Today in photos

A student wearing hologram lenses gestures during a demonstration of an education strike in Berlin. A French Air Force Dassault-made Rafale performs its demonstration flight at Le Bourget, north of Paris, during the 48th Paris Air Show. And children carry bunches of paddy to transplant in a field in Sudhmahadev, India. View a slideshow of these images and more.

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Wed., June 17, 2009

A student wearing hologram lenses gestures during a demonstration of an socalled education strike in Berlin on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Banner reads 'education strike'.

Gero Breloer Associated Press
The shadow of an Iranian living in Germany is cast on a banner with red hands during a protest against the results of the Presidential elections and post election violence in his home country, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Markus Schreiber Associated Press
Israeli Jewish Muslim and Christian children put their handprints on the back of a banner that will be taken into space, at the YMCA Peace Preschool in Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 17, 2009. The banner will be blasting off with NASA's space shuttle on its next mission to the International Space Station in November 2009.

Tara Todras-Whitehill Associated Press
Hamas security officers patrol the beach in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 17, 2009. The militant group Hamas seized power of Gaza in June 2007.

Hatem Moussa Associated Press
Villagers look at the office of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), vandalized by activists of People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) who allege that the party has done little for Tribals in the past 3 decades of it being in power, at Lalgarh, about 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Calcutta in West Midnapore district, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Maoist rebels burned police camps and attacked offices of leftist parties governing the eastern Indian state of West Bengal this week, and killed three people Wednesday. Communist rebels have the support of most local residents who oppose the leftist parties' rule in the state, accusing their workers and police of extorting money from them and harassing them for opposing the leftist coalition.

Sucheta Das Associated Press
Hospital staff walk outside the H1N1 isolation ward at the Government Chest Hospital in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Mahesh A. Associated Press
Children carry bunches of paddy to transplant in a field in Sudhmahadev, about 114 kilometers (71 miles) from Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Channi Anand Associated Press
A Kashmiri boatman rows his Shikara, a traditional gondola, as a passenger holds an umbrella to shield himself from the rain on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Mukhtar Khan Associated Press
A visitor looks at a picture symbolizing the Korean War at a peace museum near the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, June 17, 2009. North Korea warned Wednesday of a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked, the latest threat in a drumbeat of rhetoric in defense of its rogue nuclear program.

Lee Jin-Man Associated Press
A visitor looks at the North Korean side at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, June 17, 2009. North Korea warned Wednesday of a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked, the latest threat in a drumbeat of rhetoric in defense of its rogue nuclear program.

Lee Jin-Man Associated Press
Rodolfo Valencia cleans about two years worth of accumulated dust off of a scale model of a blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Seth Wenig Associated Press
A French Air Force Dassault-made Rafale performs its demonstration flight at Le Bourget, north of Paris, during the 48th Paris Air Show, Wednesday June 17, 2009.

Remy Mauviniere Associated Press