A car passes by a defaced giant statue showing the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, second right, and ousted President Hosni Mubarak, left, in 6th of October city, Egypt. (AP)

A man uses a inner tube as he negotiates a chest-deep flood water in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. (AP)

Indian Muslims break their fast on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. (AFP)

Paratroopers march across the Red Square while celebrating a Russian Paratroopers' Day in Moscow, Russia, with St. Basil's cathedral in background. Russian Paratroopers' Forces celebrate the 81th anniversary of their creation. (AP)

A former paratrooper lays flowers at a monument commemorating the victims of the Afghanistan conflict in the capital Minsk, Belarus. (Reuters)

A visitor is reflected in a mirror as she looks at the interior of Rundale Palace, Latvia. Rundale Palace was built by Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli between 1736 and 1740 as a summer residence for Duke Ernst Johann of Courland. (Reuters)

Greylag Geese take flight at the Central Zoo in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Greylag goose is the ancestor of domesticated geese in Europe and North America. (AFP)