Promoting movie 'Acid Factory'

Bollywood actress Dia Mirza looks on during a promotional event for her film 'Acid Factory' in Hyderabad. (AP)

EV-MONPAL electric personal mobility device

Japan's Honda Motor unvails its concept model the EV-MONPAL electric personal mobility device, for the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show at a press preview in Tokyo. (AFP)

Home audiovisual server 'Ryoma'

Japan's electronics giant JVC Kenwood Holdings unveils the new home audiovisual server 'Ryoma', equipped with HDD and Blu-ray recorder, in Tokyo. The system is also equipped with an Internet radio tuner to receive high quality music and moving images from a special radio station called M-Link. JVC will put the product on the market next year. (AFP)

Promoting movie 'Wake Up Sid'

Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor (R), Konkona Sen Sharma (C) and director Ayan Mukerji pose for a picture during a promotional event for their movie 'Wake Up Sid' at a shopping mall in Mumbai. (Reuters)

Toshiba's new LED lamps

A model displays new LED lamps, shaped like ordinary incandescent lamps, produced by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba in Tokyo. (AFP)

Spring/Summer 2010 women's collection

A model displays a creation as part of the Spring/Summer 2010 women's collection from Rizwan Beyg of the Pakistani New Upcoming Designers during Milan Fashion Week. (reuters)

Honda CR-Z CONCEPT 2009

Japan's Honda Motor unvails its concept vehicle the CR-Z CONCEPT 2009, a hybrid with a new sense and feel, for the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show at a press preview in Tokyo. (AFP)

Big B to host Big Boss

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan at a press conference for the upcoming TV show 'Big Boss' in New Delhi. (PTI)

Semicon semiconductor exhibition

Semiconductor facilities are on display during the first day of the three-day Semicon semiconductor exhibition at the Taipei World Trade Centre. Around 500 companies will display their latest equipments in the show. (AFP)

Munnabhai pays homage to Bapu

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt pays homage to a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the set of a television reality singing show in Mumbai. (Reuters)

Damage after quake in Samoa islands

Photo after an 8.0-magnitude quake struck in the early morning offshore shows people inspecting the damage in Pago Pago, on American Samoa. The huge earthquake churned up a giant tsunami that devastated the Samoa islands, killing at least 75 people as it tore through resorts and villages. (AFP)

Typhoon in San Pedro Laguna

A mother and her child cross floodwaters brought on by Typhoon Ketsana, known locally as Ondoy, in San Pedro Laguna, south of Manila. (Reuters)

Sensex scales 17000

Investers look at the screen outside the Bombay Stock Exchange as the sensex reaches 17,118 in Mumbai on Wednesday. (PTI)

Air India pilots call off strike

Air India spokesperson J Bhargava addresses a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday after the Air India pilots called off their strike. (PTI)

Canadian space tourist

Canadian space tourist and founder of Cirque du Soleil Guy Laliberte is seen during space suit testing prior to his blast off from a Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome in a Russian Soyuz TMA-16 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) together with Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and a US astronaut Jeff Williams. (AFP)

Chinese internet users

Chinese people use computers at an internet bar in Beijing. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said that a 'paranoid' China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic. (AFP)

Addressing media

Ajit Gulabchand, chairman and managing director of Hindustan Construction (HCC) with Prof Nawal K Prinja, Nuclear Technical Director, AMEC, at a press conference in New Delhi. (PTI)

Michelle Obama at Copenhagen

US first lady Michelle Obama arrives at Copenhagen Airport. The first lady will support the Chicago delegation in the vote for the Summer Olympic Games 2016. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will vote on the 2016 Summer Olympic Games on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen. (Reuters)

Rising prices

A tableau of 'price-rise' as part of the traditional procession during Navratri celebrations organised by the Hindu Utsav Samiti in Bhopal. (PTI)

Kobad Gandhy in police custody

Kobad Gandhy, the senior central committee and Polit Buro member of the banned CPI (Maoist) who was recently arrested in New Delhi, being taken to the G B Pant hospital by police for a medical check up, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Indira Gandhi Award Ceremony

(From left) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Deputy General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei, President Pratibha Patil, Vice-President Hamid Ansari and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the Indira Gandhi Award Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. (PTI)

Philippine flood survivors

Young flood survivors hold up placards asking for donations from passersby along the street in Marikina, an eastern suburb of Manila. Terrified Philippine flood survivors fled their homes on September 30 amid warnings that a looming typhoon may add to the devastation of a killer storm that affected over 2.2 million people. (AFP)

Release of Congress election manifesto

Haryana State Congress Chief Prithviraj Chavan (centre) and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda (right) releasing the Congress election manifesto in Chandigarh. (PTI)

A man waiting for the tsunami in Auckland

A man who identified himself as Reuben stands on the rocks while waiting for the tsunami to hit the main North Shore beach of Takapuna in Auckland . Authorities later cancelled a Pacific tsunami warning on Wednesday after a huge sub-sea earthquake sent waves over the Samoa islands, reportedly killing about 14 people but falling short of a regional disaster. REUTERS

Singer Mariah Carey promotes new fragrance 'Forever'

Singer Mariah Carey makes an appearance at Macy's to promote her new fragrance 'Forever', in New York. AP

Dalai Lama, Maria Shriver

The Dalai Lama, left, takes part in a conversation with Maria Shriver in Vancouver. The Dalai Lama is visiting Vancouver for the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit. AP

A view of the London 2012 Olympic athletics stadium

A view of the London 2012 Olympic athletics stadium, London, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009. On Friday Oct. 2, the decision as to who will host the 2016 Olympics Games will made in Copenhagen. AP

A map shows location of an earthquake

An earthquake event location map generated and released by the US NOAA/NWS West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center shows the location of an earthquake occurring in the Samoa Islands Region of the Pacific Ocean. REUTERS

Obama during a meeting with NATO Secretary General

US President Barack Obama looks on during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. AFP

Peru's Anti-Drug Police seize liquid cocaine

Peru's Anti-Drug Police (DIRANDRO) pack and seal in Lima part of the 4,384 kg of liquid cocaine seized on September 18 in the port city of Callao, Peru. The drug was found hidden in some 8000 artichoke cans ready to be shipped to Spain. AFP

US Marines watch artillery firing

US Marines from 2nd Marine Division MP Company watch as artillery is fired in the distance at their forward operating base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan. AFP