Day in pictures

1 of 10 African immigrants wait anxiously aboard an Italian Coast Guard boat in the port of the southern island of Lampedusa.

2 of 10 French police at the port of Cherbourg guard the Pacific Pintail, carrying 140kg of US plutonium.

3 of 10 The father of Bashir al-Dabbash, a senior Islamic Jihad militant, grieves after his son died in an Israeli air strike.

4 of 10 Iraqis in the town of Youssefia, south of Baghdad, inspect a hole in a bridge after militants attempted to blow it up.

5 of 10 A supporter of Afghan President Hamid Karzai holds a placard at an electoral rally at Kabul stadium.

6 of 10 A 1983 picture of veteran BBC weatherman Michael Fish, who is retiring after more than 30 years.

7 of 10 A nurse in Colombo, Sri Lanka, cares for one of a set of quintuplets born to a previously childless couple.

8 of 10 Volcano Mount Rinjani, on the Indonesian island of Lombok, spews ash into the air.

9 of 10 A Sony employee demonstrates new "entertainment robots", due to go on sale in Japan at a price of around $1,750.

10 of 10 Chinese travellers in Beijing at a city railway station as "Golden Week" National Day holidays come to a close.