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"The California desert looks a lot like much of Iraq — which makes it an ideal training ground for military units about to deploy — and nothing like Cambridge. The former is a small town dominated by the massive Marine Corps base nearby and filled with a few thousand aggressive young men with clipped hair," said Sayce Falk, a former Marine and second-year graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School.

A man looks over at the empty pumps of a filling station near the town of Noda.

Libyan rebels celebrate in Benghazi on Thursday after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.

People rest on the floor at a evacuation center after the recent tsunami and earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, on Wednesday.

Police forces in Yemen have killed atleast six people, including a 15 year old student and injured many more, after they attacked anti- government protesters in the capital city Sanaa.

China's envoy to the Middle East, Wu Sike, has said that Beijing is not competing with Washington in exerting influence in the area, but is confident about its ties with the region.

This morning the Holy Father received members of the National Association of Italian Local Authorities.

In his address to them, the Pope highlighted how "the multiplicity of subjects and of situations is not incompatible with the unity of the nation, which is being reaffirmed by this 150th anniversary currently being celebrated. Unity and plurality are, at various levels including the ecclesial level, values which enrich one another, if the right reciprocal balance is maintained.

Hundreds of police maintained heavy security at two busy commercial sites in China's capital Sunday for the fourth week of planned 'Jasmine' rallies against the government.

Members of the public listen Thursday as the Committee on Homeland Security holds the first in a series of hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community.

A view in Tokyo in the aftermath of the earthquake