Irakleion, Greece: A tourist is reflected in the glass of a jelly fish tank at the Cretaquarium. Photograph: Aris Messinis /AFPBandar Jask, Iran: Women watch waves crashing onto the beach as a cyclone Gonu approaches. Photograph: STR/AFPVenice, Italy: Tijuanatanjierchandelier, an artwork by the late Jason Rhoades, exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennale.Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Baghdad, Iraq: US soldiers provide cover for their colleagues from a rooftop during a search operation in the Rashid area of the city.Photograph: TIERNEY NOWLAND /AFPNairobi, Kenya: Suspected adherents to the Mungiki sect are rounded up during a police crackdown on the banned organisation. Photograph: TONY KARUMBA/AFPHeiligendamm, Germany: Tony Blair and George Bush attend a meeting of G8 leaders.Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/EPAHeiligendamm, Germany: Anti-globalisation protesters sleep on a road they blocked on the last day of the G8 summit. Photograph: JENS SCHLUETER/AFPGvozdavka-1, Ukraine: Anastasiya Kopytsa, 88, a witness to a second world war massacre of Jews by the Nazis, reacts to the news that a mass grave has been discovered nearby. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/APBeirut, Lebanon: Palestinian refugees from the Nahr al-Bared camp in the north of the country are re-housed in the overcrowded Shatila camp.Photograph: MARWAN NAAMANI/AFPSan Salvador, El Salvador: Karla Torres has a wash in the shantytown of La Cruz. A third of the country's urban families live in extreme poverty.Photograph: Jose CABEZAS/AFPSalton City, USA: One of 3m fish carcasses currently blanketing the shores of the Salton sea, where such die-offs are a common occurrence due to reduced levels of oxygen in the water. Photograph: Todd Krainin/APMarseille, France: People rest in the shade of parasol-hats installed by designers Benedetto Bufalino and Victor Vieillard.Photograph: ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFPArlington, USA: The chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, General Peter Pace, tours the Faces of the Fallen exhibition at the National Cemetery. Photograph: Win McNamee/GettyAppleby-in-Westmorland, UK: Gypsies wash their horses in the Eden river at the Appleby horse fair. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyNorfolk, USA: Tall ships lie anchored off the coast awaiting the start of Sail Virginia festival.Photograph: Mort Fryman/AP
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