Europe's week in pictures

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

Survivors sat in shock after Austria's third tunnel crash since the beginning of August

The first foreign troops arrived in Macedonia as Nato's mission there got under way...

...but the killings and despair continued despite the peace deal

Genocide charges awaited Bosnian Serb Colonel Vidoje Blagojevic, brought before The Hague tribunal

Denmark's new Israeli ambassador prompted street protests over his former role in the security service

A year after the Kursk submarine tragedy, widows wept as they remembered their husbands...

...and 10 years on from the Soviet coup, Gorbachev remembered Boris Yeltsin - and wished he'd sent him to a banana republic

Roman Catholics across Europe celebrated their belief that the Virgin Mary was taken up to heaven

A proud moment for Norwegian regimental penguin Nils Olav, presented with a badge of office on behalf of the King of Norway