1A Tunisian woman holds her national flag as she takes part in a demonstration by unemployed graduates in Tunis to demand jobs and call for the resignation of the ruling government led by the Islamist Ennahda party. (AFP)
1A Palestinian protester walks away from a water canon used by Israeli troops to disperse protesters during a weekly demonstration against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah. (AP)
1A site coordinator walks past a Luminarium installation by British designer Alan Parkinson during the British Arts Festival in Wuhan, China. (Reuters)
1A gust of wind blows as Pope Benedict XVI speaks during his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Reuters)
1Smoke from a wildfire engulfs a hillside next to a house in Pedralba near Valencia, Spain. (Reuters)
1A Russian policeman stands as supporters of the Russian Communist Party are reflected in windows during a rally against rising utility bills in Moscow. (AFP)
1Nobel Prize laureates Eric Maskin, Rich Roberts and Dudley Herschbach lean over behind a mini Eiffel Tower during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (AP)
1A Brazilian police sharp-shooter secures a position atop a school building in front of the Rocinha shantytown, where Rio de Janeiro’s government started the installation of the Pacifier Police Unit project. Brazilian authorities stepped up a pacification drive in Rio’s largest shantytown, nearly doubling the police presence in a hillside favela overlooking the city’s most famous beaches. (AFP)
1White prayer ribbons festoon a cedar tree on a mountainside in the Altai Republic, Russia. Following shamanistic beliefs of the White Faith, travelers tie white ribbons to tree branches for good luck. (Vera Undritz/VOA)
