Images of the Day

Images of the Day as selected by Deputy Picture Editor Brenda Fitzsimons

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FEES PROTEST: Students march through the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on October 21st, 2015, during a protest against fee hikes. Universities in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and other cities have halted lectures during several days of protests against fee increases that many students say will force poor blacks further out of the education system. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

BAPTISM OF FIRE: Young ethnic Malaysian-Chinese children wait for the start of a fire-walking ritual during the annual Nine Emperor Gods festival in Kuala Lumpur. During the nine-day Taoist celebration, beginning on the eve of the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the festival welcomes the emperor gods that live in the stars under the reign of Thien Hou or the Queen of Heaven, who brings good fortune, longevity and good health. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images

ISRAEL UNREST: Israeli soldiers next to the covered body of a Palestinian man at the scene of a stabbing attack near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Adam, north of Jerusalem. Israeli forces shot dead the Palestinian, who had stabbed and wounded a soldier near the Jewish settlement of Adam in the occupied West Bank, police said. Nine Israelis have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks since the start of October, while 48 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces in response. Photograph: Nir Elias/Reuters

TAKING OFF: Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive; Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport; and Stephen Kavanagh, Aer Lingus chief executive, flanked by cabin crew members Michelle Thompson and Catherine Connolly, at the announcement of a transatlantic expansion of the Aer Lingus long haul network for 2016, with three new routes to the United States - Los Angeles, New Jersey and Hartford, Connecticut - and the addition of 200 new jobs at the airline. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Wed Oct 21 2015 - 19:32

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