LONG BEACH: Crystal earrings owned by Marilyn Monroe are displayed at ‘Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit’ on the Queen Mary at the start of its world tour. The exhibition is the world’s largest collection of never-before-seen Marilyn artifacts, featuring thousands of intimate pieces and personal property belonging to the icon.

TOKYO: A sweet shop employee displays cheese cakes with chocolate wizard hats, priced at 350 yen at a Harry Potter exhibition, which displays stage garments and props from the latest sequel ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, at a department store.

AMRITSAR: Indian Sikh devotees gather in front of the illuminated Golden Temple on the eve of the 536th birth anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.

JILIN: Dead fish washed up along the banks of the Songhua river after the recent explosion of two benzene processing towers at a petroleum and chemical company that could end up polluting waters in the Songhua river. Water supplies were cut off in one of China's biggest cities, as the government confirmed that a potential chemical leak into river water from a factory blast was behind the ‘emergency’ measure.

SEOUL: South Korean mothers pray for their children’s success in passing their university entrance exams at a Buddihist temple. Nearly 600,000 students and university applicants in South Korea were scheduled to take an examination last week that would virtually determine their admission to college.

HAIFA: Doctors put Ganov, a two-and-a-half-year-old African lioness, into a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner, usually reserved for humans, at a hospital. The Haifa zoo wants to determine if the big cat has an illness, causing loss of vitamin A, a condition which can affect the species in captivity. The CAT scanner produces cross-sectional and holographic X-ray imagery.