US President Barack Obama (L) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) look at a reclining Buddha during a visit the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)

A man stands mesmerized in downtown Zagreb as he watches candles making the name of the Croatian town of Vukovar, lit annually to commemorate the 21st anniversary of its fall to Serb forces, one of the darkest chapters of Croatia’s 1991-1995 war. (AFP)

A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (AP)

Indian mourners gather during the funeral of Hindu hardline Shiv Sena party leader Bal Thackeray in Mumbai. (AP)

A member of the Sikh Nihang Army – traditional Sikh religious warriors – Baba ‘Jagir’ Singh, wears a turban of some 300 meters in length as he pays homage at the Sikh Shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the occasion of Martyrdom Day – Jyoti Jot Divas – of Guru Gobind Singh and Sikh warrior, Shaheed Baba Deep Singh. (AFP)

A Sierra Leone National Electoral Commission (NEC) worker stands amidst piles of tamper-evident envelopes containing election results from individual polling stations, at an NEC warehouse in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (AP)

An Indian worker from the Power Department makes adjustments to electrical power lines during preparations for the Maha Kumbh festival 2012-13 at Sangam in Allahabad. (AFP)

Cheng Pen (top) and Hao Zhang of China, perform in the Gala Exhibition event at the ISU Figure Skating Eric Bompard Trophy, Paris, France. (AP)

A man looks at jellyfish at an aquarium inside of Beijing zoo in Beijing, China. (AP)