Thursday: The day in photos
Los Angeles city firefighters return to the spot on Holly Road where a battalion chief’s truck burned Wednesday as flames swept through the Mission Canyon area of Santa Barbara, destroying nearly two dozen homes. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Two still-spry World War II veterans dance during a Victory Day-related event in the village of Volovshchina, Belarus. The nation celebrates Victory Day, commemorating the end of WW II, on Saturday. (Viktor Drachev / AFP / Getty Images)
Children line up for hot tea at a refugee camp in Mardan in northwest Pakistan as thousands of residents fled fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants in the Swat Valley. (Greg Baker / Associated Press)
English bowler Graeme Swann, fourth from right, celebrates with his teammates after he claimed the wicket of West Indies Shivnerine Chanderpaul with a Collingwood catch during the second day of the first Test match between England and the West Indies at Lord’s cricket ground in London. (Matt Dunham / Associated Press)
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An Australian flag hangs from a tree in Marysville in the southern state of Victoria three months after a swarm of devasting fires swept the area on what became known as Black Saturday. As many as 400 fires were recorded Feb. 7, killing 173 people and destroying more than 2,000 homes. (Lucas Dawson / Getty Images)
Andrew Bell of McTear’s auctioneers holds one of the world’s rarest whiskey miniatures, produced in 1919 by the Springbank distillery, which is expected to fetch about $1,800 when it is auctioned Wednesday in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Images)
Ujian, a male orangutan, practices whistling in his enclosure at the Heidelberg, Germany, zoo. Ujian’s whistling will be featured in the background of the record “I Am Ujian,” which will be released in June. Proceeds will be used to renovate and enlarge the zoo’s ape exhibit. (Ronald Wittek / EPA)
Riot police set up a barrier outside the presidential residence in Kathmandu, Nepal, where Maoist activists marched to protest the decision by President Ram Baran Yadav to overrule Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s dismissal of an army general. Dahal resigned after the incident, throwing an already tense situation into turmoil. (Narendra Shrestha / EPA)
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Workers for Ssangyong Motor Co., a struggling South Korean automaker, hold candles during a rally to protest management’s restructuring plan at a plant in Pyeongtaek. Employees began a partial strike to protest the plan, which would eliminate jobs. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)
