Thursday: The day In photos
A couple ride a bicycle with a dog after rains in Havana.
A member of the U.S.-backed Neighborhood Patrol Awakening Council stands guard in the Sunni Adhamiya district north of Baghdad. Council members, also known as the Sons of Iraq, or Tribal Awakening, once fought against the U.S., then turned against Al Qaeda. So far, about 100,000 members of the council have been integrated into the security forces but some Iraqi officials are making it clear that they do not intend to include all council members. (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)
Georgian servicemen cover coffins of unidentified Georgian soldiers killed in the South Ossetia conflict zone with Georgian state flags during a funeral in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili delivered a speech at the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna. (Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA)
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Relatives of slain hostage Sandeep Singh weep near his body before his cremation at Chinore village, on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Government forces ended a hostage crisis early Thursday when they killed the last of three rebels believed to have seized eight hostages in the mainly Hindu city of Jammu in Indian Kashmir, senior army official D.L. Chowdhary said. Two hostages died in the gun battle, along with the three militants, he said. (Channi Anand / Associated Press)
A western lowland gorilla named Mouila cradles her 10-day-old baby, Mahale, during his first public appearance at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. “Mahale,” which means “an event’ in Swahili, reflects the success of Taronga’s breeding and research programs with endangered wildlife. (Torsten Blackwood AFP / Getty Images)
A hunter and his dog at sunset in Germany’s Fuerstenwalde. The 2.7-million-acre forest is Germany’s third-largest and is in the state of Brandenburg. (Patrick Pleul / EPA)
