Day in pictures

1 of 8 An entrant jumps a hurdle at the Pig Racing and Diving display at the Sydney Royal Easter Show in Australia.

2 of 8 Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher tests the track for the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang.

3 of 8 Indian army Service Corps cadets show off their motorbike skills on graduation day in Madras.

4 of 8 Russia's Vladimir Putin arrives in Paris for talks with old anti-war allies France and Germany, and now Spain too.

5 of 8 Moscow schoolgirls make a giant snowball as they play in the yard.

6 of 8 Princess Mathilde of Belgium meets slum-dwellers in Bombay towards the end of a week-long visit to India.

7 of 8 Pte Johnson Beharry, the British Army's newest Victoria Cross bearer, chats to veteran Lt Col ECT Wilson, also a "VC".

8 of 8 Members of the Toyota partner robot music band play a fanfare at a press preview of the Aichi Expo 2005 in Japan.