Day in pictures

A Palestinian woman eyes an Israeli army armoured vehicle during a raid in the village of Qabatiyah, near the West Bank town of Jenin.

A Macedonian army Mi-24 helicopter gunship makes a low pass during a military exercise.

Plastic bags litter the shore of the Arabian sea in Mumbai, India on Tuesday - the day World Environment Day is marked.

Passengers in Moscow travelling on a metro view what is said to be the first underground mobile arts exhibition, called Watercolour, devoted to the Year of the Child.

A student distributes free plants on a road in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, to mark World Environment Day...

...while in India, the Friends of Snakes Society displays a green vine snake to show they are part of the ecosystem and that not all are venomous.

Cyclone Gonu, which is packing winds of up to 260km/h (160mph), closes in on Muscat in the Gulf state of Oman, where it is expected to make landfall within 24 hours.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva strikes the World Peace Gong during a visit to the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in India's capital, Delhi.

Shop windows are boarded up in Rostock, northern Germany, ahead of the G8 summit which kicks off there on Wednesday.

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