The Week in Pictures: July 6 – July 12 2013 (100 Photos)
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![Canadian performer Matias Salmenaho, 26, stands still as axes are juggled past him as the three generation Quebecois circus company, Cirque Alfonse mark their UK debut show entitled [Timber!] at Lthe Southbank Centre in London on July 9, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Cowie/AFP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000eae7_big.jpg "Canadian performer Matias Salmenaho, 26, stands still as axes are juggled past him as the three generation Quebecois circus company, Cirque Alfonse mark their UK debut show entitled [Timber!] at Lthe Southbank Centre in London on July 9, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Cowie/AFP Photo)")
Canadian performer Matias Salmenaho, 26, stands still as axes are juggled past him as the three generation Quebecois circus company, Cirque Alfonse mark their UK debut show entitled [Timber!] at Lthe Southbank Centre in London on July 9, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Cowie/AFP Photo)
A United Airlines 747 lands next to the wreckage of Asiana Airlines flight 214 as it sits on runway 28L at San Francisco International Airport on July 8, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Two days after Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landed at San Francisco International Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is continuing their investigation as to why the plane crashed. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/AFP Photo)
This handout picture released by the Vatican press office on July 8, 2013 shows Pope Francis looking at a computer while receiving explanations on a boat off Lampedusa island, a key destination of tens of thousands of would-be immigrants from Africa, during his visit on July 8, 2013. In a visit stripped of the usual pomp of papal travel, Francis will cast a wreath into the sea and hold a mass of mourning with a simple cross made from the wood of rickety fishing boats that migrants arrive on. (Photo by Osservatore Romano/AFP Photo)
An Israeli infantry soldier from the Kfir Brigade takes part in a drill in urban warfare simulating a combat mission with Lebanon's Hezbollah at the Israeli army base of Elyakim in northern Israel on July 11, 2013. Israeli military built the training base at Elyakim to train soldiers on how to fight Hezbollah as Israel bolsters security along its border with Syria, where Hezbollah militants are reportedly fighting alongside government forces against rebels. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)
![A picture shows a derailed wagon on the site of a train accident in the railway station of Bretigny-sur-Orge on July 12, 2013 near Paris. A train derailed in the Paris suburb of Bretigny-sur-Orge in an accident that caused [many casualties], authorities said. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000eaea_big.jpg "A picture shows a derailed wagon on the site of a train accident in the railway station of Bretigny-sur-Orge on July 12, 2013 near Paris. A train derailed in the Paris suburb of Bretigny-sur-Orge in an accident that caused [many casualties], authorities said. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo)")
A picture shows a derailed wagon on the site of a train accident in the railway station of Bretigny-sur-Orge on July 12, 2013 near Paris. A train derailed in the Paris suburb of Bretigny-sur-Orge in an accident that caused [many casualties], authorities said. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo)
Recruits from the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment (JAKLI) of the Indian Army take part in a passing out parade in Srinagar on July 10, 2013. The 494 recruits, many of them locals, completed a 49-week training programme prior to being absorbed as regular members of the regiment. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)
A 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth named Yuka from the Siberian permafrost is unveiled for the media at an exhibition in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 9, 2013. The frozen woolly mammoth will be exhibited from July 13 until September 16. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)
Egyptian supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi sit in front of barbed wire fencing that blocks the access to the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo on July 8, 2013. Forty-two loyalists of Egypt's ousted president were killed while demonstrating against last week's military coup, triggering an Islamist uprising call and dashing the army's hopes for an interim civilian administration. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP Photo)
Indian commuters make their way through a waterlogged street after heavy monsoon rains fell in Jalandhar, on July 9, 2013. Authorities have raised to 5,500 the estimated number of people who perished in devastating floods that swept the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last month. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/Getty Images)
Civilians gather at the of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburb neighbourhood of Bir al-Abed on July 9, 2013. A car bomb rocked Beirut's southern suburbs, stronghold of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, wounding 15 people, television reports and a military source said. (Photo by AFP Photo/STR)
An Apple-1 computer, built in 1976, is displayed during the First Bytes: Iconic Technology From the Twentieth Century, an online auction featuring vintage tech products at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Christie's is auctioning off an original Apple-1 computer owned by Ted Perry as part of its First Bytes: Iconic Technology from the Twentieth Century, an online auction of vintage tech products. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
New York Hip Hop dancers from B- Xtreme are Ready and Cube show off some hip hop moves as they help launch the Laya Healthcare Street Performance World Championship at Sandymount Dublin. (Photo by Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
The world’s biggest body painting festival took place in Austria this weekend. Artists from over 40 nations flocked to the picturesque shores of Lake Wörthersee in Klagenfurt to get their creative on. The contest had a night time award for the best UV paint effect, a world face-painting award, over 50 different workshop classes, demos and lectures and a special effects make-up class showcasing some serious works of art. (Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)
A employee demonstrates the photo capabilities of the Nokia Lumia 1020, a Windows Phone with a 41-megapixel camera, after its unveiling in New York on July 11, 2013. (Photo by Timothy Clary/AFP Photo)
A child is seen near members of the Muslim community attending midday prayers at Strasbourg Grand Mosque in Strasbourg on the first day of Ramadan July 9, 2013. The Grand Mosque of Paris has fixed the first day of Ramadan as Wednesday, splitting with the French Council of Muslim Religion (Conseil Francais du Culte Musulman or CFCM), which determined it would begin on Tuesday. (Photo by Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
A reflection of St Basil's Cathedral is seen as a security guard opens a gate near a mirrored pavilion being built on Red Square in Moscow July 8, 2013. The structure is to be used for a one-off fashion show on Tuesday. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
An activist of the Mortgage Victims' Platform is carried by police officers after occupying a bank as part of a protest to support a neighbor who is facing an eviction process in Barcelona, on July 10, 2013. With 26 percent unemployment, Spain is struggling to emerge from its second recession in just over three years as the economy battles to recover from the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)
A woman checks her mobile phone as she receives treatment for cervical spondylosis at a hospital in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province July 12, 2013. (Photo by William Hong/Reuters)
An honor guard presents families with American flags during a memorial service at Tim's Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on July 9, 2013. 19 firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew died battling a fast-moving wildfire on June 30. (Photo by David Kadlubowskil/Getty Images)
A double-decker tourism bus is seen on fire in from of the Oriental Pearl Tower in the Pudong financial district of Shanghai July 8, 2013. Passengers were seen walking away from the bus which burst into flames during rush hour at one of the busiest intersections in the city. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)
A fountain depicting a water tap is on display on the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 9, 2013. (Photo by Reuters)
Indian rescue workers remove a body from the rubble at the site of the City Light Hotel building collapse in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad on July 8, 2013. A two-storey hotel collapsed in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad on July 8, killing five restaurant workers and injuring 15 others, a local police official told AFP. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)
![An Israeli Jewish woman of the Women of the Wall organization prays while wearing a prayer shawl outside the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Monday, July 8, 2013. Police denied Women of the Wall and their supporters entry to the women's prayer section, citing security concerns. The group, known as [Women of the Wall], convenes monthly prayer services at the Western Wall, wearing prayer shawls and performing rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews believe only men are allowed to do. (Photo by Michal Fattal/AP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000eafc_big.jpg "An Israeli Jewish woman of the Women of the Wall organization prays while wearing a prayer shawl outside the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Monday, July 8, 2013. Police denied Women of the Wall and their supporters entry to the women's prayer section, citing security concerns. The group, known as [Women of the Wall], convenes monthly prayer services at the Western Wall, wearing prayer shawls and performing rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews believe only men are allowed to do. (Photo by Michal Fattal/AP Photo)")
An Israeli Jewish woman of the Women of the Wall organization prays while wearing a prayer shawl outside the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Monday, July 8, 2013. Police denied Women of the Wall and their supporters entry to the women's prayer section, citing security concerns. The group, known as [Women of the Wall], convenes monthly prayer services at the Western Wall, wearing prayer shawls and performing rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews believe only men are allowed to do. (Photo by Michal Fattal/AP Photo)
![Spanish bullfighter Manuel Escribano aims his sword before killing a Dolores Aguirre fighting bull during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 8, 2013. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel [The Sun Also Rises]. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000eafd_big.jpg "Spanish bullfighter Manuel Escribano aims his sword before killing a Dolores Aguirre fighting bull during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 8, 2013. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel [The Sun Also Rises]. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo)")
Spanish bullfighter Manuel Escribano aims his sword before killing a Dolores Aguirre fighting bull during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 8, 2013. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel [The Sun Also Rises]. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo)
A boy, whose his family fled military operations in the western tribal area, jumps into a stream in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad July 8, 2013. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
A would-be immigrant looks out of a window on a police bus after arriving at the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) Maritime Squadron base at Haywharf in Valletta's Marsamxett Harbour early July 10, 2013. Sixty-eight African immigrants were rescued by the AFM, 70 nautical miles south of Malta from a vessel in distress while trying to reach European soil from Africa, according to army sources. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)
A visitor enjoys an art installation by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich in east London, Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Internationally known for his three-dimensional visual illusions, Erlich has been commissioned to create a new installation in Dalston area of the capital. Resembling a theatre set, the detailed facade of a Victorian terraced house, recalling those that once stood on the street, lies horizontally on the ground with mirrors positioned overhead. The reflections of visitors give the impression they are standing on, suspended from, or scaling the building. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)
BASE jumper Vladimir Murzajev of Russia backflips as he leaps before opening his parachute during Tallinn TV Tower B.A.S.E. Boogie 2013 event July 11, 2013. More than 60 BASE jumpers from fourteen countries are taking part in this annual event. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
Former President George W. Bush, right, shakes hands with with Mondell Bernadette Avril after she was sworn in as a U.S. citizen during a ceremony at the The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Twenty new citizens took the oath of U.S. citizenship at the former president's library. (Photo by L. M. Otero/AP Photo)
Frontier soldiers look up at the swell, as they carry out a check of a seawall, as Typhoon Soulik approaches in Wenling, Zhejiang province July 12, 2013. China braced on Friday for the impact of Typhoon Soulik as the toll of dead and missing from torrential rain across a broad swathe of China climbed beyond 200. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)
Assistant state attorney John Guy, center, uses a foam dummy to describe the altercation between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin to defense witness and law enforcement expert Dennis Root, right, during Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (Photo by Gary W. Green/AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel)
Police officers detain Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, left, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Navalny was briefly detained by police after he spoke to a crowd of supporters outside the headquarters of Moscow's election commission. Navalny on Wednesday submitted documents to register as a candidate in the mayoral election. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)
A Bosnian woman cries near the coffin of her relative, one of 409 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in Memorial Center Potocari near Srebrenica July 10, 2013. The bodies of the recently identified victims will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11 marking the 18th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves. (Photo by Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
A Rohingya Muslim illegal immigrant prepares plates of food at the Immigration Detention Centre during the holy month of Ramadan in Kanchanaburi province July 10, 2013. More than a hundred Rohingya Muslims gathered to pray and break fast as they welcome the first day of Ramadan in Thailand. The stateless people arrived in Thailand earlier in January this year after fleeing a bloody conflict between the Buddhist and Muslims in Myanmar's western Rakhine State. (Photo by Athit Perewongmetha/Reuters)
Kim Yoon-ju (L), a flight attendant who was on Asiana Airlines flight 214 which crashed in San Francisco, cries as she is greeted by Park Sam-koo, chairman of the Kumho-Asiana group, as she arrives at the Incheon Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul July 11, 2013. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed in San Francisco on Saturday, killing two teenage girls and injuring more than 180 people. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)
A woman walks past a picture showing a border fortification in the West Bank by German photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer at the former Berlin Wall in Berlin, July 11, 2013. Wiedenhoefer's Wall on Wall project consists of panoramic pictures of eight border walls that separate people in different parts of the world. The pictures are currently displayed as 9x3 metre prints that Wiedenhoefer has pasted onto the longest remaining stretch of the former Berlin Wall border fortification. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)
Tourists pose in front of a bronze statue of the late kung fu legend Bruce Lee on the waterfront facing Hong Kong island July 12, 2013. July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Lee, with a memorial event and exhibition to be held by his fan club and the government. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)
Former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden (C) and Sarah Harrison (L) of WikiLeaks speak to human rights representatives in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport July 12, 2013. Snowden is seeking temporary asylum in Russia and plans to go to Latin America eventually, an organisation endorsed by anti-secrecy group Wikileaks said on Twitter on Friday. The person at right is unidentified. (Photo by Reuters/Human Rights Watch)
A protester uses teargas against police officers as angry residents attempt to storm the local police station in Kiev July 12, 2013. People angered by the beating of a local woman in which they said police officer was involved, attacked a police headquarters, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
A man tries to pull his opponent over the table during the Alps Finger Wrestling championships in Mittenwald, Germany, on July 7, 2013. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/Associated Press)
In this photo released on July 9, 2013, one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station records a large mass of storm clouds over the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil and the Equator on July 4, 2013. A Russian spacecraft, docked to the orbiting outpost, partially covers a small patch of sunglint on the ocean waters in a break in the clouds. (Photo by NASA)
A plume of ash and steam rise from the Popocatepetl volcano overshadowing the Catholic church in Santiago Xalizintla, Mexico, on July 7, 2013. Just east of Mexico City, the volcano has spit out a cloud of ash and vapor 2 miles high over several days of eruptions. Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention raised the volcano alert from Stage 2 Yellow to Stage 3 Yellow, the final step before a Red alert, when possible evacuations could be ordered. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/Associated Press)
![A girl stops a kiliki approaching to her inside a shop during the Comparsa de Gigantes y Cabezudos [Giants and Big Heads parade] on the fourth day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival, on July 9, 2013 in Pamplona, Spain. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the 1926 novel of US writer Ernest Hemmingway [The Sun Also Rises], involves the running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona, this year for nine days from July 6-14. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000eb10_big.jpg "A girl stops a kiliki approaching to her inside a shop during the Comparsa de Gigantes y Cabezudos [Giants and Big Heads parade] on the fourth day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival, on July 9, 2013 in Pamplona, Spain. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the 1926 novel of US writer Ernest Hemmingway [The Sun Also Rises], involves the running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona, this year for nine days from July 6-14. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)")
A girl stops a kiliki approaching to her inside a shop during the Comparsa de Gigantes y Cabezudos [Giants and Big Heads parade] on the fourth day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival, on July 9, 2013 in Pamplona, Spain. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the 1926 novel of US writer Ernest Hemmingway [The Sun Also Rises], involves the running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona, this year for nine days from July 6-14. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
![Indonesian [Spider-Man] window cleaner, 37-year-old Teguh prepares his equipment before he cleans the glass windows of the 18-storey Alana Hotel on July 12, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Teguh is a specialist glass window cleaner working on high-rise buildings wearing a Spider-Man uniform and working at an altitude of over 500 meters above ground level. He earns between Rp. 5 million and 15 million depending on the height of the building and the level of difficulty. (Photo by Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000eb11_big.jpg "Indonesian [Spider-Man] window cleaner, 37-year-old Teguh prepares his equipment before he cleans the glass windows of the 18-storey Alana Hotel on July 12, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Teguh is a specialist glass window cleaner working on high-rise buildings wearing a Spider-Man uniform and working at an altitude of over 500 meters above ground level. He earns between Rp. 5 million and 15 million depending on the height of the building and the level of difficulty. (Photo by Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)")
Indonesian [Spider-Man] window cleaner, 37-year-old Teguh prepares his equipment before he cleans the glass windows of the 18-storey Alana Hotel on July 12, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Teguh is a specialist glass window cleaner working on high-rise buildings wearing a Spider-Man uniform and working at an altitude of over 500 meters above ground level. He earns between Rp. 5 million and 15 million depending on the height of the building and the level of difficulty. (Photo by Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)
An unidentified family member of one of two Chinese students killed in a crash of Asiana Airlin
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