Miami Heat's LeBron James goes up for a shot during the third quarter of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Atlanta won 98-89. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Executive Director from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, Yury Fedotov speaks with actor and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Nicolas Cage, from left, at the conference from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, on transnational organized crime at the UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke advised Congress earlier this year to avoid big spending cuts now and rein in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare over the next five to 10 years. (Associated Press)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is waging a quiet war against al Qaeda in Yemen. (Associated Press)
Yemeni policemen patrol the area near the courthouse during the trial session of Saleh al-Shawish in San'a, Yemen, on Monday. A court in Yemen has sentenced the al Qaeda militant to death after convicting him of involvement in terror attacks and manufacturing explosives. After hearing Monday's verdict, al-Shawish vowed that al Qaeda will exact revenge on Yemen's government. (Associated Press)
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is a defendant in an injunction request to stop enforcing expansion of a new obscenity law. (Associated Press)
District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, here in 2002, is at the center of the debate on gays in the military with her ruling to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. (Associated Press)
Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta said regarding the lawsuit against the former agent who wrote a revealing book: "CIA officers are duty-bound to observe the terms of their secrecy agreement with the agency. This lawsuit clearly reinforces that message." (Associated Press)
Carlos Barrios, whose wife and mistress both went to the mine after the collapse, leaves the Copiapo hospital with an unidentified woman on Friday. (Associated Press)
