Day in pictures

In Beijing, Chinese paramilitary police practice anti-riot drills after the authorities announced tighter security ahead of this year’s Olympic Games.

Acrobats from the Teatro de Altura perform by the cathedral in Seville as part of an international theatre festival taking place in the Spanish city.

A Palestinian schoolboy crosses a quiet street in Gaza City.

Retired Gurkha soldiers salute a photo of Queen Elizabeth II outside an asylum and immigration tribunal in London. The tribunal is hearing an appeal against the refusal to settle 15 Gurkhas in the UK.

An office worker looks at “French Spiderman” Alain Robert - famous for illegally climbing buildings across the world - as he nears the top of the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.

French high school students stick their tongue out during a demonstration against government plans to cut teaching positions next year.

Tibetan monks in exile take part in an anti-China protest outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

In Freising, southern Germany, three-week-old lion cubs play in the arena of the Circus Krone.

Indian border control soldiers march in a passing-out parade in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinigar in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Elsewhere in Indian-administered Kashmir, a labourer stands near the reopened highway through the Zojila Pass, connecting the Kashmir Valley to Ladakh.

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