Today in pictures (April 28)
Photographs from around the world for Monday, April 28, 2008.
Section:Gallery
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Two Canada Geese walk with seven newborn geese Sunday, April 27, 2008 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Gail Burton) ORG XMIT: MDGB101
Gail Burton The Spokesman-Review
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Residents and onlookers watch rescuers using a mechanical grab to search through the rubble of a mattress factory, Monday, April 28, 2008, in a poor industrial neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital. The mattress factory went up in flames on Saturday, killing at least 55 people, a police official has said amid accusations of poor safety standards and locked doors that trapped workers. (AP Photo/Abdejalil Bounhar) ORG XMIT: PAR101
Abdeljalil Bounhar The Spokesman-Review
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Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., prepares to addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ORG XMIT: DCSA101
J. Applewhite The Spokesman-Review
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A man walks with his horse in an orchard in the village of Kirovo, 130 km (81 miles) south of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, April 27, 2008. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: MOSB114
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Spain's Defense Minister Carme Chacon, who is seven months pregnant, center, gestures as she poses for a photograph with a unit from Spain's UN peacekeeping troops, at their base in Blatt village, near the southern town of Marjayoun, southeast of Lebanon, on Monday April 28, 2008. Chacon visited her country's peacekeepers in southern Lebanon Monday 10 days after visiting Spain's forces in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) ORG XMIT: BEI109
Mohammed Zaatari The Spokesman-Review
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Workers are seen placing pieces of turf to cover the artificial grass soccer field at the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Monday, April 28, 2008. The Luzhniki Olympic Stadium will host the Champions League Final soccer match on May 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) ORG XMIT: MOSB109
Alexander Zemlianichenko The Spokesman-Review
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A photo taken by a forensic team and released by the Austrian police with permission of Austria's prosecution office on Monday, April 28, 2008 shows a view into a hidden room in a house in Amstetten, Austria, in which a woman is believed to have been held captive for 24 years. Austria's police on Monday, April 28, 2008 questioned a man identified in a police statement as Josef F., they say held his daughter captive for 24 years and sexually abused her in what stunned Austrians dubbed a "house of horrors" in Amstetten, a high-tech, windowless cell where she allegedly gave birth to at least six children. Two police forensics teams arrived on the scene Monday morning and technicians in white suits entered the apartment block in Amstetten, a blue-collar town about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Vienna. (AP Photo/Police Niederoesterreich) ORG XMIT: AST801
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A firefighter sprays water on a house to protect it from a wind driven brush fire in the foothills of Sierra Madre, Calif., Monday, April 28, 2008. A flare up early Monday morning caused the fire to push towards and threaten numerous homes in the town of Sierra Madre. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg) ORG XMIT: CADS110
Dan Steinberg The Spokesman-Review
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, greets supporters after speaking at a town hall-style meeting in Wilmington, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ORG XMIT: NCJH110
Jae Hong The Spokesman-Review
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Melted snow forms droplets on a tulip that got caught in the April snowstorm on Monday, April 28, 2008 in Wisconsin Rapids home. National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Franks says central and west-central areas of the state received a dusting of snow in the early hours. (AP Photo/Daily Tribune, Doug Alft) ORG XMIT: WIWIS103
Doug Alft The Spokesman-Review
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Truckers drive by the Capitol while blaring their horns in protest of high fuel prices, in Washington on Monday, April 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ORG XMIT: DCJM101
Jacquelyn Martin The Spokesman-Review