Picture desk live: the day's best news images

All hell breaks loose at Heathrow. Justin Bieber lands and is mobbed by fans as he arrives to launch his latest album Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

Trenton Oldfield makes a striking image as he leaves Feltham magistrates court in west London after appearing on charges of allegedly disrupting the Boat Race by swimming across the Thames Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

Rupert Murdoch is photographed two days before he is due to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry, which could possibly be the second most humble day of his life Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

The American free climber Dean Potter walks on a slackline over Enshi Grand Canyon at an altitude of 1,800 metres in the Hubei province of China. If you want to feel really giddy, here's a link to the video Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

Flight attendants demonstrate over plans to cut jobs at American Airlines and American Eagle, as hearings to void labour contracts begin at the US bankruptcy court in New York Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Horrific scenes in Rubkona near Bentiu in southern Sudan following an air strike by the Sudanese air force. Sudanese warplanes carried out the attack three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oilfield, according to residents and military officials. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

It's the morning after the night before and the French Socialist party candidate François Hollande looks understandably chipper as he arrives at his campaign headquarters. Hollande's success in the first round of the presidential elections has taken his campaign to within spitting distance of victory over the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy Photograph: Michel Spingler/AP

First-round election results indicate it could soon be time for Sarkozy to fetch his jacket. It is the first time an incumbent president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years Photograph: Laurent Cipriani/AP

It's a day of rather dapper demonstration outside the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Burlington Gardens. Protesters are objecting to the company's plans to open a children's clothing store on Savile Row in London. They claim the chain store's presence would signal the demise of a street dedicated to the bespoke tailoring trade Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

The most unusual portrait to drop in to the picture desk today: Camilla the rubber chicken, seen at 38,039 metres (124,800ft) above California. She has been launched into space by a group of students called Earth to Sky to study solar radiation. Camilla, who is the mascot of Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory, reached the stratosphere along with a payload carrying radiation sensors, cameras, GPS trackers, a thermometer, and some insects and sunflower seeds Photograph: NASA/Reuters