Day in pictures

1 of 9 A former North Vietnamese soldier commemorates the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war.

2 of 9 An 1800-year-old olive tree is moved to a French national park.

3 of 9 A rare pear-shaped diamond goes on display at an auction house in Hong Kong.

4 of 9 Beer marking the UK general election goes on sale in Bury St Edmunds.

5 of 9 A dust storm blows across western Iraq in this picture released by the US Army.

6 of 9 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial airliner, makes its maiden flight above southern France.

7 of 9 Dozens of sturgeons have been flown from Canada to Germany in an effort to re-introduce the species to their Baltic Sea habitat.

8 of 9 Britain's Prince Charles grimaces during the opening of a sports pavilion in one of London's parks.

9 of 9 A crane lifts an old car at a scrap heap outside St Petersburg in Russia.