Day in pictures

1 of 10 A Japanese man carries a little girl on his shoulders to admire Tokyo's famous cherry blossoms.

2 of 10 Young Afghan girls shade themselves from the sun as they wait for school to begin in Kabul.

3 of 10 This rare fluorescent yellow Port Jackson shark suffers from a form of albinism and cannot protect himself in the wild, so staff at an Australian aquarium are looking after him.

4 of 10 As temperatures in Iraq rise, these teenage boys in Samawa - south of Baghdad - cool off in the River Euphrates.

5 of 10 South Korean soldiers prepare for service in Iraq at a training camp near the South Korean capital Seoul.

6 of 10 Indonesian workers prepare t-shirts of assassinated Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Jakarta.

7 of 10 A cyclist walks past a huge poster celebrating a new communications network in Singapore.

8 of 10 Ian Thorpe takes a breath during the Australian 200m freestyle Olympic swimming trials.

9 of 10 British troops clash with Iraqis in Basra after attempting to evict anti-coalition activists from a government building.

10 of 10 A Chinese man walks through a dust-storm that has enveloped Beijing.