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Brazil leader rapped for stance on Cuba dissidents (AP)
11 03 2010 Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Lula da Silva warned that U.S.-proposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazil's president came under withering criticism Wednesday at home and in Cuba for his deference to the island's communist government over political prisoners and hunger strikes for human rights.
Britain confronts debt of Greek proportions (AP)
11 03 2010 Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown  makes a  major economical speech in  London Wednesday March 10, 2010.  Britain's economic recovery remains fragile, Brown warned Wednesday, as he paved the way for a national election by announcing the government's budget would be published in two weeks. (AP Photo/ Charlie Bibby/Financial Times/Pool)AP - Government debt is growing, as is the deficit. The economy is struggling to get out of recession and there is talk of spending cuts or higher taxes. The unions are on edge. And the currency is plummeting.
Disaster experts praise Chile quake response (AP)
11 03 2010 Chile's President Michelle Bachelet arrives to Constitucion, Chile, Monday, March 8, 2010.  An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - President Michelle Bachelet leaves office Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins — and her popularity in the clouds.
US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements (AP)
11 03 2010 U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. Biden was to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in part to ease their doubts about the latest U.S. peace efforts. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal.
Arab League calls for ending support for talks (AP)
10 03 2010 AP - The Arab League recommended on Wednesday to withdraw its support for indirect talks between Palestinians and Israelis due to recent announcements of new settlement building in east Jerusalem.
Lost in the ruins: Haiti's best and brightest (AP)
10 03 2010 A helicopter lands on the USNS (United States Naval Ship) Comfort hospital ship in the harbour off Port-au-Prince in January 2010. A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction.(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)AP - They kept the books, had the training and fixed the computers. They were the educated few of Haiti, an up-and-coming generation of nurses, technicians, office managers and college students.
UN report: Much of Somalia's food aid diverted (AP)
10 03 2010 Somali children line up to receive food at an aid distribution center in the outskirts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu in 2008. Somali insurgents have barred the World Food Programme from the famine and war-plagued Horn of Africa country, where the UN says four million people, half the population, needs emergency food aid.(AFP/File/Mustafa Abdi)AP - Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers, according to a U.N. Security Council report.
Italy parliament passes justice measure (AP)
10 03 2010 Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, right,  is flanked by People of Freedom party candidate, for the upcoming regional elections, Renata Polverini at the end of a press conference at the party's headquarters in Rome,Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Berlusconi has called on his supporters to take to the streets this month to defend their right to vote in coming local elections. The call Wednesday came amid weeks of chaos surrounding the registration of candidates from Berlusconi's center-right party for the March 28-29 balloting. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - Silvio Berlusconi's allies pushed a controversial measure through parliament on Wednesday that shields the Italian premier from prosecution in two ongoing trials.
Abuse scandal creeps closer to the pope (AP)
10 03 2010 FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it.  In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.
Nigerian soldiers open fire on youths; 2 killed (AP)
10 03 2010 Rev. Joshua T. Dafom, right, stands in front of the grave of a woman killed in fighting in the village of Ku-got, Nigeria, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. More than 200 people died in central Nigeria in recent fighting between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)AP - Soldiers opened fire on a crowd after curfew and killed two people, witnesses said Wednesday, just days after more than 200 people including dozens of children were slaughtered in several mostly Christian villages nearby.
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