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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being welcomed by MoS for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (right) at the inauguration of a two-day conference of Chief Ministers and State Ministers (forests/tribal development) to review the implementation of forest rights and tribal development programmes, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Read report~Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell at the Inya Lake Hotel in Yangon on November 4, 2009. A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years. Read story~Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a meeting in Cairo on November 4, 2009. Clinton met with Mubarak in an attempt to salvage her Middle East tour after upsetting Arabs with praise of Israel.~Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Royal Enfield R.L. Ravichandran poses with a Royal Enfield Classic 500 motorcycle during its unveiling in New Delhi on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Royal Enfield Motorcycles, which pioneered four stroke motorcycle engine technology in India in 1955, is the oldest existing motorcycle company in the world and a division of Eicher Motors Limited.~Actress Melanie Laurent arrives at a red carpet event for the Japan premiere of the movie "Inglourious Basterds" in Tokyo on November 4, 2009.~Workers and onlookers at the site where the Gujarat bound Gandhigram Express got derailed on the Panvel-Vasai route near Dombivali, injuring 12 persons, in Thane district on Wednesday.~Contestants vying for the Miss Earth 2009 crown parade with placards in their swimsuits in front of press photographers in Manila on November 4, 2009. 87 beauties championing green causes took part in the Miss Earth beauty pageant, with the aim to spread awareness on environmental issues. The winner will be crowned on November 22, 2009 in Boracay Island from among the contestants in 87 countries.~Rescue workers pull a boat through flooded waters in Binh Dinh province, in south central coast, in Vietnam, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 57 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the affected central regions.~Mayor Michael Bloomberg celebrates on stage after a narrow win over Democratic challenger William Thompson November 3, 2009 in New York City. This will be Bloomberg's third term as mayor of New York, after he made a controversial move to overturn term limits and greatly outspent Thompson in his campaign.~Singer Keri Hilson accepts Best New Artist award at the taping of 2009 Soul Train Award in Atlanta, Georgia November 3, 2009. The 2009 Soul Train Awards will be telecast simultaneously on Centric and BET television networks November 29, 2009.~Bayern's Bastian Schweinsteiger, left, and Bordeaux's Alou Diarra, right, vie for the ball during their Group A Champions League soccer match in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Bordeaux won the match 2-0.~New Jersey Governor-elect Chris Christie (L) is joined by Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno (2nd, L) and his wife Mary Pat before delivering his victory speech at the election night headquarters in Parsippany, New Jersey on November 3, 2009. Read story~Actor Alec Baldwin accepts the award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for "30 Rock" at the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in this September 21, 2008 file photograph. Baldwin and comedian Steve Martin have been picked to co-host the upcoming 82nd Academy Awards, Oscar organizers said on November 3, 2009.~Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell waves to the crowd at his victory party in Richmond, Virginia., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Unofficial results showed McDonnell, a conservative and former state attorney general, with about 60 percent of the vote over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. He will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years.
Read story~Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, a half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, introduces his first novel "Nairobi to Shenzhen" during a pre-launch news conference held by the American Chamber of Commerce in South China, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on November 4, 2009.~Swami Ramdev with Maulana Mahmood Madani and N A Farooqui at the general session of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, a frontal organisation of Indian Muslims, in Deoband. Read story~Team Germany's Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel celebrate after beating team Britain's Jenson Button and Andy Priaulx in the Race of Champions Nations Cup at the "Bird Nest" National Stadium in Beijing.~A trader holds gold jewellery at a shop in Mumbai. The IMF has sold 200 tonnes of gold to the RBI for $6.7 bn, quietly executing half of a long-planned bullion sale that has threatened to slow gold's ascent. Read story~German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington. Merkel is the first German leader to address the US Congress since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.~Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall tour an archeological dig of the first English settlement in Newfoundland. They both are in Canada for an 11-day visit.~