Fly-past in August 1986 of the Chernobyl power plant following the nuclear disaster of 26 April of that year. (AP Archive)

The Israeli election has resulted in a virtual stalemate. Neither the right-wing Likud party or Labour to the left has a clear majority in the Knesset. Both parties have courted the smaller, ultra-orthodox Jewish parties that hold the balance of power, Likud with more success.

VS West Bank town of Silwan - soldiers patrolling streets

Home-made projectile being thrown

Ramallah in West Bank - youths throwing stones

Soldiers patrolling in jeep

Israelis going to the polls

Shimon Peres votes; Yitzhak Shamir votes

Labour leader Shimon Peres meets with members of the National Religious Party

Peres meets with Agudat Israel Party to form alliance

Likud Leader Yitzhak Shamir meets with Tehiya Party

Orthodox Jews at Wailing Wall in Jerusalem

Orthodox Jews clash with riot police over observation of the Sabbath

Ratz party spokesman on changes to the law of return

West Bank violence

Aftermath of stabbing of soldier by Palestinian at Moshav

Israeli soldiers checking papers

Authorities had been trying to evacuate the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York when the glass-and-steel skyscrapers came down in a thunderous roar within about 90 minutes of being hit by two airliners in a terrorist attack.

But many people were thought to still be in both buildings, many of them trapped and unable to get out.

The two planes blasted fiery, gaping holes in the upper floors of one of New York’s most famous landmarks and rained debris on the streets.

About an hour later, the southern tower collapsed with a roar and a huge cloud of smoke.

The other tower fell about half an hour after that, covering lower Manhattan in heaps of gray rubble and broken glass.

Firefighters trapped in the rubble radioed for help, others stumbled from the scene, coughing and covered in ash.

Dust and dirt flew everywhere and a layer of ash fell for miles around.

There is still no word on the number of fatalities or casualties.

1. Wide of top of second World Trade Centre tower as it starts to collapse
2. Cloud of smoke billowing down street from collapsing tower, pan round and back to approaching cloud of smoke coming down street, camera is engulfed in smoke
3. Interior building - cameraman takes shelter inside building with others, smoke
4. Wide of street covered in debris and smoke, emergency workers pan up to surrounding buildings and back down to street
5. Mid shot fire crew members emerging from smoke of collapsing tower
6. Fire crew emerging from smoke and coughing, tilt up
7. Police vehicle driving though dust from direction of collapsed tower, pan to building
8. Close up fireman as he has face cleaned off after emerging from rubble of collapsed tower
9. Mid shot ambulance drives out from cloud of smoke, pull out to wide

At Welsh Conservative Conference, Margaret Thatcher, PM, gives speech on picket-line violence in the miners’ strike. 300 striking miners’ wives demonstrate outside.

The final stages of a group of Masai warriors in the process of attaining manhood. They become senior Warriors at a ceremony when they are circumcised, their heads are shaved and there is a feast.

This is the last known photograph of George Mallory (left) and Sandy Irvine, leaving for the North Col of Everest. The pair were to disappear into the mists, never to be seen alive again, with the question remaining: did they reach the summit or not?

This sketch is thought to date from Livingstone’s second visit to the Victoria Falls in August 1860. He had first seen them in November 1855 when he had named the Falls after Queen Victoria, although recording a local name of Mostoatunya. Livingstone recorded the details of the width and height of the Falls and the gorges cut by the River Zambezi, but was also inspired to write,

The whole scene was extremely beautiful; the banks and islands dotted over the river are adorned with vegetation of great variety of colour and form…no-one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England…scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.

Chinese officer and spearmen at Min-Ko

Scott’s party at the South Pole, with Amundsen’s tent in the background. From left to right, Scott, Oates, Wilson, Evans

Second World War poster