Week in photos

Heather Harris, left, dressed as Snow White and Becky Young, as Tinkerbell,

walk the convention floor at Comic Con 2009 in San Diego, California.



To welcome the advent of monsoon season, women in Amritsar, India,

decorate their hands with henna paste.



Laborers work in a shipyard in Karachi, Pakistan.



A truck dangles off the destroyed Chediguan Bridge near the epicenter of last year's

earthquake in Wenchuan County, China.



A sunbather and an elephant enjoy the sunshine in Frankfurt, Germany.



Finishing touches are placed on a sand sculpture of the Jackson Five in a shopping center in Berlin, Germany.

BBC News website reader Carolina Odman snapped this shot in the town of Sutherland in South Africa

where a community programme saw children being given kites.

Before long, Carolina said, "everyone was looking up at the kites, the sky and beyond."

Protesters in Manila display portraits of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.