Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/24
In Pictures: Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
Former Alaskan governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gives her husband, Todd, a thumbs up as she begins to address a crowd at a stop of the Tea Party Express on Boston Common in Boston, Wednesday. Charles Krupa/AP
'Red shirt' demonstrators paint themselves with traditional paste as they celebrate Songkran, a Thai new year, at a shopping district where protesters gather in central Bangkok on Wednesday. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
People line up near the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to pay tribute to the late President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, who died in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday. Markus Schreiber/AP
A Palestinian smuggler climbs down into a tunnel, temporarily closed by Hamas forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafa on Wednesday. Israel wants to close down the smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, but the tunnels have become so established that it is now possible to drive a car through them. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
A baby Orangutan holds onto the bars of a cage at the Duisburg Zoo in Germany on Wednesday. Frank Augstein/AP
Protesters march towards the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines, on Wednesday in an antigovernment protest. Demonstrators held portraits of 43 arrested health workers in their march, calling for the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to be accountable for its human rights violations. The 43 detained health workers were arrested for being members of an outlawed communist movement. Bullit Marquez/AP
First Lady Michelle Obama greets children during her visit to the Siete de Enero school in Mexico City on Wednesday. Mrs. Obama met Margarita Zavala, the wife of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, on her first solo trip as first lady. Eliana Aponte/Reuters
In this image made available by the Icelandic Coast Guard, smoke and steam rise from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajoekull Glacier in Iceland, which erupted for the second time in less than a month on Wednesday. Hundreds of people were forced to flee rising floodwaters from the melted ice, shooting smoke, and steam from the eruption. Authorities evacuated 800 residents from around the glacier as rivers rose by up to 10 feet. Emergency officials and scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding. Icelandic Coastguard/AP
Two aides crouch down to open doors for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his wife, Sarah, and the managing director of Leeds Community Health Care, Sam Prince, during a visit to a health center in Yeadon, England, on Wednesday. Brown is campaigning ahead of Britain's May 6 general election. Stefan Rousseau/AP
A worker carries wooden planks at an apartment construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday. Tatan Syuflana/AP
Rescuers search for survivors at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday. The explosion was part of the latest wave of attacks in the Iraqi capital as violence has picked up in the political vacuum following the March 7 elections that produced no clear winner. Hadi Mizban/AP
A steel beam (lower right corner), salvaged from the World Trade Center, is transported across the George Washington Bridge on its way to Coatesville, Pa., on Wednesday. A mile-long convoy of 28 tractor trailers carried 500 tons of steel from the twin towers to become the centerpiece of a planned National Iron and Steel Museum in Coatsville, Pa., where the steel was created 41 years ago. David Goldman/AP
An opponent of the tea party movement holds up a sign at a Tea Party Express rally where former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke in Boston on Wednesday. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Astronauts Naoko Yamazaki, wearing a traditional kimono, and Sochi Noguchi, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, prepare traditional Japanese food during a crew meal in the Unity module on the International Space Station on Wednesday. NASA TV/Reuters
Rescue workers are shown at the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake struck China's Qinghai Province on Wednesday. CCTV/AP
An Indonesian protester walks past burning police vehicles during a clash in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday. A protest over a historic tomb on government land turned bloody, with nearly 100 wounded in clashes between riot police and hundreds of demonstrators armed with machetes and sticks. Protesters believed city officials were trying to remove the tomb of an Arab cleric who helped spread Islam in north Jakarta in the 18th century. AP
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/24
In Pictures: Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah will fight to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power. He also said Hezbollah fighers are fighting in Syria against Sunni Islamic radicals.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."
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