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In this Thursday July 2, 2009 photo a British soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) shakes hand with an Afghan boy during a patrol in the Nad Alid district of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Around 8,500 Britain soldiers, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, are serving in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)AP - Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said.


 

North Korea fires rockets during a military exercise in January 2009. North Korea has test-fired seven missiles off its east coast in what appeared to be a calculated message of defiance timed for the US Independence Day holiday.(AFP/KCNA/KNS/File)AFP - North Korea test-fired seven missiles off its east coast on Saturday, South Korean officials said, in what appeared to be a calculated message of defiance timed for the US Independence Day holiday.


 

Iranian worshippers perform Friday prayers, at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and said in an editorial Saturday he should be tried for committing crimes against the nation .


 

President Barack Obama points to members of his family and friends as he walks across to Marine One helicopter before his departure from Ft. McNair in Washington, Friday, July 3, 2009. Obama is traveling to Camp David to join his family and returning tomorrow to the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his domestic initiatives, while Sen. John McCain called for Americans to support Iranian election protesters. The one-time presidential rivals both cited the spirit of the nation's founders in their Fourth of July radio and Internet addresses.


 

Los Angeles Dodgers' Manny Ramirez returns to the dugout between innings in a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Friday, July 3, 2009, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - Manny Ramirez is back in the big leagues, looking like a guy who missed 50 games. Returning from his suspension for violating baseball's drug policy, the Los Angeles slugger barely hit the ball out of the infield in the Dodgers' 6-3 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.


 

In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.


 

FILE  -  In this April 3, 2009, file photo, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, during a visit to Baden-Baden, Germany.  Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.  But the American first lady, who has wowed publics in the U.S. and Europe with her easy elegance and charm, will perhaps face a bigger challenge in winning over a Russian public that has scant respect for women who grab the limelight from their powerful husbands. Russia still has trouble with the concept of an empowered woman behind the throne. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)AP - Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.


 

Reward posters hang in the window of a local business in Gaffney, S.C. Friday, July 3, 2009. Sheriff's deputies searched Friday for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald Journal, John Byrum)AP - A terrified rural South Carolina community hunkered down over the Fourth of July after the sheriff said a serial killer was on the loose, and longtime residents were reminded of a murderer who terrorized the town in the 1960s.


 

Jermaine Jackson, right, and Jackie Jackson drive out of the Jackson family home in the Encino section of Los Angeles, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Questions about Michael Jackson's use of prescription drugs are intensifying after a powerful sedative was found inside his home.


 

A North Korean mock Scud-B missile, center, and other South Korean mock missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 4, 2009. North Korea fired five ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day.


 

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)AP - Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has defied political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early.


 

Anti-North Korea protesters shout slogans behind North Korean flags and mock North Korean missiles at a rally denouncing the North's missile launch, in Seoul July 3, 2009. REUTERS/Jo Yong-HakReuters - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.


 
Reuters - A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran's top authority said Saturday defeated election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi and a former pro-reform president had committed "terrible crimes" which should be tried in court.
 
Reuters - One U.S. soldier and an Afghan were killed when a suicide bomber tried to attack a base in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south.
 

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is seen here at a hotel in Yangon, following his arrival in Myanmar. Ban said he was AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply disappointed" after the reclusive chief of Myanmar's military junta refused to let him meet pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.


 

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya waves upon his arrival at Comalapa international airport, in San Salvador July 2, 2009. REUTERS/La Prensa Grafica/Milton Flores/PoolReuters - The Organization of American States prepared to suspend Honduras on Saturday after a caretaker government refused to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and defiantly renounced the OAS charter in an apparent preemptive move.


 

U.S. Republican vice- presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves to the crowd after U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain delivered his concession speech in Phoenix, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Mike BlakeReuters - Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor.


 

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about innovation and jobs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, July 2, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's charge that he was mired in Cold War thinking, setting the scene for a stormy first meeting at a Moscow summit next week.


 

A deserted village in South Wazirstan is seen in this May 18, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Simon Cameron-MooreReuters - A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles on Friday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an expected Pakistani military offensive in the area.


 
Reuters - Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday.
 

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