Wednesday: The day in photos

An Indian taxi driver sleeps on his taxi on a hot afternoon in Howrah, on the outskirts of Calcutta, India. A heat wave has swept through more than a dozen Indian states.  (Sucheta Das / Associated Press)

Pope Benedict XVI kisses an infant during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The Pope has said he will be making a pilgrimage to the Middle East this week as a “pilgrim of peace.’’ The pontiff leaves Friday for a week-long trip to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories.  (Andrew Medichini / Associated Press)

The trousers of U.S. golfer John Daly stand out at the BMW Italian Open at Royal Park I Roveri near Turin, Italy.  (Stuart Franklin / Getty Images)

Bulgarian soldiers salute during a military parade in central Sofia to celebrate the Day of Bravery in the Bulgarian Army as well as the day of St. George.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

A boy opens the door in the Orthodox Sioni Cathedral during a service marking St. George‘s Day in Tbilisi, Georgia.  (Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA)

A Buddhist monk cleans the statue of Lord Buddha ahead of his birth anniversary in a monastery in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The 2,553rd birth anniversary of Lord Buddha will be celebrated Saturday all over the world.  (Sanjeev Gupta / EPA)

About 100 employees of Electricite de France (EDF) protest in Warsaw to defend their jobs. EDF is planning to cut nearly 1,400 jobs at electricity companies in several Polish cities.  (Grzegorz Jakubowski / EPA)

A farmer from the southern Greek island of Crete drinks wine in front of a police cordon blocking the way to the prime minister’s office in Athens. Hundreds of farmers from the Greek island, which grows a significant share of the country’s agricultural produce, demonstrated in central Athens to demand higher prices for their produce.  (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images)