Day in pictures

A Cambodian youth performs a backward dive into the Tonle Sap lake in Phnom Penh, in front of the country's Royal Palace.

Cuban children celebrate Fidel Castro's 82nd birthday at the Ernesto Che Guevara Palace, Havana.

A swimmer prepares to take an early morning plunge at Brockwell Lido, London. The UK capital once boasted 50 outdoor pools, but now has only 15.

An image beamed back to earth by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows a close-up of the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.

US President George Bush, flanked by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates, makes a statement in the White House's rose garden about the Russia-Georgia conflict

Zoya, a three-month-old tiger cub rejected by her mother, plays with her Alsatian puppy friend Frida in Warsaw Zoo.

Spectators watch a horse gallop along a beach in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, during a race.

North American Jewish families arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on a flight carrying 235 new immigrants to Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stands before a wreath at the funeral of poet Mahmoud Darwish in Ramallah on the West Bank.

United Nations peacekeeping troops from the Fiji Islands at a memorial monument in Baghdad to a massive bomb blast exactly five years previously.

Indian schoolchildren hold up umbrellas in the colours of their national flag as the country prepares for Independence Day on 15 August.

Back

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Next