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Week in Pictures: July 9-14
Week in Pictures: July 9-14
Week in Pictures: July 9-14
Karin Keuter of Germany smiles after she won the Miss Deaf World 2012 title in Prague. Nearly 50 girls from all over the world attended the competition's final taking place in the Czech capital for the 12th time. AP Photo
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A woman dressed in costume participates in the 11th Jember Fashion Carnival in Jember, Indonesia's East Java province July 8, 2012. The carnival procession that had a 3.6 km ( 2.2 mile) route was made up of 700 participants, who wore creations made by fashion designers from 8 different Indonesian cities. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas
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A dog stands on the roof of a house in the town of Krymsk, which has been seriously damaged by floods, in Krasnodar region, southern Russia, July 8, 2012. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered investigators to find out if enough was done to prevent 144 people being killed in floods in southern Russia after flying to the region to deal with the first big disaster of his new presidency. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko
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A model puts some make up on before displaying creations on July 7, 2012 in Berlin during the Butt & Better Circus Show as part of open-air fashion shows organized by independant designers and artists as an anti-Fashion Week. In contradiction to the Berlin Fashion Week, that took place from July 4 to 7, 2012 in the German capital, the Butt & Better aims to point out fashion not as a market-oriented product, but as an art form and as a political act. Therefore, organizers enrich fashion presentations with acrobatics, show an exhibition with art installations and offer workshops raising awareness for ecological and social responsibility. "Trashion! Fashion was yesterday" is a guiding theme of the event, that also included a Fair-Trade-Parade. AFP PHOTO / ISABELLE WIRTH
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Triathlets swim during the Ironman at the "Langener Waldsee" in Frankfurt, western Germany, on July 8, 2012. Thousand triathlets attend the Ironman tournament which includes 3,8 kilometer roughwater swim,180 km bike race and 42,2 km marathon. AFP PHOTO / FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN GERMANY OUT
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France's President Francois Hollande (R) German Chancellor Angela Merkel are pictured during a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of renewed Franco-German relations after World War II, on July 8, 2012 in Reims. France and Germany have worked closely in recent years as they scramble to solve the eurozone's debt crisis and observers are watching with interest to see how the relationship develops between Hollande, a centre-left advocate of growth, and Merkel, a centre-right defender of austerity. AFP PHOTO
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Irv Gordon drives his Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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The Red Arrows fly in formation alongside a Vulcan bomber to officially open the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southern England, on July 9, 2012. Farnborough sees the announcement of orders for military jets but with governments slashing defence budgets to help reduce huge public deficits, major deals are set to be scarce. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS
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Istanbul drivers stuck in a seemingly endless traffic jam caused by the maintenance work on the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge tried to relax by playing football on July 9, 2012. DHA Photo
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TOPSHOTS In a handout photo taken on July 8, 2012 and released on July 9 by WildAid, US Actress Maggie Q swims with an endangered whale shark off Cancun, Mexico. As an ambassador for international conservation group WildAid, Maggie Q is in Cancun this week to publicize the plight of sharks threatened by demand for shark fin soup in the same week that China announced a ban on shark fin from all official banquets. AFP PHOTO
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A fisherman carries his boat near the banks of Vembanad Lake in the southern Indian city of Kochi July 8, 2012. The fishermen come along with their families from the neighbouring Mysore district of Karnataka state to fish in the waters of Vembanad Lake and Periyar River in Kochi and each family earns around 600 rupees ($11) a day by catching mostly mystus fish and crab, fishermen said. Picture taken July 8, 2012. REUTERS/Sivaram V
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A pool picture released on July 9, 2012, by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) shows Switzerland's Roger Federer (L) and Serena Williams of US posing for pictures on July 8, 2012, with their respective Wimbledon winners trophies at the Champions Dinner in London. Roger Federer beat Britain's Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to win the Men's final while Serena Williams beat Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win the Women's Final. AFP PHOTO/TOM LOVELOCK/POOL
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An Afghan man with mental health problems shields his face from the camera as he is chained to a wall of a room at the Mia Ali Baba shrine, in line with a traditional belief that spending 40 days chained in isolation at the shrine can cure the illness, in Jalalabad July 9, 2012. Afghanistan is struggling to fight the mental health problems that afflict some of the population after decades of violence, according to Abdul Rasool, an official from the health department of Jalalabad province. REUTERS/Parwiz
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A sunset over Sava river, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, July 8, 2012. AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic
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In this photo taken Saturday, July 7, 2012 and released by the Ueno Zoological Park Society Monday, July 9, 2012, a newly born male panda baby is fed inside an incubator at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. The panda was born Thursday to Shin Shin, a 7-year-old mother, which was brought to Japan from China just before Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami last year. (AP Photo/Ueno Zoological Park Society)
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Children use plastic bags to avoid drowning in Aydın, Turkey. DHA Photo
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ANTOINE AGASSE A woman practices on a "slackline" on July 9, 2012 in the Mistral Parc in Grenoble. Slacklining is a practice in balance that uses nylon webbing tensioned between two anchor points. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT
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Children play before the setting sun at Seal Beach, south of Los Angeles on July 9, 2012 in California. Much of the US has been gripped by a relentless heatwave, sparking health warnings and sending people to makeshift cooling shelters, shopping malls and overcrowded swimming pools in search of relief. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN
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A young bull jumps over several runners or 'mozos' at the bullring at the end of the fourth bull run of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, 10 July 2012. Five runners were slightly hurt in the bull run. The fiesta de Sanfermines runs from 06 to 14 July. EPA Photo
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Picture taken from a US Boeing C-135 refueling aircraft of French 'Rafale' jets flying between Istres, southern France and Paris, to fly over the Paris Champs-Elysees avenue for the Bastille Day annual military parade, on July 9. AFP photo
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A heart surgery operation led by Professor Jan Pirk is reflected in the glasses of doctor Marian Urban at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague, June 28, 2012. A Czech medical team led by Pirk has performed a breakthrough operation on a 37-year-old heart failure patient, replacing his heart with two mechanical blood pumps, HeartMate II. The man is the first to survive such surgery, which was performed on April 3. The exact operation was previously conducted by heart surgeons in Texas, United States. However, the patient died one week later. Picture taken on June 28, 2012. REUTERS/Petr Josek
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Indian commuters walk on the Churchgate station railway platform on the eve of World population Day, in Mumbai July 10, 2012. Africa and Asia are the continents that will see the fastest urban population growth in the next 40 years, a UN report said earlier in the year noting that India and China are leading the surge. Earth's population is expected to roughly triple by 2050 compared to a century earlier. It stood at three billion in 1950, reached seven billion in 2011 and is likely to reach about 9.5 billion by 2050 -- a rise that will occur especially in the poorest countries, according to UN estimates. AFP PHOTO/Punit PARANJPE
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Istanbul, Turkey. AA photo
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A young boy wears a mask of a bull at the San Fermin fiesta, in Pamplona northern Spain, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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A Filipino girl is carried by her mother as they join a family planning fair to commemorate World Population Day in Manila, Philippines on Wednesday July 11, 2012. Residents living in slum areas were given free family planning information, counseling and services as the event also coincides with the Global Family Planning Summit in London. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Ueno Zoological Gardens director Toshimitsu Doi wipes tears as he announces the death of a baby panda at the zoo, a week after its birth, during a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2012. The unnamed cub was initially hailed as a rare success for Japan's captive breeding programme as it was the zoo's first panda born in 24 years and the only one conceived from natural sexual intercourse. AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS JAPAN OUT
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Two women stand in a lift near an advertisement board in Beijing's Central Business District, China, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. AP Photo
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A vegetable and fruit vendor empties a crate containing apples along a street in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on July 11, 2012, as some 160 market sellers protested against the new location that the municipality allocated to them to sell their goods. AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT
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Mongolian boy in costume runs past a member of guard of honor during the Naadam Festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to world conquest on July 11 with the annual sports festival featuring traditional Mongolian events including wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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British billionaire Richard Branson poses for the photographers in the window of a replica of the Virgin Galactic, which according to the company will be the world?s first commercial spaceline, at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, Wednesday, July 11, 2012.Virgin Galactic announced ?LauncherOne,? a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small satellites into orbit. Commercial flights of the new orbital launch vehicle are expected to begin by 2016, Virgin Galactic aims to offer frequent and dedicated launches at the world?s lowest prices. AP Photo
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A Turkish Navy cost guard boat (L) escorts the Russian Navy destroyer Smetlivy in the Bosphorus in Istanbul July 11, 2012. Russia dispatched a destroyer-class warship to Syria on Tuesday, a source in the Russian Navy told Reuters, and another military source was quoted as saying four more Russian ships were en route to the violence-torn country. Moscow has been the major ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he battles an armed uprising, but the source quoted by Interfax news agency said the ships' mission had nothing to do with the conflict. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: MILITARY)
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A handout picture provided by Lobster Pictures on 11 July 2012 shows people gathered to watch the illuminations at Stonehenge to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games in Britain, just after sunset on 10 July 2012. EPA/LOBSTER PICTURES HANDOUT
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Lady members of the Orange Order prepare to parade in North Belfast, Northen Ireland, Thursday, July 12, 2012. The Twelfth of July is the busiest day of the marching season in Northern Ireland with thousands of Orangemen and women, accompanied by marching bands, taking part in hundreds of parades. The Orange Order holds its main Belfast event, which commemorates King William III's 1690 Battle of the Boyne victory over Catholic King James II. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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A video grab released by Kumamoto Prefectural Police Department (KPPD) on 12 July 2012 shows the flooded Shirakawa river flowing through Kumamoto city, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. Four people are reported dead and 18 missing following heavy rains that hit the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu. EPA/KPPD
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A baby, who is lying on the leaf of a water lily Victoria Amazonica, is photographed at the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, The Netherlands, 12 July 2012. The university botanical garden invited parents to have their babies pictured on the giant leaves by a professional photographer. The enormous leaves of the Victoria amazonica can grow up to a diameter of 1,5 meters and can bear up to 40 kg. EPA/ERIK VAN 'T WOUD
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A baby gorilla sleeps on its mother Rebecca on July 12, 2012 at the zoo in Frankfurt/M., western Germany. The gender of the animal, born on July 10, 2012 and still nameless, is not yet known. AFP PHOTO / FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN GERMANY OUT
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Indian railway track inspection staff walk along a suburban railway line during a sudden downpour in Mumbai on July 13, 2012. The June to September monsoon is described as the "economic lifeline" of India, which has a population of 1.2 billion and is one of the world's leading producers of rice, sugar, wheat and cotton. AFP PHOTO/Indranil MUKHERJEE
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US Moto GP rider Ben Spies of Yamaha Factory Racing crashes during the free practice session for the Grand Prix of Italy at the Mugello circuit, central Italy, 13 July 2012. EPA/CLAUDIO ONORATI
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An aerial view of a British military missile battery on Blackheath common in south London, which is part of the defences for the London 2012 Olympic summer games Friday, July, 13, 2012. AP Photo
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Marin Page, 13, watches the festivities while lounging next to her family's truck during the Iowa 80 Truckstop's 33rd Annual Truckers Jamboree in Walcott, Iowa, July 12, 2012. The Iowa 80, located along Interstate 80, is said to be the world's largest truck stop. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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Three girls jump in the Ohrid Lake in Ohrid at sunset on July 12, 2012. Macedonia was hit by a heat wave as temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, forcing the residents of the Balkan's country to look for refreshment in the rivers and lakes. AFP PHOTO/ROBERT ATANASOVSKI
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A baby is baptised during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi, July 13, 2012. More than 12 thousand children were baptised by the Georgian Orthodox church at 23 mass baptism ceremonies at the country's main cathedral Holy Trinity since 2008, according to local media. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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Clashes break out between police and demonstrators in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakır, after police refused to allow demonstrators to attend a "Democratic Resistance for Freedom Rally." The BDP planned the rally, to be called the “Democratic Resistance for Freedom Rally,” in order to protest the large-scale detentions in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) probe, as well as the “isolation policy” for Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). AFP Photo
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Fireworks illuminate the night sky above the historic fortified city of Carcassonne, southwestern France, during the annual Bastille Day celebrations on July 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / ERIC CABANIS
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Sylvester Stallone's 36-year-old son Sage, who is also an actor, was found dead at his home in Hollywood, media reports said. AP Photo
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A Tibetan opera artist carries her baby as she rests backstage during a break at a square in Huangnanzhou, Qinghai province July 14, 2012. The traditional Tibetan opera in Huangnanzhou dates back to the 17th century and remains popular among Tibetans in the southern Qinghai province. Picture taken July 14, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
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A group ten young women sunbathe on Torreon's beach in Benicassim, Spain, 10 July 2012, two days prior to the beginning of the FIB (Benicassim International Festival). According to FIB sources 7,000 followers of the music festival have arrived to enjoy the beach and other activities related and organized by the FIB such as a short film festival, theaters plays and art exhibitions while are waiting for the start of the festival where this year artists include Bob Dylan, Stone Roses, New Order, Noel Gallagher and David Guetta among others. EPA/DOMENECH CASTELLO
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