Week in pictures: 12-18 July

Bonfires were lit across Northern Ireland on the "11th night" ahead of the 12 July parades.

France celebrated Bastille Day with a military parade down the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris, involving 4,000 soldiers, firefighters and police, 65 aircraft and 241 mounted horsemen.

Equally impressive is the F-16 fighter jet, seen here performing some aerial acrobatics at England's Farnborough Air Show.

A stamp bearing the portrait of Nelson Mandela is released in Johannesburg in celebration of his 90th birthday.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Israel.

Among those freed was Samir Qantar, seen here waving at Beirut airport having changed into military fatigues. He was jailed in 1979 for murdering three people, including a four-year-old girl.

Council workers have been on a two-day strike over pay in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the biggest such action for years.

A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Hadrian is carefully lowered into position for an exhibition at the British Museum, London.

Balinese royalty and dozens of other prominent Balinese from Ubud are cremated in a rare and elaborate ceremony for deceased royals on the Indonesian island.

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