Day in pictures

1 of 9 An Israeli riot policeman falls from his horse during an operation to remove Jewish settlers from a West Bank outpost.

2 of 9 A Brazilian searches amid the wreckage of a plane in the Amazon jungle. Thirty passengers and three crew died.

3 of 9 A Palestinian girl sits on a donkey as her family prepares to abandon their home in the Rafah refugee camp before an expected Israeli offensive.

4 of 9 An investor takes a nap at a trading house in Taiwan's capital, Taipei.

5 of 9 Hindu nationalists shout slogans against the candidature of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, in Bangalore.

6 of 9 A Shell petrol station owner makes his own comment on the price of fuel in Menlo Park, California.

7 of 9 Iraqi detainees stand behind wire at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.

8 of 9 Britain's Jane Tomlinson cycles up Mount Ventoux in France four years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

9 of 9 U2 lead-singer Bono after being given an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the University of Pennsylvania.