Wednesday: The day in photos
Crew members aboard a Hercules C-130 search plane scan the ocean hundreds of miles off the Brazilian coast for signs of Air France Flight 447, which disappeared late Sunday en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. (FAB via LatinContent / Getty Images)
A boy covers his head with a cooking pot during a sandstorm at the Chota Lahore refugee camp at Swabi in northwest Pakistan. Fighting has driven 3 million people from their homes in the volatile region, though government forces have recently secured control over several key towns. (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)
A man and a youngster work around a giant model of a strawberry as they gather strawberries in Wesendahl, Germany. The supersize berry was a prop promoting the official start of the strawberry season in the Brandenburg region. (Michael Urban / AFP/Getty Images)
A protester throws metal bolts at a police line in Vigo, Spain, where hundreds of metal workers, most of whom work for shipbuilding companies, clashed with riot police during a strike to demand a new wage agreement. (Jose Rodriguez / Associated Press)
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, right, in Cuba on a two-day official visit, takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to Cuban hero Jose Marti in Havana. (Adalberto Roque / AFP/Getty Images)
Some visitors appear puzzled as they pass an art installation at
A grimy kitten needs a friend as fire consumes wooden shacks once occupied by gypsies in a suburb of Sarajevo. Faced with eviction by the city because the shacks didn’t meet sanitary standards, the gypsies opted to set fire to them before leaving. (Elvis Barukcic / AFP/Getty Images)
A statue of former
A poster of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong hangs above a police officer’s station at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. Foreign journalists were barred from Tiananmen Square on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the government’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests there. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)