The day in photos | Monday
A girl holds a picture of her missing sister to her eye outside the Sulpicio Lines terminal in Manila, Philippines, today as relatives wait for news on the ill-fated MV Princess of the Stars. Rescuers were considering boring a hole in the hull of a capsized ferry in a desperate attempt to find survivors amid fears that more than 800 passengers and crew may have died as Typhoon Fengshen carved an erratic, deadly swath through the Philippines. (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)
A relative of passengers of the ill-fated MV Princess of the Stars cries as she looks for missing kin at the office of Sulpicio Lines in Manila. Philippine rescue teams battled furious seas and high winds in a hunt for more survivors of a ferry that sank in a typhoon with 862 people aboard. Only the tip of the bow of the ferry remained above water after it tilted and quickly capsized on Saturday, and navy frogmen have found no sign of life aboard the vessel just off the central island of Sibuyan. (STR/AFP / Getty Images)
Defending champion
Afghan men play chess on top of a hill in Kabul. Since the overthrow of the Taliban regime, which denied women and Afghan families many common rights, including the right to gather in public places, many places have emerged for amusement in post-Taliban Kabul. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP/Getty Images)
Indonesian boys collect plastic bottles from a polluted river in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia hosts the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention in Bali today through Friday. The Basel Convention is the most comprehensive global environmental treaty dealing with hazardous and other wastes. It has 170 members (parties) and aims to protect human health and the environment. (Jurnasyanto Sukarno / EPA)
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, right, bows during the commemoration ceremony marking the 63rd anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Japan’s southern island of Okinawa. Local officials called for the Japanese and U.S. governments to reduce U.S. bases as the people of the island commemorated the anniversary of the last and deadliest land battle of WWII on Japanese soil, which killed more than 240,000 people. (Hitoshi Maeshiro / EPA)
An Indian laborer carries a sack of grain at a warehouse in Mumbai, India. Indian inflation raced to a 13-year high accelerating to more than 11% after a fuel price hike that piled pressure on the government as general elections loom. Annual inflation in the world’s second fastest-growing major economy jumped to 11.05% for the week ended June 7, from 8.75% a week earlier, stunning economists who expected it to be around 9.8%, and pushing shares to a 2008 low on fears of more interest-rate hikes. (Sajjad Jussain / AFP / Getty Images)
A man carrying a TV recovered from his collapsed home leaves badly damaged Beichuan county, southwest of China’s Sichuan province. More than a month after the May 12 earthquake, officials gave the green light to the residents who lived in the devastated Beichuan to return home to search for their belongings. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)
A Sunni fighter returns fire during clashes in the Bab al-Tebbaneh neighborhood in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. One person was killed today in fierce sectarian clashes that erupted over the weekend in Tripoli, bringing the death toll to six, a security official said. Fighters in the densely populated Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen districts traded heavy machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades as the army sought to contain the violence. (Joseph Barrak / AFP / Getty Images)
Figures from Antony Gormley’s “Field for the British Isles” adorn an exhibition space in St Helens College in the town of its creation 15 years ago in St Helens, England. The installation of more than 40,000 clay figures has returned to the place where it was made by local people from local clay. Artist Gormley describes his creation as “25 tons of clay energized by fire, sensitized by touch and made conscious by being given eyes ... a field of gazes which looks at the observer making him or her its subject.” (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)
