Egyptians pray over the coffin of Sammy Joseph, the driver of a tourist bus filled with South Korean sightseers in the Sinai Peninsula which exploded on Sunday, killing him and three others in Taba, during his funeral in Cairo. The explosion killed at least four people and raised fears that Islamic militants have renewed a bloody campaign to wreck Egypt’s tourism industry. Photo: AP
People celebrate in Hyderabad by lighting fire crackers after the Lok Sabha passed the bill for the creation of the new ‘Telangana’ state. The 29th state will be carved out of Andhra Pradesh. Photo: AP
Lien Chan, at left, the Taiwanese Nationalist Party's honorary chairman and a former premier and vice president of Taiwan shakes hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping, right during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State guest house in Beijing, China. Lien's visit follows the first-ever high-level talks last week between officials of the two governments since China and Taiwan split during civil war in 1949. Though the discussions achieved no concrete result, they marked a concession in Beijing's usual refusal to recognize the authority of the government in Taipei. Photo: AP
Monuments to Kiev's founders burn as anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicentre of the country's current unrest. Thousands of police armed with stun grenades and water cannons attacked the large opposition camp in Ukraine's capital that has been the center of nearly three months of anti-government protests after at least nine people were killed in street clashes. Photo: AP
Ukrainian feminist group Femen leader Inna Shevchenko, answers questions from reporters during an interview with the Associated Press in a Paris suburb. Nine activists from the topless women’s protest movement Femen will face court in February over charges that they damaged Notre Dame cathedral during a demonstration last year. Photo: AP
Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, right, speaks as the new chief of the armed forces Gen. Juan Pablo Rodriguez looks on during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia. Pinzon named Rodrigues for the post after firing former chief Gen. Leonardo Barrero for verbally maligning prosecutors' investigations into the extrajudicial killings that have brought Colombia international reproach. Photo: AP