India's holiest river, the Ganges, is scribbled with light from floating oil lamps during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Haridwar. Hindus near death often bathe in the river; some are later cremated beside it and have their ashes scattered on its waters.

Jean Bertrand, 19, kicks a soccer ball during a physical therapy session with Handicap International on the grounds of the new Doctors Without Borders hospital in Sarthe, Haiti.

Narain Karthikeyan of India waits by his car before the start of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia Karthikeyan is India's first NASCAR driver and driving in his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

Captain Judith Gallagher of 11 EOD (Explosive Ordnance Division) Regiment displays an anti-IED robot known as the 'Dragon Runner' during a photocall on military technologies in London

A robot named "Robovie-II", developed by Japanese robotics research institution ATR, moves around a grocery store during a shopping-assist experiment in Kyoto, western Japan

Deepika Padukone

A laborer works on the top of an iron scaffolding next to a giant advertisement board in Jakarta

Workers attend a production line at a shoe factory in Tangerang

Young Ratna studies a map she found amongst the rubbish, while her brother, Basir separates the plastic he has collected at the Bantar Gebang landfill site, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

housands of motorists sit stuck in the morning gridlock after a group of protesters blocked one of Jakarta's main roads

Earthquake in Chile

Holi 2010