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Apr 14, 2010

News in pictures on Wednesday



A girl attends a rally to celebrate the Bengali new year in Dhaka. New Year's festivities are closely linked with rural life in Bengal, and this is one rural festival that has become enormously big in the cities, especially in Dhaka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Mourners carry the coffin of Sheik Ghazi Jabouri, killed after morning prayers, during his funeral march in Baghdad. A police official said Sheik Ghazi Jabouri was sprayed with bullets outside the al-Rahman mosque in the primarily Sunni-neighborhood of Azamiyah in north Baghdad early on Wednesday morning. -- PHOTO: AP




A South Korean soldier stands guard at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas while a group of media people visit during a media tour organised by the US Forces Korea. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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A man browses through adult films at a shop in Taipei. Eight Japanese pornographic film producers are demanding compensation from Taiwanese cable and telecom companies they say are using their work without authorisation, a lawyer representing the producers said. -- PHOTO: AP




Mourners kneel down in front of the coffins containing the remains of the presidential couple lying in state at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers on a slow-moving hearse and joined an enormous viewing line at the Presidential Palace to pay their respects to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife as their bodies lay in state. -- PHOTO: AP




An Indian Hindu devotee adjusts a metal rod pierced through his tongue during the ritual of Shiva Gajan. Devotees believe that by enduring the pain, Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, will grant their prayers. Thousands took part in the month-long festival which culminates with the worship of Shiva on the auspicious day of Chaitra Sankranti, the last day of the Bengali calendar year. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A plain-clothes policeman detains an opposition activist demanding for freedom of speech during a rally in central Baku, Azerbaijan. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




An anti-government 'red shirt' demonstrator sits on top of an abandoned armoured vehicle behind a picture depicting Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the site of fierce street battles with Thai security forces in central Bangkok. Saturday's clashes, which killed 21 people and wounded hundreds, were not only Thailand's worst riots in 18 years, but may also have taken the country closer to the worst-case scenario in its five-year-old crisis: a fissure in the military along social and political fault lines dividing the country. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




An anti-government 'red shirt' protester sleeps in front of a closed down shopping centre in the main shopping district in Bangkok. Thailand's opposition called off a march on an army base on Wednesday as the government vowed to hunt down 'terrorists' it blames for the Southeast Asian country's worst violence in 18 years. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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The nearly completed Marina Bay Sands integrated casino resort is pictured at sunrise from the Merlion Park in Singapore. Singapore's economy has rebounded from its worst ever recession last year, and the government revised upwards its target for gross domestic product growth to between 7.0-9.0 per cent. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki squeezes a water bubble out of her beverage container, showing her refracted image on the middeck of space shuttle Discovery, in this image provided by NASA and taken April 12, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A man walks in front of a mural in Los Angeles April 13, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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An Indian potter arranges newly-made earthen pots for drying in Allahabad on April 13, 2010. The demand for earthenware pots is very high in summer when they are used to store cool water for drinking. -- PHOTO: AFP




Sobhieh Hijazi holds a framed picture of her brother who has went missing during the Lebanese Civil War during the opening of jointly-held exhibitions, titled 'Missing' and 'In a Sea of Oblivion', held in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the start of the war, which ended in 1990, in Beirut City Center April 13, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Mexican matador Arturo Macias is gored by a bull during a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville April 13, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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A bookcase is displayed the day before the opening of the Milan International Furniture Expo, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The Milan international furniture fair opens Wednesday April 13 and runs until April 19. -- PHOTO: AP




A Hindu holy man applies mud on his body on the banks of river Ganges during the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar on April 13, 2010. The Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious festival, which is held every three years and rotates among four Indian cities, attracts huge crowds of devotees who believe a dip in the river cleanses them of sin and frees them from the cycle of life and rebirth. -- PHOTO: AFP