Day in pictures

A freed hostage after being rescued from the Oberoi-Trident Hotel in Mumbai.

People visit the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, which has seen a decline in tourism as the global economic downturn takes its toll.

Indian Reang refugees hold up identity cards at a polling station in a refugee camp, north of Agartala in the state of Tripura.

A nun walks past an election banner for Romania's Social Democrat Party, which is leading the polls ahead of elections on Sunday .

Folk actors from the Qiang culture perform in the quake-hit Chinese province of Sichuan.

A worker puts the finishing touches to a giant cake shaped like a Christmas tree at a shopping centre in Jakarta.

A Hajj pilgrim sleeps at Bangkok's international airport, where anti-government protesters continued their blockade.

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