DEVASTATED:  A Bangladeshi woman wails as a fire rages in a slum in Dhaka. More than a thousand homes burnt down as a devastating blaze raged through the slum. (Munir uz Zaman, AFP)

YOU MAY KISS THE PROTESTER:  Supporters of the Frankfurt Occupy Camp kiss goodbye before they were taken away by police officers as police clear the tent-camp of about 300 Occupy protesters in Frankfurt, Germany. (Michael Probst, AP)

READY:  Project crewman Nick Doyle drives the 'Mars rover', a modified golf cart made out of found materials by artist Tom Sachs in New York. (Bebeto Matthews, AP)

COMMEMORATION:  Newly painted murals in Gaza City on the 64th anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for catastrophe, the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their villages during the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (Dusan Vranic, AP)

MALNOURISHED:  Amina Mohammed holds her malnourished daughter Ruqiyo, 6-months-old, at the Banadir hospital where she is receiving treatment in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Mohamed Sheikh Nor, AP)

ELECTRIC:  Lightning flashes across the sky behind the steeple of St George's Episcopal Church Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the US as storms roll through the area. (Reza A Marvashti, The Free Lance-Star, AP)

UNITED:  DA Parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko and party leader Helen Zille are seen during the organisation’s march in Johannesburg. (Bongiwe Gumede, Beeld)

HARD AT WORK:  A helicopter loads a generator on to the stricken Japanese longliner, Eihatsu Maru, at Clifton First Beach in Cape Town, as attempts to salvage the vessel continue. (Leighton Koopman, Die Burger)

INTIMIDATING:  A Cosatu member is seen taunting Democratic Alliances marchers in Johannesburg where clashes broke out between supporters of the two organisations. (Loanna Hoffmann, Beeld)

ALL MADE UP:   Isabel Martinez, 74, takes part in a parade in San Salvador, El Salvador, during a convention of clowns from Central America and Mexico. (Luis Romero, AP)

IN THE LINE OF DUTY:  President Barack Obama speaks at a memorial service on Capitol Hill, in Washington, honouring law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)

LUNCH:  Baby tapir Parima enjoys some leaves during its first outing at its open-air enclosure in the Tierpark Hagenbeck Zoo, in Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Reinhardt, AFP)