Pacquiao dominates Clottey for decision (AP)

AP - Fighting on the star, Manny Pacquiao showed once again why he is such a star.

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ABC, Lifetime among winners of GLAAD Media Awards (AP)

Honoree Joy Behar attends the 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York, on Saturday, March 13, 2010.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)AP - Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series "Brothers & Sisters" are among this year's recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.


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Protesters surge into Bangkok wanting new election (AP)

Protestors from the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship dance to an early morning rock and roll song near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, March 14, 2010.  Thousand of red-shirted protestors gathered in Bangkok to demand the government return power to the people or face mass marches in key locations.  The march is regarded by some as the last chance for ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return to Thailand.  (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Leaders of tens of thousands of protesters who swarmed into Bangkok from Thailand's rural areas Sunday threatened mass street demonstrations if the government didn't respond to their demand for a dissolution of Parliament within 24 hours.


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Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids (AP)

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.


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Storm leaves Northeast soggy, windblown and dark (AP)

A storage shed rests, upside down, against a chain link fence in a parking lot adjacent to Showboat Atlantic City Hotel & Casino where wind gusted up to 60mph earlier in the day during a nor' easter storm Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Sean M. Fitzgerald)AP - Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses after strong winds and heavy rain wreaked havoc in parts of the Northeast.


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Thaksin’s red protesters rally in Bangkok (AFP)

Tens of thousands of red-shirted supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra rallied amid tight security in Bangkok to demand that the government step down.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - Tens of thousands of red-shirted supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra rallied amid tight security in Bangkok Sunday to demand that the government step down.


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