Day in pictures

The name of Japan's newly born prince - Hisahito - is displayed in a show window in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.

Tavurvur volcano billows smoke in the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea.

More than 3,000 policymakers, experts and business leaders arrive in Beijing, China, for the fifth World Water Congress.

Charitable donations mean 1,000 extracurricular books for pupils at the Shuangwan Primary School in China's Jilin Province.

A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, looks at the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India which honours the Mother Goddess Kamakhya, the essence of female energy.

A Kashmiri Muslim woman passes a hunger strike led by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front in Srinagar, India.

Students in Jakarta, Indonesia, protest against the forthcoming International Monetary Fund meeting in Singapore.

Timmy the Bichon Frise and Muffin the Shitzu walk down the aisle during a season entitled Anything is Possible at the London store Harrods.

About 400 kinds of pumpkin are on show at an annual pumpkin festival in Klaistow, eastern Germany.

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