Sri Lankan Buddhists pray at the Kelaniya Temple in Kelaniya to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the religion's arrival from India to the island nation. Over 70 per cent of Sri Lanka's population practices Buddhism.-AFP Photo.
In this photo taken on Saturday, May 30, 2009, models present a creation by the students of Abids Lakhotia Institute of Art and Design during a fashion show in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, May 30, 2009. – AP Photo
Doctor James E Stein (C), a general pediatric surgeon from the US, smiles beside Jamuna and Ganga, 40-year-old conjoined twins at Mercy Hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. It is medically possible to separate the rarest conjoined twins, but they are happy with their status and any operation to separate them would cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars, Stein said.-Reuters Photo.
Bangladeshi villagers rebuild an embankment at Protap Nagar in Shatkhira, about 176 kilometers southwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded out of their homes by deadly Cyclone Aila crowded government shelters in eastern India and Bangladesh on Friday, with officials saying the risk of disease outbreaks was growing. –AP
Indian tea garden labourers carry tea leaves back to a factory as they walk through The Kiranchandra Tea Gardens some 30 kms from Siliguri. Darjeeling tea, a black tea globally known for its flavour and high quality, is becoming popular in China, which is a predominantly green tea market.-AFP Photo.
Indian tea garden labourers carry tea leaves back to a factory as they walk through The Kiranchandra Tea Gardens some 30 kms from Siliguri. Darjeeling tea, a black tea globally known for its flavour and high quality, is becoming popular in China, which is a predominantly green tea market.-AFP Photo.
A displaced boy jumps into a canal next to his tent at the Chota Lahore refugee camp, at Swabi, in northwest Pakistan, Saturday, May 30, 2009. The Taliban have fled the Pakistani army's advance on the main town in the Swat Valley, delivering the military a strategic prize in its offensive against militants in the country's northwest, commanders said Saturday. About 3 million people have fled the fighting in Swat, and the exodus has raised fears of a humanitarian crisis. – AP
A girl uses a hand-pump to fill drinking water on the outskirts of Jammu. India's annual monsoon rains are expected to remain stagnant for up to five days, the weather department said on its website on Friday afternoon. – Reuters
Sohni, a male infant, lies next to his mother as she sells nuts and dried fruit on a street in Karachi Reuters/Athar Hussain
Sohni, a male infant, lies next to his mother as she sells nuts and dried fruit on a street in Karachi Reuters/Athar Hussain
A Thai zoo official feeds a pangolin (scaly anteater) with milk at the Dusit zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. The animal was handed over to the zoo when villagers found it abandoned on the road on the outskirts of Bangkok.
Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP
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