Photos of the Day: April 21
FOR A PERFECT FIT: Master Tailor Lance Sargent Matthew Else, left, took measurements of Guardsman Bortnill St Agne at the Victoria Barracks in London Thursday. The military units involved in the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton are preparing their ceremonial duties. (Facundo Arrizabalag/EPA)
GREEN BANANAS: A Ugandan police officer walked past a truck of bananas along a street market in Kalerwe suburb of the capital Kampala Thursday. (Edward Echwalu/Reuters)
TAILS OFF: Girls peeled prawns at a fishery in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday. The girls earn about $1.15 a day to feed their families. (Fareed Khan/Associated Press)
TIRE FLIP: U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Sean Brunner lifted a truck tire, as the Marines Corps named ‘tire flip’ for physical exercises at Forward Operating Base Payne in Reg district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Thursday. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
EASTER SACRIFICE: A flagellant whipped his back with bamboo during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Manila Thursday. About 75 million Filipinos, out of a national population of 93 million, are Catholics, a legacy of the country’s Spanish colonial past. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)Photos of the Day: April 21
PEEP HOLE: A rebel fighter looked through bullet holes as he took cover during a firefight in Misrata Thursday. Libyan government troops pounded the besieged rebel-held city, undeterred by Western threats to step up military action against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
SEEKING SAFETY: A Libyan man waved to evacuees after they arrived by ship in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday. A Turkish ship named Ankara arrived in Benghazi Thursday with 980 evacuees coming from the battered city of Misrata. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)
MEN ON A WIRE: High tension linemen performed maintenance on electrical power lines from a basket suspended from a helicopter in Janneyrias, near Lyon, France, Wednesday. (Robert Pratta/Reuters)
BEACH HOLIDAY: People flocked to Brighton Beach Thursday to catch the sunshine before the start of the Easter Bank Holiday in Britain. Temperatures are set to continue to rise over the weekend. (Stephen Simpson/Lnp/London News Pictures/Zuma Press)
FERRY TRAGEDY: Bangladeshi villagers looked at the bodies of victims in a ferry accident in the River Meghna in Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh Thursday. A ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized in a river, leaving at least 24 people dead and scores missing, a police official said. (Pavel Rahman/Associated Press)
BUILDING BLOCKS: Bricklayer Liu Xueju processed ‘buwa,’ a kind of roof tile, in Xuan’en county, Hubei Province, China, Thursday. Buwa used to be an essential material in building Diaojiao Lou, a kind of folk house of some ethnic groups in China. (Song Wen/Xinhua/Zuma Press)
LONELY LUNCH: People ate lunch in their partitioned units at an evacuation center for people affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Thursday. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
GAS LINE: A soldier allowed a limited number of motorcycles to proceed as others waited for their turn to fill up outside an army-run gas station in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday. Nepal imports all its oil products from India but supply has stopped because the state-owned company has failed to pay its bills. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press)
TRADITION: A woman held a lit candle in front of the graves of her relatives at a cemetery in the village of Copaciu, Romania, Thursday. Orthodox women went to church and cemeteries in the early morning on Maundy Thursday to light candles, burn incense and mourn their dead relatives. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)
GONE FISHING: A young boy walked over rocks near the Baltic Sea at Niendorf village near Timmendorfer Beach, Germany, during sunny spring weather. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)
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