The Week in Pictures: June 28 – July 5 2013 (83 Photos)
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A visitor looks at pictures of French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), on July 1, 2013 during the 44thd annual Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in Arles, southern France. The event runs until September 22. (Photo by Boris Horvat/AFP Photo)
Informal settlers throw bottles at policemen (not pictured) during a clash in Manila on July 1, 2013 after residents blocked a road in anticipation of the demolition of their homes. Philippine informal settlers hurling rocks, improvised explosives and human refuse fought running street battles with riot police on July 1 around a sprawling Manila shantytown that is set for redevelopment. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)
A view shows an algae covered public beach in Qingdao, northeast China's Shandong province on July 4, 2013. The seas off China have been hit by their largest ever growth of algae, ocean officials said, with vast waves of green growth washing onto the shores of the Yellow Sea. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)
Visitors look at pictures of of Dutch photographer Erik Kessels piled on the floor, on July 1, 2013 during the 44thd annual Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in Arles, southern France. The event runs until September 22. (Photo by Boris Horvat/AFP Photo)
A giant statue of Hindu god Lord Shiva is partially submerged in floodwaters near the Ganges river as the water level of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers rises in Allahabad on July 1, 2013. Construction along river banks will be banned in the devastated north Indian state of Uttarakhand amid concerns unchecked development fuelled June's flash floods and landslides that killed thousands, the state's top official said July 1. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)
![An anti-terrorism force including public security police and the armed police attend an anti-terrorism joint exercise in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang region on July 2, 2013. The United States is encouraging [terrorism] in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said on July 1, also claiming that separatists in the region – which has a large Uighur minority – had fought alongside Syrian rebels. (Photo by AFP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000e907_big.jpg "An anti-terrorism force including public security police and the armed police attend an anti-terrorism joint exercise in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang region on July 2, 2013. The United States is encouraging [terrorism] in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said on July 1, also claiming that separatists in the region – which has a large Uighur minority – had fought alongside Syrian rebels. (Photo by AFP Photo)")
An anti-terrorism force including public security police and the armed police attend an anti-terrorism joint exercise in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang region on July 2, 2013. The United States is encouraging [terrorism] in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said on July 1, also claiming that separatists in the region – which has a large Uighur minority – had fought alongside Syrian rebels. (Photo by AFP Photo)
View of the heavy sea in Antofagasta, Chile, on July 3, 2013. Waves of up to seven meters of height were registered in the Chilean coast Thursday. (Photo by Jorge Jara/Getty Images)
Chinese honour guards prepare for the arrival of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 5,2013. Sharif is on a visit to China from July 3 to 8. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)
Activists of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Anima Naturalis pro-animal groups stand in coffins that represent the 48 bulls that will be killed during the San Fermin festivities in the Northern Spanish city of Pamplona on July 5, 2013 during an anti-bullfighting protest. The San Fermin festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups. (Photo by Rafa Rivas/AFP Photo)
Dr. Sam Axelrad, right, hands over arm bones belonging to former North Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Quang Hung, left, at Hung's house in the town of An Khe, Gia Lai province, Vietnam on Monday July 1, 2013. In October 1966 Axelrad amputated Hung's arm after the soldier was shot in the arm in an ambush by American troops in the coastal province of Binh Dinh in the former South Vietnam. After decades of silence, the two veterans resumed contact after a Vietnamese journalist wrote an article in a newspaper last year about Axelrad's search for Hung, prompting Hung's brother in law to contact the newspaper's editors. (Photo by Kha Hoa/AP Photo/Thanh Nien Newspaper)
Protesters who support former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi carry an injured man during clashes outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo July 5, 2013. (Photo by Louafi Larbi/Reuters)
People take part in a water fight on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv July 5, 2013. (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters)
Kashmiri Muslim women mourn during the funeral of Kashmiri rebel Shahnawaz Ahmed alias Tahir Khan, of Hizbul Mujahideen at Tral, some 40kms south of Srinagar on July 2, 2013. Indian troops shot dead three rebels while one special operation group (SOG) soldier died and five injured in a firefight with militants in the restive Himalayan state. About a dozen armed groups have been fighting Indian forces since 1989 for Kashmir's independence or for its merger with Pakistan. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)
Fire fighters tackle a large blaze at a recycling centre in Smethwick, near Birmingham, central England July 1, 2013 in a handout picture provided by the West Midlands Fire Service. The fire service said they suspected the blaze was started when a Chinese lantern, a collapsible paper lantern lit by a candle, drifted into the centre which holds 100,000 tonnes of recycled paper and plastic. Up to 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines have been deployed. (Photo by Reuters/West Midlands Fire Service)
![A photo taken on July 1, 2013 shows a sculpture by French artist Guy Lorgeret, entitled [Retour a Betton] ([Return to Betton]), in Betton, a suburb of the western French city of Rennes. The sculpture represents people on bicycles migrating from a bank to another, claiming their freedom, like their refusal to compete. (Photo by Damien Meyer/AFP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000e910_big.jpg "A photo taken on July 1, 2013 shows a sculpture by French artist Guy Lorgeret, entitled [Retour a Betton] ([Return to Betton]), in Betton, a suburb of the western French city of Rennes. The sculpture represents people on bicycles migrating from a bank to another, claiming their freedom, like their refusal to compete. (Photo by Damien Meyer/AFP Photo)")
A photo taken on July 1, 2013 shows a sculpture by French artist Guy Lorgeret, entitled [Retour a Betton] ([Return to Betton]), in Betton, a suburb of the western French city of Rennes. The sculpture represents people on bicycles migrating from a bank to another, claiming their freedom, like their refusal to compete. (Photo by Damien Meyer/AFP Photo)
An Egyptian man carries his daughter in Egypt's landmark Tahrir square on July 4, 2013. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, from which ousted president Mohamed Morsi hails, denounced a new "police state" after the arrest of Islamist leaders and the closure of satellite channels. (Photo by Gianluigi Guercia/AFP Photo)
An Indian barber attends to a customer at his roadside stall in Siliguri on July 1, 2013. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)
Race leader yellow jersey holder Orica Greenedge team rider Simon Gerrans of Australia cycles past Sisters of the Consolation congregation during the 228.5 km fifth stage of the centenary Tour de France cycling race from Cagnes-Sur-Mer to Marseille July 3, 2013. (Photo by Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
Patrick Ardis, 10, gets a high-five from his friend Porter Rosenberg, 10, left, while riding in the Cordova Independence Day Parade at the Cordova Community Center in Cordova, Tenn., on Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Photo by Jim Weber/AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal)
![Fireworks light the sky opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures [a full coup]. The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.(Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000e915_big.jpg "Fireworks light the sky opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures [a full coup]. The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.(Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)")
Fireworks light the sky opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures [a full coup]. The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.(Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)
Ash spew from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from San Mateo Ozolco, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on July 4, 2013. (Photo by Pablo Spencer/AFP Photo)
Students clash with riot police during a demonstration against the government in Lima July 4, 2013. Peruvian police fired tear gas at hundreds of students and civil servants in Lima on Thursday as they marched towards Congress to protest reforms that would impose tougher standards on universities and bureaucrats. Protesters lashed out at President Ollanta Humala for proposing the laws, which he says would improve the quality of sluggish government services and a lagging higher-education system. Critics say they would force thousands from their jobs and compromise the autonomy of Peru's universities. (Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)
A woman demonstrator wearing contact lens with the Brazilian national flag march in a street close to the Maracana stadium of Rio de Janeiro on June 30, 2013, a few hours before the final of the Fifa Confederations Cup football tournament between Brazil and Spain. More than 11,000 police and troops were mobilised in the city to guarantee security for 78,000 fans at the venue as the curtain falls on a competition that has been beset by social unrest with more than 1.5 million people taking to the streets across the giant nation in the past two weeks. (Photo by Tasso Marcelo/AFP Photo)
A suicide attacker lies on the ground after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province June 30, 2013. Afghan security forces captured a would-be suicide attacker before he blew himself up in Jalalabad on Sunday. (Photo by Reuters/Parwiz)
A visitor uses a magnifying glass to look at a handmade wood carving in the shape of a Chinese ancient pavilion at a culture industry exhibition in Taiyuan, Shanxi province July 2, 2013. (Photo by Jon Woo/Reuters)
A model presents a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel in Paris July 2, 2013. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)
A combination photograph shows still frames taken from a video of an unmanned Russian Proton-M booster rocket, as it launches, veering off course and its crash (top to bottom) in Baikonur July 2, 2013. The rocket carrying three navigation satellites crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, spilling its highly toxic propellant. Television showed footage of the Proton-M booster rocket veering off course seconds after lift-off. It fell apart in flames in the air and crashed in a big ball of fire near the launch pad. There were no reported injuries. (Photo by Reuters TV)
Paramilitary policemen jump as they practise during a summer drill in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province July 4, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
![American flags and flowers adorn a [Extreme] fire danger warning outside of Firestation 1 on July 2, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona. Nineteen Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew firefighters based out of Station 7 died battling a fast-moving wildfire near Yarnell, AZ on Sunday. Station 7 has been the home of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew since 2010. GMIHC is a national resource that responds to wildland and all risk incidents in the Prescott Basin. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000e91e_big.jpg "American flags and flowers adorn a [Extreme] fire danger warning outside of Firestation 1 on July 2, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona. Nineteen Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew firefighters based out of Station 7 died battling a fast-moving wildfire near Yarnell, AZ on Sunday. Station 7 has been the home of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew since 2010. GMIHC is a national resource that responds to wildland and all risk incidents in the Prescott Basin. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)")
American flags and flowers adorn a [Extreme] fire danger warning outside of Firestation 1 on July 2, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona. Nineteen Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew firefighters based out of Station 7 died battling a fast-moving wildfire near Yarnell, AZ on Sunday. Station 7 has been the home of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew since 2010. GMIHC is a national resource that responds to wildland and all risk incidents in the Prescott Basin. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Tennis fan Chris Fava wears a blue sky body suit as he waits for the start of play on Centre Court on day seven of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, on July 1, 2013. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
A freight train and a bus collided in the north of Rio de Janeiro, on the morning of Friday, July 5, 2013. (Photo by Jadson Marques)
![A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi stands on guard armed with a stick and a shield during a protest at Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Egyptian troops opened fire on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi who were marching on a headquarters of the Republican Guard on Friday, leaving at least one severely wounded, as tens of thousands chanting [down with military rule] protested around the country voting to return the Islamist leader to office. (Photo by Manu Brabo/AP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000e921_big.jpg "A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi stands on guard armed with a stick and a shield during a protest at Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Egyptian troops opened fire on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi who were marching on a headquarters of the Republican Guard on Friday, leaving at least one severely wounded, as tens of thousands chanting [down with military rule] protested around the country voting to return the Islamist leader to office. (Photo by Manu Brabo/AP Photo)")
A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi stands on guard armed with a stick and a shield during a protest at Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Egyptian troops opened fire on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi who were marching on a headquarters of the Republican Guard on Friday, leaving at least one severely wounded, as tens of thousands chanting [down with military rule] protested around the country voting to return the Islamist leader to office. (Photo by Manu Brabo/AP Photo)
Riot police (OMON) guard gay rights activists who were beaten by anti-gay protesters during an authorized gay rights rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 29, 2013. Police detained several gay activists, who were outnumbered by the protesters. Dozens of gay activists had to be protected by police as they gathered for the parade, which proceeded with official approval despite recently passed legislation targeting gays. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)
Marion Bartoli reacts after defeating Kirsten Flipkens in their Women's singles semifinal match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, on July 4, 2013. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press)
Sri Lankan commuters hold on to the sides of train coaches as they head to work in Colombo on June 29, 2013. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)
Women take part in an early-morning celebration in Cairo's Tahrir Square after the military removed Mohammed Morsi from power, on July 4, 2013. Adly Mansour, the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, on Thursday praised the protesters whose mass demonstrations spurred the military to oust Egypt's first freely elected president, Morsi. (Photo by Tara Todras-Whitehill/The New York Times)
Rihanna attends the Chanel show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2013-2014 at Grand Palais on July 2, 2013 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Lightning strikes above the Geysers area of northern Sonoma County, near Geyserville California, on July 4, 2013. (Photo by Kent Porter/Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
A child plays at a garbage dump near a market in Gauhati, India, on July 4, 2013. The Indian government has decided to come out with an ordinance to give two-thirds of the nation's population the right to 5 kilograms of grains every month at a highly subsidized rate of 1-3 rupees per kg. If implemented, the country’s food security program will be the largest in the world. (Photo by Anupam Nath/Associated Press)
In this photo released on July 1, 2013, a woman holds her child as a plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean with two off-duty police officers, off Ocean City, Maryland on Sunday. Troopers say the plane took off from the Ocean City Municipal Airport between 3:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Sunday. Maryland State Police identified the men as 27-year-old Joshua D. Adickes of Berlin and 43-year-old Thomas J. Geoghegan Jr. of Ocean City. Both men were officers with the Ocean City Police Department. (Photo by Lisa Rufo/Associated Press)
A child at the Shrinand Nagar Residency reacts to floodwaters in Ahmedabad, India, on July 5, 2013. Heavy rains lashed many parts of Gujarat state with the Indian Meteorological Department predicting heavy rains for the next 24 hours. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/Getty Images)
![A hot air balloon rises at the 19th annual international balloon festival [Montgolfiade] in Heldelburg, Germany, on July 5, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000e92b_big.jpg "A hot air balloon rises at the 19th annual international balloon festival [Montgolfiade] in Heldelburg, Germany, on July 5, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)")
A hot air balloon rises at the 19th annual international balloon festival [Montgolfiade] in Heldelburg, Germany, on July 5, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)
Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears with his attorneys at a news conference in Los Angeles, on July 1, 2013. Lopez Chaj is so badly brain damaged from a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in that he cannot speak. His lawyers announced he has been awarded a $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court. (Photo by Nick Ut/Associated Press)
Supporters of ousted Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi pick up the body of a man shot near the Republican Guard building in Cairo, on July 5, 2013. Egyptian troops opened fire on mostly Islamist protesters. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)
Sisters Jessica and Jodi Murtagh from Tallagh, Dublin enjoying a little fun at the Clonakilty Model Railway Village in Clonakilty, Co Cork, on July 4, 2013. (Photo by Dan Linehan)
In this photo released by South Korea's Unification Ministry, North Koreans cheer after returning from South Korea at the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, Friday, July 6, 2013. South Korea repatriated three North Koreans rescued in South Korean waters aboard their drifting boat. (Photo by AP Photo/Unification Ministry)
Protesters scuffle with police officers on a downtown street during an annual pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong, on July 1, 2013. Tens of thousands of the protesters demanded their widely disliked Beijing-backed leader resign and pressing for promised democratic reforms so they can choose their own top representative. The march is an annual event that underscores the growing gulf between Hong Kong and the mainland 16 years after the city ceased to be a British colony and came back under Beijing's control. (Photo by Vincent Yu/Associated Press)
Mat Cowen of the UK dives from the 27 metrer platform during the second competition day of the third stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, at Islet Vila Franca do Campo, Azores, Portugal, on June 29, 2013. (Photo by Dean Treml/Red Bull via Getty Images)
Fireworks light up the sky over the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and the U.S. Capitol, on July 4, 2013. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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