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.

Meanwhile, US Army soldiers hold a memorial service at an outpost in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, for a comrade killed by a mortar round.

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 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)