Palestinians and peace activists are sprayed by water cannon as theygather for their weekly rally in the West Bank village of Bilin to protest the construction of the controversial Israeli separation barrier [Reuters]



The body of the former Russian president Boris Yeltsin lies in state in Moscow. Yeltsin died of heart failure on April23, aged 76 [AFP]



An Indian child leaps out of the water as he plays with a buffalo in a canal flowing through the village of Vallah near the town of Amritsar.Temperatures soared in the north of the country as many areas experienced an unseasonal heatwave [AFP]



Sri Lankan batsmen pause in the rain during their cricket world cup final against Australia. Australia won by 53 runs to win its third successive trophy [Reuters]



North Korea's deputy foreign minister Kim Yong-Il poses for a snap in Yangon, Myanmar. The two secretive countries have restored diplomatic ties [AFP]



A UN peacekeeper keeps a lookout while Haitians take part in a peaceful rally calling for peace in the volatile neighbourhood of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince [Reuters]



A man walks past a destroyed shopfront in Tallinn. The Estonian capital witnessed its worst rioting since independence after the government removed a monument of a Soviet Red Army soldier [AFP]



An athlete performs on the horizontal bar during the European Artistic Gymnastics championship in Amsterdam [AFP]



A boy plays on chicken cages at a poultry market in Kunming, China. The WHO said the threat of a bird flu pandemic remained a real possibility [Reuters]



Pedestrians look at German artist Johan Lorbeer showing his still-life performance "Tarzan-Standbein" (Tarzan-main pillar) on the facade of the city hall of Chemnitz, Germany [AFP]