12:59 GMT, Friday, 29 August 2008 13:59 UK

Day in pictures

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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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


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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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