Thursday: The day in photos
LAPD investigators survey the scene of a crash between a police cruiser and a big rig at 35th and Western streets. An LAPD cruiser rear-ended the truck and slid partway under the trailer. (Bob Chamberlin /Los Angeles Times)
Workmen install a fiberglass statue of the god Pazuzu onto the rooftop of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, Pazuzu was the king of the demons of the wind and son of the god Hanbi. The statue is part of the exhibition “Suillakku,” the first U.K. solo show for Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi. (Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images)
Ute Brinker, a student at the University of Hamburg, presents skeletal remains from the Bronze Age that she examined for her master’s thesis during a news conference at the National Office of Cultural Heritage in Schwerin, Germany. The almost 3,300-year-old remains were found in a river valley near Altentreptow. Because of signs of injury and remains of weapons, scientists believe the area was a battlefield, which would be the first from the Bronze Age discovered in Central Europe. (Bernd Wuestneck / EPA)
A crane places a cross on the rebuilt cupola of the Saint-Troitsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg. The previous cupola was destroyed in a fire in August 2006. (Kirill Kudrjavtsev / AFP / Getty Images)
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Workers make last preparations for the opening of “The
An 8-day-old, still pink Hulman monkey baby is carried by its mother as it is presented to the public at Hanover Zoo in Gemany. So far, visitors are only rarely allowed to see the baby. (Holger Hollemann / EPA)
Some of the Somali pirates on the Belize-flagged Ukrainian cargo MV Faina travel to shore under observation by a U.S. Navy ship off of Somalia’s coast. The ship was seized by pirates on Sept. 25 in the Indian Ocean on its way to the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The pirates have demanded $20 million to free the ship, its cargo and crew of 21 Ukrainians, Russians and Latvians. (AFP / Getty Images)
Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany plays Carlos Machado of Spain during their men’s singles match at the European Table Tennis Championships in St. Petersburg. (Anatoly Maltsev / EPA)
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Gamers try new products at the Tokyo Game Show in Makuhari, east of Tokyo. The Tokyo Game Show is the largest video game expo in the world, rivaled only by the Leipzig Games Convention, and runs until Oct. 12. (Everett Kennedy Brown / EPA)
An idol of Hindu Goddess Durga is immersed into a river in Siliguri, India. The four day Hindu festival of Durga Puja ended with the immersion of idols. (Tarun Das / Associated Press)
Australian musician Josh Pyke drives a boat created to resemble his guitar during the filming of the video for his new song, “Make You Happy,” in Sydney, Australia. (Tracey Nearmy / EPA)
