A student is tossed into the air in a celebration after passing the entrance examination for a prestigious Tokyo University in Tokyo on March 10, 2010.

A woman burns incense at the Yonghegong, also known as the Lama Temple, a temple and monastery belonging to the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism in Beijing on March 10, 2010.

The 82nd Academy Awards was held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California on March 07, 2010.

Although the 34th Wanita MCA AGM held at Wisma MCA Kuala Lumpur proceeded as scheduled as the number of attendees reached 350 (exceeding the quorum), the event was a turbulent one with war of words, physical clashes and the secretariat office being locked.

A villager hoisting his bird cage up a pole during a bird-singing contest in the southern Thai province of Yala.

A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) volunteer adjusting a lettuce dress in Mumba, India, with a sign reading, "Let Veganism Grow on You" to urge people to try a vegan diet.

A park worker cleaning the grass around a Brontosaurus model at the 400-hectare Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park in Gandhinagar, some 30km from Ahmedabad, India.

A soldier standing guard at a supermarket after it was looted and burnt in Coronel near Concepcion, Chile, three days after the deadly quake that killed at least 723 people.

Aerial view showing flooded houses and streets on the Atlantic seaboard between La Rochelle and L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer in western France after the Xynthia storm battered the coast, killing at least 50 and flooding hundreds of homes.

Local residents start cleaning up in the Chilean city of Parral, 340km south of Santiago, three days after a 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the country, killing at least 711 people.