Tuesday: The day in photos

Survivors and visitors walk through the earthquake-devastated town of Beichuan in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. Government leaders laid flowers and those who lost loved ones burned paper money in a traditional rite of mourning as China marked the first anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude quake that left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing and 5 million homeless.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Pope Benedict XVI, after removing his slippers in observance of Muslim custom, enters the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Benedict, during a tour of holy sites, recalled the common roots of the religions of Abraham -- Islam, Christianity and Judaism.  (Atta Awissat / Associated Press)

American Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, flanked by her father, Reza, left, and an unidentified family member, talks to the media after her release from prison in Tehran. Saberi was convicted of spying last month and sentenced to eight years in prison. An appeals court freed her Monday.  (Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press)

Gail Halvorsen, a former U.S. Air Force pilot and veteran of the Berlin Airlift, revels in the limelight at a ceremony in Berlin marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the massive operation that kept the German city alive with nonstop supply flights after land routes were cut off by a Soviet blockade. Early in the airlift, Halvorsen began dropping candy to children from his cockpit. Other airlift pilots soon began following suit, and when word spread back home a wave of candy donations from American children followed.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

Major Sumner, an elder of the Ngarrindjeri indigenous tribe of Australia, prepares to take part in a traditional “smoking ceremony” at the Australian High Commission in London. Sumner is in Britain on a mission to take possession and repatriate the remains of three Ngarrindjeri ancestors that were acquired by Oxford University in the 1860s.  (Carl De Souza / AFP / Getty Images)

Riot police spray tear gas at a protester sheathed in facemask and cape outside the the Arcelor Mittal steel company’s headquarters while the company held its annual shareholders meeting inside. French and Belgian steelworkers, angry over the company’s plans to cut jobs, staged a violent demonstration, smashing windows and setting off smoke bombs.  (Nicolas Bouvy / EPA)

A roma band performs for donations in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

A building’s windows reflect multiple images of a woman walking past a model giraffe made of Lego blocks at the Legoland Discovery Center at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.  (Maya Hitij / Associated Press)