Europe's week in pictures

The news and the pictures from Europe over the last seven days have been predominantly grim, from conflict in the Balkans, floods in Eastern Europe, and the ravages of foot-and-mouth disease in the West.

Fighting in Macedonia spread on Wednesday to the country's second largest city, Tetovo

The predominantly ethnic Albanian population demonstrated in support of guerrillas fighting in nearby mountain villages

The guerrillas fired down on the city, as they in turn were fired upon

Meanwhile in Serbia's Presevo valley, Nato allowed Serb forces into a demilitarised zone to halt the flow of arms to Macedonia

France experienced its first case of foot-and-mouth disease - these pigs were among thousands of animals slaughtered

The smoke from burning cattle filled the air

Floods continued in Hungary and Ukraine - here a villager milks a cow in poverty-stricken western Ukraine

Hungarian firemen moved in with disinfectant as the floods receded in Gulacs

Chechens who hijacked a Russian plane in Istanbul were arrested in Saudi Arabia after the plane was stormed

More happily, a couple married under water in San Sebastian, Spain