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In today’s pictures, a man swims with a buffalo in a polluted pond in India, young children go to college in Germany, voters cast ballots in a Wisconsin recall election, and more.

LOOKING UP: Holden Orr, 6, watched as men weatherproofed his grandfather’s house in Mineral, Va., after the chimney was damaged when an earthquake struck Tuesday. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattled the East Coast from South Carolina to New England. (Sabrina Schaeffer/The Free Lance-Star via Associated Press)

MUD BATH: A boy played in mud near the Ravi River after a downpour on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)

INSPECTING SHEEP: A man inspected sheep at a market in Husum, Germany, Wednesday. (Kay Nietfeld/DPA/Zuma Press)

STOMP! People faced off against police officers in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday. Thousands of protesters rallied against the arrest of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence declaration. (Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency)

PUTTING THEIR HEADS TOGETHER: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greeted a woman during his visit to a school for the blind in Friedberg, Germany, Wednesday. (Alex Domanski/Reuters)

YOGA ON WALL STREET: A woman practiced yoga outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. The Dow industrials fell below 11000 in a broad selloff on the first trading session since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating late Friday. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

RIOT RAGE: A man walked past a burning car in the Hackney section of North London on Monday. Pockets of rioting and looting continued after rioting first broke out in the Tottenham section on Saturday. People were initially protesting over a man’s shooting death. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

FACING A GUN: A government soldier pointed a gun at a woman holding a baby just before a stampede broke out at the gates of a makeshift hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday. The United Nations airlifted aid to Mogadishu for the first time since Islamist fighters withdrew from the city over the weekend. (Antoine de Ras/European Pressphoto Agency)

IN THE FRAY: A supporter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko walked in front of police at a protest near a Kiev court Monday. The court rejected lawyers’ requests to free Ms. Tymoshenko during her abuse of office trial. She says the case is an attempt to bar her from future elections. (Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency)

STREET SHOOTING: A police officer looked at a bicycle on a street in north Minneapolis Sunday. Police said the bike’s teenage owner was shot by another group of teenagers who were also on bicycles. The victim was listed in critical condition. No arrests were made immediately. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minneapolis Star Tribune/Zuma Press)

STEAM AND PRESS: A woman ironed miters Monday at a workshop in Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain, for bishops who will participate with the pope during World Youth Day activities. Up to one million pilgrims are expected to attend the event in Madrid Aug. 16-21, organizers say. (Sergio Perez/Reuters)

DOWNTIME: A man whose home was destroyed last week by Japan’s tsunami enjoyed a bath in a tent set up by the Self-Defense Forces in Kamaishi, Japan, Tuesday. Meanwhile, power had been reconnected Tuesday to all six of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

EN ROUTE: An Afghan army soldier wounded by gunfire lay in an ambulance in southern Afghanistan Tuesday. Elsewhere, President Hamid Karzai officially unveiled plans for his security forces to begin taking control over modest sections of the country in July. (Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

RESOUNDING RING: Police held back demonstrators as a teacher rang a bell while thousands of educators demonstrated Tuesday in Kiev, Ukraine, against planned cuts to education funding. (Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency)

WATERWORKS: A boy bathed in water gushing out of a broken water pipeline in Noida, India, Tuesday. March 22 is the United Nations World Water Day. (Parivartan Sharma/Reuters)

CLOAKED IN BLACK: Shiite women cried during Bahiya al-Aradi’s funeral in Manama, Bahrain, Tuesday. Ms. Aradi, 51, was driving on a main road in Manama looking for gasoline when she was shot in the head last Wednesday as she approached a checkpoint, according to witnesses. (Joseph Eid/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

SCANNING SHIPMENTS: Port workers practiced detecting radiation levels on shipments at Manila’s south harbor Tuesday. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)