Thursday: The Day In Photos

Nine-year-old Xia Xueyin, her face badly bruised from a fall during last week’s earthquake, takes photos of her family’s damaged home in Hanwang, China. The girl’s parents said that they brought her back to her home to see the damage and to look for her belongings to help her cope with the trauma of having experienced the May 12 earthquake.  (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)

A girl rests at the Jiuzhou sports stadium in Mianyang, China. More than 20,000 survivors of last week’s earthquake are being housed at the stadium.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

Children skip rope at an earthquake relief center in Mianzhu, China.  (Feng Li / Getty Images)

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visits a mother and her baby in a cyclone relief camp in Dedaye, Myanmar. Ban Ki-moon toured Myanmar’s disaster area, and said he had come bearing a “message of hope” after the tragedy, which has left nearly 134,000 people dead or missing.  (AFP / Getty Images)

Palestinian protesters carry a boy who was wounded by Israeli military gunfire during a demonstration at the Karni Crossing, between Israel and Gaza. One Palestinian was killed and 17 injured today when Israeli troops fired at protesters in Gaza who demonstrated against the crippling blockade of the territory.  (Mahmud Hams / AFP/Getty Images)

South African children stand at the scene of a burning shack in the Reiger Park settlement outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Dozens have been killed in clashes between poor South Africans and immigrants.  (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)

An immigrant child plays in an informal refugee camp outside Primrose Police Station, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, where about 1,000 immigrants sought protection and shelter after violent clashes between South Africans and immigrants.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP/Getty Images)

Girls dressed in the traditional clothes of the Sorbs lead the Corpus Christi procession in Ralbitz, Germany. Corpus Christi is observed as a religious holiday by the Catholic Sorbs, a Slavic minority located near the German-Polish border.  (Matthias Rietschel / Associated Press)

Pakistani children line up with their parents to receive rice from a distribution center in Karachi. Rising inflation has created unrest in the country, which has one-third of its 160 million population living below the poverty line.  (Asif Hassan / AFP/Getty Images)

A boy attends a protest against the construction of the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in Brazil. The dam would be the world’s third largest for generating electricity. Indigenous Indians say it will kill fish, displace 15,000 people and ad to destruction of the rainforest.  (Andre Penner / Associated Press)

A South Korean protester wears a mask criticizing an agreement to resume U.S. beef imports in Seoul, South Korea. The protesters fear that U.S. beef is infected with mad cow disease.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)