Kevin Ware Jr. is best known for breaking his leg in a nationally televised N.C.A.A. tournament game. He is determined not to let the moment define him.
Followers of the Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr set up a tent city to blockade Parliament, paralyzing any progress toward forming a new government.
Unable to form a government 10 months after elections, Iraq has been roiled by the street protests of the nationalist cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who withdrew from the government but again seeks to influence it.