Wednesday: The day in photos
Members of GB Rowing team head toward the water at the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake in Reading, England. (Clive Rose / Getty Images)
A competitor prepares for the International Mountain Balloon Competition in Krosno, Poland. Entrants form Poland, Lithuania and Latvia participate in contest. (Darek Delmanowicz / EPA)
Travelers from an international flight are pictured on a thermographic imaging device as they arrived at Sofia airport in Bulgaria. The region has stepped up its checks on travelers due to the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)
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A Chinese police officer talks to a man who tried to self-immolate along a shopping street in Chongqing, China. The officer managed to extinguish the fire. The 41-year-old man is believed to have lost all his money in the ongoing financial crisis. (AFP / Getty Images)
A farmer holds a cow figurine painted in the colors of
Palestinians build a house with clay after their home was destroyed in Israel’s last military operation in
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Police officers arrest a woman after she allegedly attacked the chief executive officer of Swedish energy company Vattenfall, pouring green liquid over him at the company’s annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. In the background, environmental demonstrators carrying a banner about targeting Vattenfall’s coal power plants. (Leif R. Jansson / AFP / Getty Images)