Week in pictures: 14-20 May

1 of 10 Gay rights supporters march in Hong Kong against homophobia and discrimination of sexual minorities.

2 of 10 Ex-chess champion Garry Kasparov attends a Moscow rally to back Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused of fraud.

3 of 10 A man in a Star Wars costume queues for a screening of the entire six-film saga in London.

4 of 10 Many of the contestants in the 2005 Gumball 3000 Rally wore wigs and fancy dress as they left London for the annual fun road trip to Monte Carlo.

5 of 10 The Queen departs Buckingham Palace and rides in the Royal carriage to the House of Lords

6 of 10 The Horse Guards follow the Queen as she heads to the Palace of Westminster

7 of 10 The Uzbek embassy in London is daubed with red paint during a rally by protesters from the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

8 of 10 Champion Kelly Slater makes surfing history, scoring a perfect 20 out of 20 to clinch the Billabong Pro Tahiti title before the 30-minute final was completed.

9 of 10 Futa, a two-year-old male lesser panda at Chiba zoo near Tokyo, can stand on two legs for over 10 seconds, despite never being trained to do so.

10 of 10 Scientists at Newcastle University have cloned a human embryo for the first time in the UK