A model displays a creation by pastry chef Kotatsu Kanda during the Tokyo Sweets Collection 2009 fashion show in Tokyo, Japan. -- PHOTO: AP
Amateur actors dressed as troops of the Ottoman Empire and Christian knights re-enact a scene from the battle for the town of Varna east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Bulgaria commemorates the 565th anniversary of the battle as part of the liberation struggle against the Ottoman Empire. -- PHOTO: AP
A Canadian Sphynx wears a red band during a cat exhibition in Bishkek. Cat lovers from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan took part in the exhibition. -- PHOTO: AFP
Guests read a document as they stand behind a life-sized lion statue for auctioning at the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) in Nairobi. Conservationists raised around US$170,000 (S$237,000) for lion conservation at a sale of , 49 life-size lion statues overnight. -- PHOTO: AFP
People walk next to domino pieces near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Nov 7, 2009. The row of 1,000 20-kg dominos standing 1.5 metres apart -- painted in bright colours by school children and rising 2.5 metres high -- will be toppled at the end of a gala ceremony as a symbolic tribute to the collapse of the Wall 20 years earlier. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Snowboarder Stefan Gimpl of Austria jumps during a training session before the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup Big Air final at the Olympic Stadium Lluis Companys in Barcelona. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A transvestite takes part on the Gay Pride parade in Buenos Aires. -- PHOTO: AFP
A fan cheers for the North Carolina Tar Heels during their game against the Duke Blue Devils at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. -- PHOTO: AFP
Sinead Kerr and John Kerr of Britain perform during the free dance of the NHK Trophy figure skating competition in Nagano, central Japan. -- PHOTO: AP
An Aztec fan watches the game between the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs and the San Diego State Aztecs at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
Israelis light candles at a rally marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A girl plays as a water tank is filled at a neighbourhood in Caracas. Venezuela's government has called for water conservation, citing low rainfall caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon resulting in critically low water levels in the country's dams. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Bahraini woman and her children fly a kite as the sun sets on a rocky ridge in the Sakhir desert area, Bahrain. -- PHOTO: AP
Salt workers work at a salt bed in Kharaghodha village, about 120 km (75 miles) west from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An actress from the Dseu Renaissance de Pikine theater group wearing traditional Toukouleur make-up and chewing a stick toothbrush waits for rehearsal to begin at a local community centre at the slum neighbourhood of Pikine in Senegal's capital Dakar. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
