People travelling towards Rangoon look through windows as the train stops at Danyingone station in Burma
Afghan Shia Muslims self-flagellate during an Ashura procession in Kabul. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, who was killed in the 7th-century battle of Kerbala
Workmen begin the task of cleaning up after thousands of new year revellers gathered in New York's Times Square
Surgeons in north Sumatra, Indonesia, operate on a 40-year-old orangutan, Puyul, which broke its leg falling from a rubber tree when conservationists tried to remove it from a plantation. Photograph: Binsar Bakkara/AP
Families flee their home in Mitchell, Queensland, as floodwaters threaten to reach record levels
Yayoi Kusama, 82, arrives in London – leaving her native Japan for the first time in 12 years – to launch a retrospective at the Tate Modern called Love Arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos
Lying 7,500 light years from Earth, the Carina Nebula buzzes with activity. Countless stars are being born among the glowing clouds of dust and gas and, over several million years, this nebula – named after the keel of the mythical ship Argo – has created some of the most massive stars known to astronomers
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