Druze Nabeeh Farhat (42) from Buqata in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights, escorts his Syrian bride Samar Khayal through the UN monitored no man's land at the Quneitra checkpoint between Israel and Syria on Wednesday Jan. 5, 2011.

U.N. peace-keeping force officers watch out for Israeli Druze groom Nabeeh Farhat and his Syrian Druze bride Samar Khayal, not pictured, at the Kuneitra Crossing, in the Golan Heights.

Israeli Druze women, relatives of groom Nabeeh Farhat, wait for him and his Syrian Druze bride Samar Khayal, not pictured, at the Kuneitra Crossing, in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

A Southern Sudanese boy in the north plays beside shelters in an area called Mandela in Khartoum, Sudan on January 5, 2011. After south Sudan votes to secede from the north on Jan. 9, leaders of both countries must still resolve a daunting range of practical issues if they are to prevent a return to violence. The referendum, guaranteed by a 2005 peace deal between north and south which ended Africa's longest civil war, is forecast to result in secession, but exactly how the two countries will begin to disentangle their economies, resources and people is far from clear.

A Southern Sudanese woman sits next to her belongings as she waits for transport after moving out from Khartoum to Juba on January 5, 2010. Over two million southerners have returned since the 2005 peace agreement, while a new wave -- tens of thousands of families -- are now travelling back from the north. The region that is home to 60 different tribes prepares for a referendum on independence that many believe will split Africas largest country in two.

A man watches a soccer game January 5, 2011 in Juba, Sudan.

A member of a branch of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) plays a trombone in a pro independence march January 5, 2011 in Juba, Sudan.

A police officer walks in a pro independence march on January 5, 2011 in Juba, Sudan.

A veterinarian holds Tzvika, an injured female turtle, at the Wildlife Hospital in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv on January 5, 2011.

Tzvika, an injured female turtle, walks with the aid of her newly attached wheels at the Wildlife Hospital in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv on January 5, 2011.

A vehicle drives down the flooded runway at Rockhampton Airport, Jan. 5, after the swollen Fitzroy River broke its banks and inundated much of the city. Hundreds of Australians scrambled in the rain to build levee banks and evacuate hospital patients on Jan. 5 as floods that have inundated or cut off 40 towns rolled downstream.

A tiger yard ornament is partially submerged in the front garden of a house at Depot Hill in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, January 5. Floodwaters eased in Australia's major coal mining region on Tuesday to allow some mines to slowly resume production, although most remain idle as devastating floods affect some 200,000 people and force towns to be evacuated.

A main street of the city center is shown covered in flood water, Jan. 5, in Rockhampton, Australia. All eyes are on the central Queensland city of Rockhampton, currently in floodwatch lock down as the community braces for the swollen Fitzroy River to reach a predicted peak of 9.4 metres. The Queensland flood crisis has resulted in ten deaths and affected more than 200,000 people across an area as large as France and Germany combined. The flood bill is predicted to be upwards of AUD5 billion.

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the bodyguard arrested for the killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, shouts religious slogans while being taken away by police after he was presented at a court in Islamabad, Jan. 5. Five hundred moderate Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of a senior ruling party official who opposed the country's blasphemy law could suffer the same fate. The Punjab province governor was killed on Tuesday by one of his guards, who was apparently incensed by the politician's opposition to the blasphemy law, in a parking lot at the block of shops popular with foreigners in Islamabad.

Pakistani mourners comfort a grieving woman during the funeral procession of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, in Lahore, Pakistan, Jan. 5. Thousands of Pakistani police were on high alert in Lahore on Wednesday ahead of the funeral for an outspoken provincial governor shot dead by a bodyguard reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, a high-profile, 66-year-old businessman and media tycoon, was a stalwart of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, and his assassination Tuesday sent nuclear-armed Pakistan reeling at a time of great political turmoil.

Supporters wave at a helicopter carrying the body of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer as it takes-off from the grounds of the Governor's House, where thousands took part in Taseer's funeral prayers, in Lahore, Jan. 5. The Punjab province governor was killed on Tuesday by one of his guards, who was apparently incensed by the politician's opposition to the blasphemy law, in a parking lot at a block of shops popular with foreigners in Islamabad.

Supporter of the ruling Pakistan People Party burn a barricade during a protest against the assassination of Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's most populous province of Punjab, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Jan. 5.

Fall-colored leaves are encased in ice at Multnomah Falls as frigid temperatures assault the area near Bridal Veil, Ore., Tuesday, Jan.4. A chance of snow or freezing rain is expected in the Columbia River Gorge, where the falls is located.

Two photographers take photos from the lower falls bridge against a backdrop of Multnomah Falls and large icicles as frigid temperatures assault the area near Bridal Veil, Ore., Tuesday, Jan.4. A chance of snow or freezing rain is expected in the Columbia River Gorge, where the falls is located, with a chance of snow or freezing rain.