Day in pictures

This Mir mini-submarine is part of an attempt to carry divers to about 1,600 metres (5248 feet) in the waters Lake Baikal, in Russia. The aim is to set a new freshwater submarine diving record.

British schools have closed for their summer break, leaving this young boy free to play in a water feature near the River Thames in London, where temperatures reached 30C.

This newborn Giant Panda is one of four cubs - including a pair of female twins - which were born over the weekend at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre in China.

Greenpeace activists used an inflatable boat to reach this coal ship off the east coast of Australia, before painting their environmental slogan on the hull.

Dancers who are performing in the London 2012 section of the closing ceremony at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing visited Wembley stadium in London to get used to working in such a big arena.

These bones - believed to be from a bear which lived 40,000 years ago - were recovered from Scotland's longest cave, after a 12-year operation to unblock the cave's entrance.

About 550 victims of anti-foreigner violence in South Africa in May are living by the roadside near Johannesburg, after refusing to apply for temporary ID cards.

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