The Week in Pictures June 7 – June 14 2013 (60 Photos)

Author: alice Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2349

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Indonesian students wear masks with angry expressions during a protest outside the presidential palace in Jakarta on June 12, 2013 to denounce impending fuel price increases, as the government plans to reduce a fuel subsidy. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on April 30 that he hopes to lower fuel subsidies which are a risk to Southeast Asia's top economy as concern mounts over the economic damage wrought by the scheme that gobbles up more than 16 percent of the state budget. (Photo by Romeo Gacad/AFP Photo)

Snowboarder Sebastien Jam jumps above a roadman during a photo shooting on June 12, 2013 on the road of the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass. The road maintenance the canton of Valais is taking off the last snow on the 2473 meters high mountain pass after exceptional snowfalls in recent months. Connecting Switzerland and Italy, the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass is due to reopen for the summer season with two week delay on June 14, 2013. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)

A Colombian soccer fan cheers his team prior to a 2014 World Cup qualifying match against Peru in Barranquilla, Colombia, on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press)

Festival worker Rowan Elliott moves metal bins that are to be distributed around the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton on June 13, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. In a couple of weeks the diary farm in Somerset will play host to one of the largest music festivals in the world. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A protester throws a petrol bomb towards policemen during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, on June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (Photo by Kostas Tsironis/Associated Press)

Cosmo Sarson's mural of Jesus breakdancing fills an 8.5 meter wall beside The Canteen in Bristol, England, on June 11, 2013. The mural was inspired by an actual event in the Vatican, where breakdancers performed to an applauding Pope John Paul II in 2004. The new mural [represents everything Bristol should be proud of and will remain on the wall for two years], James Pike from the Canteen told the BBC. [We have a proud history of religious tolerance, incredible cultural diversity and a vibrant creative history]. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

China's astronauts Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng wave as they leave the Jiuquan satellite launch center for their launch site near Jiuquan in western China's Gansu province, on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Andy Wong/Associated Press)

Inmates participate in a group workout at the Lurigancho prison on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest group of prisoners working out at the same time, on June 14, 2013. (Photo by Martin Mejia/Associated Press)

The new cylindrical Mac Pro on display at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP Photo)

Women perform a pole dancing routine during the national day celebration of [Urban Pole] dance along a street in Monterrey, Mexico, on June 9, 2013. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)

Employees try to push a scaled replica of the rubber duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman away from lakeside at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province June 9, 2013. The 13-metre-tall and 15-metre-long replica was set up on Sunday for the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, local media reported. Picture taken June 9, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

The beach in Qingdao, China, is covered by a thick layer of non-poisonous green seaweed, enteromorpha prolifera, on June 10, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

A garden with a swimming pool is inundated by the waters of the Elbe river during floods near Magdeburg in the federal state of Saxony Anhalt, Germany, June 10, 2013. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

The remote-controlled Flying Bike with a test dummy is ready for its during presentation fly in Prague on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Three Czech companies have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that can fly. Controlled remotely, the bike carrying a figurine successfully took off Wednesday inside a large exhibition hall in Prague and landed safely after a five-minute flight. (Photo by Petr Josek/Reuters)

Protestors attack an effigy of a pig covered with rotten anumal blood during a demonstration outside the parliament after lawmakers voted themselves hefty salary increases on June 11, 2013 in Nairobi. The protestors had intended to occupy the parliament but were not allowed in by anti-riot police. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

A flying sushi service tray known as the [itray], created using miniature remote-controlled helicopter rotor blades, is demonstrated by staff at a [Yo! Sushi] restaurant in London June 10, 2013. (Photo by Neil Hall/Reuters)

A staff member of the Japanese toy and home appliances maker CCP Co. operates a [Nano-Falcon], the world's smallest infrared remote-controlled helicopter, at the Tokyo Toy Show in Tokyo Thursday, June 13, 2013. The toy helicopter measures 8 centimeter (3.1 inches) in length while weighing 11 grams (0.39 ounces). It's now on sale at 4,704 yen ($50) on the domestic market. (Photos by Koji Sasahara/Yuya Shino/Reuters/AP Photo)

A festival attendee poses for a photograph during the Ratha-Yatra Festival of Chariots in central London, on June 9, 2013. Now in its 45th year, the procession sees thousands of Hare Krishnas pull three brightly decorated chariots bearing the Hindu deities of Jagannath, Subhadra and Balabhadra from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square. (Photo by Leon Neal/AFP Photo)

A Palestinian child in a military summer camp organized by the Islamic Jihad during the summer school holidays, on June 12, 2013. Young people aged six to 16 years in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, receive military and religious training. (Photo by RAFAH)

A giant chrome brushed aluminium skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex) dinosaur (R), made by French sculptor and painter Philippe Pasqua, stands at the pier of riverboat company Bateaux-Mouches on June 12, 2013 in Paris, with the Eiffel tower in the background (L). (Photo by Claire Lebertre/AFP Photo)

Passengers wait for their flight at Nice International airport during a strike by French air traffic controllers June 11, 2013. French air traffic controllers walked off the job at the start of a three-day strike on Tuesday, grounding hundreds of flights across the country in a Europe-wide protest against European Union plans to liberalise civil airspace. Workers are concerned EU plans for a [Single European Sky] will adversely affect their working conditions. (Photo by Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

A handcrafted skull sits on a stick as part of the art installation [One Million Bones] containing one million handcrafted bones placed as a symbolic mass grave to raise awareness of genocide and mass atrocities during a three-day event on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington on June 10, 2013. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP Photo)

Yemeni Shiite Hawthis chant slogans as they march during a demonstration demanding the release of political detainees near intelligence headquarters in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, June 10, 2013. Clashes between Shiite protesters and security forces in Yemen's capital Sunday killed many people and wounded more than 80, a Yemeni security official said. (Photo by Hani Mohammed/AP Photo)

Police stand on a building overlooking Istanbul's Taksim Square, decorated with Turkish flags and a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, on June 12, 2013. Police continue to clash with protesters who have been occupying the square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)

A partially submerged billboard on a tramstop is seen on the flooded embankments of the Danube River in Budapest June 10, 2013. The Hungarian capital escaped damage from the swollen river Danube, which peaked at record high levels in Budapest overnight and started receding slowly on Monday morning. (Photo by Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

French Army soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of dragons help a fellow soldier who fainted during a ceremony to pay tribute to late former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris June 11, 2013. Mauroy, who pushed through a string of worker benefits as the head of modern France's first Socialist government, has died aged 84, on June 7, 2013. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)

A protester demonstrating against the upcoming G8 summit tries to evade a police officer in central London June 11, 2013. Police in riot gear moved in on a building in London's Soho district where activists had planned an anti-G8 protest through the British capital on Tuesday, before next week's summit of world leaders in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Luke Macgregor/Reuters)

A man and his passenger ride a motorcycle near salt pans, believed to have been used for harvesting sea salt since Roman times, outside the village of Marsalforn, on the northern coast of the Maltese island of Gozo, June 12, 2013. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)

Tom Smith works to remove tree limbs to protect a friend's home from advancing flames Wednesday, June 12, 2013 near Burgess Road and Armonia Ranch Ct. in Black Forest northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo. A pair of U.S. Defense Department cargo planes was mobilized Wednesday to help battle wildfires in Colorado and elsewhere in the West as crews surveyed the damage from a large blaze burning near Colorado Springs that already has destroyed dozens of homes. (Photo by Mark Reis/AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette)

Young Indian Muslim boys mop the floor of a mosque which got wet during rains in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 14, 2013. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)

Blackened areas defines the indiscriminate path of a wildfire that destroyed some homes and left others untouched in one neighborhood in the densely wooded Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday, June 13, 2013. More than 350 homes have been lost in what is now the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, surpassing last year's Waldo Canyon fire, which burned 347 homes, killed two people and led to $353 million in insurance claims. (Photo by John Wark/AP Photo)

Tandy Culpepper views a 1938 Hispano-Suiza H6 Dubonnet [Xenia] Coupe on Friday, June 14, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn., as part of the [Sensuous Steel] exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. The exhibit is made up of cars and motorcycles from the 1930s and 1940s that exemplify the elegance and styling characteristic of the Art Deco style. The exhibit is scheduled to run through September 15. (Photo by Mark Humphrey/AP Photo)

His Holiness the Dalai Lama visits Madame Tussauds and poses with a wax figure of himself in Sydney, Australia, on June 14, 2013. (Photo by Madame Tussauds/Getty Images)

Sikh men ride a jeep during a heavy rain shower in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh June 13, 2013. India's weather office has forecast an average monsoon in the country in 2013. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)

A protestors uses a slingshot against Turkish riot police on Taksim square on June 11, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from an Istanbul square on June 11 as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he would show [no more tolerance] for the unrelenting mass demonstrations against his Islamic-rooted government. Hundreds of police stormed the city's Taksim Square, the epicenter of nearly two weeks of unrest, in the early morning and brought bulldozers to clear the makeshift barriers erected by demonstrators after police pulled out of the area on June 1. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)

Afghan girls working at a brick manufacture pose for a photo with buckets of stones on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, 11 June 2013. NATO has warned that Afghanistan must undertake more economic and political reforms to ensure continuing international support. 'Continued Afghan commitment to better governance, combatting corruption, securing human rights and fair elections will pave the way for continued international support', NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said 06 June. (Photo by S.Sabawoon/EPA)

Ducks swim past cars flooded by water from the Arga River in La Magdalena, Spain, on June 9, 2013. Heavy rains have lead to flooding in northern Spain over the past few days, especially in Navarra province. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press)

An Afghan family travels in the trunk of a car on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June, 13, 2013. (Photo by Ahmad Jamshid/AP Photo)

Visitors walks on June 11, 2013 past artwork by German artist Carsten Hoeller, entitled [Snake], during a preview day for the Art Basel 2013, the world's premiere modern and contemporary art fair, which will take place from June 13 to 16 in Basel. More than 60,000 art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and art lovers are expected to attend the annual meeting. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)

An artist works on two characters of the [Avatar] movie, at the annual Sand Sculpture Festival, in coastal town Blankenberge, Belgium, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The festival has more than 40 professional sand artists from all around the world, and covers an area of over 4,000 square meters. (Photo by Yves Logghe/AP Photo)

Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in downtown on June 12, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. A massive storm system with heavy rain, high winds, hail and possible tornadoes is expected to move into Illinois and much of the central part of the Midwest today. (Photo by Scott Olson/AFP Photo)

The remains of a crashed World War II Dornier bomber, the only surviving German Second World War Dornier Do 17 bomber, lays on a barge near Deal in the English Channel Tuesday June 11, 2013 after being raised from the sea bed Monday evening. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/AP Photo/PA)

This picture taken on June 7, 2013 shows visitors walking in the Heydar Aliyev Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP Photo)

A helicopter transports sandbags to a flooded area near Fischbeck, Germany, on June 10, 2013. Weeks of heavy rain this spring have sent the Elbe, the Danube and other rivers such as the Vltava and the Saale overflowing their banks, causing extensive damage in central and southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)

Children play as two men walk through a flooded street during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, Sunday, June 9, 2013. The Southwest monsoon, arrived in the city Saturday, three days ahead of schedule, according to the meteorological department. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)

A woman with painted face checks her outfit in a mirror at the International Tattoo Convention in Dortmund, Germany, Friday, June 14, 2013. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)

Riot police fire tear gas to disperse the crowd during a demonstration near Taksim Square on June 11, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul has seen protests rage on for days, with two protesters and one police officer killed. What began as a protest over the fate of Taksim Gezi Park has turned, with the heavy-handed response by police, into a protest over what is being seen as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian agenda. (Photo by Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

A jet sits on the runway after it struck a hanger at Chino Airport in Chino, Calif. on Friday June 14, 2013. Authorities say nobody was hurt when the small passenger jet with three people on board struck the hangar while taxiing. Federal Aviation Administration officials say the pilot apparently lost control during an engine test Thursday. The plane crashed halfway into the hangar at the Encore Jet Center. Firefighters shut off electricity because of a concern of leaking fuel. Four adjacent hangars and businesses within those hangars were evacuated. No injuries were reported. (Photo by Nick Ut/AP Photo)

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