Week in pictures: 29 March - 4 April

In Zimbabwe voters went to the polls to choose a president, in the biggest challenge to Robert Mugabe's rule in years.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change declared its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, had won on the basis of unofficial, partial results. Supporters celebrated on the streets in some parts of the country.

Some Zanu-PF supporters meanwhile celebrated the publication of the first official results of the parliamentary elections, which have so far shown the ruling party and the MDC running neck and neck.

Palestinian protesters and Israeli police clashed at a protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank near Tulkarem. The US secretary of state earlier called on Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements.

Protesters burn an effigy of US President George W Bush during a demonstration in front of the US embassy in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, hours before his arrival on a two-day state visit.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) Red Arrows were joined by four Typhoon jets flying in formation past London's "Gherkin" building as the RAF celebrated its 90th anniversary.

Toyota has displaced General Motors as the world's largest car manufacturer, but company head Katsuaki Watanabe told nearly 2,000 new recruits not to be complacent.

Ta'iri, believed to be the first Northern Chinese Leopard in the UK, is pictured in his enclosure at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent, after arriving from a Paris zoo last week.

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