The day in pictures

1 of 10 East Timorese remember the 200 victims - mainly teenagers - of the Santa Cruz massacre on 12 November 1991. They were shot at the funeral of 18-year-old activist Sebatiao Gomes.

2 of 10 Star attraction... the space suit worn by China's first astronaut Yang Liwei goes on display at a two-day exhibition in Shanghai. Day one attracted more than 130,000 visitors.

3 of 10 19-year-old Michael Alan Connell is one of the youngest Britons ever to fall foul of Thailand's anti-drug laws. He was arrested at Bangkok airport on drug trafficking charges.

4 of 10 Italy's paramilitary police - the Carabinieri - mourn the loss of 11 colleagues along with six other Italians in a bomb attack on their base in the Iraqi city of Nasiriya

5 of 10 Dressed as monsters with newspapers in their mouths, two Indian activists protest at attempts by the Tamil Nadu government to arrest six journalists critical of its policies.

6 of 10 In Britain, preparations are well under way for US President George W Bush's state visit next week. He will be staying at Buckingham Palace as a guest of the Queen.

7 of 10 Preparations too at the London-offices of the Stop the War Coalition for a mass demonstration during President Bush's visit.

8 of 10 Remembering the victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed two years ago in a New York suburb - an area that lost many of its own in the 9/11 attacks two months earlier.

9 of 10 Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is handed a vote of confidence in his new cabinet at a meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

10 of 10 Splash happy... a playful moment on the beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.