Week in pictures: 30 Aug - 5 Sept

1 of 10 Richard Branson takes part in the Bognor's Birdman competition which sees high flyers hurling themselves off the edge of the seaside town's pier.

2 of 10 Staff work to dry the court at the Arthur Ashe Stadium for the US Open tennis tournament.

3 of 10 Iraqi Shiite women take part in three days of mourning for Ayatollah Hakim, killed in a car bomb attack in Najaf, Iraq.

4 of 10 Dr Kelly's widow Janice appears in front of the Hutton inquiry and describes her husbands decline into despair as the pressure mounted in the run-up to his apparent suicide.

5 of 10 Performance artist, Mark McGowan, begins the latest in a string of bizarre protests by using his nose to push a monkey nut seven miles to Downing Street to highlight student debt.

6 of 10 President Bush causes alarm as he accidentally drops his dog Barney.

7 of 10 Libya celebrates the 34th anniversary of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's coup.

8 of 10 Birmingham welcomes the first visitors to its glitzy £500m Bullring shopping complex.

9 of 10 The Aquada, a sports car which can travel on water at the touch of a button, is taken for a spin on the River Thames.

10 of 10 Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger is struck by an egg thrown by a protestor, as he campaigns for governor of California.