Architect Frank Gehry, front center, looked up at Beekman Tower during a topping-off ceremony in lower Manhattan Thursday. The high-rise will include 903 apartments, a public school, an ambulatory care center, retail space, parking and two public plazas. It is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2011. (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)

Romanians stood behind a fogged tram window in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday. A strike by subway workers, who are demanding a 20% pay raise, forced up to 700,000 people in the Romanian capital to find alternative means of transportation. (Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)

A Palestinian woman stood near Israeli police officers during the demolition of her house in Isawiya, east Jerusalem, Wednesday. An aide to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed U.S. anger at Israel’s approval for new homes in a settlement near Jerusalem. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne made a touchdown reception during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the New England Patriots in Indianapolis on Monday. (AJ Mast/Associated Press)

Algerian policemen stood guard at the damaged customer-service office of mobile telephone company Djeezy in Algiers, Algeria, on Monday. A crowd of Algerian football supporters attacked the office, smashing windows and destroying office equipment. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

Rescuers and onlookers gathered at the site of the derailed Mandor Express train at Jhar village, India, on Saturday. Several coaches of the overnight express between the popular tourist destinations of Jodhpur and New Delhi,overturned early morning. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Taxis lined up to get their gas tanks filled on a viaduct in Chongqing Tuesday. Central and eastern Chinese provinces faced the worst natural gas shortage in years as supplies were diverted to snowstorm-hit northern China. (Stringer/Reuters)

Actor Zac Efron signed autographs for fans as he arrived at the U.K. film premiere of “Me & Orson Welles” at the Vue West End, London, on Wednesday. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team rescued a woman from rising flood waters in England’s Lake District Thursday. Severe weather conditions have caused floods, cutting off villages and towns in the north of England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

France’s captain Thierry Henry, and teammate Nicolas Anelka celebrated their victory over the Republic of Ireland during their World Cup qualifying playoff second leg soccer match at Stade de France on Wednesday. The win was tinged by controversy: Henry used a hand to keep the ball from going out of play then passed to William Gallas, who headed in the decisive goal. (Francois Mori/Associated Press)

Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, left, threw, a punch against Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico, during their WBO welterweight boxing title fight on Saturday in Las Vegas. (Jae C. Hong/ Associated Press)

A fan of Sarah Palin held onto her book while waiting to get it signed during the first stop of Ms. Palin’s book tour in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday. (Adam Bird/Associated Press)

Texas Christian University fans celebrated the team’s 55-28 win over Utah by rushing the field during the two universities’ football game in Forth Worth, Texas, on Saturday. (Tom Pennington/Associated Press)

A suicide bomb blast victim was rushed for emergency treatment at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a court building near the Supreme Court complex in Peshawar killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 20, officials said. (Daneil Berehulak/Getty Images)

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations linked hands for a group photo Sunday. From left to right: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar’s Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, U.S. President Barack Obama, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Laos Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh in Singapore. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)

An Emirati man watched cheerleaders perform on the beach at Jumeira on the first day of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai on Monday. (Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images)

A boy examined the remains of Patriarch Pavle as he lay in repose in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday. Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia’s Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s, died Sunday. (Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press)

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II left the Houses of Parliament after delivering her speech at the annual State Opening of Parliament in London on Wednesday. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

Meteors streaked past stars in the night sky near Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)

A Palestinian child with a painted face attended an event organized by Unicef to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in Ramallah, West Bank, Friday. Somalia announced it will ratify the treaty, aimed at protecting children, leaving the U.S. as the only country outside the pact, Unicef said. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

A billboard stood against the backdrop of San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru, Thursday. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)

A worker left a mine near Makeyevka, Ukraine, at the end of his shift Friday. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

An official held a Rubik’s Cube with an image of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, left, named the European Union’s first president in Brussels Thursday. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is pictured at center; Britain’s Catherine Ashton, right, was named as the foreign affairs chief. (Georges Gobet/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A competitor sped down the track during an event at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Thursday. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Former French Prime Ministers Michel Rocard, left, and Alain Juppe attended a news conference in Paris Thursday. Earlier, they delivered their commission’s plan to President Nicolas Sarkozy to invest 35 billion euros to boost economic growth. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)

A sommelier poured a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau into an open-air wine spa in Hakone, Japan, Thursday. The Hakone Kowakien Yunessun resort holds its wine spa each year. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images)

Actor Zac Efron signed autographs at the premiere of his movie, “Me and Orson Welles,” in London Thursday. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama addressed U.S. soldiers stationed at Osan Air Base in Seoul Thursday. During his visit, Mr. Obama said the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties against Iran for refusing to halt its nuclear program. (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A fan of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waited to get Mrs. Palin’s autograph during the one-time Republican vice presidential candidate’s “Going Rogue” book tour, which kicked off in Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday. (Adam Bird/Associated Press)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Kabul, Afghanistan, to attend President Hamid Karzai’s inauguration Thursday. “They’ve done some work … but, in our view, not nearly enough to demonstrate a seriousness of purpose to tackle corruption,” she told reporters during the flight. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

A man got a shave at a roadside barbershop, decorated with portraits of Hindu gods and goddesses, in New Delhi Thursday. (Manish Swarup/Associated Press)

The crowd is reflected on a window of a building as hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday in Belgrade, Serbia, for Patriarch Pavle, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Pavle died over the weekend at the age of 95. He had been hospitalized with heart and lung problems. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

Workers moved waste at a landfill site in Glasgow Thursday. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

A man jumped into the sea from a beach in the neighborhood of Arpoador in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday. (Felipe Dana/Associated Press)

A rescuer saved a woman from rising floodwaters in Keswick, England, Thursday. Flood warnings were issued across northern England, Scotland and Wales as forecasters predicted more heavy downpours in the next few days. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A model of King Kong, used in the 1933 film, was displayed at Christie’s in London Thursday. The model is part of a pop-culture memorabilia sale starting Nov. 24. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Afghan National Army soldiers prayed in Tagab Valley, Afghanistan, Wednesday. Security forces stepped up patrols for President Hamid Karzai’s inauguration. Still, a car bombing in Qalat killed two U.S. soldiers and a suicide bomber killed 10 civilians in Uruzgan province. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

People protested outside Dow Chemical Co.’s office in Noida, India, Thursday over a 1984 gas leak that killed thousands. A storage tank at a pesticide plant run by U.S. group Union Carbide — purchased by Dow in 1999 — leaked more than 40 tons of toxic gas. (Manish Swarup/Associated Press)

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listened to testimony at a hearing about his finances in Detroit Wednesday. Last year, Mr. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felonies and resigned. (Kathleen Galligan/Detroit Free Press via Associated Press)

Queen Elizabeth II donned the diamond-encrusted Imperial State Crown to announce the government’s plans for the next parliamentary session. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

People played dominoes by flashlight in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday. Most of Haiti’s cities only have electricity a few hours a day, due to insufficient energy production. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)

More than 3,000 people commemorated the 10th anniversary early Wednesday of a bonfire collapse that killed 12 people at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Cupping candles that flickered in the cold morning air, people gathered at the collapse site of the Nov. 18, 1999, accident. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Associated Press)

Indian-born American wrestling star Dilip Singh Rana, known by the stage name “The Great Khali,” towered over people in a crowd in Shimla, India, Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Pilgrims prayed at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday. Some 2.5 million Muslims from around the world coverage on the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, also in Saudi Arabia, for a holy pilgrimage that is to be completed at least once in a Muslim’s life. (Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Meteors streaked past stars in the night sky near Amman, Jordan, Wednesday. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)

Delegates listened — some napped — during sessions of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh Tuesday. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was confident the alliance would agree to increase the number of troops battling insurgents in Afghanistan. (Derek Blair/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner slipped during a news conference with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, right, in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday. Mr. Kouchner urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks. (Nader Daoud/Associated Press)

About 200 South Koreans protested in Seoul, ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival, over a plan to send South Korean troops back to Afghanistan after the country pulled forces out in 2007. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Riot police stood in front of youths demonstrating in Athens Tuesday. Thirteen policemen were injured in clashes during the protest staged to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student revolt, police said. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Palestinians watched the demolition of a house in the Arab neighborhood of Isawiya, east Jerusalem, Wednesday. Israel dismissed disapproval from the U.S. over construction of new settlement homes. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

A crew worked Tuesday to remove a 100,000-pound crane that toppled onto a Santa Rosa, Calif., house and smashed it in half while trying to remove an old oak tree. No one was injured in the accident. (Christopher Chung/The Press Democrat via Associated Press)

A model showed off a design by Adesagi during Jakarta Fashion Week in Indonesia Wednesday. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

Workers performed maintenance work on a wind turbine’s rotor wing in Bremerhaven, Germany, Tuesday. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)

Skiers got lessons on an artificial ski slope in Grangemouth, Scotland, Tuesday. An oil refinery is seen in the background. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama walked by an honor guard during a ceremony at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People Tuesday. The U.S. and China agreed to cooperate on a raft of clean-energy issues, including those involving renewable power, batteries and technology to cut greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants. (David Gray/Reuters)

An activist from the Bharatiya Kisan Union, or Indian Farmers Union, played with his moustache during a protest in New Delhi Monday. The farmers were demonstrating against the government’s alleged anti-farm policies. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)

A man watched the movie “Zakham” at the Shabistan Cinema in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. Theater managers say the threat of insurgent attacks stops people from working, giving them less disposable income for activities like going to the movies. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

People lit candles at a memorial for the Velvet Revolution in Prague Tuesday. Thousands of people planned to re-enact the student protest that triggered the toppling of the communist government of what was then Czechoslovakia. (Petr Josek/Reuters)

A man viewed “The Hoerengracht,” “Whore’s Canal,” by American artists Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz at the National Gallery in central London Tuesday. The display is a replica of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

Natasha Oughtred, a dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet, prepared to perform at the dedication of a memorial to the founders of the Royal Ballet at Westminster Abbey in London Tuesday. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Pierre Berge, center, the longtime partner of late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent attended a Christie’s auction of his belongings in Paris Tuesday. (Thibault Camus/Associated Press)

Police guarded a damaged office of cellphone company Djezzy, a subsidiary of Egypt’s Orascom Telecom, in Algiers, Algeria, Monday. Algerian soccer fans targeted the office Sunday after reports that Algerian fans were assaulted by rivals during a World Cup qualification match with Egypt. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

Residents of a Manila slum looked for materials to salvage after a fire gutted hundreds of homes Tuesday. Authorities say more than 1,000 people were left homeless in the fire, which may have been accidental. (Jay Directo/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Taxis lined up to fill their gas tanks in Chongqing, China, Tuesday. China, along with the U.S., consumes and emits more greenhouse gasses than any other country. The issue will be on the agenda at climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month. (Reuters)

Police inspected the scene where a suspected militant’s body was found after a gunbattle with authorities in Thailand’s restive Pattani province, south of Bangkok, Tuesday. Authorities killed six suspected militants. (Surapan Boonthanom/Reuters)

A farmer scuffled with police during a protest in Seoul on a road leading to the U.S. Embassy Tuesday. Hundreds of farmers demanded South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak’s government resolve the issue of excess rice and the decline in rice prices. They also called for excess rice to be sent to North Koreans. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)

A hot-air balloon in the likeness of “Star Wars” character Darth Vader flew with others in more traditional designs during a festival in Leon, Mexico, Monday. (Mario Armas/Reuters)

Space shuttle Atlantis launched with its crew of six from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday afternoon on a mission to the International Space Station. Officials believe three small foam pieces peeled away from the tank, but no danger is posed. Atlantis will deliver spare parts to the space station. (Terry Renna/Associated Press)

The boat “Skipper Palanad II” arrived in Puerto Progreso, Mexico, Monday, after sailing for 26 days in the ”Solidarity of Chocolate” regatta from Saint-Nazaire, France. The boat’s sailors are Tim Wright and Nicko Brennan. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A man worked at an aluminum factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday. The factory employs about 15 people who often work 12-hour days, for less than $2 a day. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

Firefighters worked to extinguish a fire in Mandaluyong City, Philippines, Monday. The flames destroyed about 1,000 homes, but no deaths or injuries were immediately reported. The cause of the fire was under investigation. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)

Germany’s Paul Biedermann shattered his second world record in two days when he won the 200 butterfly final in Berlin Sunday in just 1:39.37, slashing nearly 1.5 seconds off his old mark. (Gerit Borth/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Cattle searched for food at a garbage dump in Makassar, Indonesia, Monday. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

A woman photographed the fall foliage of ginkgo biloba trees in Tokyo Monday. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)

The French aerobatics team performed at the Dubai Airshow Sunday. The Airshow delivered few big-ticket orders on its second day Monday despite the hopeful words of executives from Boeing and Airbus. (Marwan Naamani/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Activists from the women’s-rights group FEMEN held a performance in protest of college professors sexually harassing female students in front of the Ministry for Science and Education in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

The Cancer Council set out beach towels with “crime scene” body outlines at Bondi Beach in Sydney Sunday to bring attention to the rate of skin cancer deaths in Australia. (Dean Lewins/Reuters)

Performers dressed like natives participated in a traditional folk festival in San Martin, Colombia, Sunday. The annual festival commemorates the native people’s struggle for freedom against Spanish colonization. (Vizcaino/Reuters)

A photographer followed parliamentary debate in Tehran, Iran, Sunday. Parliament approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s last three cabinet nominees Sunday after rejecting his original picks in September. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne (87) made a touchdown reception during an NFL game against the New England Patriots in Indianapolis Sunday. The Colts rallied to a 35-34 victory to remain unbeaten. (A.J. Mast/Associated Press)

Former NBA player Dennis Rodman signed autographs after a game between the USA Legends of Basketball and a Germany/Luxembourg team in Trier, Germany, Sunday. (Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images)

A man was treated at a Peshawar, Pakistan, hospital Monday, after a pickup truck laden with explosives blew up outside a police station there, killing four people, Monday. The area has become the focal point for militant retaliation against an army offensive along the nearby Afghan border. (K. Parvez/Reuters)

Thousands waited in line to pay respects to the late Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle in Belgrade Monday. Pavle, who led the church during the fall of communism and the Balkan Wars, died Sunday at age 95. (Alexa Stankovic/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Tree stumps were displayed in London’s Trafalgar Square Monday as part of the “Ghost Forest” project, which aims to raise public awareness about deforestation and climate change. The tree stumps come from a commercially logged tropical rainforest in Ghana. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press)

A woman cried next to the coffin of a relative during a funeral for victims of the heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Ida, at the municipal cemetery near San Salvador Sunday. The storm killed at least 124 people in El Salvador as it roared through the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. (Henry Romero/Reuters)

Spectators stood next to toppled foam dominos near to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Tuesday night, during celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)

Firefighters battled a fire at the Marysville Elementary School in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday. (Bruce Ely/Associated Press)

The flag-draped coffin of Army Sgt. Dale Griffin is seen in the back of a hearse before the start of a Veterans Day service in Terre Haute, Ind., Wednesday. Sgt. Griffin was killed recently by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. (Darron Cummings/Associated Press)

A video camera’s monitor showed Swedish Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the European Council Fredrik Reinfeldt as he held a press conference on Wednesday at the European headquarters in Brussels. Mr. Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, admitted he had too many names to fill the new posts of EU president and foreign policy supremo. (Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)

Augustino Magnus, a smoker who is suffering from cancer of the esophagus, sat on his bed in a cancer insitute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Thursday. Africa faces a surge in cancer deaths unless action is taken in the next decade to stem rising smoking levels in a continent where anti-tobacco laws remain rare, U.S. scientists said Wednesday. (Katrina Manson/Reuters)

Yi Jie Tong, 23, walked back to the main square after performing in the “Kingdom of the Dwarves” show in Kunming World Butterflies Garden in China. The show opened last summer with 100 midgets from all over China. The only criteria for the job is to be shorter than 51 inches. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

OUCH! A student received a H1N1 vaccine injection at a hospital in Suining, China, Wednesday. H1N1 flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said. (Stringer/Reuters)

A boy sat on a fishing boat in Mumbai, Wednesday, as Cyclone Phyan roared toward India’s western coast. Authorities shut schools and offices in anticipation of its blustery arrival. Hundreds of fishermen were ordered to turn back as Phyan stormed up from the Arabian Sea, nearly 155 miles southwest of Mumbai. (Dhiraj Singh/Associated Press)

Physically disabled men waited for new artificial limbs at the Jaipur Foot Camp in New Delhi, Wednesday. The camp was organized to provide the free distribution of artificial limbs, calipers and clutches to physically disabled people. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)

A boy harvested fish from a pond in Bua village, Indonesia, Wednesday. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

Palestinian children held a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a candlelight vigil in Ras al-Amud, Jerusalem, Wednesday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his death. Palestinians now are more divided then ever and his successor, Mahmud Abbas, is pondering resignation because stalled U.S.-led peace efforts that have failed to create a Palestinian state. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

A member on a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps honor guard participated in a Veterans Day ceremony in Omaha, Neb., on Wednesday. (Nati Harnik/Associated Press)

Residential buildings in San Paulo, Brazil, stood in darkness during a massive blackout, Wednesday, lit by antennas atop buildings, vehicle headlights, flashlights and flickering candles. The blackout plunged tens of millions of people in darkness and prompted a major police mobilization amid fears of an opportunistic crime wave. (Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images)

Omm Ahmed, right, a female militant in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, posed for a portrait in the house of a fellow fighter in the Gaza Strip Thursday. Founded in 1969, the DFLP has approximately 40 women in training that began six months ago as a response to Israel’s January offensive. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)

A worker prepared the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to be raised into position in New York Thursday. The tree weighs over 10 tons and is 76 feet tall. The tree will be lit for the holidays on Dec. 2. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)

An imam, right, entered the Razi school in Queens, N.Y., Thursday. The school was among the assets seized by the federal government in a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. Federal prosecutors took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim group suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. (Stephen Chernin/Associated Press)

A federal policeman searched a man suspected of carrying drugs and weapons at an anti-narcotics operation in Ecatepec, Mexico, early Friday. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)

A judge tasted a specialty coffee at the Cup of Excellence competition in Machado, Brazil, Friday. National and international judges spent all week searching for the best coffee in Brazil among the entrants in the competition. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

Palestinian demonstrators used slingshots to throw stones at Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah, Friday. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)

Beachwalkers on the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach, Va., Friday were greeted by a large barge that broke free from a tugboat as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida moved through the region. (Steve Helber/Associated Press)

Uncollected piles of trash stacked up in the streets of Villabate near Palermo, Italy, Friday. Much of the island of Sicily is suffering from an excess of garbage thanks to a strike by trash collectors. (Marcello Paternostro/AFP/Getty Images)

A homeless boy sought shelter from the rain outside a Domino’s Pizza parlor in Mumbai Wednesday. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

A girl played next to her mother’s artificial leg at the ICRC Ali Abad Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. The center educates and rehabilitates land mine victims and people with deformities. Microloans are also provided. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)

Country crooner Taylor Swift, in gold, won four categories, including entertainer of the year, at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville Wednesday. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

A woman posed with a postcard at the Royal College of Art in London Thursday. The event is an anonymous sale of postcards by artists that include Gerhard Richter, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, David Bailey and Yoko Ono. The sale starts Nov. 21. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)

Buddhists caught a glimpse of the Dalai Lama as he departed from a helipad after a series of public events in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Thursday. (Manish Swarup/Associated Press)

Singer Jon Bon Jovi embraced U.S. Army Spc. Cindy Paulo at a performance on NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Center in New York City Wednesday. (Jason DeCrow/Associated Press)

A man swam in a lake as snow collected on a nearby rooftop in Jinan, Shandong province, China, Thursday. (Reuters)

A car passed by a rain-soaked cotton field in rural Henry County, Ala., Tuesday. Wind and rain from Tropical Storm Ida compounded the misery of Southern farmers who were already coping with a delayed harvest season. In Virginia, Gov. Timothy Kaine declared a state of emergency. (Jay Hare/The Dothan Eagle via Associated Press)

A police candidate got his chest measured during a fitness test for Uttar Pradesh state police in Allahabad, India, Thursday. Recruiters hope to fill 35,000 constable posts. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)

A skater in a swimsuit danced behind a policeman during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest swimwear parade at one time in Sydney Thursday. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)

A demonstrator dressed like a pig protested the government’s decision to disband state-run electric company Luz y Fuerza del Centro in Mexico City Wednesday. President Felipe Calderon cited operational inefficiencies and a budget gap. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)

Protesters scuffled with police as they marched to the U.S. Embassy in Manila Thursday during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit. She pledged continuing U.S. support for the Philippines’ efforts to root out al Qaeda-linked insurgents. (Bullit Marquez/Associated Press)

The curtain rose on a Rockettes rehearsal at Radio City Musical Hall in New York City Wednesday. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Tens of thousands of people waved Japanese flags and lanterns as Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko made a public appearance at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the emperor’s coronation. (Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his state of the union speech in Moscow Thursday. He spoke about his desire to move Russia’s economy into the modern age and overcome the grim industrial legacy of the Soviet Union. A woman took a photo of the broadcast on a large TV screen. (Natalia Kolesnikova/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

More than 400 students and 17 teachers escaped a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged Marysville Elementary School in Portland, Ore., Tuesday. The cause of the fire at the more than 80-year-old school hasn’t been released. (Bruce Ely/The Oregonian via Associated Press)

Arkansas State Police Special Agent Hays McWhirter investigated a scene where four people died and two were injured in an explosion when a tractor-trailer crashed into vehicles near Texarkana, Ark., Tuesday. (Evan Lewis/The Texarkana Gazette via Associated Press)

A boy collected fish from a pond in Sulawesi province, Indonesia, Wednesday. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

Marion Lewis, whose daughter Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, was one of 10 people killed in 2002 by D.C. snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, witnessed Mr. Muhammad’s execution in Jarratt, Va., Tuesday. (Dean Hoffmeyer/Associated Press)

A boy held onto an umbrella in Mumbai Wednesday. Forecasters issued a warning as cyclone Phyan approached India’s western coast with winds of up to 45 mph. Mumbai closed schools and offices early. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

Ice formed on a bus after snowfall in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, Wednesday. Thousands of vehicles have been stranded on roads. State media reported Chinese scientists caused the snow. (Reuters)

A man rode near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, West Bank, Wednesday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a crowd marking the fifth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death that he won’t resume peace talks with Israel until it halts West Bank settlements. (Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Actors got ready for the next showing of the “Kingdom of The Dwarves” in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, Wednesday. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Teresa Enke, the wife of national soccer team goalkeeper Robert Enke, choked back tears at a news conference in Hannover, Germany, Wednesday. “I tried to be there for him,” she said of his depression. Mr. Enke, 32, threw himself in front of a train Tuesday, leaving behind a suicide note. (Joerg Sarbach/Associated Press)

Residents gathered in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday to hear news about family members who may have died in flooding and mudslides caused by Hurricane Ida. About 150 people died there. (Luis Galdamez/Reuters)

A man looked on as people gathered to pray for Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s recovery outside a Bangkok hospital Tuesday. The king has been hospitalized since September with a lung infection and fever. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Former astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty to burglary and misdemeanor battery in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday and received a year’s probation. She drove 1,000 miles to confront her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman, in 2007. (Red Huber/Associated Press)

Khadija sat in the cave she calls home in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Tuesday. The cave dwellers are from the Hazara ethnic group, which was persecuted by the Taliban. (Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A relative hugged a picture and touched a fallen soldier’s boot at a memorial to honor the 13 victims in last week’s shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, Tuesday. Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan is alleged to be the shooter. (Rodolfo Gonzalez/Associated Press)

Rifleman Craig Wood, 18, of Doncaster, England, watched a red paper poppy fall during a remembrance ceremony in Ieper, Belgium, Wednesday. The soldier was wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan, losing three limbs. (Virginia Mayo/Associated Press)

A newborn elephant took its first steps next to its mother in Amersfoort Zoo in the Netherlands Tuesday. (Koen van Weel/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Miguel Lopez, largely paralyzed from the chest down, lay in bed in Denver Monday. The Mexican immigrant, whose children were born in the U.S., broke his neck last summer on a trampoline. The former construction worker had no health insurance. He receives help from the nonprofit Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Relatives listened to music at a vigil for Army Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, in Chicago Monday. The pregnant soldier was one of 13 people killed by alleged gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood in Texas last week. President Barack Obama is set to speak to victims’ relatives Tuesday. (John Smierciak/Associated Press)

A funeral was held for Carolina Ayala, 15, in Verapaz, El Salvador, Monday. She was one of at least 130 people killed during flooding and mudslides triggered by Hurricane Ida. The U.N. says at least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)

A child walked into a mosque in Teluk Meranti, Indonesia, Tuesday. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, celebrated the 90th birthday of AK-47 assault rifle inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, right, at the Kremlin in Moscow Tuesday. (Natalia Kolesnikova/Associated Press)

An Israeli soldier recited his morning prayers on his tank after a night-long training exercise near Katzrin, Israel, in the disputed Golan Heights area Tuesday. (David Silverman/Getty Images)

Demonstrators and police scuffled at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires Monday over a court order to evict squatters who illegally occupied a building 15 years ago. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)

A woman displayed her tattoo copied from the signature of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at his mausoleum in Turkey Tuesday. Mr. Ataturk, the first president of Turkey and founder of the modern secular state, died Nov. 10, 1938, at the age of 57. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

A car lay in the mud Tuesday after being swept away during a mudslide on the southern Italian island of Ischia. A 15-year-old girl was killed and more than a dozen people were injured. (Roberto Salomone/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Cleveland officials searched an old elementary school Monday as they looked for victims of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell, 50. The remains of 11 people were found in his backyard. The FBI is reviewing a national database of unsolved crimes for possible connections to Mr. Sowell, who served in the military. (Gus Chan/The Plain Dealer via Associated Press)

Yoani Sanchez, left at her Havana home Monday, claims state agents stopped her and two others in Havana. The award-winning opposition blogger claims the agents kicked her and pulled her hair. The U.S. State Department decried the attacks on the bloggers. (Enrique De La Osa/Reuters)

The victim of a car bombing was rushed to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. The bomb exploded outside a crowded market, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants. (Mohammad Iqbal/Associated Press)

A prisoner suspected of kidnapping a Mexican-American woman wore shackles in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday. The 21-year-old U.S. citizen, who was kidnapped last week near the border, was found in a closet. Three suspects, including one in the U.S., are accused of threatening to kill the woman unless they were paid $200,000. (Guillermo Arias/Associated Press)

Raffaele Morra, a member of the all-male ballet company The Trocks, performed “Dying Swan” at a dress rehearsal at the Royal Theatre in Sydney Tuesday. (Rick Rycroft/Associaed Press)

A year ago, the Fort Worth Episcopal diocese fractured into conservative and liberal factions. The conservative St. Stephen’s is led by Father Ronald Drummond. He said it’s a relief to be separated from the national Episcopal church, which has adopted more liberal social positions over the years. In his view, bishops of the church should “guard the faith as it has been handed down, not change it to fit the times.” (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

Father Vernon Gotcher, who says he takes the Bible seriously but not literally. “We don’t make a paper pope out of Scripture,” he said. He said the schism in the church was deeply painful, but now, a year later, he feels grateful that his congregation has the freedom to focus on what they believe to be a central mission of Christianity — caring for the needy. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

A view of the cross during Sunday service at the more conservative St. Stephen’s. The conservative faction feels a new freedom to focus on evangelizing. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

Ted Mastin prepared for Sunday service at the more conservative St. Stephen’s on November 1. The group’s cathedral, St. Vincent’s in Bedford, Texas, has been launching new churches overseas and around the U.S. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

Members of the more conservative St. Stephen’s prayed before a recent Bible study class. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

Father Drummond prayed over a member of his parish during communion. Both factions celebrate Mass in the same high-church, Anglo-Catholic style, ringing bells as the priest blesses the bread and wine for the holy Eucharist. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

But no one is suggesting that the rivals reunite. Above, the centerpiece of a triptych painting of Jesus and Mary at the more conservative St. Stephen’s church. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

“The separation breaks my heart but it is, in some ways, a good thing,” said Black Chaffe, senior warden for the more conservative congregation. Mr. Chaffe’s group has remained in the church building, while the more liberal group has moved. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

At a rented wedding chapel two and a half miles away, Father Gotcher distributed communion to parishioners of the more liberal St. Stephen’s. He founded the congregation in 1968 and came out of retirement to help the group. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

The more liberal congregation has begun to tweak the traditional liturgical service to reflect a more relaxed approach. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

From left, Marilyn Jones, Mary Lu Powell, and Michael Reed, rehearsed for the choir at the more liberal St. Stephen’s. During the service, after each song, the congregants applaud. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

They shout out “Amen!” when the spirit moves them. They have welcomed new members, including openly gay couples. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

“A number of the people from the other group told me, ‘You’re welcome to come home,’ ” said Deb Vardell, a member of the more liberal faction. “I told them, ‘You’re welcome to come home, too.’” Above, items from service at the more liberal church. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)

A sign hangs from a tree outside the more conservative St. Stephen’s church in Hurst. A year after the Episcopal diocese here in northeast Texas fractured, both sides express one emotion above all: Relief. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)