Afghan day laborers work at a local brick factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Jan 6, 2011.
A member of the Spanish Royal Guard, second right, snoozes as he waits for the start of the Pascua Militar annual Christmas military parade at the Royal Palace in Madrid on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011.
A woman reacts at police officers during clashes in the El Harrache district of Algiers, Thursday, Jan.6, 2011. The violence came after price hikes for milk, sugar and flour in recent days, and amid simmering frustration that Algeria's abundant gas-and-oil resources have not translated into broader prosperity. Rioting youths set buildings and tires ablaze and hurled stones at police in the Algerian capital over rising food prices and chronic unemployment.
Police patrol during an operation to take control of the Morro Sao Joao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Rio de Janeiro's police say they've taken over three adjacent slums as part of an ongoing program to increase security and clamp down on drug trafficking.
Exhibitors and buyers at the Consumer Electronics Show walk by a display of LG HDTV screens, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 in Las Vegas.
Giofil Aprillia's Francisco "Chaleco" Lopez, from Chile, rides his motorcycle during the fifth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Calama and Iquique in Chile, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011.
Matthew Hoffman confers with his attorney during his arraignment in the Knox County Court of Common Pleas, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Hoffman pleaded guilty to killing three people, stuffing their bodies in a hollow tree and raping a 13-year-old girl two months ago in a case that drew national attention and included a massive air and ground search in the days after the victims disappeared.
Fireworks illuminate the sky over church of resurrection, in Podgorica, Montenegro, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Orthodox Christians in Montenegro celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar.
A sadhu, or Hindu holy man, smokes marijuana at a transit camp in Calcutta, India, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Pilgrims are arriving in the city before proceeding onward for an annual holy dip at Gangasagar, the confluence of Ganges River and Bay of Bengal, some 87 miles south of Calcutta, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti that falls on Jan. 14.
Bosnian Serb man Dragan Stankovic, 34, prepares a roasted pig, a traditional meal for Orthodox Christmas at his prewar home, in front of his uncle's destroyed house, in the village of Pozarnica, some 80 miles north of Sarajevo, on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Bosnian Serbs as Orthodox Christians celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the old calendar. Christmas falls on Jan. 7 for Orthodox Christians in Eastern Orthodox churches that use the Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics and Protestants and commonly used in secular life around the world.