The day in pictures

1 of 12 Stars, a white turkey, was spared from ending up as Thanksgiving dinner when President Bush "pardoned" him, during Monday's traditional White House ceremony.

2 of 12 A British Airways Concorde is loaded onto a barge at New York's John F Kennedy Airport - on its way to the city's Intrepid Air Space Museum, where it will be on display.

3 of 12 A Colombian peasant rides past paramilitary fighters near Medellin, where 800 militiamen are due to lay down their arms on Tuesday.

4 of 12 In Bangladesh, crowds of people headed to family homes to celebrate the Eid holiday which marks the end of Ramadan.

5 of 12 Tbilisi was mostly calm following weekend protests in Georgia that overthrew President Eduard Shevardnadze.

6 of 12 Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama was in Calcutta, India for a celebration of Indo-Tibetan educational ties.

7 of 12 US soldiers in Iraq continued their search for insurgents amid warnings of more attacks against coalition forces.

8 of 12 Japanese observers in the Antarctic watched a spectacular solar eclipse - but the show lasted just two minutes.

9 of 12 Models paraded in Beijing as the Chinese capital held its annual Fashion Week.

10 of 12 South Korean special police practised abseiling as part of anti-terrorism exercise.

11 of 12 French President Jacques Chirac was in London for talks on topics including Iraq and the Middle East.

12 of 12 A Japanese bride and groom walked down the world's longest wedding aisle at the Shibuya Mark City mall in Tokyo.