Skiers crowd a slope next to a green meadow in the Lofer skiing resort in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Meteorologists predict warm temperatures for the upcoming days throughout the country.
A security guard closes a curtain during a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
British model Kate Moss wears a creation by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton's Fall-Winter 2011-212 ready-to-wear fashion collection, presented in Paris, Wednesday, March. 9, 2011.
Ireland's new prime minister Enda Kenny is greeted by Fine Gael party members in Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, March, 9, 2011. Ireland's new parliament elected soft-spoken Kenny prime minister Wednesday to lead a coalition government that faces immediate pressure to revive the nation's debt-crippled economy.
Bridges connect different floors within a new hospital building at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The medical center opened a new building Wednesday, including 4 underground level floors that can be used as an emergency hospital and is the first hospital in Israel protected from conventional, biological and chemical warfare.
Palestinians pass by unfinished buildings at the UNRWA housing project in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Israel's military began transporting 40,000 tons of construction materials into the Gaza Strip at the Sufa Crossing on Wednesday, in a new move to ease its blockade of the coastal territory. The week-long operation will supply badly needed gravel for U.N. schools and other humanitarian projects, including homes in Khan Younis.
An elderly woman with ash on her forehead prays beside the cross during the mass commemorating Ash Wednesday, March 9, 2011, in a church in Manila, Philippines.
A resident walks through a flooded street in the Mid City section of New Orleans, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Heavy thunderstorms that passed through the area dumped as much as four inches in one hour.
An emergency vehicle stands by near the runway as space shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
A bartender pours a margarita from a bottle into a young woman's mouth at a nightclub during Spring Break in Cancun, Mexico, early Wednesday March 9, 2011. Cancun is still a top foreign destination for Spring Break.
A Pakistani villager looks at belongings of mourners after a bomb blast in Matani near Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan killing many mourners and wounding more than 100 others, police said.