South Sudanese refugees wait at a border gate in Joda after arriving from the war zones of Malakal and al-Rank. The UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic told the BBC he has strong evidence that both sides in the conflict are involved in atrocities.
Three people have been arrested in connection with a Californian wildfire that has already spread across 1,700 acres of land north-east of Los Angeles. Authorities say it began when paper was thrown into a campfire. The three face charges of recklessly starting a fire.
Fishermen gather their nets on Copacabana Beach as lightning flashes out at sea during an early evening thunderstorm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A man cleans up rubbish washed ashore on Kuta Beach in Indonesia. Each year strong winter currents bring debris to the tourist beach.
A German Tornado aircraft crashed during a training mission near the city of Koblenz but both pilot and co-pilot were able to eject safely.
A model poses backstage at the Anne Gorke show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, Germany.
A worker at the British Museum cleans and prepares a metal frame for a forthcoming exhibition of the surviving timbers of the longest Viking warship ever found. The ship, known as Roskilde 6, dates from AD1025 and was excavated from the banks of the Roskilde fjord in Denmark in 1997.
Workers unload vegetables from a boat on a cold and foggy winter morning on the banks of the River Turag in Ashulia, Bangladesh.
A dog is anointed outside the Saint Anton church in Madrid on the animals' patron saint's day when thousands of people all over Spain take their pets to churches to be blessed.
