Hangzhou, China: A woman walks through wind and rain past a replica of the Eiffel Tower at a commercial and residential project resembling a mini-ParisPhotograph: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFPNew York, USA: Bernice King (l), the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, speaks during The Dream Concert at Radio City music hallPhotograph: Jason DeCrow/APTepane District, Ghana: Children use the remains of the Temda bridge as a playground. The bridge, which lies 40km from the border of Burkina Faso, used to act as a major artery between the two countries but it collapsed during last month's floodsPhotograph: JANE HAHN/EPA
Paris, France: Activists protest against the government's planned bill on immigration that would require a French language test for visa candidates and allow voluntary DNA tests to prove family ties with immigrants already in the countryPhotograph: Jacques Brinon/APGijon, Spain: One of the works in the photographic exhibition 'Condor's view: an aerial view of Latin-America', by National Geographic Society photographer Robert HasPhotograph: J. L. CEREIJIDO/EPAAlhone, Burma: Buddhist monks stage protest marches for a second day, challenging authorities who used tear gas and fired warnings shots to break up some protests yesterdayPhotograph: APJerusalem, Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Jews shop for fruit in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of the cityPhotograph: JIM HOLLANDER/EPAKabul, Afghanistan: Children collect water. Only a few Afghan children have access to education and most of them work instead of going to schoolPhotograph: SHAH MARAI/AFPPort-au-Prince, Haiti: A little girl sleeps as she waits for her class to start. Haiti is seeking to reverse the worst literacy rate in the Americas by 2010Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/APLausanne, Switzerland: Protesters rally against their country's main rightwing party, the Swiss People's party and it's campaign poster showing a black sheep being kicked out of the country by three grinning white sheep under the slogan 'for more security'Photograph: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFPZeleni Jadar, Bosnia: Canadian forensic expert Rene Kosalka, a member of the International Commission for Missing Persons, inspects human remains at the site of a mass gravePhotograph: Amel Emric/APIlulissat, Greenland: The world's fastest-moving glacier,as seen from a helicopter carrying the German chancellor, Angela MerkelPhotograph: MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFPPhuket, Thailand: An aerial view of Phuket airport, where a One Two Go plane crashed last Sunday killing 89 peoplePhotograph: Barbara Walton/EPAAtlanta, USA: A group of students protest the jailing of six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana and the charges of attempted second-degree murder brought against themPhotograph: Pouya Diana/APMadrid, Spain: A model takes to the catwalk during the presentation of Miguel Palacio's Spring-Summer 2008 collection at the Pasarela Cibeles fashion showPhotograph: BALLESTEROS/EPANew York, USA: A television screen on the floor of the New York stock exchange shows the Federal Reserve's decision to cut a key interest rate by 0.5%Photograph: Richard Drew/APBeijing, China: A stairwell at the city's new National Grand Theatre, which is scheduled to stage its first trial performance on September 25Photograph: China Photos/Getty
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