The day in pictures

The day in pictures

By Victor R. Caivano, AP
Students carry a banner that reads in Spanish, "Quality education is possible" near a burning barricade during a national strike in Santiago, Chile. The strike has shut down Chile for the past two days.


Dao Xuan T, 9 months, is treated for hand, foot and mouth disease next to his sleeping mother at a pediatric hospital in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai. Vietnam is battling to control an unusually severe outbreak of the disease that has killed more than 80 children this year and infected tens of thousands more.

• By Gareth Fuller-pa, AP

Roger Allsopp, 70, trains in Dover, England, for his bid to become the oldest person to swim across the English Channel.  Allsopp, a retired breast cancer surgeon, is waiting for the right weather to launch his attempt. He aims to beat the record holder, George Brunstad, who was 70 when he swam the Channel in August 2004.

• By Andriy Kravchenko, AP
• An opposition activist gives a flower to a Ukrainian riot officer as police block a march marking the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union and protest over the arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

• By Francois Mori, AP
• A rebel fighter climbs on top of a statue inside Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli. 

• By Akira Suemori, AP

Demonstrator Muftah Abdelsamad shows off a wristband featuring the colors of the rebel flag and the date when the opposition movement in Libya started outside the Libyan Embassy in London. Opposition officials rolled out a doormat bearing Moammar Gadhafi's image, so visitors to the rebel-held embassy could trample over his portrait as they entered the building. 

• By Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images
• A street entertainer lies down on a bed of nails during a performance on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

• By John MacDougall, AFP/Getty Images
• A visitor takes a picture of Leonardo Da Vinci's painting Lady with an Ermine. Da Vinci's treasured painting, a work belonging to Poland that was stolen by the Nazis, went on display in Germany for the first time since World War II at Berlin's Bode Museum.

• By Kazuhiro Nogi, AFP/Getty Images

A worker walks in front of the grounded cargo ship Asia Symphony, which was pushed onto the harbor wall in Kamaishi port by the tsunami March 11. Efforts to remove the Panama-registered, 4,724-ton freighter will be finished in October when it is returned to the sea by a marine crane after repairs.