Tuesday: The day in photos
Nepalese celebrate the beginning of a new republic in Katmandu. An assembly charged with ending 239 years of royal rule was sworn in amid tight security, despite a string of bombings aimed at pro-republic politicians and activists over the past two days. (Mustafa Quraishi / Associated Press)
A Palestinian protester gets caught in a barrage of tear-gas canisters fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security; Palestinians call it a land grab. (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)
Chinese rescue workers rest after searching for the bodies of earthquake victims in Yingxiu, China. (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)
A Chinese army honor guard prepares for the arrival of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Beijing. Lee is in the Chinese capital for a four-day state visit to China. (Oliver Weiken / EPA)
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Protesters shout pro-democracy slogans during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. (Edison / AFP/Getty Images)
The head of a statue of a giraffe rests on a chair as it is being transported near Bussum, central Netherlands. (Peter Dejong / Associated Press)
A giraffe mother licks her baby at the zoo in Rome, Italy. The baby giraffe was born last Wednesday. (Tiziana Fabi / AFP/Getty Images)
Michel Fournier, 64, was preparing to launch a helium balloon to carry him into the stratosphere to attempt a new high altitude freefall record when the balloon separated from the gondola and floated away without him, in North Battleford, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was the latest in a string of unsuccessful efforts by Fournier to enter the record books by plunging 25 miles from the edge of space to Earth. (David Boily / AFP/Getty Images)
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A visitor looks inside an installation entitled ‘Life Tunnel’ by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Bow, on display at the ‘Psycho Buildings’ exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. (Sang Tan / Associated Press)
People in London look through a ‘Telectroscope’ to see people by the
A local man fishes at the Nakadajima beach in Hamamatsu, Japan. The Nakadajima beach is famous for being the spawning region for the loggerhead sea turtles. (Dai Kurokawa / EPA)
