Day in Pictures

Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks during his first press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.

Show of Hands

The painting "Shoes" by Vincent van Gogh (1886) is presented in a special exhibition only for this painting in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.

Something Fishy

A Chinese security guard looks at a remote controlled flying dolphin at the newly opened China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. The new museum's main structure is divided into a number of building blocks that occlude each other like toy bricks, making it appear like a huge cubic jigsaw puzzle.

Spin Cycle

Francaise des Jeux rider Anthony Roux from France leads the pack on his way to win the seventeenth stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race over 193 kilometers which started in Ciudad Real and finished in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.

Call to Prayer

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims pilgrims circle the Kaaba inside and outside the Grand Mosque during the last week of Ramadan in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009.

Daily Bread

An Afghan worker walks past freshly baked bread at the Silos bread factory, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Silos, an old Russian bread factory which used to make 120,000 loaves of bread on a daily basis for the interior and defense ministries as well as supply bakery outlets throughout Kabul now makes only 10,000 loaves a day, mainly for Afghanistan's police force and employs some 60 Afghans.

Seeing Double

The Citroen concept car Revolte is seen on the second press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. The car fair runs through Sept. 27.