An Italian firefighter tackles burning rubbish in Naples after residents barricaded streets with waste in protest at the protracted crisis over uncollected rubbish.
Burmese Buddhists celebrate Vesak - the day Buddha was born - in the main city Rangoon...
...while these Burmese cyclone survivors jostle for aid at a monastery outside the city.
Youths play football on Moscow's Red Square at a festival to celebrate this week's Champions League final. Manchester United will face Chelsea in the city.
Vienna shows off a "FanCamp" for the Euro 2008 football championships. It offers 3,000 beds in 770 booths, plus 200 toilets and 100 showers.
A woman in Tokyo has her face covered with pure gold foil at the Beautyworld Japan exhibition. It is said to be an anti-aging treatment.
Joe the gorilla celebrates his 45th birthday by eating a slice of birthday cake at Twycross Zoo, Leicestershire, UK.
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