Children use sticks to control their beetles in a miniature boxing ring during the Insect World Battle Championships beetle bout in Tokyo. Beetles are popular pets in Japan, where many children go hunting for insects during summer vacations or as part of school projects.

A tourist observes a painting of a Khmer Rouge prisoner on display at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Chief Khmer Rouge inquisitor Duch was charged with crimes against humanity on Tuesday, the first of Pol Pot's henchmen to be formally accused over the deaths of 1.7 million people in Cambodia's "Killing Fields."

Rescuers carry a miner from a flooded coal mine in Shanxian, China. Chinese workers rescued 69 coal miners who had been trapped in a flooded shaft for more than three days, according to the state media.

Chinese military officers with the new style military uniform attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.

Farmers collect water from a dried-up pond in Wangcheng county, China. More than 1.2 million people in the central Chinese province of Hunan are facing a "water crisis" after four weeks of drought and high temperatures.

A labourer clears algae from a pond in Yingtan, China.

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