Day in pictures

The Russian city of St Petersburg is preparing to receive world leaders for the G8 summit at the weekend.

Afghan girls enjoy themselves at the Women's Garden in Kabul. The park was destroyed during the civil war and restored after the fall of the Taleban.

Mumbai rail commuters offer their condolences at Dadar train station to remember the victims of Tuesday's bombings which killed 200 people and injured hundreds.

Men fight to become grand champion of Mongolian wrestling during a sporting festival in the capital, Ulan Bator.

A worshipper is led past lanterns during the summer festival at Japan's controversial Yasukuni shrine, where war criminals are honoured alongside war victims.

Israeli children take refuge in a bomb shelter in the northern city of Kiryat-Shmona, which has been hit by rockets fired from Lebanon in an escalating dispute.

A bicycle flies over a taxi in the Cowgate area in Edinburgh, Scotland ahead of the city's Rat Race - described as an urban adventure race.

The US president is presented with a ceremonial barrel of herring at a market square in Stralsund, Germany, with help from Germany's chancellor.

Children play in floodwaters in a suburb of Manila in the Philippines, following heavy rains dumped by Typhoon Bilis.

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