Wednesday: The day in photos
South Korean soldiers look into North Korea from an observation post near the border village of Panmunjom. North Korea warned South Korea and the United States that Seoul’s participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction is equal to a “declaration of war.” (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)
A bar-headed goose walks with one of her day-old goslings at the Servion Zoo near Lausanne, Switzerland. (Dominic Favre / Associated Press)
“Slumdog Millionaire” star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, left greets director Danny Boyle as he leaves a news conference in Mumbai, India. The makers of “Slumdog Millionaire” met with the film’s two impoverished child stars, but the father of one of the children stormed out of the meeting, saying the filmmakers haven’t done enough to help them. (Rajanish Kakade / Associated Press)
Chinese medical personnel looking for symptoms of swine flu check the temperature of passengers of an airliner that landed in Shanghai. (Joern Pollex / Getty Images)
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Supporters of FC Barcelona walk near the Colosseum in Rome on the day of the final Champions League soccer match, which pits the Barcelona club against Manchester United. (Marco Giglio / EPA)
People stand in a building under construction during an campaign stop for reformist Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, shown in the posters, in his hometown of Aligoudarz, about 240 miles southwest of Tehran. (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)
Maria Sharapova returns the ball to Nadia Petrova during their second-round match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris. (Horacia Villalobos / EPA)
A man looks at a sand figure featuring former President Roh Moo-hyun on the beach in Busan, South Korea. The figure reads “ We were happy because of you.” Roh is believed to have sent his bodyguard on an errand to a nearby temple just before jumping to his death, a news report said. (Jo Jong-ho / Associated Press)
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Demonstrators stage a rally at a Manila square to protest a Philippines-U.S. military exercise. Calls to scrap the exercise are mounting after the conviction but subsequent release of a U.S. Marine accused of raping a Filipino woman. A Filipino appeals court overturned the rape conviction. (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)
