Tuesday: The day in photos
Trader Steve Ferretti uses two phones as he works on the floor of the
A music fan is carried above the crowd during a performance by the Chinese rock group AK-47 on the opening day of the Modern Sky Music Festival in Beijing. The three-day music festival features dozens of Chinese rock, pop and electronic musical acts on three different stages and is expected to draw around 30,000 people daily. The Modern Sky Music Festival and the Midi Music festival are occurring at the same time in Beijing to coincide with the National Day holiday. (Michael Reynolds / EPA)
Thousands of Muslims circle the Kabaa inside and outside the Grand Mosque during Eid al-Fitr morning prayers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Muslims pray celebrating Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy lunar month of
A migrant receives first aid after arriving at Los Cristianos port in the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain. Spain’s marine service rescued 229 migrants from a packed boat some 50 miles off Gran Canaria island. It is the biggest single boatload of migrants to reach the northwest African coast archipelago. (Manuel Lerida / Associated Press)
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In this Metropolitan Police handout released Tuesday, X-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a five-inch knife was plunged into his head. The 16-year-old and two other young men were injured when they tried to stop a friend being robbed at a bus stop. He was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still stuck in his forehead after the attack in Walworth, south London, last November. (Metropolitan Police / Associated Press)
Egyptian drivers Ibrahim Abel-Rehim Ali, left, and Meloud Abbas Abdel- Wahab, third left, are hugged by their relatives at the Maadi military hospital in southern Cairo, where they are under medical examinations. The European hostages kidnapped in the Egyptian desert were abruptly released by their captors and allowed to drive away in a single vehicle, the hostages and their Egyptian drivers said today. The Egyptian drivers waiting in the hospital described how they were abruptly told by their kidnappers after the 10-day ordeal to pile into a single vehicle and leave, after one of their captors received a phone call. (Ahmed Yassin / Associated Press)
Filipino men push a cart along a railroad in Manila. The rail cart offers a cheap alternative means of transportation, costing about 10 cents per head from one station to another, amid rising prices of oil. The operators jump on the rail track when the train is not around. (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)
People try to avoid the rain at a cafe in London, which was bracing itself for further pain after watching Asian markets plunge to record lows overnight following the rejection of a $700-billion bank bailout in the U.S. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)
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Bangladeshi people try to get on an overcrowded train in Dhaka as they travel to their home villages to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival. More than 5 million people leave Dhaka for their hometowns and villages to celebrate the festival with their relatives. (Abir Abdullah / EPA)
A view of the sunset from the northernmost coastline of the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea, on Baekryung Island in Incheon. (Jeon Heon-Kyun / EPA)
