A one-month-old giant panda cub at Madrid Zoo. It is one of twins, the first to be conceived using the artificial insemination method outside of China.

Ethnic Aymara musicians playing in La Paz, Bolivia, after the promulgation of a new anti-racism law. Critics fear the law will restrict freedom of expression.

Samples taken from the Danube river by Romanian monitors who are keeping a daily check on the levels of contamination from the Hungarian toxic chemical spill upriver.

It is difficult to take a photograph when your subject is sitting on the camera.

80-year-old Mohammad Yousuf, who has been displaced by the floods in Pakistan, reacts with laughter on getting a tent for his family in a relief camp in Kakar.

The Colosseum in Rome is bathed in red light and decorated with Chinese characters reading "Sino-Italian friendship" during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Italy.

Acrobats from the Spanish 'Grupo Puja!' perform, suspended above the crowd in Alexandra Gardens, at the opening of the Melbourne Festival.

Indian Sikh head priest Jaswinder Singh in a procession in Amritsar on the eve of the anniversary of the birth of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdass

This picture released by the European Space Agency shows Melas Chasma, part of a rift valley and one of the lowest depressions on Mars