Day in pictures

A Buddhist nun in Burma smokes a cigar outside a hotel in the capital, Rangoon.

A Sikh priest presides at a religious ceremony in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.

A visitor slides down an installation entitled Test Site at the Tate Modern gallery in London. The work consists of five gigantic spiralling tubes.

Afghan herders lead their livestock across a road in the capital, Kabul

Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in a blessing ceremony next to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.

A model shows a giant diamond called The Lesotho Promise in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the largest uncut diamond ever excavated and is estimated to be worth more than $12m.

A montage compares the modern-day camel to a giant camel dating back some 10,000 years. The bones of the giant camel were found in a desert in Syria.

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