Thursday: The Day In Photos

Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at an Israeli army vehicle during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Kafin near Tulkarem.  (Mohammed Ballas / Associated Press)

Israeli soldiers lift a blindfolded Palestinian detainee into a truck following a military operation on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants fired a barrage of mortar shells into southern Israel, killing one person and wounding four others on a communal farm near the border with the Gaza Strip. The attack dealt a new setback to Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers and raised the likelihood of a tough Israeli military reprisal.  (Yehuda Lahiani / Associated Press)

An injured Israeli man is evacuated into the Beer Sheva hospital after he was wounded by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz.  (Israel Yosef / AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian woman sits outside a family house that was destroyed in an Israeli army operation near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.  (Eyad Baba / Associated Press)

Nepalese police officers arrest exiled Tibetan protesters during an anti-China protest outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal.  (Narendra Shrestha / EPA)

A Kenyan reads a newspaper about U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Khalil Senosi / Associated Press)

An Indian man wraps himself with a plastic sheet during a rain shower in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.  (Kaushik Sarkhel / EPA)

A soldier gasps for air after crawling through tear gas in an obstacle course outside Minsk to qualify to become a member of the Belarus special forces.  (Viktor Drachev / AFP/Getty Images)

Britain’s Prince Harry jokes with the crowd while he holds a baby, Lexie Hailstone, during a visit to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, Wales.  (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)

Members of the ethnic Gujjar community sit during a protest for better wages and schools in New Delhi, India.  (Money Sharma / EPA)

This provisional jail was built in Geneva, Switzerland, to keep hooligans in custody during the Euro 2008 soccer tournament hosted by Switzerland and Austria from June 7 to June 29.  (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images)

Polish players fight for the ball during a training session in Bad Waltersdorf, Austria, for the Euro 2008 soccer tournament.  (Janek Skarzynski / AFP/Getty Images)

Indian boys enjoy a soccer match on a waterlogged playground in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.  (Kaushik Sarkhel / EPA)

Dinara Safina of Russia celebrates after defeating compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in their semi-final match in the French Open tennis tournament in Paris.  (Philippe Perusseau / EPA)

A Japanese woman relaxes in a new “salt studio” in Tokyo. The studio is covered with pure-white hexagon salt tiles with climate-controlled temperature and humidity designed to induce comfortable sweating. The room also has space for yoga as well as soothing music and colors -- all intended to improve circulation and reduce the effects of aging.  (Everett Kennedy Brown / EPA)