Wednesday: The day in photos

Assemblywoman Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) hugs stepdaughter Yvette Lechuga as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger applauds. Bass was sworn in Tuesday as speaker of the California Assembly at the Capitol in Sacramento. Elected to the Assembly in 2004, she is the first African American woman to serve as its speaker. (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 16, 2014 8:57 AM PT

A mother mourns as Chinese soldiers carry the body of her child, who was killed when a school building collapsed Monday during the 7.9 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province. (Teh Eng Koon / AFP/Getty Images)

Chinese residents try to salvage their belongings from a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, near the epicenter of Monday’s 7.9 temblor. (AFP / Getty Images)

Fire rages in the technical university in Delft, Netherlands. The building contains the most important collection of architecture books, magazines and drawings in the country. It also contains hundreds of chairs, designed by some of the most famous architects. It was unknown how much of the collections could be saved. (Jimmy Van Starrenburg / AFP/Getty Images)

Worshipers wave white handkerchiefs during a procession in front of the Catholic Fatima shrine in central Portugal. Thousands of pilgrims converged to celebrate the 91st anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children on May 13, 1917. (Paulo Cunha / EPA)

Tourists look at portions of the Dead Sea scrolls on display at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. One of the most important of the Dead Sea scrolls is going briefly on display this week after more than four decades. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Associated Press)

A man reads a book in an underground tunnel in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq. The tunnels and cellars in Najaf were used for centuries as a hiding place from invaders, as storage for food or as a shelter from the summer heat. (Alaa al-Marjani / Associated Press)