Iraqi prisoners show their ink-stained fingers after voting at a prison in Karbala. Voting began in the general election with security forces, the sick and prisoners casting their ballots ahead of polling day at the weekend [AFP]
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Thousands of US, Nato and Afghan troops have been conducting a two-week-long anti-Taliban offensive in Helmand province, Afghanistan [AFP]
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Indian Sikh devotees spray perfume on the Palki Sahib which carries The Guru Garnth Sahib (Holy Book of Sikhs) in a procession from the Golden Temple to Sri Akal Takhat Sahib in Amritsar [AFP]
A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile, sparking a tsunami and mulitiple aftershocks, which devastated towns and cities in the coastal country [AFP]
Chinese ethnic minority delegates pose for photographers after arriving for the opening session of the nine-day National Peoples Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing [AFP]
A view of the front of the destroyed Sacre-Coeur Church in Haiti, after the earthquake killed more than 222,000 people and left 1.3 million people homeless in and around the capital Port-au-Prince [AFP]
Indian Air Force Suryakiran jets participate in the Vayu Shakti 2010 air show at Chandan Fire Range, Rajasthan state [AFP]
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A man walks across the Brooklyn Bridge into New York after the region was hit with a snow storm [AFP]
Two eight-foot Oscar statues are unloaded from a truck in front of the New York Palace Hotel in New York, as the city plans celebrations that will coincide with the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday [AFP]
Nepalese youth dunk each other into coloured water during celebrations marking the Hindu springtime festival of Holi, which is the festival of colours that signals the onset of the Spring season [AFP]
Members of the Christian Japanese movement, the Makuya, pray at the holiest site of Judaism, the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem [AFP]
