Friday: The day in photos
In the village of Sinyavino, 31 miles east of St. Petersburg, Russia, an Orthodox priest conducts a funeral for remains of Soviet soldiers killed during
Health workers wave to hotel guests being released from quarantine at the Metropark Hotel in Hong Kong. Hong Kong lifted its weeklong quarantine on the downtown hotel, releasing some 280 guests and employees who were isolated in the building because of swine flu. (Kin Cheung / Associated Press)
An Israeli settler clashes with an Israeli left-wing activist during a demonstration against settlements in the West Bank town of Hebron. Israeli left-wing activists and Palestinian land owners demonstrated against the settlers of Kharsina settlement in Hebron after they built wooden structures on Palestinian land. (Hazem Bader / AFP/Getty Images)
Fishermen work near the Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano, a four-masted topsail schooner, in Havana Bay, Cuba. The vessel, named after the Spanish sailor Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who accomplished a trip around the globe in 1522, is in Cuba for a five-day official visit. (Javier Galeano / Associated Press)
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A grieving Zheng Shuzhen is restrained while holding a portrait of her deceased granddaughter, Zhou Mengxin, outside the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing. Zheng contends that the child’s death, which resulted from the 2008 tainted milk scandal, has never been dealt with appropriately by her local government in Henan province. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP/Getty Images)
Spl. Taylor Jordan of the U.S. Army’s First Battalion, 26th Infantry, carries out his fitness regimen at Camp Restrepo in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)
