Day in pictures

A young Canadian boy cools himself down in a water fountain in Cordoba, southern Spain.

Archie, a six-banded South American armadillo, becomes the latest participant in the Amazing Animals display at Bristol Zoo, England, where visitors can see animals moving freely outside their enclosures.

Police defend themselves from stones thrown by Kashmiri Muslim protesters during continuing demonstrations in Srinagar, India.

Barack Obama, Democratic party candidate for the US presidential elections in November, poses with a baby while campaigning in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Lightning strikes over blocks of flats in London, during a summer storm which lit up the sky in the early hours of the morning.

A woman who survived the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi places flowers on a memorial during a ceremony marking 10 years since the attack, which killed 218 people.

The United States' First Lady, Laura Bush, meets Karen refugees in traditional costumes during a visit to the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand, close to the border with Burma.

Iraqis displaced by internal violence stage a protest in Baghdad against a government order that they must vacate the abandoned government buildings in which they have been living.

Meanwhile in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, children watch as an artist decorates a security barrier.

Frost-bitten Dutch climbers Las Van De Gevel (L) and Wilco Van Rooijen (R) talk to reporters in Pakistan about the expedition to climb K2, the world's second highest peak, in which 11 people died.

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks shout slogans during a protest march in Dharmsala, India.

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