Friday: The day in photos
A balloon that has just taken off from the runway of Bristol International Airport rises over Bristol, England. A total of 25 balloons were launched at 5 a.m., before the runway opened to aircraft, as a preview for the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, which takes place in August. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)
A protester is arrested after an incident involving paint throwing outside the Iranian Consulate in London, where people gathered to vote in Iran’s presidential election. Iranians voted on whether to keep hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for four more years or replace him with a reformist more open to loosening the country’s Islamic restrictions and improving ties with the United States. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)
An Iranian groom talks with his bride as they arrive at a polling station to vote for the presidential elections in downtown Tehran. Iranians packed polling stations from boutique-lined streets in north Tehran to conservative bastions in the countryside with a choice that has left the nation divided and on edge: keeping President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power or electing a reformist. A picture of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei hangs at top right. (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)
Pakistan soldiers visit a spot of a suicide car bombing in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan. Suicide bombers attacked a mosque and a religious school within minutes today in two Pakistani cities, leaving one of the country’s most prominent anti-Taliban clerics dead in what authorities called a targeted killing. (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)
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Construction workers make the final touches to the entertainment area outside the Ellis Park stadium two days before the first game in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 in Johannesburg. The stadium will host the first game and the final. (Kim Ludbrook / EPA)
Khalid Al Qassimi of the United Arab Emirates is enveloped in sand while driving his Ford Focus RS WRC in the SS 2 of Acropolis Rally of Greece 2009, in Thiva, which is north of Athens. (Orestis Panagiotou / EPA)
A family with face masks leaves the Japanese International School that remains closed until June 19 in Duesseldorf, Germany. More than 30 pupils of the school are infected with swine flu. A total of 560 children attend the school. (Federico Gambarini / EPA)
Israeli drag queens dance during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv. (Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)
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With the Sydney Opera in backdrop, boatmen prepare to set fire to an artistic replica of the 1814 convict ship The Three Bees, not pictured, in Sydney, Australia. The re-creation, part of the Vivid Sydney celebrations, tells the story of May 20, 1814, when the Three Bees only days after her arrival caught fire while anchored off Dawes Point in Sydney Cove. (Rob Griffith / Associated Press)
