Pictures of the Day: Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

French workers, fearful about the global economic crisis, hold a nationwide strike, shutting down train and subway lines, reducing staff at hospitals and leaving millions of schoolchildren without teachers.
Lionel Cironneau / AP

Protest

French workers, fearful about the global economic crisis, hold a nationwide strike, shutting down train and subway lines, reducing staff at hospitals and leaving millions of schoolchildren without teachers.