The day in photos: Monday
A view of the Grand Palais in Paris before a Christie’s auction of artworks collected over half a century by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Berge. The sale is expected to gross $250 million to $380 million. The highest price is expected to go to a Cubist Picasso painting called “Instruments de musique sur un gueridon” (Musical Instruments on a Table). (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press)
British tennis player Andy Murray serves to Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine on the first day of the ATP Dubai tennis championships. (Karim Sahi / AFP/Getty Images)
Horseback riders have a quiet beach to themselves at sunset before being displaced by more than 1,000 motorbike riders in the fourth annual Enduropale race in Le Touquet, France. (Paul Gilham / Getty Images)
Workers form a conveyor line on a muddy cliff as they excavate a gold mine in Chudja, in northeastern Congo. Years of armed conflict in Congo have centered on control of its rich mineral resources. (Lionel Healing / AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian Communist Party supporters parade with pictures of late Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin during a rally in the center of Moscow as Russia celebrates Homeland Defenders Day. (Dmitry Kostyukov / AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi National Museum Director Amira Eidan, second from right, leads Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, third from right, and other Iraqi officials on a tour of the museum after its reopening. The museum was vandalized and looted during the chaos that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country. (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)
Supporters of the Ukrainian Communist Party stage a display in Kiev calling for the resignation of President Viktor Yuschenko. Under flags of the former Soviet Union, the airplane mock-up is lettered with a message suggesting that Yuschenko fly away to America. (Sergei Supinsky - AFP/Getty Images)
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The deadly magnitude 8 earthquake that struck Sichuan province in China in May destroyed this bridge over a river in Beichuan. Residents, including children on their way to temporary schools in Mianyang, now cross the river on a system of pulleys and steel cables. (San Lang / EPA)
Firefighters work to control a fast-spreading blaze in Somerset West on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. (Pieter Bauermeister / AFP/Getty Images)
A policewoman decorates her uniform in the spirit of the Rose Monday carnival in Dusseldorf, Germany. (Philipp Guelland / AFP/Getty Images)
Chilean rider Mauricio Acuna goes airborne during training for the Valparaiso Downhill race in Valparaiso, Chile. The race draws riders from the U.S., France, Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile. (Claudio Santana / AFP/Getty Images)
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Tony Wood surveys the burned-out property of the Crofters Cottage Guest House in Belgrave Heights, southeast of Melbourne, Australia. The region was hit by one of Australia’s devastating wildfires. (Andrew Brownbill / Associated Press)
