![Displaced Indian Christian villager in Orissa](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45135000/jpg/_45135573_c3022544-8aa2-4754-807c-7e43390c18e0.jpg)
An Indian Christian villager at a relief camp in the eastern state of Orissa after her house was torched and her son burned alive by Hindu hardliners.
![US Army soldiers hold a memorial in Afghanistan](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45135000/jpg/_45135576_13351183-708a-4e59-89e2-0e90d8fef667.jpg)
Meanwhile, US Army soldiers hold a memorial service at an outpost in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, for a comrade killed by a mortar round.
![Funeral in Karbala, Iraq](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45135000/jpg/_45135574_3f36e0cd-2a88-4ca5-91dd-384fe9fef33b.jpg)
In the Iraqi Shia holy city of Karbala, funerals are held for 34 men whose skeletal remains were found at a factory near the Syrian border three years after they vanished.
![Philippine troops fire cannon at Muslim separatists](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45135000/jpg/_45135575_c2a729c4-5ee1-42c4-9c09-412877845902.jpg)
Philippine troops continue an offensive against Muslim separatists in Maguindanao province, amid official warnings that the operation, which began in August, is straining army finances.
----> bbc (day in pictures)
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