A brush fire, which two teenagers said they started, sends smoke billowing above the Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
A time exposure of the night sky taken at Yosemite’s Glacier Point during a gathering of amateur astronomers. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric Buschow has a Silly String fight with a parade participant. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
A SWAT team officer leads students to safety at Hueneme High after police shot and killed a teen who held another student at gunpoint. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Nancy Reagan is comforted by son Ronald Reagan, left, daughter Patti Davis and stepson Michael Reagan at the library near Simi Valley. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Zhang Zhonglan, right, and Zhu Chengdi head to the fields outside their village of Ba Jiao in China’s Guizhou Province. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Riot police break up an antiwar demonstration that turned violent at the King Hussein Mosque in downtown Amman, Jordan. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Iraqi women react to warning shots fired by a U.S. Marine after a crowd surged toward him and others in his unit in Baghdad. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Ali Abd Al Kader plays soccer with friends next to a building damaged by rockets and cluster bombs in a Palestinian neighborhood in Baghdad. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
U.S. Marines provide cover to an Iraqi police officer as they apprehend looting suspects in Baghdad. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Saadeya Wally, 17, makes bread early in the morning as her brother Satar Wally, 12, watches in Basra, Iraq. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
A Palestinian, out during a brief lifting of the curfew, covers her face to keep away the stench of rotting trash in the streets of Bethlehem. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Christian Laval, left, an activist from France, celebrates with Palestinian Authority soldiers at Yasser Arafat‘s headquarters in West Bank city of Ramallah shortly after Israeli troops ended their siege of the complex. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Pallbearers carry the coffin of 99-year-old Daniel Gonzalez Rosales, killed in the earthquake in Villa de Alvarez in the Mexican state of Colima. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
