Friday: The day in photos
New York City police officers look over the US Airways Airbus 320 that went down in the Hudson River on Thursday. A barge and a crane moved the plane to a pier, where it was secured until it can be removed from the water for inspection. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)
An Israeli soldier carries a flag marking Israel’s 60th anniversary as his unit returns to Israel from the Gaza Strip. Diplomats were headed to Egypt for talks aimed at settling the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)
A Palestinian boy hurls stones outside the Al Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem. The Israeli army locked down the occupied West Bank as Hamas called for demonstrations against israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty Images)
Austria’s Benjamin Raich clears a gate during the Ski World Cup super combined slalom in Wengen, Switzerland. (Lukas Lehmann / EPA)
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A gallery worker walks through artist Vong Phaophanit’s installation entitled “What Falls to the Ground but Can’t Be Eaten 1991” at the Tate Britain gallery in London. The piece consists of 2,000 hanging bamboo poles of differing lengths. (Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)
Municipal workers in St. Petersburg, Russia, burn trash to keep warm in temperatures that fell well below zero. (Kirill kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Images)
A model gets an inside look at a 12-foot-long submarine named Nemo at a trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany. (Roland Weihrauch / EPA)
Young couples demonstrate thier need for further rehearsal of a dance for an upcoming debutante ball in Dresden, Germany. (Norbert Millauer / AFP / Getty Images)
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Riot police guard Lithuania’s Parliament building in Vilnius as protesters throw rocks and eggs in a demonstration against the government’s response to the Baltic state’s deepening economic crisis. (Mindaugas Kulbis / Associated Press)
