Day in pictures

A Pataxo Hahahae Indian carries legal documents to the Brazilian Supreme Court. The court is to decide if the Pataxo Indians are entitled to ancestral land given to farmers in the 1960s and 1970s.

Residents of Galveston, Texas have been allowed to return to the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Some, like Donna Hanson, found that their homes had been completely destroyed.

This delegate from Burkina Faso could not resist taking a photo of his colleague at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly.

Viewers admire a 360-degree rotating replica of the Earth showing changes in the winds and currents, on display at Washington's Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Muslim women attend prayers during the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in the province of Pattani, in southern Thailand.

Contortionist Zlata poses inside a mock TV set to promote "film liberator" - an initiative by Germany's film industry to bring TV films back to cinema screens.

In the Siberian city of Magadan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pays his respects beside Ernst Neizvestny's Mask of Sorrow monument, in honour of victims of Josef Stalin's repressive regime.

Blue-dyed sheep look bemused near the northern English city of Newcastle.

A solitary candle burns at the guarded entrance of the Kauhajoki college in western Finland, one day after Matti Juhani Saari shot nine students and a teacher before turning the gun on himself.

The first cricket bat used by Australian cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman in his Test career, expected to raise as much as $100,000 (£54,000) when it is auctioned in Melbourne.

Australia's Adrian Buchan surfs his way to victory in the Quiksilver Pro France event in Hossegor, France.

Wheeldon Company dancers during the final hours of rehearsal before the opening night of Commedia at London's Sadler's Wells theatre. The piece, for nine dancers, is set to Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite.

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