Friday: The day in photos
Belgian sand designer Hanneke Supply works on a dragon that exhales steam in Guenthersdorf near Leipzig. Eight teams from 12 countries are competing in the second sand design world championship. (Jan Woitas / EPA)
A man passes rows of empty beachchairs at the Baltic Sea beach resort of Travemuende. (Fabian Bimmer / Associated Press)
Irwandi, 1, rests in the family’s temporary barracks in Bakoy village, Aceh Besar, Aceh, Indonesia. More than 4,000 Aceh survivors of the 2004 tsunami still stay in the barracks after waiting for the rebuilding of their homes. World Refugee Day is Saturday. (Hotli Simanjuntak / EPA)
Supporters of Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi light candles as they celebrate her birthday in Kuala Lumpur. She celebrated her 64th birthday today in Yangon’s Insein prison, where she is being held to stand trial for allegedly breaking her terms of detention. (Ahmad Yusni / EPA)
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Children play in a cabbage patch near their home in the township of Modderspruit near Rustenburg. Even though Rustenburg is a host city in the FIFA Confederation Cup 2009, lack of work in the area has caused many people to turn to subsistence farming. (Halden Krog / EPA)
A boy waits on the floor during a dance class at the Lhasa Experimental Primary School. Tibetan students at the school are taught Mandarin Chinese and Tibetan, while Han Chinese students learn Mandarin and are given the option of studying Tibetan. (Greg Baker / Los Angeles Times)
Bahujan Samaj Party supporters participate in a protest rally in Allahabad. The rally coincides with the 39th birthday of ruling Congress Party General Secretary
A golfer warms up on the practice range before Round Two of the Saint-Omer Open. (Ryan Pierse / Getty Images)