The Week in Pictures: June 21 – June 28 2013 (77 Photos)

Author: alice Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2039

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Francesca Ruffino of Cape Coral, Florida and Marissa Raisor of Newport, Kentucky react as Raisor is named Miss Hooters International 2013 and Ruffino the first runner-up during the 17th annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, on June 27, 2013. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Heathrow Express a huge cake shaped train was installed at Paddington station in London, on June 22, 2013. (Photo by REX/SIPA)

Police officers and civilians move the lifeless bodies of a driver and a policeman after a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 26, 2013. A bomb targeting a senior judge in Karachi wounded him and killed several security personnel. (Photo by Wasi Qureshi/Associated Press)

A reveler rushes through burning embers during the night of San Juan in San Pedro Manrique, Soria province in northern Spain, on June 24, 2013. (Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP Photo)

Police, who were splashed with paint, scuffle with hard line opposition members in Pristina, Kosovo, protesting an agreement by lawmakers to normalize relations with Serbia, on June 27, 2013. (Photo by Visar Kryeziu/Associated Press)

A man stands beside the Philippine flag as colorful umbrellas adorn a village hall in suburban San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines, on June 27, 2013. (Photo by Aaron Favila/Associated Press)

The Black Eagles, a South Korean Air Force aerial demonstration team, performs during a ceremony to commemorate the battle of Chuncheon, on June 22, 2013. The South Korean Defense Ministry hosted the re-enactment of one of the major battles fought in the 1950-53 Korean War as part of events held on the 63rd anniversary of the Korean War. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)

The Prime Minister David Cameron talks to RAF Pilot Andy Green about the British built Bloodhound Jet Car, that he will drive to try and smash the World land speed record of 763mph, on the day the PM announces the initiative to create 100,000 engineering jobs outside Downing Street Westminster in central London, on June 24, 2013. (Photo by John Stillwell/PA Wire)

South Korean soldiers play their roles as North Koreans as they re-enact the battle of Chuncheon in Chuncheon, north of Seoul, on June 22, 2013. The country marks the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the war on June 25. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)

People throw flour over each other in Kiev, Ukraine during a gathering on a beach of the Dnieper River, on June 22, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov/Associated Press)

Women compete in a high heels race organized by a fashion magazine in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)

Double Olympic gold medal winning athlete Mo Farah holds his CBE medal, after he received the award from the Prince of Wales during an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in central London, on June 28, 2013. (Photo by John Stillwell/PA Wire)

A Hindu holy man smokes as he waits to register for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu, India, on June 28, 2013. Thousands of pilgrims annually visit the remote Himalayan shrine of Amarnath at 12,756 feet above sea level to worship an icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. (Photo by Channi Anand/Associated Press)

Lightning strikes during a rain storm in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, on June 22, 2013. (Photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/AP Photo)

Women dressed as summer fairies attend an event inspired by pre-christian traditions in Bucharest, on June 23, 2013. According to pre-christian traditions, fairies, called in Romanian [Sanziene], come to earth around the summer solstice bringing fertility to land and beings for the coming summer. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)

A South Korean Taekwondo expert performs martial arts during an event for tourists in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)

An unnamed actress wearing a wedding dress, gestures on one bull of the Bull Running sculptures, in Pamplona northern Spain on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The famous festival of San Fermin, begins on July 6, where thousands of people enjoy the famous Pamplona morning bull runs. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos/AP Photo)

A South Korean soldier in the year during ceremonies marking the 63 years since the start of the Korean War, on June 22, 2013. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)

Lauren Quigley of Stockport Metro in action during the Womens Open 100m backstroke heats during day three of the British Gas Swimming Championships 2013 at Ponds Forge in Sheffield, England, on June 28, 2013. (Photo by Matthew Lewis/Getty Images)

The statue of Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade on Copacabana Beach with a Guy Fawkes mask, on June 23, 2013. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)

In this June 25, 2013 photo provided by the Washington State Patrol, an unidentified man sits covered in paint as he waits to be removed from his vehicle after it went off the road and crashed near Belfair, Wash. The man was hauling large containers of paint, which spilled during the crash and completely coated him and his dog. The man was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injures, and the dog was cleaned up and taken to a humane society. (Photo by Russ Winger/AP Photo/Washington State Patrol)

Nik Wallenda walks across a 2-inch wire 1500 feet above the ground to cross the Grand Canyon for Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda on the Discovery Channel, Sunday, June 23, 2013 at the Grand Canyon, Calif. (Photo by Tiffany Brown/AP Images for Discovery Communications)

Ted Perry, owner of the Apple 1 computer displayed, points to the signature of Steve Wozniak Monday, June 24, 2013, at the Computer History Museum in Menlo Park, Calif. An Apple 1 from 1976, one of the first Apple computers ever built goes on the auction block at Christie's next week. The bidding starts at $300,000, with a pre-sale estimated value of up to $500,000. (Photo by Ben Margot/AP Photo)

Men fight each other using thorny pandanus leaves in Tenganan, Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, on June 25, 2013. Every year Tengananese people in the island of Bali celebrate a monthlong ceremony called [Usabha Sambah] to demonstrate respect to the God Indra, the Hindu god of war. One of the rituals during the ceremony is a Pandanus War or [Mekare Kare], where two Tengananese men duel using thorny pandanus as their weapons. (Photo by Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)

Grand Blanc firefighter Brad Hutchison consoles Wanda McCann after he informed her that her friend and neighbor was killed in a house fire Tuesday morning in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, on June 25, 2013. Police and firefighters tried to rescue a woman in her early 60s, but were unable to enter the home because of heavy smoke. It is the township's first fatal fire in about seven or eight years, said fire chief Jim Harmes. (Photo by Jake May/The Flint Journal)

Medics transport an injured Lebanese soldier, after clashes between followers of radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and Shiite gunmen, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on June 23, 2013. A Lebanese security official says clashes have erupted in the south between Lebanese factions supporting opposing sides in the Syrian civil war. Several Lebanese soldiers were killed and wounded. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/Associated Press)

A man performs a fire stunt during Jal Yatra, or the water procession, in Ahmadabad, India, on June 23, 2013. The holy water from the Sabarmati river is carried and used for rituals of the idols of Hindu God Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, which are then carried in a procession in specially made chariots during the Rath Yatra or chariot festival scheduled to be celebrated on July 10. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/Associated Press)

A man crosses over a swollen river with the help of a rope in Govindghat, India, on June 23, 2013. Bad weather hampered efforts Sunday to evacuate thousands of people stranded in the northern India state of Uttarakhand, where at least 1,000 people have died in monsoon flooding and landslides, army officials said. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)

Burning vehicles are seen at the site of a fire in Almaty June 27, 2013. A 16-ton tank truck rolled over after an accident, setting parked cars and a nearby apartment building ablaze, Emergency Ministry reported. (Photo by Sergey Khodanov/Reuters)

A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire after a road accident in downtown Almaty, on Thursday, June 27, 2013. A multi-story apartment building caught fire in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan after a road accident, on Thursday, June 27. According to witnesses, the fire is a result of a petrol tank lorry that exploded near Rixos hotel at the crossing killing one person and destroying 20 apartments. (Photo by Sergey Khodanov/AP Photo)

A train passes through a food market in Maeklong, some 60 kilometers south-west of Bangkok, on June 27, 2013. Several times a day, shopkeepers swiftly pack up their food stalls and pull back their canopies to let the trains pass. Once the trains have rumbled through, the crates of vegetables, fish and eggs, are heaved back into their position along the tracks and shoppers return to the tracks they use as a path through the market. (Photo by Christophe Archambault/Getty images)

Robot music band Z-Machines members, guitarist robot Mach, left, and drummer robot Ashura, perform at their debut live event in Tokyo Monday, June 24, 2013. Supervised by Japanese artists and creators, Z-Machines has been developed to realize the cutting edge party scene by featuring the guitarist robot with 78 fingers and 12 picks, the drummer robot with 21 sticks and a keyboard player robot that can flash multi-layered beams from its eyes, enabling transcendental music performance. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)

Robot music band Z-Machine perform during their first live event in Tokyo, on June 24, 2013. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/Associated Press)

A lightning streaks on the Pacific Ocean on Panama Bay on June 24, 2013. (Photo by Rodrigo Arangua/AFP Photo)

A gallery assistant holds [My Cat Docket] by British artist Tracy Emin ahead of its sale at Bonhams auction house in London on June 24, 2013. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP Photo)

Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on June 28, 2013. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP Photo)

An Orthodox priest walks in front of frescos at Mykhaylo Gold Domes Cathedral on a hot summer day in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on June 26, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)

Firemen are at work to extinguish a fire that broke out in La Rochelle city hall, on June 28, 2013 in La Rochelle, western France. The fire swept through the roof of the town hall destroying a part of the listed 15th-Century building. (Photo by Xavier Leoty/AFP Photo)

A child poses for photographs on a Clydesdale Prancing Pony during a photocall at Hamleys toy shop in London on June 27, 2013. Hamleys unveiled the [must have] toys for Christmas 2013 at the companys' flagship Regent Street store in London. (Photo by Will Oliver/AFP Photo)

Indian pedestrians run from water splashing over a sea wall in Mumbai on June 24, 2013. The monsoon, which covers the subcontinent from June to September, usually brings some flooding. But the heavy rains arrived early this year, catching many by surprise and exposing a lack of preparedness. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)

Afghan demonstrators throw stones and shout slogans after burning a truck, believed to be owned by foreigners, during an anti government riots in Kabul on June 24, 2013. Demonstrators participated in a riot against the Afghanistan government after a clash between police and unknown gunmen because of a land-grab east of Kabul. (Photo by Massoud Hossaini/AFP Photo)

Dustin poses next to an art work depicting a tiger and created in a special 3D-technique by a Chinese-Korean artist group on June 27, 2013 at the exhibition [Du bist die Kunst!] (You are the Art!) at Augustusburg Palace in Augustusburg near Chemnitz, eastern Germany. Visitors are invited to take pictures of themselves interacting with the art and to share the results on social networks. The show is running until November 10, 2013. (Photo by Hendrik Schimidt/AFP Photo)

An Indian army soldier takes position at the scene of a deadly attack by armed rebels on the outskirts of Srinagar on June 24, 2013. Four soldiers were killed and six others were wounded in an attack on a convoy in Indian Kashmir on the eve of a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the army said. (Photo by Rouf Bhat/AFP Photo)

Legislators from Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party and opposition try to seize the parliament's podium on June 25, 2013. Fighting broke out in Taiwan's parliament as legislators scuffled and threw coffee during a debate on whether a controversial capital gains tax on share trading should be revised less than a year after it was brought in. (Photo by AFP Photo)

Lebanese army soldiers help injured soldiers after clashes between followers of radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and Shiite gunmen, in the southern port city of Sidon, on June 24, 2013. Lebanese troops battled heavily armed followers of the hard-line Sunni cleric holed up in a mosque complex in the southern port city, the second day of fighting that has left more than a dozen soldiers dead, the military said. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/Associated Press)

Shiite Muslim worshippers gather at the holy shrine of Imam Abbas during the annual festival of Shabaniyah, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the ninth-century Shiite leader known as the Hidden Imam, in Karbala, on June 24, 2013. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)

A woman walks trough haze as a forest fire burns in Siak Regency, Riau Province, Indonesia, on June 27, 2013. The fires on Sumatra have caused record smog in Malaysia and Singapore. Eight farmers have been arrested for setting the fires on Sumatra Island. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

A security guard tackles to the ground a Femen activist as she tried along with two other feminist activists to stop the car of Tunisian Prime Minister from leaving the EU commission building after his working session with European Commission President on June 25, 2013 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. The European Commission urged Tunisia to reform criminal laws from its previous authoritarian regime as three topless feminist activists staged a protest by jumping on visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh's car. Larayedh was visiting Brussels on the eve of an appeals hearing for three European activists from the feminist group Femen who were sentenced to four months in prison this month for baring their breasts in Tunis in a pro-Amina protest. (Photo by Georges Gobet/AFP Photo)

For his spring 2014 show, designer Rick Owens asked [scary, sleazy, and over the top] Estonian hardcore punk band and Eurovision 2013 contestants, Winny Puuh, to share the runway – or, at least, the space above the runway. (Photo by Patrick Kovarik)

Vehicles queue at a petrol station during a fuel shortage in Cairo June 26, 2013. President Mohamed Mursi will speak to the Egyptian people on Wednesday in a televised address that could determine his political survival as millions prepare to rally to demand his removal this weekend. Fears of a showdown in the streets between Mursi's Islamist supporters and a broad coalition of the disaffected have led people to stock up on food and buy up fuel supplies. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)

In this undated photo provided by Google, Rob Pacheco, president of Hawaii Forest & Trail, takes in the view at Pololu Valley's Awini Trail near Kapaau, Hawaii, while wearing the Street View Trekker. Hawaii's volcano

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