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Supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra gather at the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) headquarters. The Thai government cabinet passed the Internal Security Act (ISA), giving the armed forces tighter controls over an upcoming rally by supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra if necessary. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Susan Longacre, a resident of Victorian Towers in Cape May walks by a pole covered in knitted fabric. Knitted cozies have been appearing around trees and lamp posts in the park since the end of February. It is still a mystery as to who may be draping the park in the knitted artwork. -- PHOTO: AP
A representative of Japan's optical maker Hoya displays a colourful single-lens-reflex (SLR) digital camera 'Pentax K-x', available in twenty different colors, at the annual Camera and Photo Imaging Showd in Yokohama. Japanese camera makers will exhibit their latest products at the trade show through March 14. -- PHOTO: AFP
South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (right), and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen walk together during a photo call before their summit at the presidential Blue House in Seoul. Mr Rasmussen is on a three-country tour of Asia, where he visited Singapore and Tokyo. -- PHOTO: AP
A Greenpeace environmental activist displays a banner reading 'Russia is not a trash' after chaining himself to a train loaded with depleted uranium in protest against the export of nuclear waste to Russia at a station in Valenton, outside Paris. Greenpeace said French nuclear group Areva and its counterpart Urenco, headquartered in Britain, have sent close to 140,000 tonnes of nuclear waste to Russia in the past 15 years. -- PHOTO: AFP
(From left), Taboo, apl.de.ap, Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson and will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas perform during a mini-concert in Times Square to help unveil Samsung's new High-Def 3D LED TV in New York. -- PHOTO: AP
A man breaks the lock to open the Yangon Division office of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Yangon. Myanmar's military government has allowed the party of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to reopen regional branch offices that have been closed since May 2003, a party spokesman said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Armoured personnel carriers stand by at the National Monument in Jakarta on March 11, 2010 ahead of US President Barack Obama's planned visit to Indonesia. -- PHOTO: AFP
Hindu holy men arriving on the banks of River Ganges for a holy dip are seen reflected in water in Allahabad, India, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Allahabad, at the confluence of the three rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, is one of Hinduism's holiest sites. -- PHOTO: AP
A woman walks past a partially demolished neighbourhood in Beijing March 11, 2010. Real estate investment in China rose 31.1 per cent in the first two months of this year, accelerating from an annual rise of 16.1 per cent in all of 2009, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A newborn male Asian Elephant suckles from its mother Porntip at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in this March 11, 2010 handout picture. Porntip gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Two men chat beside a tree growing inside a wall in Havana March 10, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Picture taken on Wednesday March 10, 2010 shows VW Golf of German carmaker Volkswagen lifted in a storage and loading tower in the so called 'Autostadt' in Wolfsburg, Germany. German car maker Volkswagen will hold its annual press conference on Thursday, March 11, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP
A butterfly is seen over a Colombian soldier's boot in Argelia municipality, east Antioquia department, Colombia on March 10, 2010. The Colombian Army seized 1.5 tonnes of R1 explosives to manufacture land mines from the ninth front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Guerrilas. -- PHOTO: AFP
A vendor waits for the customers at one of the largest vegetable wholesale markets in New Delhi March 11, 2010. The Indian government will release the weekly inflation figure on Thursday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Visitors take pictures from a tractor pulled wagon as they are toured through acres of giant tecolote ranunculus flowers at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California March 10, 2010. The flowers attract thousands of visitors each year during their six to eight week bloom period. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
In this Oct 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. New York City has agreed to pay up to US$657 million (S$915 million) to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust. -- PHOTO: AP
Indian fishermen push their boat ashore at sunrise after a night of fishing at Morjim beach in north Goa, on the Arabian Sea, southern India. -- PHOTO: AP
Mexican fisherman Pachico Mayoral's first encounter with a friendly whale set off the development of a small-scale whale-watching industry in the remote spot off Mexico's northwest Baja California peninsula, where grey whales breed and nurse their calves each year after migrating thousands of kilometers from Canada and Alaska. -- PHOTO: AFP
Janna Myers (right) hugs her mother Shirley Faulkner outside their tornado-damaged home. Myers and her husband Brian were not home at the time, but Shirley and her husband Jerry Faulkner rode the storm out in their home across the street. -- PHOTO: AP
In this file photo, an endangered Siberian tiger runs away with a chicken tossed by tourists at the Harbin Tiger Park. Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at the cash-strapped Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province in China's frigid northeast. -- PHOTO: AP
A crew member carries balloons to a site during preparations for the shooting of an advertisement promoting a Czech beer in the central Prague's Letna district. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Nick Messenger (right), stands next to Kristin Reeves, both Undergraduate Student Government Senators at The Ohio State University, during a candlelight vigil at the South end of Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, March 11, 2010, for those campus workers who were involved in Tuesday's fatal shootings. -- PHOTO: AP
In this photo taken Thursday, a vendor rests on sacks of farm products at a wholesale market in Huaibei in central China's Anhui province. China's inflation rose in February amid galloping growth and demand for scarce labor, increasing pressure on Beijing to ease off its stimulus while keeping a recovery going in the world's third-largest economy. -- PHOTO: AP
According player who goes by the name Chofo plays his instrument outside a bar in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 11, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP
Thai security personnel listen to their commander as they are deployed to provide additional security in central Bangkok early on Friday. Supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra plan a mass rally this weekend in a bid to force new elections, the latest flashpoint in the five-year political crisis. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Singers Stephane Degout (left), Rainer Trost (second left) and Veronique Gens (third left) perform on stage during a dress rehearsal of Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera 'Iphigenie en Tauride' at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on Friday. The opera is conducted by Harry Bicket and will premiere on March 14. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Chilean soldier stands guard controling that the imposed curfew be respected in Constitucion, some 350 kms south of Santiago on Thursday. A 6.9-magnitude aftershock and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile on Thursday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before Sebastan Pinera was sworn in as the new president. -- PHOTO: AFP
Singer Ronan Keating, front second left, is joined on stage by the members of Boyzone, as they pay tribute to Stephen Gateley during a solo performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Thursday. Singer and songwriter Gately died in 2009, depicted at centre in images projected behind. -- PHOTO: AP
Quinn Iten, of Kotzebue, Alaska puts booties on his his dog Beavis while his other dog, Gray, is ready to go at the Takotna, Alaska checkpoint on Thursday during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. -- PHOTO: AP
A man holds a Chile's flag on the shores of Maule river in Constitucion, south of Santiago, on Thursday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
