DIWALI, INDIAN FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS. Malaysian Indian peacock dancers perform at the 11th Nestle Everyday Diwali Carnival at the National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil car park, Malaysia on 8 November 2012. Celebrants citywide will be lighting diyas, or clay lanterns, to mark the triumph of good over evil. Diwali will be celebrate nationwide on 13 November 2012. Photo courtesy bernama.com

An automobile assembly plant in Venezuela. Venezuela�s automotive sector shows signs of recovery, with an inter-annual increase of 5.2 percent in the assembly of vehicles from January to November 2012. During this period, 101,069 units were assembled, with the figure expected to reach 110,000 by year-end, a spokesman of the Venezuelan Automotive Chamber (Cavenez) said on Dec 24, 2012. Photo courtesy of dclasemagazine.blogspot.com

MALAYSIAN WOMAN CONQUERS AFRICA�S MOUNT KILIMANJARO. Siti Hanisah Sharuddin (L) accompanied by her coach, Zainudin Lot arrived at the International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21 Oct 2013 after a five-day climbing African continent's highest mountain Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,895 metres. Photo courtesy Bernama Images

MALAYSIAN WOMAN CONQUERS AFRICA�S MOUNT KILIMANJARO. Siti Hanisah Sharuddin (L) accompanied by her coach, Zainudin Lot arrived at the International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21 Oct 2013 after a five-day climbing African continent's highest mountain Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,895 metres. Photo courtesy Bernama Images

A butterfly lands on the face of a girl during a butterfly exhibition in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 21 Oct 2013. Photo courtesy Vyacheslav oseledko

Members of the Special Forces of the Colombian Army participate in a security drill for the seventh Summit of the Pacific Alliance held on 23 May, in Cali, Colombia. Several Latin American presidents including Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru are looking to decrease trade barriers as they gather in Cali for the VII Pacific Alliance Summit. Photo courtesy Christian Escobar Mora.

Photo taken on 15 May 2013 a billboard in Peru has been designed to create drinking water from humidity in the air, and has produced 15,000 litres in six months. Water is essential for life. No living being on planet Earth can survive without it. It is a prerequisite for human health and well-being as well as for the preservation of the environment. The International Day for Biological Diversity, celebrated every year on 22 May, to reflect on the role of biodiversity for our lives. The theme…

Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin meets with Irina Bokova (right) Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21 May 2013. Bokova is on her first official visit to Malaysia and scheduled to meet Malaysia Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and visit world heritage sites. Photo courtesy Bernama.images

The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 20 March the International Day of Happiness recognizing the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the world and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives.

The Congolese rebel leader Gen Bosco Ntaganda (photo) said to be on the run in the Virunga forests in eastern DRC has been confirmed to be in the US embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, Foreign Affairs Minister of Rwanda Louise Mushikiwabo said in a statement on March 18, 2013. In 2006, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Ntaganda, who was then a General in DRC�s national army, for crimes committed against civilians in the Ituri region from 2002 to 2003. He was also accused of recruiting child…

Ghassan Hitto (center) speaks to the press after being elected as the prime minister of the interim government of Syria's opposition, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 19, 2013. The Syrian opposition coalition elected Ghassan Hitto as the prime minister of its interim government early Tuesday morning as part of the efforts to establish a coherent and inclusive political body to administer the opposition-held areas in northern Syria. Hitto, a communications executive, has lived in the United States…

Pakistani civil activists hold candles during a candlelight vigil for the victims of the deadly blast in Quetta killing 87 people last Saturday, in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar, Feb. 19, 2013. At least 87 people were killed and 120 others injured in twin blasts that rocked Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Thursday night, according to police and hospital sources. Photo courtesy Xinhua.net

A trade union leader was killed in the northern Indian city Ambala Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 in a nationwide strike, reported local media. Photo shows police trying to disperse activists who blocked a railway line during a nationwide strike in Guwahati, capital city of India's northeastern state of Assam. Indian unions started a two-day strike Wednesday to protest high inflation, privatization of public sector and alleged anti-labour policies by the Congress-led government. Photo courtesy…

Phiona Mutesi wearing the medal she won in a chess tournament. Mutesi went from living rough on the streets of a Kampala, Uganda slum to competing in chess' most prestigious international tournaments in 2012. Mutesi is the first female Ugandan to reach the level of candidate master and the country's reigning under 20 champion. Photo courtesy Michele SibiloniF

A teacher checks students' chalk boards in a classroom where the majority of tables and benches were taken by Islamists, on the first day of the reopening of schools after the French bombing of Islamist targets, in Gao, Mali. Schools reopened on 5 February 2013 in Gao after the town was taken on January 26 by French and Malian forces from Islamists who had been occupying it for the last year. Photo courtesy Sia Kambou

Bull tamers try to control a bull during the bull-taming sport called Jallikattu, in Palamedu, about 575 kilomters (359 miles) south of Chennai, India on 15 January 2013. Jallikattu is an ancient heroic sporting event of the Tamils played during the second day of the harvest festival of Ponggal. Photo courtesy Arun Sankar K.