiro Monday. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

The 5,200-ton Japanese naval escort ship Kurama and a South Korean container ship collided Tuesday between two islands in southern Japan. One person aboard the Kurama was injured fighting a fire; two were treated for smoke inhalation. The 7,400-ton container ship caught fire. (Mainichi Shimbun/Reuters)

A police officer threatened to strike a man, who fled a military offensive in South Waziristan, for cutting a food distribution line in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Tuesday. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)

A couple competed in a race designed to improve marriages in Hefei, Anhui province, China, Monday. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Disappointed Washington Redskins fans watched their team lose 27-17 to the Philadelphia Eagles in Landover, Md., Monday. Redskins tight end Chris Cooley broke his right ankle on the first play of the second quarter. (Larry Downing/Reuters)

A man held a baby inside an ancient church in the Armenian village of Khor Virap, next to the border with Turkey, Tuesday. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)

A vineyard near Lake Leman in the Lavaux region of Switzerland saw a warm autumn day Monday. The region is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

Would-be immigrants lay on the ground under blankets at a harbor in Pozzallo, Sicily, Monday. The Italian coast guard recovered one body and rescued almost 300 asylum seekers who spent days at sea in bad weather. (Marcello Paternostro/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A truck loaded with sides of beef overturned on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston, Mass., Monday after the truck struck another at the toll plaza. There were no injuries, just slabs of meat strewn about. (Ted Fitzgerald/Boston Herald via Associated Press)