Day in pictures

Workers in Beijing take down the Olympic rings and replace them with the logo of the Paralympic Games, which open on 6 September.

In Seoul, South Koreans welcome back their Olympics team, which ranked seventh in the world with 13 gold medals.

A skin treatment is applied at the Diet and Beauty Fair 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.

A Hindu demonstrates on the streets of Jammu, in Indian-administered Kashmir, at a rally in protest at the scrapping of plans to transfer land to a trust safeguarding a Hindu shrine.

An Indian artist puts the finishing touches to an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Lord Ganesh at a workshop in Mumbai, ahead of a festival next month marking the deity's birthday.

Workers put the finishing touches to the facade of the Palazzo del Cinema prior to the opening of the 65th Venice Film Festival.

Homeowners in Tallahassee, Florida, try to secure their home against flood water after Tropical Storm Fay hit the state for a fourth time.

A Palestinian fisherman off the coast of the Gaza Strip stands on his boat as he pulls in his catch.

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