In Pictures: The kings and queens of modern monarchies
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/29
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/28
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 04/27
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 04/26
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/25
In Pictures: Where Our Clothes Come From
In Pictures: Millenium Development Goals: GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT
Soldiers fire a 155mm Howitzer at night from Forward Operating Base Ramrod in Kandahar on April 13. Tim Wimborne/Reuters
A peacekeeper from the United Nations African Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) patorls at Zam Zam camp in Darfur, Sudan, on Tuesday. Sudan's elections were extended for an extra two days past Sunday's vote, after many voters experienced delays. The peacekeeping mission in Darfur has also said that four soldiers have been missing for the past 24 hours in South Darfur. Nasser Nasser/AP
New York Yankees players welcome and embrace Hideki Matsui of the Los Angeles Angels. Matsui, a former Yankee, received his 2009 World Series ring with the rest of the team before the Yankees faced the Angels in their New York home opener on Tuesday. Peter Morgan/AP
An 'red shirt' protester dances on the street while holding a water pistol as they celebrate the Songkran festival that marks the Thai New Year near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on April 13. Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva came under mounting pressure on Tuesday to resolve a stand-off with anti-government protesters after the Election Commission recommended his party be dissolved. Vivek Prakash/Reuters
An Indian policeman detains female protesters from the Jammu Kashmir Mass Movement during a general strike called by separatist groups in Srinagar, India, on Tuesday. Mukhtar Khan/AP
A boy sits amid stones thrown by protesters to block a road during demonstrations in Haripur, Pakistan, on Tuesday. Protests against the government's move to rename a province in Hazara continued for the second day, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
A ferry boat makes its way through dense fog in Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Lui Siu Wai/Xinhua/AP
A man works inside a container converted for use as an office near the construction site of a high-end residential project in Fuzhou, China, on Monday. Thirteen shipping containers are being used as housing and work space for the site's migrant workers and their families. AP
A woman holds a picture of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski during a march to commemorate the victims of Saturday's plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. Cezary Aszkielewicz/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters
A miner's boots, helmet, and gloves appear at a memorial in Whitesville, W. Va., on Tuesday for the miners who died in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va., a week ago. Recovery teams working before dawn Tuesday finished the grim task of recovering the last of 29 West Virginia miners killed in the nation's worst coal mining disaster in decades. Amy Sancetta/AP
Della Davidson Elementary School students watch a rocket fly after it was launched by another student at the school in Oxford, Miss., on Tuesday. Fourth graders launched rockets and measured trajectory as part of a classroom assignment. Bruce Newman/Oxford Eagle/AP
Tea party supporters attend a rally at the Capitol in Albany, NY on Tuesday. Mike Groll/AP
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is rolled out of the Orbiter Processing Facility on Tuesday for its short trip to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is scheduled to lift off on May 14 for a mission to the International Space Station. Michael R. Brown/Florida Today/AP
James Vanasek, former Chief Risk Officer of Washington Mutual Bank, sits in a nearly empty hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday prior to testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Wall Street and the financial crisis. Cliff Owen/AP
A Palestinian student reads from a book in Al-Ala'iya school for visually impaired children in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday. The school, founded in 1938, is financed mostly by donations from Arab countries and the European Union. Maya Hitij/AP
An internally displaced boy recited from the Koran at a school in Zam Zam camp in Darfur, Sudan, on Tuesday. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
In Pictures: The kings and queens of modern monarchies
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/29
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/28
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 04/27
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 04/26
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/25
In Pictures: Where Our Clothes Come From
In Pictures: Millenium Development Goals: GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT
The pan-African Great Green Wall project aims to build a literal wall of trees to stop the Sahara Desert's southward creep. But is the idea too good to be true?
•A version of this post ran on the blog, Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author's own.
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