Thursday: The day in photos
Riot police blast Chilean workers with water cannons as they demonstrate along Alameda Avenue in downtown Santiago. Thousands of workers, teachers and students demonstrated against mass layoffs that have resulted from the global economic crisis. (Martin Bernetti / AFP/Getty Images)
Paramilitary soldiers patrol around the Arthur Road Jail where Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani gunman charged in last year’s
Police move in via helicopter during the eviction of squatters from a house in the eastern German city of Erfurt. More than 100 police officers were involved in the eviction of around 60 people who had taken over buildings. (Jens-Ulrich Koch / AFP/Getty Images)
A heavy-duty helicopter lifts a mothballed airliner into place at a training center of the Emergency Situations Ministry outside St. Petersburg, Russia. The plane will be used on the ground for training in rescue operations and crashes. (Dmitry Lovetsky / Associated Press)
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John Hasford, 7, goes nose to nose with a stuffed bear at a Dublin exhibit of specimens from endangered species that have been seized by the Irish Customs Service. (Julien Behal-pa / Associated Press)
The ball is in the dolphin’s pool at the zoo in the southern German city of Nuremberg. (Timm Schamberger / AFP/Getty Images)
Religious students in Islamabad, Pakistan, wait with a child for the arrival of their leader, Maulana Abdul Aziz, the chief cleric of Islamabad’s Red Mosque. The Supreme Court ordered the release of the radical cleric, who had been jailed since a siege at the mosque in 2007. (B.K. Bangash / Associated Press)
A member of Israel’s ancient Samaritan community faces a stiff wind as he makes his way to prayers marking the end of the
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The sun is out, the grass is green and the stands are full for opening day at the new Yankee Stadium in New York, where the Yankees are playing the Cleveland Indians. (Michael Heiman / Getty Images)
Shane Murphy a crew member of the merchant vessel Maersk
