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August 25, 2009 3:49 PM

Pictures of the Day


In today’s Photo Journal, Arson is investigated in Shreveport, La., fires, Somalis help an injured man, Munich preps for Oktoberfest, and more. To see more images from the Pictures of the Day, click here to see the slideshow.Save & Share: Share on Facebook | Del.icio.us | Email This


Shreveport Regional Arts Council near downtown Shreveport, La., was completely destroyed Tuesday in one of several fires being investigated as arson. (Mike Silva/Associated Press)

A police officer stood in front of a bank of TV monitors in the special operations room of the Central Communications Command center in Lambeth in London on Tuesday. Police are on alert this week for possible disruptions by climate change activists. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A U.S. soldier wounded by sniper fire was evacuated by his comrades in the village of Bargematal, Nuristan province, Afghanistan, on Tuesday. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)

People helped a man onto a trolley after he was injured during a firefight between Islamist rebels and government forces in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday. Insurgents have threatened to increase attacks during Ramadan, but the top U.N. envoy for Somalia urged Somalis to unify during the holy month. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press)

A young man prepared decorations on an Oktoberfest tent in Munich Tuesday. The world’s largest beer festival will open on Sept. 19. (Christof Stache/Associated Press)

A woman carried her child past a house on fire in the Capao Redondo slum on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday. Residents set fire to houses in protest after police and officials removed 800 families from the slum, which has been illegally occupied since 2007. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

A Palestinian youth said a final farewell to a man killed by Israeli fire in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. One man was killed and another wounded by Israeli gunfire, medics reported. An Israeli military spokeswoman said two rockets or mortar rounds had been fired towards southern Israel, without reporting any casualties. (Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A Muslim man prayed during at a mosque in Malaga, southern Spain, Monday. The holy month of Ramadan — a period of prayer, reflection and sunrise-to-sunset fasts — began Saturday. (Jon Nazca/Reuters)

A flock of geese grazed on a hillside in Shrewsbury, England, Tuesday. The geese are being raised by the Brisbourne family to be sold in the Christmas market. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

An employee at a turkey farm inspected turkeys in Calera, Chile, Monday. Chile’s health ministry ordered a quarantine last Friday at two turkey farms after genetic tests confirmed sick birds were afflicted with the H1N1 virus that has caused an epidemic among humans.(Roberto/Associated Press)

A welder worked behind mesh covering the construction of a new building in the financial district of Beijing on Tuesday. (David Gray/Reuters )

Over many years, water slowly has worn away the sandstone to form the curves in Antelope Canyon, near Page, Ariz. The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse’ bighanilini, which means “the place where water runs through rocks.” Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdestwazi, or “spiral rock arches.” (Gabriel Bouys/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A burned tortoise lay by a dirt track near Marathon Lake, north of Athens, Tuesday. The wildfires that raged for days has been contained, but officials said at least 150 homes have burned down and tens of thousands of hectares of pine forest, olive grove, brush and farmland have been decimated. (Nikolas Giakoumidis/Associated Press)

People carried their belongings through a flooded boulevard in Banikanto Toli village in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal Monday. Scanty rains fell in the first half of the June-to-September monsoon season in India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

A pickup truck carrying tobacco bales arrived at an auction in the central Malawi district of Kasungu on Monday. (Eldson Chagara/Reuters)

A Greek Orthodox pilgrim put candles down Tuesday after finishing a procession to bring an icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where she is believed to be buried outside Jerusalem’s Old City. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to the tomb. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)

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