Slithery pet
An Indonesian girl shows off her snake outside a pet store in Jakarta on Sunday, at the conclusion of the week-long Eid al-Fitr festival. Photo: AFP
Accepting challenge
This screenshot from a video posted on Twitter shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Yoga following a fitness challenge in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Living in squalor
A woman picks up garbage on the shores of Manila Bay after a heavy downpour caused by Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi, east of the Philippines, on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Bollywood star Chopra apologizes over Quantico
Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra apologized Sunday after a furore over a US TV series that showed her uncovering a terror plot hatched by Indian Hindu nationalists.
Assad could be first world leader to meet Kim in N.Korea
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, Pyongyang's state media reported Sunday, potentially becoming the first head of state to meet Kim inside the isolated country.
Conflict and poverty keep children out of Afghan schools: report
Nearly half of all children in Afghanistan are out of school due to conflict, poverty, child marriage and discrimination against girls, the number rising for the first time since 2002, humanitarian organizations said in a report on Sunday.
Playing dirty
Local villagers compete in a mud ball wrestling festival in Van village, in the northern province of Bac Giang, Vietnam on Saturday. The festival is held on the fourth lunar month every four years, in order to celebrate the victory of four Vietnamese brothers as they defeated a group of demons in a mud ball wrestling match in a marsh in the fourth (possibly fifth) century. Photo: IC
Rainbow flags and high heels: South Korea holds debut drag parade
South Korea held its first ever drag parade this weekend, a small but significant step for rights activists in a country that remains deeply conservative when it comes to gender and sexuality.
Private search for MH370 concluding
A private search by a US firm for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing in 2014 in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries, will end Tuesday, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Wednesday.
Genocide remembered
Students take part in a performance to mark the annual “Day of Anger” at the Choeung Ek memorial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Sunday. Cambodians observe the annual “Day of Anger” against genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that ruled the country from 1975-79. Photo: AFP
Festive spirits
Japanese festival-goers carry a portable shrine as they parade in the streets of Asakusa district in Tokyo during one of the city's largest festivals called “Sanja Matsuri” on Sunday. Photo: VCG
Malaysia's Anwar given pardon, no plans to join cabinet
Jailed Malaysian reformist Anwar Ibrahim was granted a full pardon and freed on Wednesday, capping dramatic changes in the Southeast Asian country since the government was ousted in an election upset last week.
Indonesian city police headquarters struck by samurai sword attack
Four men who attacked an Indonesian police headquarters with samurai swords were shot dead Wednesday and one officer also died, authorities said, days after a wave of deadly suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group rocked the country.
Brigade braces
Armed members of the Indonesian Mobile Brigade Corps walk past barbed wire placed in front of a gate of the brigade's police headquarters in Depok on Wednesday. Indonesian police announced that several police officers were injured during a riot involving terrorists that broke out on Tuesday at the Mobile Brigade detention center. Photo: IC
Honoring donors
A Chulalongkorn University medical student arrives as volunteers prepare cadavers for a religious ceremony in Bangkok on Thursday.
Thai medical students bid farewell on Thursday to hundreds of cadavers, honoring the dissection and anatomy practice corpses as “teachers” in a solemn ceremony days ahead of their cremation. Photo: AFP
Journalists mourned
Journalists place floral wreath at the grave of Shah Marai, Agence-France-Presse's (AFP) chief photographer in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Marai was killed in a secondary explosion, which killed nine journalists and 16 others, following a suicide blast in Kabul on Monday. The attack sparked outrage around the world and underscored the dangers faced by Afghan media. Photo: IC
Suicide bomber kills dozens at voter registration center
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 57 people and injuring more than 100, in the most serious attack yet on preparations for elections scheduled for October.
Suicide revives concerns about Japan's immigration removal centers
The suicide of an Indian man being held at an immigration detention center in Japan has sparked a hunger strike among detainees and revived concerns about conditions.