NUCLEAR PROTEST: A man participated in a protest against the Russian-built Kudankulam Atomic Power Project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Wednesday. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)

DEADLY FIRES: Maryam Aslam asked after her missing brother, a worker in a garment factory that caught fire Tuesday night in Karachi, Pakistan. A pair of factory fires in Pakistan’s two biggest cities killed at least 314 people. (Shakil Adil/Associated Press)

SEEKING SHELTER: An elderly Syrian man, who fled his home due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, slept under a mosquito net at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near Azaz, Syria, Wednesday, as he waited to cross into to one of the refugee camps in Turkey. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

ON PATROL: U.S. Army Lt. Jameson Bligh, third from left, stopped to talk to a villager at a settlement near Kandahar Air Field Wednesday in Afghanistan. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

ON FIRE: A man tried to put out a fire burning on an empty lot near an office building at Rasuna Said, Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday. (Veri Sanovri/Xinhua/Zuma Press)

SHINY: A gold-plated AK-47 rifle seized from Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez, aka ‘El Molca,’ the alleged leader of the drug cartel known as the Resistance, was presented to the press in Mexico City Wednesday. Mr. Pozos Gonzalez was arrested Tuesday evening in the state of Mexico. (Ronaldo Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)