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May 10, 2010
Vishva Hindu Parishad International Secretary Praveen Togadia arrives to appear before the Special Investigation Team for a questioning in connection with 2002 post-Godhra communal riots, in Gandhinagar.
- PTI Photo

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Paramilitary personnel paying homage to their slain colleagues in New Delhi. 8 CRPF men were killed when Naxals blew up a bullet-proof vehicle in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on the May 8. England's Graeme Swann, center, pats teammate Luke Wright, right, who high fives bowler Stuart Broad after New Zealand's batsman Scott Styris was caught out by Wright for 31 runs at a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. England knocked out NZ by 3 wickets to take Pak to the semis. Passengers waiting for a flight to Helsinki rest on cots at Lisbon's international Portela Airport. The airport reopened in the late morning after being closed for ten hours due to an ash cloud drifting over from a volcano in Iceland that caused major air travel chaos last month. Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh with Sanjay Dutt, Jaya Prada and Manoj Tiwari during a press conference in Lucknow. Union Minister and President of J & K Cricket Association Farooq Abdullah drives his vehicle after attending the closing ceremony of a cricket tournament in Jammu. British actor Sir Ben Kingsley and wife, Brazilian actress Daniela Lavender, arrive at the world premiere of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, at a cinema in Westfield in west London. A man reacts as he watches the display screen on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai. Sensex closes up 561.44 points. Pakistan's players Saeed Ajmal, left, Mohammad Hafeez, center, and Misbah-ul-Haq celebrate defeating South Africa by 11 runs at a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. Pakistan's bowler Abdur Rehman celebrates after taking the wicket of South Africa's JP Duminy at a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. BJP President Nitin Gadkari with senior leader L K Advani at party's Parliamentary Board meeting in New Delhi, to take a final decision on the Jharkhand issue. Vishva Hindu Parishad International Secretary Praveen Togadia arrives to appear before the Special Investigation Team for a questioning in connection with 2002 post-Godhra communal riots, in Gandhinagar. Paramilitary soldiers patrol a deserted street during a strike in Srinagar. Shops, businesses and schools stayed shut in Kashmir during a strike call given by Kashmir High Court Bar Association in Srinagar. Pro-government supporters chant slogans with a Thai national flag in front of a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok, Thailand. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva pleaded for an end to two months of street protests paralysing part of the capital and an acceptance of his reconciliation plan that has been stalled by fresh violence. A burqa-clad Afghan woman, who calls herself a victim of war, looks on during a victims' jirga (a meeting) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mothers of slain teenage sons, men marred by mine blasts and tearful widows were among Afghans who spoke out at a conference billed as the first major gathering of victims of decades of war in their country. An oil soaked bird struggles against the side of the HOS an Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. A giant canvas of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival's official poster is seen seen on the Cannes Festival Palace. The Cannes Film Festival will start on May 12. A police investigator stands near a dead body as they secure the scene after a firefight in Bacoor town in Cavite province, south of Manila, Philippines. A Philippine Marine and a civilian acting as a congressional candidate's bodyguard were killed in a clash outside a police station. Sports Minister MS Gill aims at a target during the inauguration of Full Bore Shooting Range Complex, a venue for Commonwealth Games 2010, in Gurgaon. Artist playing traditional wind instrument during felicitation of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in a rally at Ashta near Sangli. Some 40,000 Taiwanese hold candles to pray during the Taiwan National Buddha's Birthday celebration in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hal in Taipei, Taiwan. Buddha's birthday is celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, and statutory on the second Sunday, Mother's Day, of May in Taiwan. Paul Petrehn of Howell, Mich. drops his competition marker during the Founders Race at the Centennial Era Balloon Festival in Indianapolis. The race left the infield at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. An aerial image shows a renewed column of ash rising from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano. The plume of volcanic ash snaked its way through southern France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, shutting down airports and disrupting flights across Europe. Trans-Atlantic connections were also being diverted around a larger patch of ash cloud stretching from southern Greenland to the coast of Portugal, adding several hours to flights between Europe and North America and causing congestion as airlines tried to squeeze their planes through remaining routes.
May 10, 2010

- Illustration by Sandeep Adhwaryu
May 10, 2010

- Illustration by Sandeep Adhwaryu
May 10, 2010
Paramilitary personnel paying homage to their slain colleagues in New Delhi. 8 CRPF men were killed when Naxals blew up a bullet-proof vehicle in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on the May 8.
- PTI Photo/Subhav Shukla
May 10, 2010
England's Graeme Swann, center, pats teammate Luke Wright, right, who high fives bowler Stuart Broad after New Zealand's batsman Scott Styris was caught out by Wright for 31 runs at a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. England knocked out NZ by 3 wickets to take Pak to the semis.
- AP Photo/Andres Leighton
May 10, 2010
Passengers waiting for a flight to Helsinki rest on cots at Lisbon's international Portela Airport. The airport reopened in the late morning after being closed for ten hours due to an ash cloud drifting over from a volcano in Iceland that caused major air travel chaos last month.
- AP Photo/ Francisco Seco
May 10, 2010
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh with Sanjay Dutt, Jaya Prada and Manoj Tiwari during a press conference in Lucknow.
- PTI Photo/Nand Kumar
May 10, 2010
Union Minister and President of J & K Cricket Association Farooq Abdullah drives his vehicle after attending the closing ceremony of a cricket tournament in Jammu.
- PTI Photo
May 10, 2010
British actor Sir Ben Kingsley and wife, Brazilian actress Daniela Lavender, arrive at the world premiere of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, at a cinema in Westfield in west London.
- AP Photo/Jorge Herrera
May 10, 2010
A man reacts as he watches the display screen on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai. Sensex closes up 561.44 points.
- AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
May 10, 2010
Pakistan's players Saeed Ajmal, left, Mohammad Hafeez, center, and Misbah-ul-Haq celebrate defeating South Africa by 11 runs at a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Gros Islet, St. Lucia.
- AP Photo/Andres Leighton
May 10, 2010
Pakistan's bowler Abdur Rehman celebrates after taking the wicket of South Africa's JP Duminy at a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Gros Islet, St. Lucia.
- AP Photo/Andres Leighton
May 10, 2010
BJP President Nitin Gadkari with senior leader L K Advani at party's Parliamentary Board meeting in New Delhi, to take a final decision on the Jharkhand issue.
- PTI Photo/Vijay Kumar Joshi
May 10, 2010
Vishva Hindu Parishad International Secretary Praveen Togadia arrives to appear before the Special Investigation Team for a questioning in connection with 2002 post-Godhra communal riots, in Gandhinagar.
- PTI Photo
May 10, 2010
Paramilitary soldiers patrol a deserted street during a strike in Srinagar. Shops, businesses and schools stayed shut in Kashmir during a strike call given by Kashmir High Court Bar Association in Srinagar.
- AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan
May 10, 2010
Pro-government supporters chant slogans with a Thai national flag in front of a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok, Thailand. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva pleaded for an end to two months of street protests paralysing part of the capital and an acceptance of his reconciliation plan that has been stalled by fresh violence.
- AP Photo/Wally Santana
May 10, 2010
A burqa-clad Afghan woman, who calls herself a victim of war, looks on during a "victims' jirga" (a meeting) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mothers of slain teenage sons, men marred by mine blasts and tearful widows were among Afghans who spoke out at a conference billed as the first major gathering of victims of decades of war in their country.
- AP Photo/Dar Yasin
May 10, 2010
An oil soaked bird struggles against the side of the HOS an Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
- AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
May 10, 2010
A giant canvas of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival's official poster is seen seen on the Cannes Festival Palace. The Cannes Film Festival will start on May 12.
- AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau
May 10, 2010
A police investigator stands near a dead body as they secure the scene after a firefight in Bacoor town in Cavite province, south of Manila, Philippines. A Philippine Marine and a civilian acting as a congressional candidate's bodyguard were killed in a clash outside a police station.
- AP Photo/Pat Roque
May 10, 2010
Sports Minister MS Gill aims at a target during the inauguration of Full Bore Shooting Range Complex, a venue for Commonwealth Games 2010, in Gurgaon.
- PTI Photo
May 10, 2010
Artist playing traditional wind instrument during felicitation of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in a rally at Ashta near Sangli.
- PTI Photo
May 10, 2010
Some 40,000 Taiwanese hold candles to pray during the Taiwan National Buddha's Birthday celebration in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hal in Taipei, Taiwan. Buddha's birthday is celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, and statutory on the second Sunday, Mother's Day, of May in Taiwan.
- AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying
May 10, 2010
Paul Petrehn of Howell, Mich. drops his competition marker during the Founders Race at the Centennial Era Balloon Festival in Indianapolis. The race left the infield at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
- AP Photo/Darron Cummings
May 10, 2010
An aerial image shows a renewed column of ash rising from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano. The plume of volcanic ash snaked its way through southern France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, shutting down airports and disrupting flights across Europe. Trans-Atlantic connections were also being diverted around a larger patch of ash cloud stretching from southern Greenland to the coast of Portugal, adding several hours to flights between Europe and North America and causing congestion as airlines tried to squeeze their planes through remaining routes.
- AP Photo/ APTN
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