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UNDAUNTED: Wouter Basson, head of the apartheid regime's chemical and biological weapons programme, at an inquiry in Pretoria into alleged unethical or unprofessional conduct. (Sapa)
SPEAKING OUT: Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, president and founder of African Monitor, is seen at a news conference in Johannesburg where he spoke on service delivery and other challenges facing SA. (Werner Beukes, Sapa)
ANCIENT: An Israel Museum worker points at the word "Jerusalem" written in a part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Sebastian Scheiner, AP)
WATER-LOGGED: Indian villagers carrying relief materials walk through flood waters at Rasulpur village in Orissa's Jajpur district. India's monsoon season brings rains that are vital to agriculture but also cause floods and landslides. (Biswaranjan Rout, AP)
SURVIVOR: A newborn baby, named Caleb Hope, is treated in a Bloemfontein hospital after being discovered on a rubbish dump, full of bites and with his umbilical cord still attached. (Stef Krüger, Volksblad)
PRAYER: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prays during a session in Dharmsala, India. (Ashwini Bhatia, AP)
RESCUED: A Thai customs official holds the tail of a pangolin before putting it in a cage prior to a news conference at the customs office in Bangkok. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)
HOMELESS: Jame Laloo, 9, takes refuge on a roadside in Tando Allah Yar, in Pakistan's Sindh province, after fleeing her flood-hit home. The floods have killed over 220 people and displaced more than 1.8 million. (Muhammed Muheisen, AP)
MASSACRE: A woman speaks as people gather at the site which is thought to be a possible mass grave near Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, Libya where some 1 270 inmates are thought to have been killed by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in a 1996 prison massacre. (Abdel Magid al-Fergany, AP)
BALANCE: A female high-wire artist cycles over a rope at the market church at the Hanse and Salt Days in Halle, eastern Germany. (Jens Wolf, AFP)
FIERY: Two daredevils, Enrico Schoeman and André de Kock have set a new Guinness world record at the Waterberg game festival in Vaalwater by racing their motorbikes through a tunnel of fire measuring 66.6m – 6m longer than the previous record. (Liza van Deventer, Beeld)
ALERT: Two policemen secure the area before Pope Benedict XV1 prepared to leave Germany from the southern city of Lahr. (Sebastien Bozon, AFP)
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