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Attacks on Damascus embassies
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Supporters of Syrian President Bashan al Assad have attacked the US and French embassies in Damascus
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Obama urged to investigate Bush torture claims
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A campaign group has said the US president should order a criminal investigation into alleged torture sanctioned by the Bush administration.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says there is "overwhelming evidence" of torture ordered by George W Bush.
The former president has defended some of the techniques, saying they prevented attacks and saved lives.
The Obama administration has launched inquiries into deaths in CIA custody and other "unauthorised actions".
But HRW argues these inquiries will not cover the activities which were specifically authorised as legal by officials within the Bush administration.
The former president, vice-president, defence secretary and head of the CIA should all be investigated, the group says.
"There are solid grounds to investigate [George] Bush, [former vice-president Dick] Cheney, [former defence secretary Donald] Rumsfeld, and [former CIA director George] Tenet for authorising torture and war crimes," said Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director.
"President Obama has treated torture as an unfortunate policy choice rather than a crime.
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A horse is given water from a hose during a hot day of racing in Moreland Hill, Ohio, US
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Jock, one of the gorilla's at Bristol Zoo, England, reaches for a present given to celebrate the zoo's 175th anniversary
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A six year old girl walks a tightrope for money in Ahmedabad. Her family earn around 150 rupees (£2.10p) a day from her performance
Pakistan: A nation in turmoil
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A relative of a Pakistani man, shot and killed by unidentified armed men, mourns over his body during a funeral service in Karachi on July 8. Pakistan ordered 1,000 extra troops to deploy in Karachi with 'shoot-to-kill' instructions, after 71 people were killed in four days of violence.
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Two Swiss tourists have been kidnapped in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan province, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday.
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Supporters of Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami hold a banner reading in Urdu 'We strongly condemn the American conspiracy of promoting homosexuality in Pakistan', during a protest against the U.S. embassy in Islamabad for organizing the first ever gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Pride Celebration in Karachi, July 4. According to media reports Pakistan's largest Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami's head Munawar Hassan, demanded that the government act against the U.S. embassy for violating Pakistani laws which 'strictly forbid gay, lesbian marriages and celebrations'.
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, talks with Pakistani Deputy Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, right, during their meeting in Islamabad,
Belfast riots
At least 22 police officers were injured in west Belfast after crowds of rioters threw petrol bombs and masonry
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Police try to break into a burning car in west Belfast during riots
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Fatehpur, India: Railway workers work into night to repair the track and clear the mangled wreckage of the Kalka Mail passenger train that derailed
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El Arish, Egypt: Bedouins look on after masked gunmen blew up a natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in the Sinai peninsula
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Calgary, Canada: Chuckwagon racers warm-up before competing in the Calgary Stampede
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El Aguacate, Guatemala: A member of a village milita stands guard in the street. Residents are blaming a local poultry farmer for a fly plague caused by unsanitary conditions on his farm. They have formed a militia to defend themselves after receiving threats from the farmer, according to one of the protesters
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San Francisco, US: Workers remove a man who climbed on top of a train during a protest against the fatal shooting of a man by transit police during a confrontation
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Islamabad, Pakistan: Boys attend a religious class in a mosque
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Sydney, Australia: American singer Lady Gaga leaves her hotel
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Puri, India: Hindus pull sculptures of the deities Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra at the end of the annual chariot festival
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Youths pose near their bonfire in Ballykeel housing estate, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland July 11, 2011. Northern Irish Protestants traditionally light bonfires on the 11th of July to celebrate their culture.
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A British Army soldier of Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, rests under his Jackal armored vehicle during a short break at a Afghan National Police (ANP) check point outside the town of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, July 11, 2011.
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Members of the Yemeni anti-terrorism force take part in a training drill at a mountain in the Sarif area near Sanaa July 11, 2011
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An injured policeman gestures towards activists of India's ruling Congress party after a police vehicle was set ablaze during a protest in Agartala, located in north eastern Indian state of Tripura July 11, 2011. Hundreds of activists on Monday protested against the state's alleged discriminatory policies towards reservation of seats in local medical colleges, local media reported
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A survivor (R) from the Bulgaria tourist boat, which sank on the Volga river, wraps herself with a blanket while talking on the phone after the arrival at the port of Kazan July 10, 2011. Nearly one hundred people remained missing after a tourist boat sank in a broad stretch of Russia's Volga river on Sunday, killing at least one person, emergency services officials said.
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Rescue workers carry the body of a victim after a passenger train derailed near Fatehpur, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh July 11, 2011. The death toll in a train accident in Uttar Pradesh climbed to 80 on Monday with more than 350 injured in one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country's troubled rail network in years.
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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters about her trip to Bagan, at her home in Yangon July 11, 2011. Suu Kyi ventured outside her home city on July 4 to 8, for the first time since her release from house arrest in November, making a low-key visit to the ancient city of Bagan amid tight security.
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Albanian gymnasts perform on the second day of the 2011 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne July 11, 2011. More than 20,000 participants from around the world will take part in gymnastic performances over seven days at the non-competitive event.
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Porters rest inside their carts in Jerusalem's Old City July 11, 2011
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Soldiers take part in a patrol in Tora Warai, a town in Kurram Agency, during a military trip organised for media along the Pakistan Afghanistan border, July 10, 2011. The Pakistan Army said on July 4 that it had launched an air and ground offensive against militants in Kurram region on the Afghan border, its first major military operation since the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Phone-Hacking Scandal Widens in Britain
Amid allegations that some of his British newspapers used criminals to obtain private information about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is driven away from his London apartment on Tuesday.
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Steered in a Certain Direction
Jule Hazen competes in steer wrestling during the Calgary Stampede on Monday in Alberta, Canada. Billed as the "Greatest Outdoor Show in Earth," the massive ten-day event is the country's largest annual rodeo.
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Afghan Leader's Half Brother Killed
Ahmed Wali Karzai (above), the half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and one of the most powerful men in the southern part of the country, was apparently shot dead on Tuesday by one of his bodyguards, officials said.
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A Great Mountain View
This image taken on Monday shows the Cerro de Siete Colores (Hill of the Seven Colors) in Argentina's northern province of Jujuy. The different colors are the result of a complex geological history dating back 600 million years.
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Staying Put in Athens
Masks hung by protesters opposed to the Greek government's tough austerity measures are seen Monday in Athens' Syntagma Square -- a place some demonstrators have refused to vacate, despite the mayor's pleas.
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Covering Up
An orangutan protects himself from the cold with a blanket provided by vets at Rio de Janeiro's zoo on Monday. Vets gave blankets and hot soups to animals due to the extremely cold weather affecting Rio and the region.