A student holds a flare as others march during a demonstration against education spending cuts in Milan. Schools and universities across Italy closed as hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets to protest against the government's austerity package, which they say unfairly weighs against the education system.
A man places an iPad displaying a picture of Steve Jobs around candles forming the logo of Apple Inc., the company Jobs co-founded, in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province.
Supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, a police guard who confessed to killing the Punjab governor, burn tires during a protest in Islamabad. Hundreds of people staged rallies across Pakistan demanding release of Qadri, who was convicted for killing a provincial governor who wanted to overhaul tough blasphemy laws.
The library of of the Pachacutec Cooking Institute, inside a container, is seen in the northern outskirts of Lima. "Everyone can be a cook in Peru" is the motto of the Pachacutec Cooking Institute, a school promoted by prestigious Peruvian chef Gaston Acurio.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jew in Beni Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, holds a chicken, later to be slaughtered, as part of the Kaparot ritual. It is believed that one transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken.
A police helicopter flies behind a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an exercise commemorating Police Week in downtown Tehran.
Kangal fish, also called Doctor fish, nibble the feet of a customer at a Thai Medical center at Wenceslav Square in Prague.
Libyan National Transitional Council fighters fire at loyalist troops during a street battle in Sirte.
Libyan women perform the weekly Friday noon prayers in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square.
A Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil hangs on multiple hooks pierced through his skin as he participates in an annual Hindu temple procession in Colombo, Sri Lanka.