World in Brief, Feb 11

Feb 11...News this week from Israel, India, Haiti, Iran, Venezuela, United Kingdom, and Greece
World in Brief, Feb 11
Israeli artillery shells explode in the air to lay down a smoke screen for Israeli troops fighting Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip Jan. 9, 2009. David Silverman/Getty Images
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ISRAEL: A laborer holds a copy of the famous Madaba map, an ancient mosaic map to be found in a church in Jordan dated to the sixth-seventh century AD, as he works in an archaeological excavation of a Byzantine street on February 10, 2010 in the Old City in Jerusalem, Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority said that the excavations confirm the accuracy of the ancient map depicting Jerusalem in the Byzantine period. (David Silverman/Getty Images)