Tuesday: The Day In Photos
A Lebanese woman shows her burned house in the Jabal Mohsen district of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Army and police moved today into battle areas in north Lebanon where two days of fierce sectarian battles killed eight people, threatening to derail an accord to end the country’s political crisis. (Ramzi Haidar / AFP/Getty Images)
Matt Flores, left, and Matt Hogan take belongings from a relative’s home after waters from the flooding Mississippi River broke through a levee overnight, prompting a voluntary evacuation from the area in St. Charles,
Residents carry their belongings through the rubble of buildings destroyed by the May 12 earthquake in Beichuan, China. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)
Indonesian students react as police fire water cannons during a demonstration in Jakarta by 1,000 stone-throwing protesters who were demanding the president resign over a recent fuel-price hike. (Bay Ismoyo / AFP/Getty Images)
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Residents throw water on a passing motorcyclist during 406th anniversary celebrations in San Juan, Philippines, to commemorate the city’s patron saint, John the Baptist. (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)
Chinese soldiers walk past a surface-to-air missile launcher near the Olympic Sports Center Stadium in Beijing set up as a precaution against terrorism during the Olympics. (Greg Baker / Associated Press)
Korean War veteran Leo G. Ruffing, from Portsmouth, Va., sobs as he looks at the names of comrades killed during the Korean War at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea. Korean War veterans from the United States, Thailand and Colombia came to the museum to participate in ceremonies to remember the war, which lasted from 1950 to 1953. (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)
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A girl holds an owl butterfly at Cali Zoo in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Colombia has the greatest diversity of diurnal butterflies in the world, with approximately 3,500 species. (Carlos Julio Martinez / AFP/Getty Images)
A worker paints a window of an ancient building inside the Imperial Palace of the Qing dynasty in Shenyang, China. The palace was built during the reigns of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong before the Qing troops conquered China in 1644. Shenyang is one of the four Olympic soccer cities outside Beijing. (Andrew Wong / Getty Images)
People watch fireworks during the traditional San Juan night on a beach in the southern Spanish city of Malaga. (Jose Luis Roca / AFP/Getty Images)
