Friday: The day in photos

Jonathan Adler, the designer of Barbie’s real-life Malibu dream house, is pictured inside a mirror framed by Barbie dolls in the house in Malibu.  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

Cricket stumps are seen in a park in Lahore, Pakistan. A terrorist attack this week on the Sri Lankan cricket team has put the safety of teams traveling to Pakistan into question. The International Cricket Council has stressed its concerns and the need for dramatic changes to improve the security situation, highlighting the plans for 2011 World Cup matches being staged in Pakistan.  (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)

The dramatic Dar al-Hajar (Rock Palace) is seen atop a rock pinnacle at Wadi Dhahr village, northwest of the Yemeni capital Sana’a. The five-story palace was built by Yemeni ruler Imam Mansour Ali Bin Mehdi Abbas in AD 1786. The palace is a popular tourist attraction.  (Yahya Arhab / EPA)

Asia, a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus elephant, appears with circus clowns Yvinson Acero, right, and Dustin Portillo outside the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., to remind everyone to turn clocks ahead at 2 a.m. Sunday.  (Mike Derer / Associated Press)

Flags decorate the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during this week’s annual meeting of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

A Shiite Muslim woman in Karbala, Iraq, kisses the glass box encasing a replica of the Askariya Shrine, or Golden Mosque. Shiites will be attending prayer services at the sacred site itself in Samarra to commemorate the death of imam Hasan Askari in the 9th century; the mosque was heavily damaged in a 2006 bomb attack.  (Mohammed Sawaf / AFP/Getty Images)

The earth is parched and cracked in Basudevpur village, India.  (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)

Girls in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, fill plastic basins at a free water tap operated by a charity organization in a neighborhood where houses with indoor plumbing rarely receive water. Electricity and water supplies are insufficient to meet the West African nation’s needs, even in the capital city, and contaminated drinking water leads to yearly cholera epidemics, particularly in remote rural regions.  (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)

Viktorija Zemaityte of Lithuania competes in the shot put of the women’s pentathlon at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Turin, Italy.  (Thomas Kienzle / Associated Press)

A Tibetan woman sits with her children at Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling monastery in Katmandu, Nepal. The country is home to more than 20,000 Tibetan exiles.  (Binod Joshi / Associated Press)

Philippine riot police push back protesters near the U.S. Embassy in Manila. The protesters, angered by the handling of a case in which a U.S. Marine was convicted of raping a Filipino woman, called for canceling the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States.  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)