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Hoardings and cutouts of JD(S) leader & chief minister-designate H D Kumaraswamy and Congress leaders placed in front of the Vidhana Soudha before the swearing-in ceremony of JD(S) and Congress alliance, in Bengaluru, on Wednesday. (PTI)

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel outside Vidhana Soudha ahead of the swearing-in ceremony the Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress coalition government, in Bengaluru on Wednesday. (PTI)

NYSE Chief Operating Officer Stacey Cunningham, who will be the New York Stock Exchange's (NYSE) first female president, poses on the floor of the NYSE in New York, US. (Reuters)

Activists display a banner and a mural of President Rodrigo Duterte to denounce the declaration of martial law in Mindanao island, one year after Islamic militants occupied parts of Marawi during a protest outside the presidential palace in Metro Manila, Philippines. (Reuters)

Aziz Sheikh (L) father of Sabika Aziz Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student, who was killed with others when a gunman attacked Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, U.S., comforts her friends, during a funeral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Youth Congress activists demonstrate against the fuel price hike, in Bhopal, on Wednesday. (PTI)

Pope Francis leads the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican. (Reuters)

Migrants, part of a group intercepted aboard two dinghies off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, rest on a rescue boat upon arrival at the port of Malaga, Spain. (Reuters)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to German Labour Minister Hubertus Heil during weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany. (Reuters)

Carabinieri's officers patrol the area after a bomb alert in a bank on the road leading to the Vatican in Rome, Italy. (Reuters)