Day in pictures

1 of 10 An Iraqi boy waits for customers at his shoe stall in Baghdad.

2 of 10 Polishing up the image of the late Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, on display in Beijing.

3 of 10 Israeli workers protest in Jerusalem on the first day of a general strike.

4 of 10 Iranian policemen march during a military parade in a suburb of Tehran.

5 of 10 Russian and American astronauts prepare for an exam at the Soyuz-TM spacecraft simulator outside Moscow.

6 of 10 Chinese men wait for discarded building materials at a construction site in Shanghai as new high-rise buildings soar behind them.

7 of 10 A visitor passes an art installation by American artist Bruce Naumann in Berlin, Germany.

8 of 10 On the eve of Yom Kippur, orthodox Jews in Jerusalem swing chickens above their heads to absorb the previous year's sins.

9 of 10 Greeting Mother Earth and Grandfather Sky, a Cherokee Indian prays in front of the US Capitol Building.

10 of 10 A polar bear relaxes in a pool at a zoo in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, as spring starts in the southern hemisphere.