Nonadanga slum dwellers, along with their children, take part in a dharna demanding their rehabilitation in Kolkata on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Activists of Shiv Sena and Dogra Front burning a refrigerator and shouting slogans during a protest against the water and electricity shortage in Jammu on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) State President Vashist Narayan Singh at the party office in Patna on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Fire-men trying to douse a fire that broke out at a factory in Gurgaon on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
President Pratibha Patil presents Ganga Sharan Singh Award (2009) to Prof. Chamanlal Sapru during 'Hindi Sevi Samman Yojna' awards function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
President Pratibha Patil presents Ganga Sharan Singh Award (2009) to Film Director Madhur Bhandarkar during 'Hindi Sevi Samman Yojna' awards function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
The National Bird Peacock at a tree branch at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
President Pratibha Patil and Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal with awardees during 'Hindi Sevi Samman Yojna' awards function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Models at the launch of the Enigma Auto's e-bikes in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir V Putin shake hands at a bilateral meeting during the G-20 Summit at Los Cabos, Mexico on Tuesday. Photo: PTI
Ai Weiwei, second from left, stopped by a plain clothes policeman while he argues with another policeman, foreground, outside his home in Beijing Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Chinese police on Wednesday barred Ai from attending the first hearing of a lawsuit brought by his company against Beijing tax authorities and blocked reporters from filming at the courthouse, part of an intimidation campaign aimed at silencing the prominent artist and outspoken government critic. Photo: AP
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's Buddhist spiritual leader, gestures to a Tibetan Choir before he gave a public talk entitled 'Real Change Happens in the Heart'. A Question and Answer session followed the conclusion of his speech, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: AP
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, listens to Chris Patten, the Oxford University Chancellor, as she arrives at Oxford University in Oxford, England, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Suu Kyi, who is on her first overseas trip since 1988, has a long association with Britain, where she studied and lived for many years in Oxford with her late husband, Michael Aris, and their two sons. but she has not visited for 24 years. Many of those years were spent under house arrest in Myanmar. On Wednesday, Oxford University will present her with an honorary degree that it awarded in 1993 but that she was not free to collect. Photo: AP
Members of the next expedition to the International Space Station, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams listens to questions from the media before the final preflight practical examination in a mock-up of a Soyuz TMA space craft at Russian Space Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. The next crew scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrom on a Russian made Soyuz TMA-05M space craft on July 15 are American, Russian and Japanese. Photo: AP
Members of the next expedition to the International Space Station, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, center, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, left, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, right, sit together as they listen to questions from the media before their final preflight practical examination in a mock-up of a Soyuz TMA space craft at Russian Space Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Photo: PTI
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, meets with old friends at a reception in Oxford, England, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Suu Kyi, who is on her first overseas trip since 1988, has a long association with Britain, where she studied and lived for many years in Oxford with her late husband, Michael Aris, and their two sons but she has not visited for 24 years. Many of those years were spent under house arrest in Myanmar. On Wednesday, Oxford University will present her with an honorary degree that it awarded in 1993 but that she was not free to collect. Photo: AP
Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi supporters gather in Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. The Brotherhood has called for mass demonstrations in Cairo and elsewhere on Tuesday to protest the interim charter issued by the military as well as a court ruling last week that dissolved parliament, where the Brotherhood controlled nearly half the seats. Already, several thousand protesters have gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the uprising that toppled Mubarak 16 months ago. Photo: AP
Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, sings his national anthem as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands beside him during a welcome ceremony at the airport in El Alto, Bolivia, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Ahmadinejad, wearing an indigenous Aymara purse called "Chuspa" that was given to him as a gift, is on a one-day visit to Bolivia. Photo: AP
Members of the next expedition to the International Space Station, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, left, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, center, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide stand together before their final preflight practical examination in a mock-up of the Zvezda and Zarya training module in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: PTI
A race goer poses as she arrives on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting in Ascot, England, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: PTI
Bollywood actress Preity Zinta with French actress Isabelle Adjani at an event organised by the French Embassy in Mumbai on Tuesday evening. Photo: PTI
Bollywood actors Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra at an event to promote her film 'Teri Meri Kahaani' in Mumbai on Tuesday evening. Photo: PTI
Artists from African continent perform during the Africa festival in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: PTI
Artists from African continent perform during the Africa festival in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: PTI
England's Wayne Rooney, right, and Ukraine's Denys Garmash challenge for the ball during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group D match between England and Ukraine in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: AP
Team captain Cristiano Ronaldo, left, and Fabio Coentrao walk to a training session of Portugal, prior to the Euro 2012 soccer quarterfinal match between Portugal and the Czech Republic, in Opalenica, Poland, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Photo: AP
Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores by France's Philippe Mexes during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group D match between Sweden and France in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: AP
Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right, tries to get the ball in front of France's Franck Ribery during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group D match between Sweden and France in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: AP
England's John Terry clears the ball away from his goal during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group D match between England and Ukraine in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Photo: AP
People make a human banner that spells out in Portuguese 'Rivers for life' on Flamengo beach, organized by Amazon Watch, on the sidelines of the Rio+20, or UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. The activists are calling attention to threats posed to rivers, forests and livelihoods by large hydroelectric dams, like the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant being constructed in Brazil's Amazon. Photo: AP




