Protestors broke into the parliament building and ransacked the interior Tuesday after demonstrations turned violent. Here, a looter carries a television out of the parliament building.

The protests carried on into the night. Riot police restored order in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Protesters outside the looted and burning parliament building: Opposition supporters say Moldova, which is one of Europe’s poorest countries, has no future if the Communist Party stays in power.

Fighting broke out between protesters and police in the streets of the capital. Police responded with water cannon and tear gas.

The Interior Ministry said there had been 193 arrests and that around 96 police and 79 demonstrators had been injured.

Police take cover under their shields as they confront protesters in Chisinau.

Women have long been considered second-class citizens in Afghanistan, but their situation became even worse under the Islamist Taliban. NATO has said that one of the aims of its mission in Afghanistan is that of improving the lot of women.

Souad Sbai, a lawmaker from the People of Freedom Party, holds a banner during a demonstration in Rome for Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, an Afghan journalist who was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to death for blasphemy. His crime was downloading material from the Internet on the role of women in Islamic societies.

The new law regulating Shiite family life applies to roughly 10 percent of the women in Afghanistan. Under the Afghan constitution, Shiites can regulate their own family affairs according to traditional Shiite jurisprudence.

The new law requires women to submit to sex with their husbands at least every four days.

The largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has long been an open-air exhibit called the East Side Gallery. One of its most famous paintings showed former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker.

The picture inspired many visitors to replicate the scene.

The original: Brezhnev and Honecker get cosy at celebrations marking 30 years of the GDR in 1979.

The painting, however, is no more to be seen. Authorities recently removed it as part of renovation work on the monument. Only the picture’s inscription, “My God, help me to survive this deadly love,” is left at the top of the wall.