Egyptians carry an obelisk with the names of people, who died during the 18-day uprising a year ago in Tahrir Square, to mark the first anniversary of the popular uprising that unseated President Hosni Mubarak for in Cairo. (AP)

Greeks struggle as they wait to receive free onions and other vegetables offered by farmers in Syntagma Square. Farmers from the Thebes and Viotia district north of Athens handed out tons of agricultural products to protest media reports that waste from local industries has polluted their crops with hexavalent chromium, making it dangerous for consumption. (Reuters)

A prisoner on a hunger strike has his mouth sewn with a wire at a prison in Bishkek. More than 1,000 inmates throughout Kyrgyzstan have taken part in protests in what local media reported as a response to authorities cutting privileges for criminal offenders with prominence. (Reuters)

An old MK II model Jaguar car is on display, hanging from the outer wall of a parking lot building, as part of its decoration, in Bordeaux, eastern France. (AFP)

A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. (Reuters/NASA)

The aurora borealis near the city of Tromsoe in northern Norway (Reuters)

An African guineafowl watches colorful in the sun at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (AP)