Topic: From the Wires (page 90)

A leading Sunni tribal chief, sheik Ali Hatem al-Suleiman, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Erbil, northern Iraq, Thursday June 19, 2014. Al-Suleiman said Washingtons decision to send 300 military advisors to assist the Iraqi government in quelling an insurgency sweeping the country would only make it worse. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Calvin Woodward

Shah Bibi Tarakhail, a six-year-old Afghan girl whose love of painting won the hearts of U.S. doctors who fitted her with a prosthetic, is tickled by her host mother, Ann Drummond, at Shriners Hospital for Children on Thursday, June 19, 2014, in Los Angeles. Shah Bibi Tarakhail, who lost her right arm and right eye when she picked up a grenade following a firefight between U.S. and Taliban forces in her village near the Pakistan border, returned to the United States on Thursday, after the group that sponsored her first visit said it learned her newfound celebrity made her a subject of death threats at home. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (AP)

A man carries a fuel tank for gasoline at a gas station in Irbil, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Iraqi soldiers and helicopter gunships appeared to be holding on after three days of battle against Sunni militants Thursday for control of Iraq's largest oil refinery, but Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's own fate seemed increasingly in play with political leaders meeting in recent days behind closed doors and discussing his future, according to a Shiite lawmaker. In Irbil, a city controlled by ethnic Kurds, lines stretched for miles at gas stations as angry motorists shouted at each other. (AP Photo) (AP)

FILE - In this July 26, 2012 file photo, U.S. swimmer Shannon Vreeland uses an inhaler during a practice session at the Aquatics Center at Olympic Park ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. A new survey suggests asthma in the U.S. may finally be on the decline, according to the findings from a large national health survey conducted in 2013. The report was released by the centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) (AP)

FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, people walk by the Sony Building at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Sony shareholders voted Thursday, June 19 to keep Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai and other top executives after heckling them about the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's continuing losses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File) (AP)

Netherlands' Ron Vlaar celebrates after the group B World Cup soccer match between Australia and the Netherlands at the Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The Netherlands won the match 3-2. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) (Martin Meissner)

10ThingstoSeeSports - Oakland Athletics' Craig Gentry is hit on the helmet by a pitch thrown by New York Yankees' Jose Ramirez in the fourth inning of a baseball game on Sunday, June 15, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File) (AP)

In this photo taken Saturday Dec. 10, 2011, Kevin Lunsman, a kidnapped American teenage boy, talks to Filipino soldiers inside the Philippine military compound in Zamboanga city, southern Philippines following his escape from suspected al-Qaida-linked militants. Lunsman, 14, wandered without shoes for two days in a southern Philippine jungle before villagers found him, ending his five-month captivity, officials said Sunday. Lunsmann, claimed to have told his four armed captors that he would take a bath in a stream and then made a dash for freedom Friday in Basilan province, police Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo said. He followed a river down a mountain until villagers found him late the next day, de Ocampo said. (AP Photo) (Anonymous)

Soccer fans pose for a photo as they celebrate Germany's victory over Portugal at the end of a live broadcast of the World Cup match, inside the FIFA Fan Fest area on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 16, 2014. Germany routed Portugal 4-0 in their group G opener on Monday. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) (AP)

Michael Biesecker, Mitch Weiss

United States' Clint Dempsey leaps as he celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the group G World Cup soccer match between Ghana and the United States at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Monday, June 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) (Ricardo Mazalan)

United States' John Brooks (6) celebrates with teammates after scoring his side's second goal during the group G World Cup soccer match between Ghana and the United States at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Monday, June 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (Julio Cortez)

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