Day in pictures

Day in pictures BBC A huge Lego toy has mysteriously appeared on Zandvoort beach in Holland. Nobody knows where it comes from. Ukrainian synchronised swimmers perform an aquatic ballet in a fish tank at an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. A group of residents play cards at the funeral wake of a pauper, Cristino Parian, in Manila, in the Philippines, to help raise money for the dead man's burial. A displaced Sudanese woman carries her baby at a camp in Nyala, in Sudan's Darfur region. More than two million people have been left homeless by conflict since 2003. Israeli security forces remove Jewish settlers from an illegally occupied building in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron. A Tibetan women sits beside a collection of hundreds of Tibetan flags ahead of a protest rally in Delhi, India. A car rests upside down against a wall and a handrail as pedestrians look on in central Moscow. Witnesses say the driver walked away from the accident unharmed. Hot air balloons near a statue of King William III in Bristol, UK. The event is part of the Discovery Channel International Balloon Fiesta 2007, the largest of its kind in Europe. Colombian Henri Ayala, an acrobat with the Zippo Circus, balances on a chair on a high wire in York, UK.

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