Thursday: The day in photos

A supporter of the Brazilian national team wears his passions on his forehead as Brazil took on the United States in the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in Pretoria, South Africa. Brazil whipped the U.S., 3-0.  (Andre Penner / Associated Press)

A firefighter carries 3-year-old Slava Krivosheyev, shaken but safe, from a burning apartment building in St. Peterburg, Russia. Scores of people were evacuated, some with injuries, after a natural gas leak caused an explosion at the building.  (Dmitry Lovetsky / Los Angeles Times)

An art installation by Chinese artist Yan Peiming flutters in the breeze at a new exhibition in Beijing. “Landscape of Childhood,” a series of “floating paintings” on 34 giant flags, is a collection of portraits of sick children and orphans.  (Liu Jin / AFP/Getty Images)

Jewelry repairman Adang, still active at 87, works on a wristwatch at a street market in Jakarta, Indonesia.  (Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty Images)

Children grasp for packages of cookies and other food delivered by a relief organization to a camp where the youngsters’ families relocated after a fire destroyed about 200 homes in the Beharampada slum outside Mumbai, India.  (Rajanish Kakade / Associated Press)

Activists masquerading as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero and French President Nicolas Sarkozy protest in Brussels, where European Union leaders were meeting to discuss their response to the financial crisis. A number of interest groups held demonstrations, including dairy farmers protesting milk prices and environmental groups seeking action on global warming.  (Dominique Faget / AFP / Getty Images)