Monday: The day in photos

Unidentified crew members of the Maersk Alabama react to reporters during a news briefing at the Mombasa port in Kenya on Monday. In a daring high-seas rescue on Sunday, U.S. Navy snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed Richard Phillips, the Maersk Alabama’s American sea captain, who was being held at gunpoint. The operation was a victory for the world’s most powerful military but one that is unlikely to quell the scourge of piracy off the African coast.  (Karel Prinsloo / Associated Press)

Jewish men reach out to kiss a Torah scroll during morning prayers at the Western Wall on Monday in Jerusalem’s Old City. Judaism’s holiest site filled with worshippers as thousands of Jews made the traditional Pesach (Passover) holiday pilgrimage to pray at the last remnant of the ancient Jewish temple.  (David Silverman / Getty Images)

Georgian opposition supporters attend a rally in Tbilisi on Monday. Georgia’s opposition was seeking to boost pressure on President Mikheil Saakashvili as protests calling for his resignation entered a fifth day.  (Vano Shlamov / AFP / Getty Images)

A shop attendant eats lunch amid closed stalls at a market in Beijing on Monday. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said last week that the country’s economy, the world’s third largest, was showing positive signs but added that it is still facing some difficulties, while Fan Gang, an adviser for the central bank, was quoted by official media on Monday as saying that China’s economy was unlikely to be bottoming out any time soon.  (Diego Azubel / EPA)

Firefighters recover personal belongings of the April 6 Italian earthquake’s victims from their houses, in L ‘Aquila on Monday. The death toll, meanwhile, rose to 294 after a 59-year-old man died from his injuries in the disaster. Of the nearly 1,200 people listed as injured, more than 170 remain in serious condition following the country’s worst earthquake in a generation.  (Andreas Solaro / AFP / Getty Images)

Indian policemen arrest a Tibetan activist wearing only his underwear during a protest in New Delhi on Monday. Tibetan students organized a naked protest at the Chinese embassy against the ongoing situation in Tibet. A court in Tibet has condemned two people to die for their roles in violent riots in Lhasa last year, China’s state media said last week, the first death sentences reported over the deadly unrest.  (Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty Images)

A student artist paints a street wall ahead of new year celebrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday. Pahela Baishakh, or the first day of the Bangla new year, falls on Tuesday.  (Pavel Rahman / Associated Press)

Motorbike enthusiast Bob ‘The Bear’ Farquhar, right, chats with a fellow biker next to his motorbike and sidecar parked at the Ace Cafe London prior to the annual “Southend Shakedown,”, a mass motorbike ride from the iconic biker cafe to Southend on Monday in London. The event, in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is the first major ride-out organized by the cafe this year.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)