Picture News 4
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Several thousand people watch the sun rise at Stonehenge, UK, for the summer solstice - the longest day of the year... -
..while in Bolivia, President Evo Morales takes part in the celebrations of the Aymara New Year during the winter solstice in Tiwanaku near La Paz. -
Two Siberian tiger cubs born last month are shown off at Jinan zoo in eastern China's Shandong Province. -
A bodybuilder pumps iron during a power blackout at a gym in Baghdad. The sport is a popular one in the war-torn city. -
International relief agency Oxfam stages a protest in favour of fair trade in Vienna, Austria, during the US-EU summit. -
Indonesia's Mount Merapi sends avalanches of hot gas and debris rolling down its slopes. -
Day in pictures: 22 June 2006
Elephants, painted in the national flags of World Cup teams, join a game in Thailand to promote the dangers of gambling. -
Australian soldiers briefly halt East Timorese demonstrators who were heading to Dili to protest against PM Mari Aktari. -
Russian soldiers mark the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. -
For the same commemorations, a woman lays flowers at the Unknown Soldier monument in western Belarus. -
Palestinian civil servants queue at a West Bank post office to collect months of overdue wages. -
A gift from the US finds its way to soldiers at a base in Afghanistan's Zabul province. -
The football theme continues on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot annual race meeting in the UK. -
Day in pictures: 23 June 2006
As soaring temperatures hit Moscow, a polar bear tries to cool off on artificial snow at a zoo in the Russian capital. -
A huge rock threatening Switzerland's main north-south motorway through the Alps is detonated. -
In the Iraqi capital Baghdad, newly-freed inmates from Abu Ghraib prison line up to shake hands with the former deputy prime minister. -
The King's Own Scottish Borderers battalion hold a Drumhead Service before parading through the city of Edinburgh. -
The work of a young artist is on display at the Academy of Fine Arts in China's south-western city of Chengdu. -
Paddington Bear greets US tourists at the London rail station he is named after, before attending a children's tea party at Buckingham Palace. -
Weeks in pictures: 17-23 June
Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni unrolls a poster of Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi to mark her 61st birthday. The pro-democracy leader has spent 10 of the last 16 years under house arrest. -
Philippine army soldiers evacuate children from the four-mile (6km) danger zone around the Mount Bulusan volcano, which spewed out ash and pebbles over the weekend. -
Workers erect scaffolding around the Monument to People's Heroes in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The monument is undergoing repairs after cracking led to water leaks. -
Racegoers return to Royal Ascot in the UK after the historic course reopened following a £200m ($370m) revamp. -
A sea lion nuzzles her baby at Nuremberg Zoo, southern Germany, where four baby sea lions have been born in the last two weeks. -
German fans crack open cans of beer in Cologne station to celebrate victory over Ecuador at the World Cup. The ceiling is painted with frescos of footballers.