Tributes paid to bombing victims
Members of the emergency services bear candles representing victims from each of the bomb sites during the National Service of Remembrance for the Victims of the London Bombings at St Paul's Cathedral November 1, 2005. Poignant tributes were paid to the victims of July's suicide bombings with a memorial service for the 52 people killed in the train and bus blasts.

Almost four months afterwards, the scars are raw as ever with some families of the victims feeling sidelined, even divided, as they try to come to terms with their grief. But others felt the service attended by 2,300 people at St Paul's Cathedral offered a chance for closure, a moment to heal wounds after the attacks by Islamist militants.

Survivors flung their arms around each other in emotional reunions. Relatives, heads bowed in grief, pinned photos of victims to their jackets. Firemen and ambulance crews remembered those they fought to save.

In an impassioned sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams condemned terrorism which "aims at death, not the death of anyone in particular, just death."

Fried Eggs on the Beach?
A sunbather approaches an artwork called 'Big Chook', made of fibreglass and high gloss epoxy marine paint, on Tamarama Beach in Sydney November 2, 2005. Australian artist Jeremy Parnell says people frying themselves on the beach for a suntan inspired his piece which joins 100 artworks contributed by international and Australian artists at the annual outdoor Sculpture by the Sea exhibition which is in its ninth year.

Wiltshire's Madonna Goes Live
Madonna poses for photographers after arriving at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2005 ceremony at Lisbon's Atlantic Pavilion November 3, 2005. Madonna kicked off the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, where she gave the first live televised performance of her new single "Hung Up" in a show beamed to millions of homes across the world.
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The Order of the Poppy
THE Queen wore a brooch of seven poppies which had been designed for her by the Royal British Legion at the Cenotaph ceremony. Buckingham Palace said she had been delighted with the new design. The choice of seven poppies had no special significance and was merely a design feature. In contrast, Baroness Thatcher wore an arrangement of three poppies and the Duchess of Cornwall two larger poppies. Sales of poppies hit record levels this year with a total of 36.5 million bought by the nation to remember the war dead.