Friday: The day in photos
Women line up to collect water at a roadside tap in an impoverished neighborhood of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. There is no direct supply of potable water to homes in many areas of Dhaka, and a single tap may be used by hundreds of households. (Pavel Rahman / Associated Press)
A woman carries her washing past a poster of Pope Benedict XVI in Luanda, Angola. This week, the pope is making his first visit to Africa, where there are now 140 million Roman Catholics. (Themba Hadebe / Associated Press)
Afghan horsemen play buzkashi on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. In buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport, two teams of riders compete to carry the headless carcass of a goat or calf into a scoring area. Players must be expert horsemen, and games can go on for days. (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press)
Ashlea Gilfillan clears a hurdle in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase during the Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane. (Mark Dadswell / Getty Images)
Druids watch the sunrise as they celebrate the spring equinox at Stonehenge near Amesbury, England. Several hundred druids and pagans were granted special access to the ancient monument to mark the equinox, on which the day and night are of equal length and which druids celebrate as a time of renewed life. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)
Five-day-old Ko Raya checks out her surroundings next to her mother, Pang Pha, a 22-year-old Asian elephant, as they are presented to the public at Berlin’s Zoological Garden. Ko Raya was born at the zoo and is Pang Pha’s third offspring. (Steffi Loos / AFP/Getty Images)
A supporter waves the Democratic Party flag during a campaign in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. Campaign fever swept Indonesia as parties staged colorful mass rallies with dancing and rock bands three weeks before general elections. (Adek Berry / AFP/Getty Images)
An Iranian shopper makes her way near a florist north of Tehran during Nowruz, a 12-day Zoroastrian holiday that begins today. Iranians typically prepare for the Nowruz, which marks the new year and the start of spring, by cleaning their homes and buying new clothes and flowers. (Begrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi Shiite man attends Friday prayers in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood. Six years after the Iraq war began, Iraqis remain divided about the U.S.-led invasion that led to the ouster of President Saddam Hussein. (Ali Yussef / AFP/Getty Images)
An Israeli high school student sits in a cage behind a picture of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit during a demonstration near the Yad Mordechai kibbutz to call for his release. Shalit, who was seized by militants from the Gaza Strip in a cross-border raid in June 2006, will have spent 1,000 days in captivity Saturday. (David Buimovitich / AFP/Getty Images)