Europe's week in pictures

The news and the pictures from Europe over the last seven days.

Macedonia teetered between peace and war - as the deaths of 10 soldiers caused protests and more violence

After his mammoth train journey, North Korean President Kim Jong-il completed his state visit before heading slowly home again

Austria saw two head-on crashes in road tunnels in one week, leaving eight people dead

Bosnian Muslims in Visegrad buried the bodies of 152 of their relatives who had been found in mass graves

The US student accused of spying, John Tobin, flew home from Russia where he had been jailed on drugs charges

Workers in Greece fought raging fires which threatened the capital, Athens, and some venues for the 2004 Olympics...

While in Spain they took the battle to the air, dropping buckets of water to quell the blaze

Elsewhere, people were cooling off - on the Croatian island of Katarina children were enjoying their holidays

And the polar bears found it hot too - a mother and cub brave the 30C heat at Belgrade zoo