Thursday: The day in photos
A competitor dives into the pool during a men’s semifinal swimming heat at the 2009 Modern Pentathlon World Championships in London. (Carl de Souza / AFP/Getty Images)
Abi, an Asian lioness, licks her 10-week-old cub at London Zoo. Abi is one of two cubs recently born to Abi, the first cubs born at the zoo in 10 years. There are fewer than 300 Asian lions left in the wild. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)
A vacationer takes advantage of the mud baths at the Porto Rafti seaside resort near Athens. Bathers believe the mud can ease ailments such as arthritis and is good for the skin. (Thanassis Stavrakis / Associated Press)
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Costumed children await the start of a religious procession on the eve of Janamashtmi, the birthday of Lord Krishna, in the northern
A farmer harvesting sea salt carries baskets of salt on Madura island, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)
Released from North Korea, Hyundai employee Yoo Seong-Jin arrives in South Korea. The 44-year-old technician, who worked at a joint industrial park in the North, had been detained since March 30 by authorities who accused him of criticizing the North Korean government and trying to persuade a North Korean woman to defect to the South. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
Bruce Lisker is embraced by friend and supporter Jenny Giallanza less than an hour after he was released from Mule Creek Prison. Twenty-six years, five months and three days after his mother was killed and he was arrested for her murder, Lisker walked out of prison today. A week ago a federal judge overturned his murder conviction, ruling that he was prosecuted with false evidence and his defense attorney did not adequately represent him. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
