A rioter is pictured near a car burning in the street during a fourth night of nationalist rioting in Belfast. Two men have been arrested by police investigating a shooting in which three police officers were injured in north Belfast.

Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist who claims he was kidnapped by the CIA, was greeted at Tehran's international airport by his tearful son and wife on his return from the US.

A man smears himself with mineral-rich black mud on the banks of the saltwater lake Tus in Russia's Khakassia region.

An elderly Chinese woman holds a fan while sitting outside her home in Beijing.

Typhoon Conson hit north-east Quezon province and the central island of Luzon, and surged through the Philippines capital Manila and six other provinces.

Workers at the former World Trade Center site excavate a ship's hull believed to have been buried in the 18th Century. Archaeologists believe the ship was used as filler material to extend lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.

Indian captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (R) and team-mate Rahul Dravid watch a dog running across the grounds during the third day of a practice match between India and a Sri Lanka Board XI in Colombo.

A model prepares to take to the catwalk during Dakar Fashion Week.

A sign is displayed on a fence outside a school in Portland, Oregon, where pupil Kyron Horman, seven, was last seen more than a month ago. Kyron disappeared from the school after a science fair.