Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva reacts after breaking the world record with 5.04 meters during the pole vault event at the Monaco Grand Prix international athletics meeting in Monaco. (Claude Paris / Associated Press)
Serbian ultra-nationalists hold posters showing Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, in downtown Belgrade. Thousands of extremist Serbs poured into the center of Belgrade to protest the government’s plan to extradite ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. (Srdjan Ilic / Associated Press)
Hindu protesters shout slogans as they burn tires in Jammu, India. The region continued to witness protest rallies by Hindu activists against a recent government decision to cancel a land transfer to a Hindu shrine. (Channi Anand / Associated Press)
Nepalese students hurl stones at armed police during clashes after a protest in Kathmandu. Protesters burned tires and government vehicles during the protest and demanded that Nepal’s Vice President, Parmananda Jhais, who spoke in Hindi at his swearing-in ceremony, apologize for not using the official language of the Nepalese government. (Narendra Shrestha / EPA)
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An Indian Bomb Disposal Squad officer collects a defused bomb in Surat. Indian police discovered at least seven bombs and were searching for others in the town in western Gujarat where a series of blasts killed dozens of people. (AFP / Getty Images)
Hindu hardliners participate in a silent rally against terrorism in Ahmadabad, India. Police launched a massive manhunt in India’s financial capital believing that the serial blasts that rocked the western Indian city of Ahmadabad over the weekend were hatched in a Mumbai suburb. (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)
A Muslim man participates in a silent rally against terrorism organized by Hindu groups in Ahmadabad, India. (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)
A South Korean special warfare command’s soldier aims his K-1A submachine gun during a sea infiltration drill in Boryeong, South Korea. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)
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Tibetan Buddhist monks take part in an “Indefinite Fast for Tibet -- Without Food and Water” during a protest in New Delhi. The Tibetan Youth Congress organized an indefinite fast as part of the Tibetan People’s Mass Movement to protest against the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 60 years of Chinese rule in their homeland. (Raveendran / Getty Images)
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims perform a religious ceremony called “Latmiyah” at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim Shrine in northern Baghdad. Thousands of pilgrims walked through Baghdad’s heavily policed streets for a major Shiite religious ceremony to mourn the death of the imam 12 centuries ago. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP/Getty Images)
Indian laborers work as the sun sets behind monsoon clouds on Rajpath avenue in New Delhi. (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP/Getty Images)
A man walks at the Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin. (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)