12th national election of Bangladesh: The pageantry of campaigning, the parade of voting, the charade of counting, all are engineered with one simple goal – to fool the West into believing that all was conducted fairly in a shining model of democracy.
Looking frail but determined, Serbian opposition leader Marinika Tepic fixes her makeshift bed a leather sofa inside a parliament building, where she has been on hunger strike since Monday. Tepic is one of seven members of the main opposition camp, united under the banner "Serbia Against Violence", to have gone on hunger strike over the results.