A policeman inspects the body of a teacher in Thailand‘s Yala province, nearly 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, July 2, 2008. The teacher was shot dead by suspected Muslim while riding home on a motorcycle, police said.Reuters Pictures
Policemen stand guard next to Thai-Muslim students as police inspect the body of a teacher in Thailand‘s Yala province, nearly 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, July 2, 2008. The teacher was shot dead by suspected Muslim while riding home on a motorcycle, police said.Reuters Pictures
Indian police arrest under-graduate students protesting against the admission policies and job reservation in front of the State Secretariat in Mumbai on July 3, 2008. India has just a couple of dozen of top-notch “branded” colleges, seven Indian institutes of technology and six of management which together take only 16,000 undergraduates each year. Competition to get into higher education in the country of more than 1.1 billion people is fierce with stratospheric averages needed to obtain the few places available in India’s “Ivy League” colleges. Under a constitutional measure to bring victims of the worst discrimination into the mainstream, India already sets aside 22.5 percent of university places and jobs for the underprivileged strata of the society and also has a law under which all children between the ages of six and 14 must be given a free education.Reuters Pictures
Activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a hardline Hindu group, argue with police officials during a protest on the western express highway in Mumbai July 3, 2008. A nationwide strike over transfer of forest land to a Hindu shrine, located in Kashmir region, shut down transport, businesses and schools in several states of India on Thursday, as protesters hit the roads demanding land for Hindu pilgrims.Reuters Pictures
An Iraqi detainee hugs his child as his family visits Camp Cropper, a U.S. military-run detention facility in western Baghdad July 3, 2008. More than 20,000 detainees who are threats to security and stability in IraqIraq. are currently kept by U.S forces at two locations: Camp Cropper in Baghdad and Camp Bucca in southern .Reuters Pictures
An Iraqi woman cries as she visits her son, who is detained at Camp Cropper, a U.S. military-run detention facility in western Baghdad July 3, 2008. More than 20,000 detainees who are threats to security and stability in Iraq are currently kept by U.S forces at two locations: Camp Cropper in Baghdad and Camp Bucca in southern Iraq.Reuters Pictures
Palestinians carrying their luggage walk after crossing the Rafah border into the Gaza Strip on July 3, 2008. Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today to allow scores of stranded Palestinians to return to the besieged territory, witnesses said.Getty Images
Palestinians carry their belongings as they enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt through the Rafah Crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 3, 2008. Hundreds of people arrived in Gaza from Egypt on Thursday, a day after Egyptian troops clashed with Palestinians demanding to cross into Egypt. The Palestinians accused Egypt of reneging on an agreement to open the vital crossing for three days this week. It has been virtually sealed for the past year since the Hamas militant group seized control of Gaza.AP Photo
