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Tommy Sheridan supporters await the arrival of Andy Coulson at Govan police station in Glasgow to face allegations of perjury concerning the Sheridan trial Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian

Summer's over, at least for today. A young woman holds an umbrella after being caught in a thunderstorm in Oxford city centre Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

Novak Djokovic leaps through the air to return the ball to Blaz Kavcic during the French Open tennis in Paris Photograph: Reuters

A policeman stand guard as University of Lagos students protest at the renaming of the university. Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, said the school would be renamed Moshood Abiola University in honor of a political prisoner who died in jail over a decade ago. The campus has been shutdown for two weeks of protests and today distrubed traffic throughout the city by closing down a bridge during demonstrations Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP

US republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, plays superman with a baby as he greets supporters during a campaign rally at Alice Pleasant Park in Colorado Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Fresh faced from a few days of chillaxing, Ken Clarke waves to photographers as he arrives at the Leveson inquiry Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A man and his cow wait to enter the cattle judging ring at the Royal Bath And West Show in Shepton Mallet, England Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

A malnourished child lies on a weighing scale at a therapeutic feeding centre at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa. Aid agencies fear that if that without rapid intervention Yemen will face a hunger crisis of catastrophic proportions Photograph: Mohamed Al-sayaghi/Reuters

Julian Assange's lawyer Gareth Peirce makes a statement outside the supreme court, London to announce her client had lost his appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. Assange has 14 days to consider whether to challenge a central point of the judgment on the correct interpretation of international treaties Photograph: Max Nash/PA

Why did the elephant cross the road? A mahout crosses a busy road with his elephant in New Delhi, India. Hopefully the tuk-tuk driver made it out the way in time Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Spanish Civil Guard officers in full riot gear secure the area in front of a burning barricade blocking the A-66 highway in the northern Spanish village of Campomanes, during a coal miners protest against government spending cuts in the mining sector. The EC told Spain on Wednesday that policy plans submitted by Spain are relevant, but in some areas they lack sufficient ambition to address the challenges Photograph: Eloy Alonso/Reuters

Aung San Suu Kyi receives a rapturous reception from Burmese migrant workers in Thailand. It is the first time the Burmese opposition leader has ventured outside Burma in 24 years Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

In this beautiful photograph, two children attempt to cool off in a fountain in New Delhi as temperatures have reached a record-breaking 45c Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

A woman enters her temporary home in a displaced people's camp in San Felice sul Panaro, Italy. Two earthquakes of 5.8 and 5.2 on the Richter scale have left 17 people dead and about 8,000 displaced or homeless Photograph: Silvia Morara/Corbis

A child peaks out from between a group of women as refugees from northern Mali wait for treatment at a refugee camp in Niger. Thousands have people have fled Mali to neighbouring countries following conflict over the formation of a breakaway state Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images

Tiptoeing through the raindrops. This woman gingerly crosses a flooded street on a row of tables in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China is hit by big summer rainfalls every year, with heavy downpours across large swaths of the country triggering flooding and landslides Photograph: AFP/AFP/Getty Images

Times are hard in Spain and this man is selling everything including the kitchen sink in the Malasaña district of Madrid. Spanish borrowing costs have increased after the government announced a rescue plan for Bankia involving more public debt Photograph: Denis Doyle/Getty Images

Chris Furlong is getting to some great locations following and photographing the Olympic torch procession, yesterday the top of Snowdon and today the Pontcysyllte aqueduct. Joanne Gregory carries the Olympic torch across the aqueduct on a hand-drawn canal boat Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images