Today in Pictures: April 18, 2012.

Kuwaiti firemen from the national guard, the army and the oil sector joined efforts to contain a massive fire in a dump of more than five million used tires in Kuwait city, April 17, 2012. A number of Members of Parliament described the fire as an "environmental catastrophe" and vowed to demand a debate on the issue in a special parliamentary session. (Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)