Mount Shinmoedake erupts, as seen from Takaharu Town, Japan, on Jan. 27. Long exposure photography captures images using a slow shutter speed, letting more light into the camera lens and giving the appearance of slow motion. Takaharu Town Office/Reuters
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, England, on Aug. 12, 2010. Kieran Doherty/Reuters/File
A Ferris wheel turns in front of the Fernsehturm television tower in Berlin on Dec. 15, 2010. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters/File
A group of revelers write the number 2011 with sparklers in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 1. Martin Kappler/Keystone/AP
Revelers spin lights at a full moon party in Surat Thani, Ko Pha-Ngan, Thailand, on Feb. 20, 2010. Kristin Piljay/Lonely Planet Images/Newscom/File
A plane streaks through the sky as it takes off from the international airport in Nice, France, on Nov. 21, 2010. Valery/Hache/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
Participants march on Beverley Street in downtown Staunton, Va., to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 17. Pat Jarrett/The Daily News Leader/AP
German figure skater Monique Szesny performs in the German Figure Skating Championships short program competition in Oberstdorf, Germany, on Jan. 7. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/Picture-Alliance/Newscom
A stream flows past moss growing on rocks in Olympic National Park, Washington. DanitaDelimont.com/Newscom/File
A cameraman films the Soyuz TMA-20 space ship as it blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 16, 2010. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP/File
A long exposure appears to paint with light O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland. Newscom/File
Fireworks illuminate Alt-Ottakring Church during New Year celebrations in Vienna on Jan. 1. Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters/File
Stars make streaks over Devil's Marbles, Australia, in this long exposure shot. Holger Leue/Lonely Planet Images/Newscom/File
A traditional dancer performs in New Delhi, India. DanitaDelimont.com/Newscom/File
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Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah will fight to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power. He also said Hezbollah fighers are fighting in Syria against Sunni Islamic radicals.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."
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