24 hours: Prayer rally held for justice and security for women

Women carrying placards enter Raj Ghat to attend a prayer ceremony for a rape victim after a rally organised by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit (unseen) protesting for justice and security for women, in New Delhi January 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

US President Barack Obama winks as he arrives with Vice President Joe Biden (left) in the briefing room to make remarks after the House of Representatives acted on legislation intended to avoid the "fiscal cliff", at the White House in Washington on Jan 1, 2013. The Republican-controlled House backed a tax hike on the top US earners shortly before midnight on Tuesday, ending weeks of high-stakes budget brinkmanship that threatened to spook consumers and throw financial markets into turmoil. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A school bus passes angel paintings on Jan 2, 2013, along the route to the Chalk Hill School where the Sandy Hook Elementary School children will begin to attend classes in Monroe, Connecticut. The repurposed school is having an open house today and will begin hosting classes tomorrow. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Shoes hang on a power line at Letna park overlooking Prague early on Jan 2, 2013. Czech teenagers, who skateboard at the park, throw their damaged and unwanted shoes over the wire for fun at the city's main skating hangout, once the site of a monument to former Soviet leader Josef Stalin. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Everton's John Heitinga (right) challenges Newcastle United's Nile Ranger during their English Premier League soccer match in Newcastle, northern England, on Jan 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A Bedouin girl swings from a tree as she plays with other in the Jordan Valley, near West Bank city of Jenin on Jan 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a yoga class at a studio in Ramat Beit Shemesh, some 20km from Jerusalem  on Jan 1, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Novak Djokovic of Serbia loses his footing against Bernard Tomic of Australia during their men's singles match at the Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth on Jan 2, 2013. World No.1 Djokovic suffered a shock loss to Tomic at the Hopman Cup team event on Wednesday, two weeks before the defence of his Australian Open title. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A tour group looks up under the United States Capitol dome in Washington on Jan 2, 2013. The new 113th US Congress convenes on Jan 3, set to take a fresh crack at a number of issues, such as gun control, immigration, tax reform and the record US debt. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman walks with her child on the banks of the Yenisey River in air temperatures of about minus 30 deg Celsius during winter outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Jan 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Northern Illinois Huskies wide receiver Martel Moore scores a third quarter touchdown against the Florida State Seminoles during their 2013 Discover Orange Bowl NCAA football game in Miami, Florida, on Jan 1, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Parents (right and second right) of a newly married groom wear costumes and make-up, in accordance to a local custom, as they sit next to the parents of the bride in Liquan county of Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, on Jan 1, 2013. The custom, called Nao Gong Po in Chinese, teases the groom's parents by having them wear ugly costumes and make-up in the belief it helps them improve their affinity with others. The Chinese characters on the placards read, "I want to have a grandson" (left) and "I want to wash diapers" (right). The bride is seen at the back. Picture taken on Jan 1, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A mechanic checks the buggy belonging to Italian Gianpaolo Bedin and Argentine Mauro Lipez before the technical verification exercise of the Dakar Rally 2013 in Lima on Jan 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman mourns her family member, who was killed in Tuesday's motorcycle bomb blast, during his funeral prayer in Karachi on Jan 2, 2013. A bomb exploded in a crowded area of Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 50, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Pre-schooler Haris Zufairy Kamil Zairi, 6, refuses to enter the class as his mother tries to comfort him during his first day of school in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, on Jan 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Afghan girls wait for treatment at the mobile clinic provided by Afghan Family Guidance Association on the outskirts of Kabul on Jan 2, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves New York Presbyterian Hospital with husband, Bill (top, right), and daughter, Chelsea (right), in New York on Jan 2, 2013. The secretary of state, who has not been seen in public since Dec 7, was revealed on Sunday evening to be in a New York hospital under treatment for a blood clot that stemmed from a concussion she suffered in mid-December. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Team USA's Riley Barber (right) scores a goal on Czech Republic's goalie Matej Machovsky during the second period of their quarter-final game at the 2013 IIHF U20 World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa on Jan 2, 2013.  -- PHOTO: REUTERS