Day in pictures

An Israeli boy swims in a pool of tomatoes at a tomato festival in Hevel Shalom in the western Negev region of Israel.

Police put protective gear on a protester before cutting her free during the last day of a year-long protest against Trident nuclear submarines at the Faslane Naval Base in Scotland.

Demonstrators hold placards reading "We are all Hrant Dink", and "We are all Armenians", outside the trial in Istanbul of those suspected of killing the ethnic-Armenian journalist.

Indian policewomen look on as members of the Communist Party of India demand housing for the poor for the 150th consecutive day in the city of Hyderabad.

An employee of the auction house Sotheby's holds up the largest brilliant-cut D-colour flawless diamond ever to appear at auction. Bidding is expected to reach $12-16m.

A statue of the ancient Egyptian god of the dead, Anubis, passes under London's Tower Bridge to herald the opening of an exhibition of artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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