Wednesday: The day in photos
Candles and flowers are left outside the vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland, where a gunman killed 10 people Tuesday before shooting himself. Police said the shooter, Matti Saari, appeared to have bought his weapon at the same store that sold a gun to 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, another school shooter who killed eight people before shooting himself last November. (Oliver Morin / AFP / Getty Images)
A man gets a haircut in New Delhi along the rising River Yamuna. (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)
A Hong Kong police officer directs customers at a Bank of East Asia branch after reports linked the bank to failed U.S. investment bank Lehman Bros. and insurance giant AIG. The bank issued a statement stating “in the strongest possible terms that such rumors have no basis in fact.” (Mike Clarke / AFP / Getty Images)
Paul McCartney signs autographs in Tel Aviv, a day before his first scheduled show in Israel. He is expected to perform before some 50,000 people. (Uriel Sinai / Getty Images)
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Ahmed Ridah, one of 12 people released Wednesday from U.S. military custody in Baghdad, embraces his family. (Loay Hameed / Associated Press)
Oxford Street shoppers in London are reflected in a Selfridges window display. Figures released today showed that British retail sales had fallen for the sixth consecutive month. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
An employee of Russia’s OTKRITIE Financial Corp. works during a trading session in Moscow. Russian markets rose Wednesday on positive news about gas giant Gazprom. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / Associated Press)
