Serbia's Jelena Jankovic serves to Canada's Sharon Fichman during their French tennis Open first round match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. AFP
Anti-coup protester takes part in a gathering at the Victory Monument in Bangkok. From teachers and tour guides to financial consultants, a small band of anti-coup protesters from a spectrum of Thailand's divided society is taking to the streets to defy the kingdom's new junta. AFP
An Afghan labourer poses at an aluminium workshop in Herat. Some 100 people work in the Herat Aluminium factory with around around 70 to 100 tons of aluminium produced each month, with most all of its products used domestically. AFP
Pakistani labourers sit under the shade of a roadside installation featuring a car on a pole in Rawalpindi. Mainly hot and dry weather is expected in most parts of the Punjab province as maximum temperatures hit 40 degrees celsius. AFP
Indian army soldiers and onlookers check the wreckage of a MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force which crashed at Marhama Bijbehara village in Anantnag district, south of Srinagar. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who took charge earlier in the day, said he was “extremely sorry” to learn about the accident and called it a “matter of great concern”. AFP
Young Syrian women walk past a huge billboard bearing a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with the slogan “Yes for Assad... Yes for a secure Syria” in the capital Damascus, ahead of next week's presidential elections. AFP
A man rides a horse on the road to Bagram Airfield in Parwan. Afghanistan remains at war, with civilians among the hardest hit as the Taliban wage an increasingly bloody insurgency against the government. AFP
An Egyptian man walks past army vehicles stationed outised a polling station in Cairo on the second day of Egypt's presidential election. Sisi is expected to trounce his only rival, leftist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi, in Egypt's second freely held presidential election, which is being held over two days. AFP
Thai soldiers (Left) receive roses from coup supporters at a military base in Bangkok. Thailand's coup leader received royal endorsement to lead the politically divided kingdom, warning he would brook no further opposition to his takeover in the face of angry street protests. AFP
Thai army chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha (Center) speaks during a press conference at the army headquarters in Bangkok. Thailand's king has formally appointed the army chief as head of the nation's new military junta following a recent coup in the strife-torn nation. AFP
A Kurdish militant runs away after throwing a molotov cocktail on a riot police vehicle at Lice in Diyarbakir, as Kurdish protestors clash to protest against construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey. AFP
A woman walks near barricades of Maidan protesters on IndependenceSquare in Kiev. AFP
Perople react as a man attempts to revive another, wounded as a result of fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. AFP
A woman runs past a vehicle of the Spanish television channel TV3 burning during clashes between police officers. AFP
French Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) right-wing party President Jean-Francois Cope leaves his home for a UMP meeting in Paris. AFP
An Afghan resident rides on his donkey as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar-i-sharif. Afghanistan remains at war, with civilians among the hardest hit, as the Taliban wage an increasingly bloody insurgency against the government. AFP
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