Day in pictures

Dancers from Mexico perform during Pope Benedict XVI's weekly general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Liverpool's Yossi Benayoun (left) reacts as he collides with Chelsea's John Terry during a Champions League semi-final football match in London.

Burnt pages of a book are collected after a fire engulfed the Peace Baptist Church in Philadelphia, USA, sending thick black smoke into the air...

...while in Virginia, a flag stands in the rubble in Suffolk, a day after a tornado struck the area.

Conchita, a three-week-old mangabey monkey is being hand-reared in London Zoo during her mother's recuperation from an operation. The teddy bear is a constant companion.

People celebrate during the opening ceremony of the 16th African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

A Zimbabwean farmer rejects tobacco prices offered by buyers at the Tobacco Sales Floors in Harare. Farmers started ripping the price tags off tobacco bales in protest at the low prices.

Reporters are reflected in the sunglasses of a police officer standing outside the house of Josef Fritzl in Amstetten, Austria. Mr Fritzl confessed to police to holding his daughter captive for 24 years.

Chinese entertainers perform in front of the National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest" to celebrate the 100 day countdown to the Olympic Games.

A young Iraqi girl poses for a photo after graduating from kindergarten in Baghdad...

...while outside Baghdad's Sadr City hospital, a man grieves as casualties mount in clashes between US and Iraqi forces, and Shia militia gunmen.

A labourer carries dust and ash at a brick factory on the outskirts of Bhubaneshwar, India.

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