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Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, center and his son Abhishek Bachchan, center right, walk through a sea of fans and mourners to attend the funeral of Rajesh Khanna in Mumbai, India, on July 19, 2012.
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Thousands of mourners thronged the streets of Mumbai under heavy monsoon rain to bid farewell and catch a final glimpse of Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna, who died on Wednesday at the age of 69.
Known for his shy smile and flamboyant looks, Khanna was often referred to as Bollywood's first real superstar, someone who had a fanatical fan base among women, thanks to the many romantic hits in which he starred during the 1970s.
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A police officer tries to control the crowd with a stick during the funeral of Rajesh Khanna in Mumbai on July 19, 2012.
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Habiba Abubakar of Nigeria, right, talks with psychologist and faculty member Yaron Prywes while attending the "Common Bond" summer camp in Newbury, Mass., on July 18, 2012. Teens from across the world who lost loved ones due to terrorism gathered for the 10 day camp to share their feelings, insights and a chance to be the world's next generation of international peacemakers. Abubakar lost her father during the Jos religious riots in 2010.
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Astrid Malamud, who lost her father to a terrorist bombing in Argentina in 1994, smiles as she talks with new friends while attending the "Common Bond" summer camp
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Matt Wisniewski, of Lawrenceville, N.J., smiles while joking with John Candela at the summer camp. Both young men lost their fathers in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Rosemary Shav, a chaperone from Nigeria, right, puts her arm on the back of Nafeesa Rahman Qazi, of Northern Pakistan. Qazi, who is a community activist and works in a children's clinic in her homelnad, lost two cousins to the Taliban.
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Many people who cannot afford the fee of a qualified dentist, go to roadside dentists to cure problems related to their teeth. According to Singh, he earns about $1.80 or more per day from his work, depending upon the number of patients.
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Most of these roadside dentists do not have any degree or authorized qualification but gained some sort of dental expertise either by working as a technician with a dentist or as a helper. Singh says he learned his skills from his late father and he has been doing this job for the last 40 years.
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Madrid, Spain: A demonstrator blows a whistle during a protest against government austerity measures in front of the headquarters of the ruling Popular party
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Tenerife, Spain: A forest fire blazes on a hill as a fire engine speeds past in the Vilaflor municipality
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Chicago, US: Employees at a new CityTarget store take the escalator as they prepare for its opening
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Mandaluyong, Philippines: A sales assistant arranges pistols at an annual gun show
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A topless man sticks out his tongue at a driver as he climbs onto a van in the middle of a street in Hefei, Anhui province July 17, 2012. The man ran onto a busy street on Tuesday morning wearing only a pair of shorts, climbing onto cars and smashing windows with his bare fists. He was taken away to the hospital by policemen and doctors after smashing nearly 20 vehicles in half an hour. Police said there was no identification with the man, and he would go through psychiatric examination to determine whether he was mentally ill, local media reported.
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Human Rights and Peace Society activists shout from a police vehicle after getting arrested during their sit-in protest outside Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai's official residence, condemning Bhattarai for failing to bring out the new constitution, in Kathmandu July 18, 2012
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A member of the Free Syrian Army walks past a destroyed building in Azzaz, Aleppo province July 17, 2012
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A protester takes cover from Egyptian security force after they fired tear gas to push back protesters trying to storm the Syrian Embassy in Cairo July 18, 2012.
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Flames move towards houses in Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira July 18, 2012. More than 1,000 firefighters are trying to extinguish forest fires in Portugal after temperatures rose up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in several areas in the country.
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A worker repairs the runway at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok July 18, 2012. The reconstruction of the airport's runway started from June 11 and is expected to finish by July 31.
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General Fahad Jassim al-Freij, left, is sworn in as Defense Minister by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Thursday, July 19. Syria's state TV said on Thursday new Defense Minister General al-Freij took his oath of office in front of President al-Assad, who has not appeared in public since a bomb attack killed three of his top security officials.
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After losing his previous defense minister to an attack on Wednesday, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad swore in General Fahad Jassim al-Freij as his new defense minister on Thursday, according to Reuters. The recent ceremony closely resembles the swearing-in of the previous defense minister, Dawoud Rajha, who held the post for little over a year.
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Saudis use a telescope to monitor the new moon of Ramadan as astronomers and scholars of Islam debate when the holy Muslim month of Ramadan begins, in the Saudi city of Taif on Thursday, July 19. The start of the fasting month, when the faithful abstain from eating from dawn to sunset, is determined by the sighting of the new moon.
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On the eve of Ramadan, astronomers and scholars consult the sky to determine the precise starting date. Since the Muslim holy month starts at the sighting of the new moon, the exact date is not known far in advance. This has caused issues for some European Muslims. Jordanians begin Ramadan on Friday, while Muslims in the West Bank began Thursday
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A spectator wrapped in the Spanish flag sprays water on stage winner Alejandro Valverde of Spain as he climbs towards Peyragudes during the 17th stage of the Tour de France, Thursday, July 19.
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The portrait of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack hangs outside the office of the Department of Administration Division of Purchasing at Trenton City Hall as FBI agents search file cabinets on July 19 in Trenton, N.J.
FBI agents are searching offices in Trenton City Hall Thursday morning, a day after the feds raided the home of Trenton's mayor, whose two-year administration of New Jersey's impoverished capital city has been marked by accusations of nepotism and reckless spending
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Tiger Woods plays a shot from the rough on the 15th hole during the first round of the 141st British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club on July 19.
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After an opening-round 67, Tiger Woods feels confident at the 141st British Open as he eyes major championship No. 15.
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Tiger Woods plays his shot on the 14th hole during the first round of this year's British Open Championship on July 19
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Tour de France 2012: stage 17
The best pictures from the 143.5km stage from Bagnères-de-Luchon to Peyragudes
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OK this isn't France it's Blighty but it's Tour related. A bunch of British cyclists sporting yellow T-shirts and 'Wiggo' masks today embarked on a 288 mile journey from London to Paris to show their support of Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins, as he continues in his bid to become the first Briton to win the Tour de France. The riders, who have been training for months for the three-day ride, will arrive just in time to cheer Wiggins over the finishing line on the Champs-Elysées on Sunday
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Wiggins's Team Sky team-mate Mark Cavendish seems focused
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A natty titfer of a Tour fan
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As if speeding downhill isn't dangerous enough, the riders have dense fog to contend with as they come down Mente pass
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Egoi Martínez of Euskaltel-Euskadi does well not to be distracted by fan running alongside him
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Team Sky's Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins are on the tail of Valverde and in the final couple of kilometres are whittling down the Spaniard's lead
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But Valverde does enough to stay ahead of the Sky pairing and looks extremely pleased to win the stage
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Wiggins's performance means that he retains the yellow jersey
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An Aurora Police Department detective took a witness statement following a shooting Friday morning at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012.
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Police are pictured outside a Century 16 movie theatre where as many as 14 people were killed and many injured at a shooting during the showing of a movie in Aurora, Colo., on July 20, 2012.
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Fourteen people were killed and at least 50 others wounded early Friday when a gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of the summer blockbuster "The Dark Knight Rises" near Denver, authorities and witnesses said.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates told reporters that 10 people died at the scene and four others died after being taken to local hospitals. At least 50 other people were injured, Oates said, including a six-year-old girl.
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Rescue workers rush an injured woman to hospital following a car bomb attack at a business area in the Thai-Malaysian border district of Sungai Kolok, Narathiwat province, southern Thailand, on July 20, 2012.
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Members of a Thai bomb squad unit inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Narathiwat province on July 20, 2012.
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Eight people were injured after a bomb exploded outside a commercial building in southern Thailand on Friday morning, The Bangkok Post reports.
Authorities said the explosives were hidden in a pick-up truck outside a computer company in Sungai Kolok, Reuters reports. Three of the company's owners were injured escaping from the top floor of the building, authorities said. Another vehicle and two motorcycles were also destroyed in the blast that spread to nearby buildings.
At least 5,000 people have been killed in southern Thailand since 2004 in violence attributed to Muslim separatists
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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei reacts as he and journalists listen to the verdict of his court hearing over his phone on speaker at the courtyard of his studio in Beijing, July 20, 2012
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A Chinese court on Friday upheld a $2 million fine for tax evasion against the country's most famous dissident, Ai Weiwei, after barring him from attending the hearing, in a case that critics accuse Beijing of using to muzzle the outspoken artist.
Ai had asked a Beijing court to overturn the city tax office's rejection of his appeal against the tax evasion penalty imposed on the company he works for, Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd., which produces his art and designs.
The artist said that Chinese police barred him from showing up in person, saying earlier he had "absolutely no hope" the court would rule in his favor
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Star trails whirl through the skies over California's Mount Shasta in a time-exposure photo by Brad Goldpaint.
Time-lapse is one of the hottest trends in photography nowadays, thanks in part to the wider availability of high-end cameras, high-resolution video and high production values. But you need some high-class talent behind the lens as well.
It doesn't hurt that the past year has been a gold mine for the glories of the night sky, especially the northern lights. We've featured quite a few time-lapse videos of the aurora, as seen from Earth and from space, and you can click through a few of our favorites below. The latest stunner to surface comes from Pacific Northwest photographer Brad Goldpaint, whose work we featured just a few days ago.
Goldpaint's three-minute time-lapse, titled "Within Two Worlds," features three years' worth of sky imagery collected from a variety of locales — including Tumalo Falls, the Three Sisters Wilderness, Crater Lake and Sparks Lake in Oregon, as well as the High Sierra, Mono Lake and Mount Shasta in California
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Relatives mourn five Israelis killed during an explosion on a tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, after their arrival at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 20, 2012.
A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed seven people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel said Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants were to blame
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Friends and families of people killed in an attack in Bulgaria, stand near their coffins during a ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 20, 2012.
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A demonstrator gets out of a fountain full of foam after a protest against government austerity measures in central Madrid, July 19, 2012
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A police officer restrains a relative of a convicted official as the police break up a fight between relatives of protesters who died during the January 11 revolution and relatives of those convicted after the verdict for officials involved in the deaths was pronounced in Tunis, July 19, 2012
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Destroyed buildings are seen in Homs, July 17, 2012.
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A demonstrator kneels down in front of Spanish National Police officers in full riot gear during small clashes after a protest against government austerity measures in central Madrid, July 19, 2012.
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Firefighters talk in front of a banner before the start of a demonstration against government cuts inside their fire station in Mieres, near Oviedo, northern Spain, July 19, 2012. The banner reads, "So many cuts have left us with nothing".
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IMF's Peter Doyle scorns its 'tainted' leadership
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Peter Doyle claims there was a "fundamental illegitimacy" in Christine Lagarde's appointment
A top economist at the International Monetary Fund has poured scorn on its "tainted" leadership and said he is "ashamed" to have worked there.
Peter Doyle said in a letter to the IMF executive board that he wanted to explain his resignation after 20 years.
He writes of "incompetence", "failings" and "disastrous" appointments for the IMF's managing director, stretching back 10 years.
No one from the Washington-based IMF was immediately available for comment.
Mr Doyle, former adviser to the IMF's European Department, which is running the bailout programs for Greece, Portugal and Ireland, said the Fund's delay in warning about the urgency of the global financial crisis was a failure of the "first order".
In the letter, dated 18 June and obtained by the US broadcaster CNN, Mr Doyle said the failings of IMF surveillance of the financial crisis "are, if anything, becoming more deeply entrenched".
He writes: "This fact is most clear in regard to appointments for managing director which, over the past decade, have all-too-evidently been disastrous.
"Even the current incumbent [Christine Lagarde] is tainted, as neither her gender, integrity, or elan can make up for the fundamental illegitimacy of the selection process."
Mr Doyle is thought to be echoing here widespread criticism that the head of the IMF is always a European, while the World Bank chief is always a US appointee.
Mr Doyle concludes his letter: "There are good salty people here. But this one is moving on. You might want to take care not to lose the others."
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Sir Alastair Burnet dies at 84
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Veteran newsreader Sir Alastair Burnet, best known for fronting ITV's News At Ten, has died aged 84.
In a statement, his family said he died at a nursing home in London, where he was being cared for after suffering several strokes.
The broadcaster presented his last news bulletin in August 1991, after retiring at the age of 63.
Close friend Andrew Neil called him "one of the greatest journalists of his generation".
"He will also always be recalled by family, friends and colleagues for his unparalleled professionalism, humour and gentlemanly kindness, especially to journalists starting out on their careers," fellow jourrnalist Neil said in tribute.
"Joy it was to be in his company and he was an inspiration to many who followed in his footsteps - the broadcasters' broadcaster."
Sir Alastair also had a distinguished career as a print journalist, editing publications such as The Economist and The Daily Express.
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London 2012: Coe defends enforcement of brand rules to 'protect' sponsors
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Lord Coe has defended 2012 Olympics branding rules, which he admitted could see spectators banned from wearing Pepsi T-shirts and other items.
Coca-Cola is a "global partner" of the games, said Lord Coe, and the huge sums it and other sponsors had invested had to be "protected".
But he played down suggestions by the BBC's Evan Davis that the ban might even extend to footwear.
Spectators would "probably" not be asked to remove non-Adidas trainers.
London 2012 hope to raise £2bn from Adidas and other UK sponsors.
Critics have said the enforcement of branding rules at the Beijing Olympics was too heavy-handed and have called for a relaxation in the approach for the London Games, which begin in a week's time.
One MP has called for British firms and other suppliers to be allowed to sell their beer in Olympic venues, arguing it would give a boost to the UK economy.
Under International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules, tier one "worldwide partners" - such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola - get sole global marketing rights within their sector, including being able to sell their products and services exclusively within Olympic venues.
Firms such as Adidas, British Airways and Lloyds TSB are 2012 Olympic partners, granting them exclusive marketing rights within their product sector in the UK.
Other 2012 supporters and suppliers with exclusive contracts include Heineken, Cadbury and Deloitte.
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A somber scene at Tel Aviv airport last night as relatives sit in front of the coffins of those killed in the bombing in Bulgaria
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Angry scenes in Madrid last night as firefighters holding their helmets confront Spanish police during a protest against government austerity measures
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A Thai soldier stands guard next to a fire coming from commercial buildings after a car bomb attack at a business area in the Thai-Malaysian border district of Sungai Kolok, Narathiwat province. The bomb attack was believed to have been set off by suspected insurgents. Eight people were reported injured
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Rescue workers help victims of the car bomb attack in southern Thailand. Two civilians were killed in separate shooting attacks in the region today, a military spokesman said, as the country marked the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan
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Indian railway police and rescue workers gather in front of the derailed coaches of a train near Kasara, about 115 km north of Mumbai earlier this morning. According to media reports only three people were killed and 31 injured, after the Vidarbha Express collided with the derailed coaches of a local train
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Carcasses of burnt-out lorries at Syria's Bab al-Hawa border post with Turkey after it was seized by Syrian rebels
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Meanwhile, Syrian soldeirs celebrate in the al-Midan area in Damascus today. Syrian regime forces routed rebel fighters from the Damascus neighbourhood, according to Syrian state television
