Floods continue to inundate parts of central Europe. All eyes were on the east German city of Magdeburg on Sunday as the River Elbe's levels reached historic highs.
Anti-government protesters in Turkey took a rest in Ankara's Kugulu Park on Monday as mass demonstrations enter an 11th day.
Indonesian passengers on this state-owned Merpati Nusantara aircraft had a lucky escape after it crash-landed at an airport in East Nusa Tenggara province.
South Africa's ailing former president Nelson Mandela was visited in his Pretoria hospital on Sunday by his daughter Makaziwe Mandela (right) and his granddaughter Ndileka Mandela.
Afghan soldiers moved in when Taliban fighters seized a building near the main airport in the capital Kabul. Seven gunmen were killed in the ensuing battle.
In an interview filmed by Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald (pictured here) in Hong Kong, former CIA technical worker Edward Snowden revealed himself to be the source of leaks about US surveillance programmes.
Twenty plaster-and-perlite toilets, that also resemble tombstones, have been displayed outside Cyprus's central bank by artist Andreas Efstathiou in protest at the island's banking system and the damage it has done to the economy.
Indian police sprayed coloured water from cannons to break up a protest by workers in Srinagar demanding the regularisation of contractual jobs and a rise in salaries.
