Today in Photos (April 26)
View a gallery of photos from around the world on Friday, April 26, 2013.
Section:Gallery
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Bangladeshi soldiers stand in the rubble at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. By Friday, the death toll reached at least 270 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.
Kevin Frayer Associated Press
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An official runs along a broken mirror art installation by Italian artist Alfredo Pirri as visitors tour contemporary art displayed at the war bunker, near town of Konjic, 80 kms south of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday, April 26, 2013, as the once secret bunker, built to shelter Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the communist leadership from a nuclear war, turns for three months into one of the world's quirkiest contemporary art galleries. The exhibition that opens Friday occupies most of the U-shaped complex some 280 meter (920 foot) deep underground that reportedly cost some US dlrs 4.6 billion to build but never served any purpose, and now turns into something that may put the sleepy Bosnian town of Konjic on the cultural map of Europe. Artists from 19 countries have worked for months on their performances and interventions in almost 100 rooms of the underground labyrinth, said Edo Hozic, the director of the project.
Amel Emric Associated Press
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Visitors take a tour of contemporary art installation with a red light illuminating hanging neon tubes by Helsnki, Finland, artist Villu Jaanisoo displayed at the war bunker, near town of Konjic, 80 kms south of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday, April 26, 2013, as the once secret bunker, built to shelter Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the communist leadership from a nuclear war, turns for three months into one of the world's quirkiest contemporary art galleries. The exhibition that opens Friday occupies most of the U-shaped complex some 280 meter (920 foot) deep underground that reportedly cost some US dlrs 4.6 billion to build but never served any purpose, and now turns into something that may put the sleepy Bosnian town of Konjic on the cultural map of Europe. Artists from 19 countries have worked for months on their performances and interventions in almost 100 rooms of the underground labyrinth, said Edo Hozic, the director of the project.
Amel Emric Associated Press
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Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013. Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence continued in other parts of the country. The Sunni gunmen had seized Suleiman Beg on Thursday after a firefight with security forces, one in a string of similar incidents that have killed more than 150 people in clashes in Sunni Muslim towns in western and northern Iraq over the past four days.
Bilal Fawzi Associated Press
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Jordanian anti-riot policemen form a chain in front of protesters near the Al-Husseini Mosque, during a protest against the deployment of American military forces to Jordan, in downtown Amman, Friday, April 26, 2013. About 300 Jordanians have demonstrated against the proposed deployment of 200 U.S. troops on their nation's border with Syria.
Mohammad Hannon Associated Press
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President Barack Obama walks back to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2103, upon his returned from speaking at the 2013 Planned Parenthood National Conference in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2013.
Charles Dharapak Associated Press