Day in pictures

China has finished building the 36km (22 mile) Hangzhou Bay Bridge, reputed to be the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, to link Shanghai with the city of Ningbo.

In London, Christie's auctioneers prepare to put a collection of rare letters under the hammer, including missives from Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell.

As the UN releases its annual World Drug Report, police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, burn piles of confiscated contraband.

Two visiting NBA players pose next to Sgt Eric Alamo, the shortest US paratrooper at Operation Base Iskan, Iraq.

In Japan, employees look on as Sega's new remote-controlled fighting dinosaur models lock horns.

Off the coast of Valencia, in Spain, a member of the Emirates Team New Zealand scales the mast during the America's Cup.

In a soggy Britain, torrential downpours cause severe flooding in many places, forcing some to trek across flooded fields.

Calmer conditions in East Timor, where the UN has said it expects elections to go smoothly.

In Spain, hundreds of wild horses from the Donana National Park are gathered before being auctioned in the village of Almonte's cattle market.

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