President Barack Obama addresses lawmakers as he opens the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
Like-Minded?
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listens during remarks of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, hosted by President Barack Obama, not pictured, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Mr. Obama took questions from the participants, including McCain, his former rival for the presidency.
Stocks Slump
Specialist Peter Mazza works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1997.
Apple Of Oscar's Eye
"Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle looks down at his Oscar for Best Director as he arrives at the official Oscar After Party for Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler" in West Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. Boyle's Oscar was one of eight the film won on the evening.
Sky Lines
Comet Lulin is seen in the early morning sky during a half-hour time exposure photographed with a 300 mm telephoto lens on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in Stedman, N.C. The lens tracked the comet during the exposure. This rendered background stars as short streaks. On Monday at 10:43 p.m. EST, Lulin will be 38 million miles from Earth, the closest it will ever get, according to NASA.
Clowning Around
People dressed up as clowns march through the streets, during the traditional Rose-Monday Parade in Cologne, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. The Rose-Monday Parades are the highlights of the street carnival season in Germany and attract hundreds of thousands of people every year, especially in the carnival strongholds Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz along the Rhine River.
Guantanamo Getaway
Binyam Mohamed, 30, foreground, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, covers his face as he leaves RAF Northolt in west London Monday Feb. 23, 2009, after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity -- the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President Barack Obama took office. The Ethiopian-born detainee has been held at Guantanamo since Sept. 2004 after his arrest in Pakistan.