Today in photos (Nov. 27)

People walk in a park on a foggy day as the temperature hovers at around 4 degrees Celsius (39 Fahrenheit) in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, center, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with UN Ambassador Susan Rice who could find her name in contention as early as this week to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. Rice has been criticized by some GOP senators for her comments following the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya. (J. Applewhite / Associated Press)

Egyptians carry a protester wounded in clashes with security forces near Tahrir square, where an opposition rally has been called for to voice rejection of President Morsi’s seizure of near absolute powers, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. The Health Ministry said about 444 people have been wounded nationwide, including 49 who remain hospitalized, since the clashes erupted on Friday, according to a statement carried by the official news agency MENA. (Thomas Hartwell / Associated Press)

A Palestinian man smokes a water-pipe next to a mural of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Palestinian authorities on Tuesday opened Yasser Arafat’s grave and foreign experts took samples from his remains as part of a long-shot attempt, eight years after the iconic leader’s mysterious death, to determine whether he was poisoned, as relatives and some political successors have claimed. (Mohammed Ballas / Associated Press)

A protestor dressed as clown bangs on a bank window with a pillow during a protest against the 2013 national budget planned by the Portuguese center-right coalition government in Lisbon, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Portugal’s parliament on Tuesday approved unprecedented tax increases despite a broad public outcry and concerns that the latest austerity package will prolong the bailed-out country’s recession. The center-right coalition government used its overall parliamentary majority to pass its 2013 budget. (Francisco Seco / Associated Press)

A model showcases a creation by Chinese designer Guo Pei on Tuesday Nov. 27, 2012, in Singapore during the Asian Couture 2012 Singapore fashion show. (Wong Maye-e / Associated Press)