Week in pictures: 2-8 August

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

The people of Hautmont were stunned when a tornado smashed through their village in northern France on Sunday night.

Pakistani volunteers rescued villagers on the outskirts of Peshawar, which was hit by severe flooding.

The once-exiled Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died on Sunday, was renowned for his exposure of Stalin's prison system. His open coffin went on display in central Moscow's Academy of Sciences.

The Olympic torch made its way across Beijing on a final relay ahead of the Games.

A Tibetan exile is detained by Nepalese police during continuing protests in Kathmandu against China's treatment of Tibet.

It was a very stormy night on Wednesday, when a line of thunderstorms battered south-east England for several hours.

Indian police defended themselves from stones thrown by Kashmiri Muslim protesters during continuing demonstrations in Srinagar.

A burner was used to inflate a hot air balloon taking part in the annual Bristol balloon fiesta in south-west England.

The first batch of an estimated 20,000 fireworks lit up Beijing's night sky with excitement at fever pitch inside the stadium during the Olympic opening ceremony.

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