Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, greets South Korean Navy Captain Lee Jin-young, right, alongside China's Air Force Senior Colonel Liu Dian Jun, left, and Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force Commander Hidetsugu Iwamasa in front of a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft at RAAF Base Pearce near Perth. Photo: AP
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), left, speaks with Christopher Field, co-chairman of the IPCC Working Group II during a press conference in Yokohama. Photo: AP
Rescue workers use chainsaws and other tools to dig through a tangle of trees and mud marked as having a possible victim of the Oso mudslide along State Route 530 near Darrington, Wash. Rescue and recovery workers slogged through thick mud and debris as rain poured down on the area one week after the devastating disaster. Photo: AP
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes supporters from the balcony of his ruling party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan on Sunday hailed what appeared to be a clear victory for his party in local elections, providing a boost that could help him emerge from a spate of recent troubles. Erdogan was not on the ballot in the countrywide polls, but with about half of the votes counted, Turkish newswires suggested that his party was significantly outstripping its results in the last local elections in 2009 and roundly beating the main opposition party. Photo: AP
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, followed by State Department Spokesperson Jen Psacki, in orange, enters a news conference at the U.S. Ambassador to France's residence in Paris after Kerry's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about the situation in Ukraine. Photo: AP
Spanish reporter Javier Espinosa, reacts as his son Yerai runs towards him upon his arrival at the military airport of Torrejon in Madrid, Spain. Two Spanish journalists who were freed after being kidnapped for more than six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group returned home Sunday. The El Mundo newspaper reported earlier that its correspondent Javier Espinosa made contact late on Saturday from Turkey, where he and photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were under military protection. Photo: AP