Day in pictures

A Chinese worker uses a fire extinguisher to douse smouldering fire crackers after a ceremony to mark the completion of construction work at a dock in Shanghai.

A bomb sniffer dog jumps up in front of lockers during a police training session at Frankfurt's main station, Germany.

An artist in Argartala, India, puts the finishing touches to a clay statue of Biswakarma, the Hindu god of architecture and machinery, ahead of a festival on 17 September.

A restorer works on a 14th Century fresco in the Sepulchral Church in Nuzal, 70 km outside Vladikavkaz, the capital of North-Ossetia in the Russian Federation.

A cat in Beirut with its legs covered in oil from a slick which has spread 150m (93 miles) along the Lebanese coast, after an Israeli air strike on a power station during the recent war.

Taiwanese primary school children cheer after a three-day visit to Alabama, US, where they learned about what life is like for astronauts.

A Buddhist monk talks on his mobile phone while waiting for the Dalai Lama - the Tibetan spiritual leader's first visit in four years to the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator.

A fire has ripped through the Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg, Russia, an 18th Century church famed for its 80-metre-high central dome made of wood.

Gisela Oehlschlaeger, 74, is one of nine elderly people taking part in a local cultural festival in Hagen, Germany. The performance was created by artist Angie Hiesl.

People wait to file complaints with the new Islamic court in Belet Weyne, Somalia. Law based on the Koran has been introduced by the Supreme Islamic Courts Council.

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