Wednesday: Day in photos

Rawan abu Taber, a 4-year-old Palestinian wounded in Israeli military operations, screams in pain as doctors change her bandages at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Rawan was severely burned, and her thumb had to be amputated.  (Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press)

A model wears a creation by Oestudio during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil.  (Andre Penner / Associated Press)

Seattle Sounders soccer club players and hopefuls take part in a preseason training session in Renton, Wash.  (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press)

Heavy snow in the Italian Alps forced organizers to cancel the opening training session for a women’s World Cup downhill skiing competition Tuesday and push back a super-G race scheduled for Thursday.  (Dusan Vranic / Associated Press)

A Tasmanian devil cub chows down during a feeding session at Taronga Zoo in New South Wales, Australia. A rare cancer is reportedly decimating Australia’s dwindling Tasmanian devil population.  (Mark Baker / Associated Press)

President Obama’s first day in office includes a visit to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, where he signed a series of executive orders.  (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)

On Wednesday, a new day dawned at the White House.  (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)

President Barack Obama attends the National Prayer Service, a tradition that dates back to April 30, 1789. With Obama and wife Michelle at Washington’s National Cathedral are, from right, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Joe and Jill Biden.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

At a subway station in Beijing, a man reads a local paper with a front-page picture of Obama’s swearing-in.  (Alexander F. Yuan / Associated Press)

Meet Michelle Obama, right, in the arms of his mother, Linda Omondi. The brand-new Kenyan, born shortly after Barack Obama’s inauguration, was named after America’s brand-new first lady. “I hope that one day he too will become a great leader if not like the U.S. president,” Omondi said.  (Simon Maina / AFP / Getty Images)

Russian Communists and supporters visit the mausoleum of Lenin at Moscow’s Red Square. Vladimir Lenin died 85 years ago, on Jan. 21, 1924.  (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)

Conservator Sandra Meinung works on the stained-glass window “Landing of the Arch,” once a section of a window at Marienkirche (Saint Mary church) in Frankfurt, eastern Germany. Meinung will work to restore six glass windows that were returned to Frankfurt in November after having been stolen by the Soviet soldiers at the end of World War II.  (Michael Urban / AFP / Getty Images)

Schoolchildren practice yoga in a school in Bhopal, India. Yoga was performed simultaneously in 125,000 schools and colleges across the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh at the direction of the government.  (Sanjeev Gupta / EPA)

Shlomo Sorin Rosen, rabbi of the Romanian Jewish community, reads a prayer at the Great Synagogue in Bucharest during a commemoration of those killed across Romania in a revolt led by members of the Iron Guard fascist party between Jan. 21 and 23, 1941.  (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

Palestinians rebuild a tunnel that links the Gaza Strip to Egypt, in the divided southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.  (Oliver Laban-Mattei / AFP / Getty Images)

An Israeli soldier holds his machine gun as he walks near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.  (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)