Day in pictures

Sancho, an emperor tamarin, is on view at a Berlin zoo. The tiny primate with the big moustache was allegedly named for its resemblance to German Emperor Wilhelm II.

A man walks past Christmas decorations in the window of a shop in New York.

A photograph taken by the Cassini probe shows Saturn's moons Tethys (above the rings) and Mimas (below), and the shadows cast by the rings on Saturn itself.

Actors Meinhardt Raabe, Clarence Swensen, Jerry Maren and Karl Stover, who played the Munchkins in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz are commemorated at Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

A US war plane that took part in the invasion of Normandy during World War II awaits dismantling at Rajlovac Airbase in Bosnia. It is destined for a D-Day museum in France.

A Lebanese Army vehicle rumbles through the ruined Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the army fought three months of battles against the Fatah al-Islam militant group.

A masked opposition supporter holds a picture during a protest against a police crackdown, in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia.

An elderly man sits near a collapsed mosque in southern Bangladesh. Dhaka has appealed for more aid to bring supplies to the millions left homeless by Cyclone Sidr.

Green dye is released into Victoria Harbour as part of a test conducted by Hong Kong's Drainage Services Department.

Somali children bathe by the ruins of a hotel in Mogadishu. Thousands of people have fled renewed violence in the city in recent days.

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