Thursday: The day in photos

A street vendor hawks U.S. flags imprinted with President Obama’s face on a street in Accra, Ghana. Obama arrives in Ghana late Friday for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office.  (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)

Michael Phelps pulls away to victory in a preliminary heat of the 100-meter butterfly competition at the 2009 U.S. swimming championships in Indianapolis.  (Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

A woman throws herself against a truck loaded with coffins as it leaves the morgue in the central Bosnian town of Visoko. Mass graves in eastern Bosnia have yielded 534 bodies recently identified as Muslims killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the Srebrenica area during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The remains are being transported to a memorial center in Potocari, where they will be buried Saturday, the 14th anniversary of the massacre.  (Hidajet Delic / Associated Press)

Marines search a compound in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan, for the source of gunfire they encountered during the new U.S. offensive in the southern Helmand province.  (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Nadua, a golden-bellied capuchin monkey born on June 16, looks out from her blanket cocoon at the zoo in Cologne, Germany.  (Clemens Bilan / AFP / Getty Images)

Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of the musical “Tanguera” at Berlin’s Staatsoper theater. The tango extravaganza runs through July 19.  (John MacDougall / AFP / Getty Images)

Members of Rodina, a pro-Russia political party, dress as if prepared to encounter hazardous material as part of a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. The protesters oppose President Viktor Yushchenko’s initiative to use U.S. fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants rather than Russian fuel.  (Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images)

The sun -- a rare sight in recent days -- rises on Ram Island Ledge Light at the mouth of Portland Harbor in Maine. Clear skies are a welcome relief to a region that has received more than 13 inches of rain since Memorial Day.  (Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press)