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Media mobs a coroner's van as it leaves the Beverly Hilton Hotel, early Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Whitney Houston's last days were spent surrounded by family, catching up with old friends and doing a bit of what she was best known for: singing.



In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Whitney Houston performs during the Billboard Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Dec. 7, 1998.  Often referred to as the Queen of Pop music at her best, Houston ex-wife of singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 at the age of 48. (AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau)AP - Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.



FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo, Whitney Houston performs on 'Good Morning America' in Central Park in New York.  Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. She was 48. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)AP - Whitney Houston's downfall was so long and sad that, in an impatient public's mind, it overshadowed her many accomplishments.



FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2012, file photo Jack Lew, the administration's current budget director listens as President Barack Obama makes an announcement in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Obama announced that Lew become his Chief of Staff. The Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, release of the president’s 2013 budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - President Barack Obama is pressing for investments in infrastructure while relying on familiar tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to claim progress on the federal deficit in his upcoming budget.



Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a caucus, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Portland, Maine.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - His losing streak broken and the GOP presidential race entering a lull, Mitt Romney now turns his attention to extending the huge cash advantage he enjoys over his rivals.



Syrian rebels are seen outside of Idlib, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. (AP Photo)AP - The Arab League was to consider a proposal Sunday to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab, Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the 22-member group said.



FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections, Wesley Shermantine is shown.  Information provided by the California death row inmate who was one of the two notorious 'Speed Freak Killers' led to the discovery Friday Feb. 10, 2012 of a second set of human remains, this time believed to belong to a 16-year-old girl who went missing nearly three decades ago.  (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)AP - Authorities searching with the help of a convicted serial killer found more human remains Saturday — the first bones discovered at an abandoned well on a cattle ranch where a death row inmate claimed 10 or more victims may be buried, authorities said.



FILE - In this undated photo provided by Townsville Coroners Court on June 20, 2008, Gabe Watson, left, and his wife, Tina, pose on their engagement. Watson, who served prison time in Australia for the death of his bride during their honeymoon, is going on trial accused of murdering her. A judge will consider motions and begin jury selection Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 in Birmingham for the trial of 34-year-old  Watson. He is accused of killing newlywed bride Tina Thomas Watson. She drowned during a scuba dive in Australia just days after her wedding in October 2003. (AP Photo/Townsville Coroners Court, HO, File)  EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama.



This combo of file photos shows Venezuela's presidential opposition candidates on the ballot for the country's Feb. 12, 2012 primary, from left to right; Maria Corina Machado, Diego Arria, Pablo Medina, Pablo Perez and Henrique Capriles. Venezuelans head to the polls Sunday to choose a single opposition candidate that will challenge President Hugo Chavez in October. Outmatched time and again at the polls by Chavez, Venezuelan's opposition leaders are trying a new strategy to unseat the populist leader this year, holding the nation's first presidential primary to choose the strongest challenger. (AP Photo, File)AP - With Venezuela's first-ever opposition primary set to begin, allies and adversaries of President Hugo Chavez are focused on one burning question: Will the winner have what is takes to defeat a shrewd and charismatic leader who thrives during election campaigns?



New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler, center, sets a pick on Minnesota Timberwolves' Ricky Rubio, right, of Spain, as Knicks' Jeremy Lin, left, chases the loose ball in the first half of an NBA basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - In his first three starts, Jeremy Lin's out-of-nowhere emergence all but saved the New York Knicks' season.



Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a town hall meeting campaign stop in Portland, Maine February 10, 2012. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow win in Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists.



Reuters - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has told lawmakers to back a deeply unpopular international financial rescue in a vote Sunday or condemn the country to "uncontrolled economic chaos and social explosion."

Demonstrators gather during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Homs February 10, 2012. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Syrian security forces eased their week-long bombardment of the central city of Homs on Sunday and let a few families leave opposition districts while thousands of protesters crowded the streets overnight, activists said.



Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their uprising to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

Reuters - Greek promises on austerity measures are no longer good enough because so many vows have been broken and the country that has been a "bottomless pit" has to dramatically change its ways, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said.

Reuters - Whitney Houston, whose soaring voice lifted her to the top of the pop music world but whose personal decline was fueled by years of drug use, died on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro attends a meeting with writers invited to the XXI International Havana Book Fair in this picture released by Cuban website Cubadebate in Havana February 10, 2012. Picture taken February 10, 2012. REUTERS/Courtesy of Cubadebate/Roberto Chile (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSReuters - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held his second lengthy public event in a week, this time a nine-hour session with writers and intellectuals, Cuban state media said on Saturday, in another showing he is doing well after serious health problems.



Reuters - In the crush of people in Kabul's Shahzada money market, conspiracy theories are a currency as hard as the bundles of cash in the hands of bearded traders trying to divine their future.

The Christian Science Monitor - Mitt Romney’s win in the Maine caucuses, announced Saturday evening, gives an added boost to what already was a good day for him. Earlier, he won the CPAC straw poll vote of conservative activists.

The Christian Science Monitor - After his shellacking in three presidential nominating contests this week, Mitt Romney Saturday won something that put a little more spring in his step – the CPAC straw poll.