Week in pictures: 19-25 July

Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes a surprise visit to Iraq to assess reconstruction and the prospects for reducing UK troop numbers.

Sailing ships gather on the River Mersey as part of the annual Liverpool Tall Ships Festival. A fleet of 60 sailing ships is taking part in a five-week race.

Surgeons in Bangladesh say they are preparing to separate conjoined babies Banya (L) and Barsha Kibria - seen here with their father, Golam. The twins are joined at the chest and the stomach.

A Serbian official holds up a photograph of the war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, who has been arrested in Belgrade. He had been practising alternative medicine in the city.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir tours north Darfur, a week after the International Criminal Court called for his arrest on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the region.

A Bosnian Muslim woman prays at a memorial to victims of the Srebrenica massacre, as war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, accused of organising the slaughter, fights extradition to The Hague.

A young girl inspects an artwork by 3D street artist Kurt Wenner at Waterloo station in London.

Great Britain's men's pursuit team train at a velodrome in Newport in south Wales ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics.

John Mason (right) of the Scottish National Party canvasses voters at a polling station prior to winning the Glasgow East by-election.

More than 200,000 people hear US presidential hopeful Barack Obama speak in the German capital, Berlin.

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