Wednesday: The day in photos
A girl walks past sculptures by German artist H.A. Schuldt titled “Trash People,” installed before a meeting in Sicily, Italy, of environment ministers from G-8 nations. (Gregorio Borgia / Associated Press)
South African voters line up at dawn to cast their ballots in their fourth democratic national elections for president since the end of white minority rule. (Nic Bothma / EPA)
Members of the Russian Communist Party and people of the older generation celebrate the 139th birthday of Vladimir Lenin in Moscow’s Red Square, where the mummified remains of the Communist Party’s founder are kept. (Maxim Shipenkov / EPA)
During a demonstration called “Smile Ukraine!,” a girl on Independence Square in Kiev has her hand decorated with a grin. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP/Getty Images)
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Several people dressed up as Christian soldiers take part in a parade in the village of Alcoy in eastern Spain on the first day of the traditional “Moors and Christian’” festival. The event marks the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula -- a period of 800 years in which several Christian kingdoms gradually retook the region from the Moors. (Morell / EPA)
A police officer leaves the house of David Kellerman, acting chief financial officer and senior vice president of Feddie Mac. Kellerman was found dead by a relative after apparently committing suicide. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Picture released by South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology shows a cloned piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants. (AFP / Getty Images)
Papayas sit at a public market in Old Havana. Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, said U.S. President Obama “misinterpreted” remarks by his brother, Raul, and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on remittances from abroad as a goodwill gesture to the U.S. (Javier Galeano / Associated Press)
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A Palestinian girl gets food out of a fridge hours after her house was demolished by Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem. The U.N.’s top Mideast envoy, Robert Serry, inspected the ruins of a Palestinian home in Jerusalem, demolished just hours earlier by Israel, and said seeing the distress of the now-homeless family of seven was “pretty shocking.” Serry called on Israel to freeze demolitions and said the international community is more determined than ever to push for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Associated Press)
