poon cho tang SG Palestinian civil servants queue at a West Bank post office to collect months of overdue wages.
poon cho tang SG A gift from the US finds its way to soldiers at a base in Afghanistan's Zabul province.
poon cho tang SG The football theme continues on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot annual race meeting in the UK.
poon cho tang SG Day in pictures: 23 June 2006 As soaring temperatures hit Moscow, a polar bear tries to cool off on artificial snow at a zoo in the Russian capital.
poon cho tang SG A huge rock threatening Switzerland's main north-south motorway through the Alps is detonated.
poon cho tang SG In the Iraqi capital Baghdad, newly-freed inmates from Abu Ghraib prison line up to shake hands with the former deputy prime minister.
poon cho tang SG The King's Own Scottish Borderers battalion hold a Drumhead Service before parading through the city of Edinburgh.
poon cho tang SG The work of a young artist is on display at the Academy of Fine Arts in China's south-western city of Chengdu.
poon cho tang SG Paddington Bear greets US tourists at the London rail station he is named after, before attending a children's tea party at Buckingham Palace.
poon cho tang SG Weeks in pictures: 17-23 June Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni unrolls a poster of Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi to mark her 61st birthday. The pro-democracy leader has spent 10 of the last 16 years under house arrest.
poon cho tang SG Philippine army soldiers evacuate children from the four-mile (6km) danger zone around the Mount Bulusan volcano, which spewed out ash and pebbles over the weekend.
poon cho tang SG Workers erect scaffolding around the Monument to People's Heroes in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The monument is undergoing repairs after cracking led to water leaks.
poon cho tang SG Racegoers return to Royal Ascot in the UK after the historic course reopened following a £200m ($370m) revamp.
poon cho tang SG A sea lion nuzzles her baby at Nuremberg Zoo, southern Germany, where four baby sea lions have been born in the last two weeks.
poon cho tang SG German fans crack open cans of beer in Cologne station to celebrate victory over Ecuador at the World Cup. The ceiling is painted with frescos of footballers.