 Indian youths perform traditional Punjabi folk dance in Amritsar. |
 A Palestinian baker spins the bread for cooling in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. |
 A 70-ton granite statue of Buddha unearthed after toppling over facedown 1,300 years ago in South Korea. |
 A Chinese man walks past parked scooters in Shanghai. |
 A two-headed Greek tortoise is presented to the public during the official celebration of its 10th birthday in Geneva. |
 An Indian woman prepares to dunk an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesh into dye on the outskirts of New Delhi. |
 Knut, the world's most watched polar bear, plays in his enclosure at Berlin Zoologischer Garten. |
 A view of the almost destroyed village of Rafti in western Peloponnese in Greece. |
 Pedestrians walk past the statue of Mother Teresa in Skopje, Macedonia, on the 10th anniversary of her death. |
 Undated handout photo shows Wangwang, a 2-year-old male panda, at the Adelaide Zoo. |
 Asian workers at a construction site in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. |
 The National Grand Theatre in Beijing designed by French architect Paul Andreu, to be opened next month. |
 The ancient city of Shibam in Yemen, and one of the three major urban centres in Wadi Hadhramaut. |
 A woman crosses a street adjacent to the Cathedral and Catholic Mission compound in Asmara, Eritrea. |
 Iraqi women buy fruits at Al-Karrada Market in central Baghdad. |
 A Eurostar train arrives at St Pancras station in north London. |
 Dancers perform during the celebrations marking Moscow's 860th anniversary in central Moscow, Russia. |
 Spectators of the Rowing World Championships in front of a huge poster featuring the Great Wall of China in Munich. |
 New Zealand national rugby players cross Marseille port, France, aboard a ferry boat before attending a reception at the Town Hall. |
 A pilot flies during the qualification stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Series in Porto, Portugal. |
 Drab yellow Soviet Khrushchev-era buildings (L) stand across the canal from expensive ultra-modern hotels and apartments in Moscow. |
 General view of Barentsburg in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. |
 Bears enjoy frozen fruit at Rome's Bioparco Zoo, as temperatures soar exceptionally high in the Italian capital. |
 Mother-bison observes her newborn calf at the Minsk Zoo in Belarus. |