A woman suffering from leprosy waits for alms on a roadside on anti-leprosy day in Siliguri, India

(Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

Dancers warm up during the fourth day of the international young dancers competition Grand Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland

(Valentin Flauraud/Reuters)

Steel workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. France’s trade unions called public and private sector workers out on strike to demand more action from government and companies to protect jobs and salaries

(Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

Ah Meng Junior, a Bornean female orang-utan born at Singapore Zoo last month, is carried by her mother Anita. The national zoo is involved in the conservation of wildlife reserves

(Wong Maye-E/AP)

A life-like 16ft high sculpture of an iceberg featuring a stranded polar bear and its cub on the Thames in London. The sculpture was intended to raise awareness of the melting ice caps and mark the launch of the new Natural History TV channel Eden

(Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty)

Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun god on Mauni Amavasya, or new moon day, the third and most auspicious date of bathing during the annual month-long Hindu religious festival of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India

(Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech at an international symposium on integration in Berlin

(Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)

The moon passes between the sun and the earth during a solar eclipse as seen from Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

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The Space Needle in Seattle viewed through water droplets on glass

(Seattle Post-Intelligencer/AP)

A Palestinian man cycles past the rubble of houses destroyed in the Israeli military offensive in east Jebaliya, Gaza. The Israeli military says that one soldier was killed and three wounded in a bomb attack on the Gaza-Israel border

(Kevin Frayer/AP)

Fabio Capello, the England coach, watches Danah Matthews perform during a TV show in Milan

(Mediaset Press Office/Reuters)

Protesters escape a hail of tear gas during clashes in Sanabis village on the outskirts of Manama in Bahrain. Riots took place after members of the HAQ Movement for Liberty and Democracy were arrested for subversion

(Mazen Mahdi/EPA)