A soldier stands behind protective a barrier of sand bags outside a polling station in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptians have started voting on a draft for their country's new constitution that represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place after President Mohammed Morsy was overthrown in a coup last July.
Anti-government protesters wave national flags while marching during a rally in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Wednesday that elections due in less than three weeks will go ahead despite intense pressure by her opponents to postpone the vote. The vow came after an overnight shooting attack on anti-government protesters in Bangkok wounded two people and ratcheted up tensions in the country's deepening political crisis.
Men belonging to the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), engage in a firefight while trying to flush out alleged members of the Knights Templar drug cartel from Nueva Italia, Mexico. The vigilantes say they are liberating territory in the "Tierra Caliente" and are aiming for the farming hub of Apatzingan, said to be the cartel's central command. Mexican military troops are staying outside the town and there are no federal police in sight.
A wildfire burns in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
An Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The spacecraft is carrying the company's first official re-supply mission to the International Space Station.
Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine competes in men's short program at the European Figure Skating Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
The tip of the Empire State Building in New York peeks through thick fog in this view from Hoboken, N.J.