Volunteers cook free meals to be given out at the Hotel de Ville ( city hall)  in Paris, France. To raise awareness about food wastage, some 5,000 meals from produce were handed out, that otherwise would have been thrown away, local media reported. (Reuters)

Pakistani children pray for the recovery of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, during a candlelight vigil in Karachi. A military spokesman says Yousufzai is in ‘satisfactory’ condition but cautions that the next few days will be critical. (AP)

Bishops attend a mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI marking the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (AP)

A man carries a wreath inside the Holocaust memorial following National Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations, Bucharest, Romania. About 280,000 Romanian Jews and 11,000 Romanian Roma, or Gypsies, were deported and killed during WWII when Romania was ruled by a pro-nazi regime. (AP)

Indian Air Force Jaguar aircrafts release flares during rehearsals for Air Force Day in Hindon, on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP)

Two North Chinese leopard cubs sit on a tree as they are presented for first time to the public at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP)

Relatives of victims of a fatal ferry collision pay their respects by throwing paper money into the waters off Hong Kong. (Reuters)