Day in pictures

A Sri Lankan woman weeps as she arrives at a mortuary to claim the body of her husband, killed in a suicide attack in Colombo on Tuesday.

An Indian holy man, known as a sadhu, looks out from a Hindu shrine in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Mourners in Slavutich, Ukraine, hold a candlelit vigil to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

Scientists in China help the birth of a cloned calf said to be genetically modified to be resistant to mad cow disease.

The remains of thousands of German soldiers who died during World War II await transfer from storage in a factory in the Czech Republic.

An Afghan street vendor walks the streets of Kabul.

UK Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt is heckled at a nurses' conference as she tries to address their fears about deficits in the health service.

Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos participates in a rally in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico.

Women in Manila compete to represent the Philippines at the Miss Earth contest in Chile later this year.

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