HOME AND ABROAD

Mourning?

The rally was called to mourn the murder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But the Bangladesh Chatra League's victory parade-like bus rallies created a public transport nightmare in downtown Dhaka.

Illegal makeshift shops

Illegal makeshift shops and poorly parked vehicles occupy the street in front of the emergency section of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Evicted several months ago, they have resurfaced again.

Eruption

Mount Tavurvur erupts in eastern Papua New Guinea spewing rocks and ash into the air and forcing the evacuation of local communities and international flights to be re-routed. Mount Tavurvur, which destroyed the town of Rabaul when it erupted simultaneously with the nearby Mount Vulcan in 1994, rumbled to life early in the morning on the tip of the remote island of New Britain.

100 metres world record for centenarians

One-hundred-and three-year-old sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki is helped by his daughter Kiyono (R) and 89-year-old athlete Hiroshi Miyamoto (L) after crossing the finish line in the men's 100m dash at Japan Masters Athletics competition in Kyoto.

World's heaviest and longest turban

Meet devout Sikh Avtar Singh Mauni --the proud owner of the world's largest turban. He wears the traditional Punjabi turban called a 'pagdi' in the Indian town of Patiala in Punjab, India.