Today in Pictures: Jan. 24, 2012

Tornado damage from early morning storms is seen, Jan. 23, 2012 in Center Point, Ala. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says he will tour two of the state's storm-damaged areas. Bentley says the storms proved that community safe rooms work. A tree top hit a steel shelter holding more than 50 people next door to the Maplesville fire department, and no one was injured. (Bernard Troncale/The Birmingham News/AP Photo)

Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich take part in The Republican Presidential Debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, Jan. 23, 2012. Florida will hold its Republican primary on Jan. 31, 2012. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a blast after a bomb ripped through a group of workers in Sadr City in Baghdad, Jan. 24, 2012. A series of car bombs exploded in Shiite areas of Baghdad, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 60, an interior ministry official said. (Ahmad Al Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

A Bangladeshi woman sleeps near a Citibank office in Dhaka, Jan. 24, 2012. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations on the planet with 40 percent of its 144 million people living on less than one dollar a day. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

A boy runs past a over 150 ft. long handmade Indian national flag hung in one of the narrow bylanes of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, Jan. 24, 2012. The giant flag, which was prepared for a celebration of women's empowerment, was made ahead of the upcoming 63rd Republic day of India. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

Carnival Princes and Princesses wait to be greeted by the German Chancellor at a reception for carnival performers from around Germany at the Chancellery in Berlin, Jan. 24, 2012. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

Japanese wild monkeys enjoy an open-air hot spring at the Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) Monkey Park, at Yamanouchi town near Shigakogen ski resort, in Nagano prefecture, Jan. 24, 2012. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images)

A car makes its way under blanket of fog in Beltsville, Maryland, Jan. 23, 2012. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

Sri Lankan prison guards carry an injured colleague to safety during riots at the main prison in Colombo, Jan. 24, 2012. Prison guards opened fire on rioting inmates at Sri Lanka's main remand prison in the capital Colombo. The inmates, who were protesting over poor quality of food and overcrowding, also set fire to a kitchen and an administrative building. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)