Day in pictures

Hundreds of families camp out near the UN base in Kanyabayonga, Northern Kivu, to escape looting soldiers in the DR Congo.

An artist displays beheaded and dismembered dolls in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.

Thousands of public workers in Chile go on strike to demand higher wages.

A girl walks past collapsed houses in Buol on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a day after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the area.

Royal officials in the Thai capital, Bangkok, transfer the royal urn on the fifth day of a six-day funeral for the late Princess Galyani Vadhana.

A worker in Allahabad, India, cleans the statue of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the eve of the anniversary of her birth.

As word game Scrabble celebrates its 60th birthday, manufacturers say it has become the UK's best-selling board game.

Denzil Gunner, 30, wins a mince pie eating competition at the Wookey Hole Show in the UK. He ate 41 mince pies in the space of 10 minutes.

Lebanese teachers hold banners during a protest to demand better pay, near the Lebanese parliament in Beirut.

Family members show their anguish at the Gaomendong coal mine near Pingdingshan, Henan province, China, where a mineshaft was flooded.

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