US News

Day in photos: April 24, 2013

1 of 12
dip042413_artbubble–1024×693.jpg
Apartment towers and Hong Kong’s International Commerce Centre are colored by a work entitled ‘Poetic Cosmos of the Breath’ — a giant, colored solar dome created by Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno. AP
2 of 12
dip042413_collapse–1024×693.jpg
Crowds of bystanders gather around as rescuers scour the rubble for survivors after an eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh. AP
3 of 12
dip042413_syriaweapons–1024×693.jpg
A young peddler mans a roadside stall offering weapons and ammunition in war-torn Syria’s Raqqa province. Reuters
4 of 12
dip042413_torches–1024×693.jpg
Kashmiri Muslims hoist torches, celebrating winter’s end with their small farming community’s annual festival of lights at the shrine of Sufi saint Zain-ud-din Wali in Aishmuqaam. AFP/Getty Images
5 of 12
dip042413_protests–1024×693.jpg
Riot cops face off with supporters of La Manif Pour Tous (Demonstration for All), an anti-gay-marriage movement in Lyon, France, in the hours after the National Assembly adopted a bill legalizing same-sex marriages. AFP/Getty Images
6 of 12
dip042413_afghan–1024×693.jpg
Proving just how much they’re appreciated, Afghan polio vaccination volunteers ride in the propped-open car trunk on their way to administer the vaccine during a campaign in the Dehdaadi district. AFP/Getty Images
7 of 12
dip042413_quake–1024×693.jpg
An elderly couple mourns outside their damaged house in a remote village of the seriously-damaged Lingguan Township in Ya’an, southwest China’s Sichuan province, days after a 6.6 magnitude tremor hit the region. AFP/Getty Images
8 of 12
dip042413_legos–1024×693.jpg
A windmill and the surrounding Dutch countryside — built with Lego bricks — is just one of the creations at Portugal’s largest Lego exhibition ever at the Campo Pequeno bullfight ring in Lisbon. EPA
9 of 12
dip042413_kids–1024×693.jpg
Two young Britons from Hounslow Heath infants school play in one of four new adobe huts designed to help minimize aircraft noise from the nearby Heathrow Airport. Reuters
10 of 12
dip042413_cops–1024×693.jpg
Law enforcement personnel salute during a memorial service for MIT police officer Sean Collier on the school’s Cambridge, Mass., campus. Collier was allegedly killed by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the accused marathon bombers. EPA
11 of 12
dip042413_frog–1024×693.jpg
A tiny green flying frog helps the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe, Germany, promote its Great State Exhibition. AFP/Getty Images
12 of 12
dip042413_cycling–768×949.jpg
Overall leader Christopher Froome rides in line with his Sky Procycling teammates during the first stage — from Saint-Maurice to Renens, Switzerland — of the Tour de Romandie. EPA