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World
Mar 10, 2010

News in pictures on Wednesday



Exiled Tibetans pray in memory of the victims at the 51st anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in Dharamsla. The Dalai Lama said that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in systematic repression as part of a plan to "annihilate Buddhism" there. -- PHOTO: AP




Chinese residents rush to collect their free pots of plants handed out by the municipal government which donated some 220,000 plants to beautify the city in Wuhan. China informed the UN of voluntary actions it has planned to take to curb the carbon intensity of its economy. -- PHOTO: AFP




Villagers collect drinking water from a well as drought in five provinces and regions in the southwest affected a total of 4.1 million hectares of crops. Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing produce 16 per cent of the country's total grain output, state media reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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A man walks at the Changdeokgung Palace in Seoul after heavy snow across the country. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A young girl carries plastic jugs to fill up with water at the Shegerab refugee camp in the Kassala State, eastern Sudan. Fleeing a military regime, thousands of young Eritreans stream into neighbouring east Sudan, the first stage of their long migration to Europe, Israel. -- PHOTO: AFP




Earthquake survivors sit as fumigation smoke hangs in the air at a makeshift camp in downtown Port-au-Prince. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan 12 left more than a million people living in tent cities. -- PHOTO: AP

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Rubble of a collapsed cemetery covers coffins in Chile. People look for the coffins containing the remains of their relatives among the rubble of a collapsed cemetery in Penco, Chile. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile last Feb 27. -- PHOTO: AP




Men pray next to a candlelight vigil for the three people who died at the Red Road flats in Glasgow. A father, mother and son of Russian origin leapt from 15th floor of a tower block on Sunday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




People are silhouetted against the skyline as they fly a kite during sunset in Berlin. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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Peggy, a guinea pig, poses for a picture after having its hair brushed and styled at PetZoo, a beauty parlour for pets in Cuenca, Ecuador. -- PHOTO: AP




Steam rises from the head of Switzerland's Didier Cuche after he finished training for an alpine ski Men's World Cup Downhill, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. -- PHOTO: AP




Darumas (talismans of good luck), created by Japanese artist Takeshi Kitano, presented at the Cartier Foundation in Paris. The film director inaugurated a special exhibition untitled 'Gosse de peintre' (Painter's child) which runs from March 11, 2010. The exhibition shows paintings, videos, objects, a glimpse into the world of Kitano who is also actor, painter, writer. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A member of the group called 'Los Pintados' (Painted Ones) covered in oil and ash gestures while parading with his friends through the village of San Nicolas de los Ranchos. The 'Pintados' cover themselves in oil and ash and wear masks to ward of evil spirits during this Lent time festival which dates back to the 17th century. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Brasilia, in favour of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki - two Japanese activists who have denounced a large-scale corruption scheme between the government and the whaling industry, and have been in jail for theft and trespass for almost two years now, in Japan. -- PHOTO: AFP




Wind turbines cover the landscape on a government sponsored wind farm in La Rumorosa, Mexico. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the wind farm in northern Mexico early on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP




View of the iced boardwalk in Grandson at the lake of Neuchatel, Switzerland. -- PHOTO: AP