Tuesday: The Day in Photos - Nepal

Prakash Mathema AFP / Getty Images / September 2, 2008

Nepalese Hindu women, dressed in red, dance after paying homage to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, as they celebrate the Teej festival in Katmandu. The three-day-long Teej festival, celebrated by Hindu women in Nepal and some parts of India, is observed with married women fasting during the day and praying for long lives for their husbands, while unmarried women wish for handsome husbands and happy conjugal lives.