2012-08-09 Photo gallery

A ceremony is held in front of the Statue of Peace at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 to mark the 67th anniversary of the world's second atomic bomb attack. AP 

In this undated photo provided by the Australian Antarctic Division, their Airbus A319 taxis on the runway at McMurdo base in Antarctica. An Australian rescue team swooped into Antarctica on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 to evacuate an American experiencing...

Ethiopia's Abeba Aregawi crosses the finish line to win her women's 1500-meter semifinal during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. AP

Ireland's Paddy Barnes, right, fights India's Devendro Singh Laishram in a light flyweight 49-kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. AP 

United States' Aries Merritt wins the men's 110-meters hurdles final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. AP 

United States' Allyson Felix crosses the finish line to win the women's 200-meters final ahead of compatriot Carmelita Jeter, left, and Ivory Coast's Murielle Ahoure during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wed...

Sunset in Redang Island, Malaysia by Padmakar

Cauvery North Bridge in Srirangapatna by Santosh Kulkarni

Photo of Nainital Lake by Ishita Dam 

Canada's team perform in the synchronised swimming teams technical routine competition during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre August 9, 2012. REUTERS

India's Sahana Kumari competes in the qualification round of women's high jump event at the Olympic Games in London on Thursday. PTI

India's Geeta Pogat (in blue) fights with Canada's Tonya Lynn Verbeek in the women's 55 kg freestyle 1/8 finals at Olympic Games in London on Thursday. PTI

Colombia's Carlos Mario Oquendo Zabala, left, South Africa's Sifiso Nhlapo, center, and Latvia's Maris Strombergs, compete in a BMX cycling men's quarterfinal run during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. AP

Supporters of Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev wave Indian flags during a mass anti-corruption protest, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. Indians shouted patriotic slogans and listened to a rousing speech from a charismatic yoga guru who began...

President Pranab Mukherjee honouring freedom fighters on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Quit India Movement at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI

A man along with a kid enact crossing of Yamuna by Vasudev and Krishna, on the eve of Janamashtami in Agra on Thursday. PTI

Security jawans at the site of an IED blast at Kishnoi in Goalpara district of Assam on Thursday. PTI

Ballistic missile AGNI-II, with a range of 2,000 km, lifts off during its successful test for strategic forces at the Wheeler's Island in Odisha on Thursday. PTI

Villagers damage a water tank on land allotted by the state government to build a university at Lavad village, about 44 km (27 miles) east of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad August 9, 2012. Thousands of villagers on Thursday stormed the universi...