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CARACAS, Venezuela - Sixty-seven days after Venezuelans last saw him, President Hugo Chavez reappeared Friday, when government officials televised photographs of him recuperating in Cuba with two of his daughters at his side. The images were the first evidence presented to Venezuelans that Chavez, who was last seen Dec. 10 when he boarded a plane to Cuba for a fourth surgery to remove cancerous tissue, was alive and convalescing. In the photos, Chavez smiles from a hospital bed while flanked by daughters Maria Gabriela and Rosa Virginia.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Sixty-seven days after Venezuelans last saw him, President Hugo Chavez reappeared Friday, when government officials televised photographs of him recuperating in Cuba with two of his daughters at his side. The images were the first evidence presented to Venezuelans that Chavez, who was last seen Dec. 10 when he boarded a plane to Cuba for a fourth surgery to remove cancerous tissue, was alive and convalescing. In the photos, Chavez smiles from a hospital bed while flanked by daughters Maria Gabriela and Rosa Virginia.

WASHINGTON - Two days before President Obama's first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried to settle a brewing mystery when it released a photo to back his assertion that he's a skeet shooter. Obama had set inquiring minds spinning when, in an interview with the New Republic magazine, he answered yes when asked whether he had ever fired a gun. The admission surprised many. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama said in the interview released last weekend, referring to the official presidential retreat in rural Maryland, which he last visited in October while campaigning.

WASHINGTON - Two years after a hostage video and photographs of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson raised the possibility that the American was being held by extremists, U.S. officials now see the government of Iran behind the images, intelligence officials told the Associated Press. Levinson, a private investigator, disappeared in 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish. The Iranian government has repeatedly denied knowing anything about his disappearance. Photos that Levinson's family received in late 2010 and early 2011 - showing his hair wild and gray, his beard unkempt - are being seen for the first time publicly after the family provided copies to the AP. In response to Iran's denials, and amid secret conversations with Tehran, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement in 2011 that Levinson was being held somewhere in South Asia.

Q: My daughter is a junior in high school. She has a bit of a crush on her English teacher, who is in his late 20s. I didn't give it a second thought until I happened to see a photo of him on her iPhone. I confronted her, and she said they'd exchanged pictures. The photo isn't sexual at all, but the mere fact they exchanged pictures has me worried. Later this year, he is taking his class on an overnight field trip to New York to see a Broadway play. From all accounts the guy's a good teacher and the kids like him, so I don't want to call the principal and get him fired.

The pilot of a small plane that crashed Sunday on an Ocean County, N.J., beach had rented the plane to do aerial photography. Christopher McMenamy, 31, of Stafford, N.J., and his passenger, whose name was not released, escaped without injury and no one on the ground was hurt in the Bay Head crash. - AP

SAN FRANCISCO - Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, said Tuesday that it will remove language from its new terms of service suggesting that users' photos could appear in advertisements. The language in question had appeared in updated policies announced Monday and scheduled to take effect Jan. 16. After an outcry on social-media and privacy- rights blogs, the company clarified that it has no plans to put users' photos in ads. What had riled users and privacy advocates was Instagram's assertion that it may now receive payments from businesses to use its members' photos, user name and other data "in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation" to them.

Although Willie Singletary resigned from Philadelphia Traffic Court in February following a scandal involving lewd photos, the state Court of Judicial Discipline formally ordered Thursday that he be removed from his former job. In October, the court issued an opinion stating that Singletary was subject to discipline for his conduct. After news broke late last year that Singletary allegedly showed photos of his genitals to a coworker, the state Supreme Court suspended him without pay in January.

A gay couple from Montclair, N.J., whose engagement photo was used in Colorado political attack mailers are "innocent bystanders" whose image was stolen, and their lawsuit against the group who used it should proceed, attorneys said in a court filing. "They are not celebrities or public figures or emblems of the gay-rights movement. They did not insert themselves into Colorado politics," attorneys with the southern Poverty Law Center said in a filing in Denver federal court Monday on behalf of Brian Edwards, 32, and Tom Privitere, 37. The filing was in response to arguments by a group named Public Advocate of the United States, which said last month that the suit should be dismissed.

You may be fine with your smartphone's onboard camera software, and maybe the popular Instagram photo-edit-and-post app, but there are many alternatives to them. Here are a few. Snapseed , a photo-editing app for Android and Apple devices from Nik Software, is now free. It used to cost $5, but Google Inc. bought Nik this year and has tuned the app to work smoothly with the Google+ social network. Some longtime users say the heart of the app remains about as it was, and it happily posts to Facebook (which owns Instagram)