Day in pictures

A silver column in the Imam Abbas shrine in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, which is visited every year by hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims.

Hindu holy men take part in a protest in New Delhi against the killing of the leader of the radical Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

A house is destroyed by a landslide on the outskirts of Tokyo, where fierce rains have prompted the Japanese authorities to order more than one million people to leave their homes.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is named "king of kings" at a meeting of African kings, princes, sultans and sheikhs in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

A Pakistani lawyer tears down a poster of Benazir Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, who will run for president in 6 September elections.

Sgt Juan Amaris (centre) uses a special ski to water ski at a clinic for war veterans with physical disabilities in the US state of Texas.

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