Tripoli, Lebanon: A boy from the Palestinian Nahr el-Bared refugee camp displays a creation he made during an activities session laid on for children at temporary accommodation. Photograph: Matt Dunham/APVenice, Italy: The island of Santa Maria of Nazareth, where a mass grave containing 1,560 perfectly preserved skeletons from the 15th century, has been discovered. Photograph: ACQUE VENEZIA NAUSICAA/EPAPunta de Vacas, Argentina: A truck driver walks between two trucks as a heavy snow storm forced the closure of the road heading to Chile, leaving some 5,000 trucks stranded on both sides of the border.Photograph: Walter Moreno/AP
Johannesburg, South Africa:Inner-city residents watch public-sector workers march as South African unions escalated their 12-day-old strike.Photograph: Themba Hadebe/APFlagler Beach, USA: A funnel cloud forms near the pier. Photograph: Sean McNeil/APLondon, UK: The Royal Navy's flagship HMS Ark Royal is steered between the bascules of the Thames flood barrier during a visit for the 25th anniversary of the Falklands war. Photograph: Terry Seward/APBasel, Switzerland: The Gargantua Chair2, by Swiss artist and designer Rolf Sachs, on display at the Design Miami Basel 2007 exhibition.Photograph: Georgios Kefalas/APJenin, West Bank: Fatah militants break the windows of a building housing a club affiliated with Hamas before setting it on fire.Photograph: Mohammed Ballas/APLa Paz, Bolivia: Homes blanket the outskirts of the city.Photograph: Dado Galdieri/APBeirut, Lebanon: The brother of assassinated anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido weeps over his coffin during his funeral. Lebanon observed a day of mourning to bury Eido, whose death in a Beirut bomb blast was the latest in a string of killings the ruling coalition has blamed on Damascus. Photograph: MARWAN NAAMANI/AFPCaracas, Venezuela: A group of Venezuelan women opposed to the government of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, stage a protest outside the attorney general's office over the recent attacks by authorities on student marches and the closing down of the country's oldest television network, Radio Caracas Television.Photograph: Eduardo Morales/EPASaint-Malo, France: A scuba diver holding up a bottle of Anjou-Brissac off the coast of Saint-Malo, after it had been immersed for a year as an experiment.Photograph: EMMANUEL DONFUT/AFPMadrid, Spain: A woman passes a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, part of the Last Landscapes exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum.Photograph: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP
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