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Jerusalem: Israeli mounted police disperse rightwing Jewish demonstrators as they gather outside Jerusalem's supreme court
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Beijing, China: Contestants in lavish costumes prepare for a beauty contest at the China 2011 Hair and Beauty Expo
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Islamabad, Pakistan: Pakistani children try to move a cart in the alley of a slum area
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Nowshera, Afghanistan: A boy searches for metal scrap under an oil tanker after it was attacked and set alight
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Manila, Philippines: Students from the University of the Philippines take part in a gay pride march
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London, UK: Tennis spectators watching a match on the big screen on day seven of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships
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Qom, Iran: Iranian revolutionary guards watch the launch of a Zelzal missile during military manoeuvres
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Baghdad, Iraq: Shia pilgrims pray at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine during the annual commemoration of the saint's death
Blue Peter: goodbye to Television Centre
As Blue Peter waves goodbye to the BBC's west London studios and departs for Salford, we look back at more than half a century of presenters, animals and sticky-backed plastic
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16th October 1958: The first Blue Peter show with presenters Christopher Trace and Leila Williams. Television Centre opened two years later
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1968: The Blue Peter team (left to right) Peter Purves, Valerie Singleton and John Noakes with Indian elephants Dum Dum, Sarah and Emma
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8 April 1971: Princess Anne is interviewed by Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton on the show
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Get down Shep!
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Petra, the show's Alsatian dog, answering the Blue Peter fan mail
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1980: Peter Duncan cleaning Big Ben on Blue Peter
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1982: Prince Charles being interviewed by Simon Groom and Sarah Greene
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1982: Sarah Greene gives Morph a Blue Peter badge while his creator Peter Lord looks on
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1986: Peter Duncan and Roland Rat make a winter warmer soup
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1988: Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding with George the Tortoise
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1989: John Leslie, Mark Curry, Caron Keating And Yvette Fielding
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1998: Blue Peter's 40th anniversary with Peter Duncan, Valerie Singleton, Anthea Turner (holding the model of Tracey Island from Thunderbirds that she built in 1993) and Stuart Miles
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2000: Blue Peter presenters past and present dig up time capsules buried in the 1970s and 1980s. Former presenters Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves reveal the contents of the box they buried on 7 June 1971, and Simon Groom and Janet Ellis are present to unveil the second Blue Peter box, buried in 1984
Wimbledon 2011 day eight
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At least there's a roof on Centre Court, allowing France's Marion Bartoli to play Germany's Sabine Lisicki
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Bartoli defeated Serena Williams in the fourth round but she is given the run around by Lisicki
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Lisicki, who was blighted by injury last year, wins the first set 6-4
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The US Open golf champion Rory McIlroy enjoys the action
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Bartoli saves three match points before claiming the second set on a tie-break
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But the exhaustion from matches in successive days is proving too much for Bartoli, allowing Lisicki to cruise through the third set 6-1 and reach the semi-final. She's the first German woman to reach a grand slam last four since Steffi Graf 12 years ago
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Another player with his eyes on a semi-final berth is Andy Murray
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Having defeated Richard Gasquet in straight sets yesterday, the Scot will face the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez on Wednesday. Wonder if McIlroy, who blew a four shot lead at the Masters before claiming the Open, has any handy advice?
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Unrest in Greece
A protester uses a fire extinguisher on riot police during a general strike in Athens on Tuesday. The unrest comes as the bankruptcy-threatened Greek government looks to push through sweeping austerity cuts.
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Touching Down
On Tuesday, Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir, who is accused of war crimes, lands in Beijing a day after he was due in China to meet President Hu Jintao
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Up in Smoke
A Canadian soldier stands in front 1,000 pounds of marijuana that was found and burned during a patrol in southern Afghanistan on Monday.
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Officials watch graduating soldiers from the Saudi special forces demonstrate their combat skills as they storm buildings near Riyadh
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People cool off during a heatwave in Paris
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A festival goer walks through rubbish left by revellers who attended Glastonbury
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A week old zebra foal at Schwerin zoo, Germany
Greeks strike over cuts
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Nail bomber David Copeland loses sentence appeal
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Copeland admitted killing three and injuring 139 people in 1999
Nail bomber David Copeland has failed in his bid to reduce his minimum jail term of 50 years.
Copeland was given six life sentences in June 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.
Copeland, 35, from Hampshire, admitted killing three and injuring 139 people.
Under new legislation, a High Court judge set a minimum term of 50 years and the Court of Appeal upheld that sentence on Tuesday.
The original recommendation in his case was that he should serve a minimum of 30 years before he can be considered for parole.
Multiple murder But High Court judge Mr Justice Burton later described it as a "really exceptional case of deliberate, multiple murder".
During 13 days in April 1999 Copeland caused explosions in Brixton, south London Brick Lane in east London and Soho, central London.
The final blast at the gay pub the Admiral Duncan killed Andrea Dykes, 27, who was pregnant, and friends John Light, 32, and Nik Moore, 31, from Essex.
Copeland intended his bombing campaign to ignite a race war across Britain, his trial heard.
He was tried at the Old Bailey in 2000 for murder after the prosecution refused to accept his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he was suffering a mental illness - paranoid schizophrenia.
A Broadmoor Hospital consultant had described him as psychotic and diagnosed schizophrenia.
The original trial judge, Michael Hyam, concluded that Copeland's crimes were motivated by his hatred of black and Asian people and homosexuals.
Rebecca Aylward murder: Breakfast bet was 'a joke'
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A teenager has told a murder trial he was only joking over a bet of a cooked breakfast with a friend, who is accused of killing his own ex-girlfriend.
It is claimed the boy, 16, arranged to buy the defendant a breakfast if he carried out his threat to murder Rebecca Aylward, 15. She was found dead in woods near Bridgend.
But the boy said he thought the accused, also 16, was "messing about".
The accused denies murder at Swansea Crown Court and blames the witness.
Rebecca was found dead in woods in Aberkenfig in October 2010.
Her former boyfriend is accused of her murder.
Swansea Crown Court heard her former boyfriend, then also 15, allegedly told his friend: "Don't say anything but you might just owe me a breakfast."
His friend told the jury their breakfast bet was just a joke between them and he was "playing along".
He said he did it not because he was horrible, but because he just did not believe his friend would kill Rebecca.
Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel attacked by gunmen
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At least 10 people are reported to have been killed after a top hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, came under attack by gunmen and suicide bombers.
An official said three bombers had blown themselves up at the Intercontinental Hotel and another had been shot dead.
Later, Nato said two of its helicopters had killed three attackers on the roof.
Kabul's police chief told the BBC that troops had entered the hotel and that all the guests were safe.
After an operation lasting more than four hours, officials said all the attackers had been killed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the group was behind the attack.
The Intercontinental is one of Kabul's best-known hotels and is popular with Westerners. It is situated on a hill in the west of the city.
Officials said a meeting of provincial governors taking place at the hotel might have been the reason for the attack.
The attack also came the night before the start of a conference about the transition of responsibility for security from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) to Afghan security forces.
'Chaos'
A guest at the hotel told AP news agency that the attack began when many people were having dinner in the restaurant, and that he had jumped out of a first-floor window to escape the gunmen.
"I was running with my family," said the man, named as Jawid. "There was shooting. The restaurant was full with guests."
Another guest told the BBC that there was a scene of chaos, and that they had been told to stay in their rooms and keep their doors locked.
An Afghan intelligence official said several Afghan provincial governors and the Takhar provincial council chief had also been there.
"Most of these VIPs were in a car park when at least three suicide attackers arrived and started firing their weapons," he added.
"Bodyguards for some of the governors exchanged gunfire with the attackers. The attackers had hand-grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s.''
Later, three attackers managed to reach the roof and there was sporadic gunfire for several hours.
Afghan officials then asked Isaf for assistance, security sources told the BBC.
"Two International Security Assistance Force helicopters... engaged three individuals on the roof," Isaf spokesman Major Tim James said.
"The indications are that the three individuals on the roof have been killed."
During the earlier fighting, some bullets landed close to the house of Afghanistan's First Vice-President, Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, who was evacuated.
The fifth and sixth floors of the hotel were reported to be on fire.
Kabul police chief Gen Mohammad Ayub Salangi told the BBC that security forces had searched the hotel and all of the guests were safe.
"Our boys have shot dead one of the suicide attackers. We are trying to defuse his [explosive] vest,'' he said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was being kept informed of the operation, officials said.
Correspondents say the Intercontinental is one of Kabul's most heavily guarded hotels.
The US condemned the attack, saying it demonstrated "the terrorists' complete disregard for human life".
Kabul has been relatively stable in recent months, although violence has increased across the country since the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan on 2 May, and the start of the Taliban's "spring offensive".
In January 2008, militants stormed the capital's most popular luxury hotel, the Serena, and killed eight people, including an American, a Norwegian and a Philippine woman.
Hacker group Anonymous declares war on Orlando, Florida
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The hacker group Anonymous has taken down a US tourism website in Orlando, Florida as a protest against the arrests of people handing out food to the city's homeless.
Anonymous said the attack on orlandofloridaguide.com was retaliation for the arrest of members of the group Food not Bombs.
The website, which is not owned by the city, went offline for part of Tuesday.
Anonymous rose to prominence by hacking the sites of major corporations.
Anonymous is often seen as a political collective and has pledged to take action against those its members view as acting improperly.
They have been linked to several high-profile web attacks, including several on Sony websites as well as the Church of Scientology.
Ecuador police convicted over Rafael Correa protest
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A court in Ecuador has found six police officers guilty of crimes against the security of the state, during a protest last September in which the president was forcibly detained.
President Rafael Correa had to be rescued by the military after being tear-gassed and held for several hours in a hospital by police angry about plans to cut their bonuses.
He described the events as an attempted coup.
The six men will be sentenced later.
They include the former head of security for Ecuador's congress, Colonel Rolando Tapia.
President Correa vowed to purge the police and punish those responsible after the dramatic events of 30 September last year.
Images of the unrest were beamed around the world amid widespread fears that Ecuador could be witnessing a coup attempt, not merely a protest by the police and parts of the military.
The country has faced a number of coups and coup attempts in its turbulent political past.
Libya rebels capture Gaddafi arms bunker near Zintan
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Libyan rebels have captured a major complex of underground weapons bunkers from Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the west of the country.
Rebels said they had cleared remaining guards from the arms dump, located just south of Zintan, after Nato forces attacked the area several days ago.
Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor has urged allies of Col Gaddafi to help arrest him.
Rebels began their revolt in February and won Nato's support a month later.
International Space Station in debris scare
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A piece of debris has narrowly missed the International Space Station (ISS), forcing its six crew members to go to their escape capsules and prepare for an emergency evacuation back to Earth.
Officials said the debris came within 335m (1,100ft) of the platform.
The crew were given the all clear to return to work minutes after the object passed by at 1208 GMT.
The junk was of unknown size but experts say even a small object could do considerbale damage to the ISS.
The US space agency's (Nasa) Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, said it was the closest a debris object had ever come to the station. An analysis was now underway to try to understand its origin, he added.
"A situation arose linked to unidentified 'space trash' passing very close to the space station," the Russian space agency had earlier explained.
"The crew was told to take their places aboard the Soyuz spacecraft."
Soyuz capsules are used to ferry crew to and from the orbiting platform, and enough vehicles are always present so that they can be used as "lifeboats" if an emergency arises.
Before getting into the capsules, the crew closed all the hatches on the ISS.
The ISS is currently manned by three Russians, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut.