Thursday: The day in photos
Firefighters sift through the rubble of a collapsed abandoned building on Reade Street in New York City. There was no immediate report of injuries. (Chris McGrath / Getty Images)
Two bystanders are knocked to the ground by a vehicle driven at full speed through a crowd of spectators gathered for a visit of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in Apeldoorn. The accident happened as crowds watched for the monarch to arrive for a visit on Queen’s Day, a national holiday in Holland. About 20 people were injured in the accident. (Robin Utrecht / EPA)
A man carries a portrait of Ekaterina Maximova outside the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as people pay their respects to the legendary Russian ballerina during a civil funeral ceremony. Maximova died Tuesday. She was 70. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / Associated Press)
Smoke trails fall to the ground as tear gas and stun grenades are fired by international police officers guarding Albanian houses in Kosovska Mitrovica. Officers tried to disperse Serbs who are attempting to prevent reconstruction of ethnic Albanian houses in the northern Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town. (Zveki / Associated Press)
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Students at a college of traditional Chinese medicine practice skin scrapping with fish-shaped tools before applying herbal cosmetics made according to an ancient tradition in Wuhan, central
Two Chinese women dance at the Temple of Heaven park in Beijing. (Liu Jin / AFP/Getty Images)
A woman peers out from a veil as she stands in a queue to cast her vote at Jigna village in Rae Bareli, India, the constituency in which Congress party President
Pfc. Anthony Vandegrift of Mililani,
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Municipal workers put up flags in preparation for Russia’s Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow. Russia will celebrate Victory Day, which commemorates the end of
