Visitors admire a creation by Chinese artist Zhang Enli during the Kochi-Muziris Biennale art exhibition in the southern Indian city of Kochi. (Reuters)

Turkish soldiers block protesters as they try to march to a court house near Istanbul. Thousands of Turkish secularists protested Thursday against the trial of nearly 300 people charged with attempting to overthrow Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted government. (Reuters)

Indian firefighters attempt to control a fire that broke out at an electronics market in the old quarter of New Delhi. (AFP)

Chinese paramilitary policemen carry wreaths as they march during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nanjing Massacre at the Nanjing Massacre Museum, Jiangsu province. China says that during the Nanjing massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in what was then the national capital. (Reuters)

French President Francois Hollande arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Belgium. (AP)

Blind athletes wait near the net to cheer their participating teammates during a discus throw event of the 18th National Sports Meet for the Blind in New Delhi, India. (AP)

A Pakistani street performer walks with his trained monkey and goat during heavy rain in Lahore. (AFP)

The Mai flower, as it is called in Vietnam, is a representation of spring. (Chuong Tran)

A man wearing a Santa Claus costume performs in downtown Rome, Italy. (Reuters)

Polar bear cub Lomonosov (L) plays with his mother Uslada in Leningrad Zoo in St Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters)