Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Ministry of Finance in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Thursday, July 31, 2008. Malaysia's leader warned his rival Anwar Ibrahim not to bribe lawmakers to defect to the opposition.AP Photo
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Ministry of Finance in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Thursday, July 31, 2008. Malaysia's leader warned his rival Anwar Ibrahim not to bribe lawmakers to defect to the opposition.Ap Photo
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim speaks during a press conference at the People's Justice Party's headquarters in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 31, 2008. The wife of Anwar says she has resigned her parliamentary seat to let him contest a by-election.
Thailand’s deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (L) and his wife Pojaman (R) arrive at the Court in Bangkok on July 31, 2008. Pojaman Shinawatra was convicted on tax evasion charges in the first ruling against his family since the 2006 coup.Getty Images
Ousted Thai Prime Thaksin Shinawatra (L)and his wife Potjaman Shinawatra arrive at the criminal court in Bangkok July 31, 2008. Thailand's Criminal Court bailed the wife of Thaksin on Thursday after finding her guilty of tax evasion and sentencing her to three years in jail.Reuters Pictures
Thailand's deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (R) and his wife Pojaman (C) arrive at the Court in Bangkok on July 31, 2008. Pojaman Shinawatra was convicted on tax evasion charges in the first ruling against his family since the 2006 coup.Getty Images
Local officials examine a crashed rescue helicopter near Kiskunlachaza on July 31, 2008. A rescue helicopter crashed some 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Budapest, killing one passenger and injuring three, police told AFP. The helicopter was carrying a two-year old child with burn wounds from Paks, 120 kilometres from Budapest, to the capital when the accident was happened.Getty Images
Local officials examine a crashed rescue helicopter near Kiskunlachaza on July 31, 2008. A rescue helicopter crashed some 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Budapest, killing one passenger and injuring three, police told AFP. The helicopter was carrying a two-year old child with burn wounds from Paks, 120 kilometres from Budapest, to the capital when the accident was happened.Getty Images
Protesting workers burn tires and block a route uniting La Paz with Cochabamba in the city of Vinto, some 20 kms from La Paz, on July 31, 2008. The protestors are demanding that the government approve a new pension law proposed by the Bolivian Worker's Central (COB for its initials in Spanish) that would eliminate the current system of private pensions currently in the hands of international firms.Getty Images
An education worker runs away from riot policemen riding a bike during a blockade across the road linking La Paz with Cochabamba, in the city of Vinto, some 20 km from La Paz, on July 31, 2008. The protestors are demanding that the government approve a new pension law proposed by the Bolivian Worker's Central (COB for its initials in Spanish) that would eliminate the current system of private pensions currently in the hands of international firms.Getty images
Indian soldiers patrol near the Line of Control (LoC) in Saraie, 150 km (83 miles) west of Srinagar, July 31, 2008. The Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers held talks in Colombo on Thursday against a background of an increase in border skirmishes and bomb attacks on Indian cities that threaten a sluggish peace process. The 2003 ceasefire on the de facto border that divides the disputed Kashmir region was a key confidence-building step by the two sides.Reuters Pictures
The mortal remains of Indian soldier Ajit Shivaji Gavkar are carried at the funeral in Mumbai on July 31, 2008. Gavkar (34), serving the 25 Rashtriya Rifle Regiment posted at Rajouri in Jammu, was killed on 28 July in the recent exchange of fire along the Indo-Pak border. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over mainly Muslim Kashmir, held in part by each country but claimed in full by both. Pakistan and India agreed to a ceasefire in November 2003 along the Line of Control, and the two sides launched a peace process in January 2004.Getty Images
Female activists of Pakistani Jamaat-i-Islami party chant slogans against the United States and President Pervez Musharraf during a protest in Karachi on July 31, 2008. The demonstrators demanded for the release of a Pakistani biologist Aafia Siddiqui who they claim was confined in US-controlled Bagram Base jail in Afghanistan. Siddiqui is an MIT alumni in biology, originally from Pakistan, wanted for questioning by the FBI in regard to terrorism. Her last known location was at or near the Karachi airport in March 2003, along with her three children. In 2004, she was identified along with six others by the United States Government as being “associated with al-Qaeda.”Getty Images
emale activists of hardline Sunni Muslim group Jamaat-i-Islami chant slogans against the United States and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf during a protest in Karachi on July 31, 2008. The demonstrators demanded the release of a Pakistani biologist Aafia Siddiqui who they claim was confined in US-controlled Bagram Base jail in Afghanistan. Siddiqui is an MIT alumni in biology, originally from Pakistan, wanted for questioning by the FBI in regard to terrorism. Her last known location was at or near the Karachi airport in March 2003, along with her three children. In 2004, she was identified along with six others by the United States Government as being “associated with al-Qaeda.”Getty Images
Supporters of the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry attend a protest rally in Lahore July 31, 2008. Lawyers and political workers gathered to demand the resignation of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and the reinstatement of 60 sacked judges dismissed by Musharraf during his emergency rule in November 2007.Reuters Pictures
A Pakistani men checks the damage at a house hit by a mortar shell in the village of Deolai in Pakistan’s Swat valley,Thursday, July 31, 2008. A mortar shell hit a house in a northern valley where Pakistani security forces are battling Islamic fighters, killing a family of seven, police said Thursday.AP Photo
People carry the body of a victim of mortar attacks for burial in Kabal in the troubled area of the Swat valley in northern Pakistan Thursday, July 31, 2008. A mortar shell hit a house in the valley where Pakistani security forces are battling Islamic fighters, killing a family of seven, police said Thursday.AP Photo
