Bangladesh people rally to demand death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Dhaka
In this photo made using a slow camera shutter, pro government activists and other Bangladeshi people gather to protest as they demand the death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. The protesters urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to review a verdict sentencing a senior leader of Bangladesh’s […]
Children sit by life materials saved from fire in a Chinese village that gutted 92 homes
Children sit by life materials saved from a scene of fire in Heiduo Village of Diebu County in northwest China’s Gansu Province, Feb. 7, 2013. The fire broke out in Heiduo Village around 8 p.m. and was put out Thursday morning, leaving destruction of 92 homes and no casualties. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Liu Wenchao>
A Syrian woman sit on the ruins of her house destroyed by gov’t airstrike
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, a Syrian woman sits on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Abdullah al-Yassin>
Pakistani women collect canola flowers from a field near Islamabad
Pakistani women collect canola flowers from a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Muhammed Muheisen>
People jampack a supermarket in Huaibei City to prepare for coming Spring Festival
People select goods at a supermarket in Huaibei City, east China’s Anhui Province, Feb. 7, 2013, to prepare for the coming Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 10 this year. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Wang Wen> A girl selects toys at a supermarket in Sanhe City, north China’s Hebei Province, Feb. 7, 2013, to prepare for the coming Spring […]
A Chinese leader encourages cast, crew of the CCTV’s Spring Festival gala show
Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, poses for a group picture with cast and crew of the 2013 China Central Television (CCTV)’s Spring Festival gala show during a visit to the rehearsal venue in […]
An Iranian woman prays at grave of her husband killed during Islamic Revolution
An Iranian woman, right, decorates the grave of her son, who was killed during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, as she is assisted by her daughter, in Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday Feb. 7, 2013, during a ceremony commemorating the34th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution which led to the ouster of the pro-U.S. Pahlavi dynasty […]
Egyptian FM, OIC secretary general speak in press conference after the OIC summit in Cairo
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr (L) and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu attend a press conference after the closing of the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Feb. 7, 2013. The two-day meeting closed Thursday. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Li Muzi>
Sochi Olympics countdown clock installed outside Kremlin in Moscow
A countdown clock for the 2014 Sochi Olympics is installed outside the Kremlin in Manezh Square, with Kremlin’s Spassky Tower at right in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Mikhail Metzel>
Exile Tibetan monks attend a candlelit vigil to enhance solidarity with those in home country
Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks walk past a banner of photos of Tibetan protesters as they participate in a candlelit vigil organized by the Tibetan parliament-in-exile in Dharmsala, India, to show solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Ashwini Bhatia>
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