What's on around the world in the past 24 hours

Lisha Barboza stands with her father Ben while he holds a picture of his wife, nurse Jacintha Saldanha, as they leave the Houses of Parliament in London on Dec 10, 2012. Two Australian radio announcers who made a prank call to a British hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Kate broke a three-day silence on Monday to speak of their distress at the apparent suicide of the nurse who took their call. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

German Bundeswehr army soldiers dressed as Saint Nicholas and Santa's little helpers walk to distribute gifts at the combat outpost OP North, near Baghlan, northern Afghanistan on Dec 6, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (right) shakes hands with a performer from the dance group El Choque Urbano, who is hanging from a structure, during a rally to celebrate the Day of Democracy and International Human Rights Day outside the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires on Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A man stands on the roof as he inspects a mosque damaged by an air strike in the Hamidiya neighborhood in Homs on Dec 9, 2012. Picture taken Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung (third right), also known as "Long Hair," is blocked by security guards as he tries to approach Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (left) inside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Dec 10, 2012, where the latter is being questioned by lawmakers. Lawmakers and protesters on Monday urged Leung Chun-ying to step down for illegal structures found in his house. At right is Legislative Council Chairman Jasper Tsang. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education, attends the event "Stand up for Malala, Girls' education is a right!" during the United Nations Human Rights Day at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Dec 10, 2012. A special tribute was paid to Malala Yousafazi, the teenage Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taleban after advocating education for girls, at the British hospital where she is being treated. The poster in the background shows Malala Yousafazi. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Children look out from a window of a roofless house, destroyed at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the coastal town of Boston, Davao Oriental in southern Philippines on Dec 10, 2012. Typhoon Bopha killed 647 people and caused crop damage worth US$210 million (S$257 million). The most intense storm to hit the Philippines this year wiped out about 90 per cent of three coastal towns in Davao Oriental province and buried an entire town in neighboring Compostela Valley province under mud. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A man rests next to a helicopter at the crash site of a plane with Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera on board, at El Tejocote ranch in the municipality of Iturbide, south of Monterrey on Dec 10, 2012. Rivera died in a plane crash after the small jet she was travelling in went down in northern Mexico, her father said on Sunday. A spokesman for the state government of Nuevo Leon said investigators had found the remains of Rivera's Learjet, which disappeared from the radar 100km from the northern city of Monterrey. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A participant is helped into the venue of the Beauty Without Limits beauty contest for women confined to wheelchairs in Vladivostok on Dec 10, 2012. The contest, organised by a local social group "Kovcheg" (ark), is open to wheelchair users from Russia's far eastern Primorsky region. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

New recruits for the People's Liberation Army line up waiting to board a train at Taiyuan railway station, Shanxi province on Dec 10, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Flowers are laid near a plaque at Alderdi Eder gardens during a ceremony in memory of victims of the Basque conflict in San Sebastian on Dec 10, 2012. The ceremony, which coincides with International Human Rights Day, was attended for the first time by city council members from all parties. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Pigeons surround a bicycle in downtown Rome on Dec 10, 2012. The sudden acceleration in the political crisis over the weekend was enough to put Italy back into the spotlight of the euro zone crisis alongside Spain, whose yields also climbed on Monday on the back of the turmoil in Rome. -- PHOTO: REUTERS