Day in pictures

A young protester in England looks on as people prevent police from entering a camp set up as part of a climate change demonstration.

Iraqi officers show off their skills during the inauguration of a new border police headquarters in the southern city of Basra.

An injured woman inspects the damage wreaked by a freak tornado in northern France late on Sunday.

Two men prepare the soil at Khalu Behalwan wrestling club in Lahore for the ancient sport of Kushti wrestling, a national sport in Pakistan.

Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh, watch preparations for the funeral of people who died in a fire which swept through a five-storey building.

A surfer makes the most of the waves in Newquay, southern England, on the first day of the Rip Curl Boardmasters surfing competition.

Pakistani volunteers rescue villagers on the outskirts of Peshawar, which has been hit by severe flooding.

Souvenirs arranged for sale at Wangfujing market in Beijing, as thousands of tourists arrive in the Chinese capital for the start of the Olympic Games.

Elsewhere in Beijing, a young performer is caught off guard during the Great Britain flag-raising ceremony in the Olympic Village.

Supporters of Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa's ruling ANC party, gather outside a courtroom in Pietermaritzburg, where Mr Zuma is challenging corruption charges against him.

A worker organises piles of rubbish in Cologne, Germany. Waste has been brought in from Italy in an attempt to clear some of the thousands of tonnes which has built up in the streets of Naples.

Supporters of the Islamic Defence Front stage a demonstration in Jakarta, Indonesia, demanding the disbandment of an Islamic sect they believe to be heretical.

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