A book is taken out of a shelf on the first day of the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP)

A woman goes to throw garbage on to a pile in Athens, Greece. Mounds of garbage lie uncollected on Athens streets as municipal workers blockade landfill sites. (AP)

Comedian, actor and political prisoner Zagana, who was released from Myitkyina prison in northern Burma, smiles at the Rangoon domestic airport. (Reuters)

A man transports dogs on a raft made of inner tube during an evacuation after floods hit his village in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand. (AP)

A dead cormorant soaked in oil from the grounded Liberian-flagged container ship 'Rena' lies on Papamoa Beach near Tauranga, New Zealand. Up to 70 containers of the ship fell into rough seas and a black tide of oil washed up on beaches. (AFP)

Anti-Gadhafi fighters return fire during clashes with Gaddafi forces in Sirte, Libya. (Reuters)

Masooma, a three-year-old Pashtun girl, sits on a log at a timber yard in Quetta, Pakistan. (Reuters)