The day in pictures

1 of 10 South Korean anti-war protesters burn a picture of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Seoul

2 of 10 An elderly Ukrainian man passes the shadow of a monument to those who died of starvation in the country in the 1930s

3 of 10 Students from the Baghdad Technical Medicine College demonstrate to save their college from closure

4 of 10 A protester smokes in the rain during a rally outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi

5 of 10 An artist finishes a background portrait of Johnny Cash on stage before a memorial tribute to the singer in Nashville

6 of 10 A Vietnamese waste collector carries dozens of used plastic bottles along a street in Hanoi

7 of 10 The finishing touches are applied to Edinburgh's world-famous floral clock

8 of 10 A German carnival-goer dressed as a jester enjoys a beer during a carnival party in a Cologne street

9 of 10 Two dancers rehearse in front of the world's largest signed Picasso canvas - on show at the Royal Opera House, London

10 of 10 The world's most pierced woman, Elaine Davidson, and Stephen Taylor, the man with the world's longest tongue, celebrate the printing of the 100 millionth copy of the Guinness Book of Records