Day in pictures

Environmental campaigners hold a giant globe during a protest against the World Bank in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. They blame the bank for financing energy companies which contribute to climate change.

A child dressed as the Hindu god, Krishna, takes part in a procession during the Festival of Chariots, also known as Rathayatra, at a temple in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

Dusty Payne of the US takes part in the man-on-man final of a global junior surfing championship held on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Engineers from the Mapua Institute of Technology demonstrate a bomb disposal robot to police in the capital of the Philippines, Manila.

A young worker takes a break at a brick factory in the central Iraqi city of Karbala. Factory workers earn around $8 (£4.50) a day.

Activists from the left-wing Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, wearing Soviet-era uniforms, warn against fascism during a protest against a nationalist demonstration in the capital, Kiev.

The CEO of HSBC Asia Pacific drives the world’s longest golf cart, which the international bank has converted into a mobile children’s library for China's earthquake-hit province of Sichuan.

Members of the British army's Royal Irish Regiment parade through the town of Market Drayton after returning home from Afghanistan.

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