Wednesday’s Pictures in the News begins in Germany, where protesters are splattered in paint in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt where police tried to clear their encampment and were attacked with pain bombs.

In France, Bill Murray is playful with the  paparazzi at the Cannes Film Festival; actress Charlize Theron poses with a fan during an appearance for the film “Snow White and the Huntsman” in Berlin; and confetti lies on the ground outside Harrods department store in London as employees celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s upcoming Diamond Jubilee.

Elsewhere, Sri Lankan soldiers march during a rehearsal for a Victory Day parade in Colombo; tigers parts found in a raid on a suburban Bangkok home are displayed outside a police station; and at least 150 shanties were completely destroyed after a fire raced through a slum in Bangladesh.

July 2, 1987: Gunner’s mate Bill Allen performs maintenance on 16-inch shells stored deep within the U.S. battleship Missouri. The shells weigh 1 ton each and when fired have a range up to 23 miles, flying at three times the speed of sound.

This photo by retired Times staff photographer Joe Kennedy was published on  July 6, 1987 on the paper’s Life Style section front accompanying an article on the Missouri, sister ship to the Iowa – which will become a museum in San Pedro this year.

For more on the Iowa, check out this recent gallery: The battleship Iowa, 1942-2012.

April 14, 2012: Visitors to the Iowa in Richmond, Calif., stand next to a 16-inch shell and powder bags. The 16-inch, 50-caliber projectile high-capacity shell is 64 inches long. Such shells were used for shore bombardment, and they created  craters 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep. The Iowa and Missouri also fired an armored piercing shell. Credit: Scott Harrison / Los Angeles Times

In Tuesday’s Pictures in the News: Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers as they observe the 64th anniversary of “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” the term used to mark the events leading to Israel’s founding in 1948; North Korean soldiers attend a mass military parade in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung; outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leave the Elysee Palace after the hand-over ceremony in Paris; Refugees from South Kordofan, Sudan, await distribution of basic goods in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan. And there’s more.

Oct. 8, 1960: Actress Ginger Rogers puts a Nixon-Lodge sticker on an automobile driven by Mrs. John R. Mount. In the background talking to Mrs. Mount is actor Cesar Romero.

In a short story, the Los Angeles Times reported the next morning:

The startled woman driver stared as Edd (Kookie) Brynes filled her car’s tank with gasoline while Ginger Rogers pasted a Nixon-Lodge sticker on the bumper and Cesar Romero handed her a Republican campaign button.

Her reaction was echoed by hundreds of Los Angeles motorists whose cars were literally serviced by the stars at a score of Sunset Strip service stations yesterday afternoon.

The stars — personalities like Irene Dunne, Mary Pickford, Laraine Day, Dick Powell, John Payne and others — were waging a bumper sticker drive for the Nixon-Lodge campaign.

They were some of the 400 GOP volunteers who manned a caravan of convertibles along Sunset Blvd. in a revival of the women’s motorcade that boosted President Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952 and 1956.

The bumper sticker photo was published in the Oct. 9, 1960, edition of the Los Angeles Times. The image below appeared in the Sept. 19, 1971, edition of the L.A. Times.

President Richard Nixon takes a break from his official duties to chat and have coffee with actress Ginger Rogers in his executive office at the White House. Credit: Associated Press

[UPDATED May 15, 2012] – Los Angeles Kings don’t miss a trick in rolling to 2-0 series lead. Jeff Carter’s first playoff hat trick helps Kings continue incredible run with 4-0 win in Phoenix, making them 10-1 in playoffs, 7-0 on road. As Kings stay hot, Coyotes melt down, taking cheap shots. Read story

The Kings won the opener of the Western Conference finals, beating the Phoenix Coyotes, 4-2, at Jobing.com Arena, giving them six consecutive road playoff wins and leaving them three wins away from a spot in the Stanley Cup finals. Read story

The Coyotes, who passed the Kings for the Pacific Division title in the final days of the regular season, are built much like the Kings. Both rely on superb goaltending, a defense that balances mobility and muscle, and hardworking forwards who are conscientious at both ends of the ice. Coyotes Coach Dave Tippett was a Kings assistant coach from 1999 to 2002 and is still well-regarded for his class and his genius with the power-play unit.

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Monday’s Pictures in the News begins in England, where an animatronic Baryonyx dinosaur arrives at the Bristol Zoo Gardens. Twelve animatronic dinosaurs will form part of the zoo’s summer exhibition “DinoZoo,” which opens later this month.

In Madrid, “indignants” have called for another gathering to mark the first 15-M movement anniversary. Spain is suffering from an unemployment rate of 24% in the first quarter of 2012.

Indonesian soldiers recover bodies at the crash site of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 in Mount Salak in West Java province.  Search teams found an emergency transmitter from the Sukhoi jet that slammed into a dormant volcano in Indonesia but said they have yet to locate the flight recorders that could explain the deadly crash.

Elsewhere, former Taliban militants surrender arms under a U.S.-backed Afghan government amnesty program in Herat; Israeli right-wing protesters hold their national flags in front of Tel Aviv University to protest against a “Nakba Day” ceremony organized by Arab Israelis and left-wing students; and Palestinian boys play soccer outside their homes at the refugee camp of al-Fawar in the West Bank town of Hebron.

Add stops in China, Bangladesh, Lebanon and India to round out the report.

The battleship Iowa, a storied vessel that languished for years in the U.S. Navy’s mothball fleet, is about to start its final journey, from the San Francisco Bay to its permanent home as a museum in the Port of Los Angeles.

Next Sunday, four tugboats will guide the Iowa, among the biggest U.S. battleships ever built, under the Golden Gate Bridge and out of the San Francisco Bay. One of them, the 7,200-horsepower Warrior, will chug down the coast with the massive ship in tow, taking three or four days to reach Southern California.

Read the full story by Times staff writer Steve Chawkins

Launched in 1942, commissioned in 1943, the battleship Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of a class of four battleships – the largest and last big gun vessels built by the United States. Today, 70 years later, the ship will soon be permanently docked at San Pedro.

In a Sept. 7, 2011, story, Times staff writer Steve Chawkins reported:

The mothballed, mighty Iowa, one of the world’s best-known and most powerful battleships, will be permanently berthed as a tourist attraction in Los Angeles on the San Pedro waterfront, Navy officials announced Tuesday.

The World War II-vintage “Big Stick” could open to visitors as soon as next summer, according to supporters of the years-long effort to bring the ship to a berth at the Port of Los Angeles.

Organizers of the Iowa effort say the ship will create 100 on-board jobs and boost the local economy by about $250 million over 10 years. Looking south to the commercial success of the retired aircraft carrier Midway in San Diego, they anticipate the historic battleship hosting 450,000 visitors a year.

Nearly three football fields long and more than 14 stories high, the Iowa is one of the biggest warships ever built. On its last trip to San Francisco, sailors had to trim its mast by 13 feet to fit under the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Iowa’s record is storied. During World War II, it carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Casablanca en route to a crucial 1943 meeting in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. It is the only U.S. Navy battleship with a bathtub — an amenity installed for Roosevelt, along with an elevator to shuttle him between decks.

The Iowa also was the setting for one of the Navy’s biggest peacetime accidents — a 1989 explosion that killed 47 crew members. The Navy blamed the blast on a sailor allegedly distraught over a failed relationship with another man, but later called it an accident and apologized to the sailor’s family.

The Pacific Battleship Center now owns the ship. After undergoing an overhaul at Richmond, the Iowa will be towed to Southern California.

This gallery consists of photos from the U.S. Navy and Associated Press archives.

Read more by Times staff writer Steve Chawkins

As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.

The result was “Horst’s army” of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film and stern orders to “come back with good pictures.”

He and his editors chose the best and put together a steady flow of telling photos — South Vietnam’s soldiers fighting and its civilians struggling to survive amid the maelstrom.

Faas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the AP, died Thursday in Munich, said his daughter, Clare Faas. He was 79.

–Associated Press

Read the full story “Horst Faas dies at 79; Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer.”

Nancy Berry was a highly successful music industry executive who only began making photographs six years ago. Completely self-taught, she has turned her sense of style and exploration into a visual journey of experimentation. The body of work presented for this one-day show at the Pacific Design Center was created with natural light and her creative sense — and all in camera, rather than by manipulation after the image is made. The craziest process that Berry applies is what makes me screech with delight. By her sheer confidence and boldness, she actually destroys whatever element she has utilized to create the lighting effects. I don’t know if I could do such a thing.

The pieces are beautiful and whimsical. And some are haunting while being beautiful and whimsical.

Caption: Have You Seen the Saucers, 2012 by Nancy Berry