Day in pictures

1 of 6 Members of the British team leave for Athens to take part in the upcoming Olympic Games.

2 of 6 In Belgium, more than a dozen people are killed and many injured when a gas pipeline explodes in an industrial park.

3 of 6 A stamp featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on sale in his Austrian homeland to mark the 57th birthday of the actor-turned-California governor.

4 of 6 John Kerry and his running mate John Edwards salute delegates at the end of Democrats' national convention in Boston.

5 of 6 In Dhaka, Bangladeshi flood victims clamour to get food - more than 500 people have died in the disaster so far.

6 of 6 Japanese Emperor Akihito in Tokyo opens an eight-day extraordinary session of parliament.