Today’s photos

Art students paint on fabric covering a 5-meter-high wall of sandbags, surrounding the United Nations offices in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 18, 2005. The sense of security built up over years of Lebanon’s postwar calm was shattered when a series of bomb blasts hit the capital over the past three months. A U.N. mission is scheduled to arrive in Beirut later this week to conduct an inquiry on the bomb blast that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla)

A car drives by as art students paint on fabric covering a 5-meter-high wall of sandbags, surrounding the United Nations offices in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 18, 2005. The sense of security built up over years of Lebanon’s postwar calm was shattered when a series of bomb blasts hit the capital over the past three months. A U.N. investigative mission is scheduled to arrive in Beirut later this week to conduct an inquiry on the bomb blast which killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)