Srinagar, India: an employee of Public Health Engineering is detained by the police during a rally demanding permanent jobs
Rangoon, Burma: fairground workers wait for customers near the Shwedagon Pagoda during its 2,600th anniversary celebrations
El Refugio, Mexico: investigators and police officers at the scene of a police plane crash
Madrid, Spain: carnival revellers dressed as
mourners with a mock sardine during the 'burial of the sardine' funeral
procession, which marks the end of festivities
Mesa, Arizona, US: people gather on Main Street outside the Republican presidential debate to watch it on a large screen
Cairo, Egypt: supporters of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak protest outside his trial
Rawalpindi, Pakistan: a worker pulls a cart as a customer sits on top with his chickens
Athens, Greece: employees at the state-run Workers' Housing Organisation during a protest against job cuts
Moscow, Russia: a rally to support Vladimir Putin at the Luzhniki stadium
Saint-Denis, Réunion: riot police at a protest about the high cost of living
London, UK: Mexico's Paola Espinosa and Alejandra
Orozco in the women's synchronised 10-metre platform final during the
18th FINA Visa Diving World Cup at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic
Park
Frankfurt, Germany: an employee displays a green water dragon at the airport's 'animal lounge'