Monday: The day in photos
U.S. Army soldiers from maneuver platoon HHB 4-320FA carry fresh supplies off a UH-47 helicopter at their outpost in Afghanistan’s Khowst province on Monday. Khowst province is located across the border from the lawless Waziristan region in Pakistan, from which it is believed foreign fighters flood into Afghanistan to attack coalition forces. (David Furst / AFP/Getty Images)
Rescue workers carry a body found in the rubble Monday after a school collapsed in Petionville, Haiti. U.S., French and Haitian firefighters used sonar, cameras and dogs to scour the wreckage for signs of life three days after College La Promesse collapsed during a school party, killing about 90 students and adults and severely injuring 150. (Ramon Espinosa / Associated Press)
Two displaced children make their way in the Kituku camp in Goma, eastern Congo, on Monday. Scores of park rangers and their families left the Virunga National Park last month, fleeing fighting between rebels and government forces that has left tens of thousands of displaced people desperate for international aid. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)
President Bush and President-elect Obama walk along the West Wing Colonnade on Monday before their meeting at the White House. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)
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Sgt. Travis Baker, far left, and Spc. Derek Lorenz of the 3rd Infantry Regiment’s Old Guard place a wreath of more than 700 red silk poppies marked with the words “Lafayette, We Are Here” near Gen. John Pershing’s grave site as French Ambassador Pierre Vimont, right, looks on at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. The event, featuring soldiers in World War I uniforms, honored 116,516 Americans killed in the war and took place a day before Veteran’s Day and on the 90th anniversary of the armistice ending World War I. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
This picture released by Ryanair shows a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 after an emergency landing at Rome’s Ciampino airport earlier in the day. A flock of birds caused the plane to make an emergency landing at the airport Monday, the Irish company said in a statement, adding that two crew members and eight of the 166 passengers received unspecified medical treatment. (AFP/Getty Images)
