Day in pictures

Chinese performers dance in front of a float decorated with Fuwa Huanhuan, the Olympic mascot representing fire, during a parade promoting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

A man sits on the doorstep of his home in west Baghdad, Iraq.

A young girl holds up a banner during the homecoming parade for Royal Marine unit 40 Commando in Taunton, England. The event was organised to thank the soldiers for their service in Afghanistan.

Kashmiri Muslims in Srinagar, India, pray as they are shown what they believe is a hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad.

Australian Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice trains in Kuala Lumpur just over a week before the opening of the Games in Beijing.

A six-year-old boy performs final rites for his father, an Indian army soldier, who was killed in a gun battle between Indian and Pakistani forces in Kashmir on Monday.

Maori tribal leader Tama Iti signs a agreement with the New Zealand government in Wellington, signalling the beginning of negotiations over land and sovereignty.

A lawyer in Lahore, Pakistan, shouts slogans during a demonstration calling for the reinstatement of top judges dismissed by President Pervez Musharraf last year.

Visitors to an exhibition in London celebrating young British artists examine a work called "Drawing for 1000 Years" by Damien Hirst.

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