Wednesday: The day in photos

Seven-year-old Nida Khan is carried by her father, Jamal, at the Chota Lahore refugee camp before being taken to a hospital in Swabi, in northwest Pakistan. Nida suffered leg injuries when a shell exploded in her hometown of Mingora, where the army is fighting Taliban militants in the Swat Valley, and she then suffered a head injury in a road accident as she and her parents escaped the battle zone.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

Man-shaped mirrors stand outside the new Rene Magritte Museum in Brussels, Belgium. The museum is dedicated to the life and works of the 20th century Surrealist, who famously painted a pipe with the comment “this is not a pipe.”  (Yves Logghe / Associated Press)

Sri Lankans wave their national flag as they celebrate the military victory over Tamil Tiger rebels in Colombo. Sri Lanka’s president has reached out to the Tamil minority, calling for political compromise to unify this island nation after the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebel group and the death of its leader.  (Eranga Jayawardena / Associated Press)

Rubina Ali, an actress in “Slumdog Millionaire,” stands in her house as it is demolished by authorities at a slum in Mumbai. Dozens of police with bamboo batons walked around the area and supervised demolition crews. They tore down the shanties a week after bulldozers demolished the home of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, another child star of the film, in a similar cleanup drive elsewhere in the slum.  (Rajanish Kakade / Associated Press)

Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany returns the ball to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga from France during the second single match between Germany and France in the red group of the Tennis World Team Cup in Duesseldorf, Germany.  (Hermann J. Knippertz / Associated Press)

A volunteer sits on a stool at the 32nd German Protestant Church Congress in Bremen. The Church Congress, under the motto ‘Together under Bremen’s sky,” will be in session until Sunday. The organizers expect about 300,000 visitors for the ceremonial opening.  (Kay Nietfeld / EPA)

A billboard portrait of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is pasted up in Pristina, Kosovo. Biden arrived in Belgrade today with an offer of “fresh and positive relations” toward Serbia but also to ask it to work with the international community in the reconstruction of Kosovo. Biden is scheduled to wrap up his tour of the Balkans with a visit to Kosovo.  (Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA)

Thai Muslim students attend an Islamic school in Pattani Province. More than 3,600 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in five years of separatist violence across the three Muslim-majority provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.  (Muhammad Sabri / AFP / Getty Images)