News photos of the day
Date: 3/19/2012 Album ID: 1435703
Photos by Associated Press
News photos from around the world, Mar. 19, 2012
Hogs walk in front of a Denver firefighter as he directs water on a structure blaze at a West Cocalico Township, Pa.  farm in northern Lancaster County Monday, March 19, 2012. It is not yet known if all livestock survived the fire as multiple companies responded to the alarm. (AP Photo/Lancaster Newspapers, Dan Marschka)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Standing in front of a statue of Ronald Reagan on horseback, Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at a campaign rally, Monday, March 19, 2012, in Dixon, Ill. Dixon is the boyhood home of former President Ronald Reagan. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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In a Wednesday, March 14, 2012 photo, as morning lights begins to fill the sky, Sandhill cranes preen and oil their feathers near The Crane Trust, which is close to Wood River, Neb. The Platte River is an ideal stopping point for the cranes because the water is shallow with many sandbars.  (AP Photo/The Omaha World-Herald/Alyssa Schukar) MAGS OUT TV OUT
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In a Tuesday, March 13, 2012 photo, a flock of sandhill cranes takes flight shortly after sunrise at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Neb. Every year, during March and early April, the Platte River from near Grand Island to west of Kearney is home to more than 500,000 sandhill cranes.  (AP Photo/The Omaha World-Herald, Alyssa Schukar) MAGS OUT TV OUT
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Cherry blossoms begin to bloom at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the Tidal Basin in Washington, Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Rev. Glenn Dames, senior pastor at St. James AME Church, leads people in a prayer at the Titusville Courthouse on Sunday, March 18, 2012, in Titusville, Fla. A rally was held demanding justice for Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager fatally shot by a white neighborhood watch volunteer. No charges have been filed in the February death. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Craig Rubadoux) NO SALES; MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT: FLORIDATODAY.COM
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A line of snow plows clears a street on Monday, March 19, 2012 in Flagstaff, Ariz. Heavy snow and high winds struck parts of Arizona on Sunday, causing hazardous driving conditions and school cancellations Monday. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
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In a Sunday, March 18, 2012 photo provided by the Yuma, Colo., Pioneer, a wildfire sends up a huge wall of smoke, forcing authorities to temporarily close a section of U.S. Highway 34 east of Yuma County, Colo., when the fire filled the skies with so much smoke that firefighters couldn't see the flames. Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley have been allowed to return home after firefighters contained most of the wildfire.  (AP Photo/The Yuma Pioneer, Tony Rayl)
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Forest department officials stand near a tranquilized wild bison at Pahargunia tea estate, about 25 kilometers east of Siliguri, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, Monday, March 19, 2012. Locals who sighted the bison informed forest officials. The bison was later released at the Mahananda sanctuary. (AP Photo/Sourav Jourdar)
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Riot policemen detain a supporter of former President Mohamed Nasheed during a protest near the parliament against President Mohammed Waheed Hassan addressing lawmakers in Male, Maldives, Monday, March 19, 2012. The new president of the Maldives addressed lawmakers and opened Parliament amid vehement protests by the opposition on Monday, nearly six weeks after he took office in a contentious power transfer that his predecessor has called a coup. Authorities used tear gas earlier in the day as several hundred demonstrators blocked roads and shouted slogans calling for Hassan???s resignation. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain)
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Riot police prepare to disperse protestors from the streets of the western village of Shahrakan, Bahrain, on Monday, March 19, 2012. Clashes erupted after thousands of mourners participated in the politically charged funeral for Sabri Mahfoudh, 27, whose death the opposition and his family blame on the effects of tear gas. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Anti-government protesters armed with Molotov cocktails clash with riot police in a street filled with tear gas and the smoke of burning debris, in the western village of Shahrakan, Bahrain Monday March 19, 2012. Clashes erupted after thousands of mourners participated in the politically charged funeral for Sabri Mahfoudh, 27, whose death the opposition and his family blame on the effects of tear gas. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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An anti-government protester hurls a  Molotov cocktails toward riot police  in the western village of Shahrakan, Bahrain Monday March 19, 2012. Clashes erupted after thousands of mourners participated in the politically charged funeral for Sabri Mahfoudh, 27, whose death the opposition and his family blame on the effects of tear gas. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a rally demanding Egypt provide the Gaza Strip with electricity and diesel outside the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, March 19, 2012.  (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Students comfort each other at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012. A father and his two sons were among four people who died Monday when a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a city in southwest France, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011 file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures during the introduction of the iPhone 4S, at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Apple Inc. is finally using its $98 billion pile of cash to reward shareholders, saying it's instituting both a dividend and share buyback program. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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