Gallery: The Week In Pictures

Updated: 17:51, Friday, 19 August 2011

Some of the best photos from around the world this week

  • Tipperary's Paul Curran and Ryan O'Dwyer of Dublin fight for the ball during the All-Ireland hurling semi-final at Croke Park, Dublin
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    Tipperary's Paul Curran and Ryan O'Dwyer of Dublin fight for the ball during the All-Ireland hurling semi-final at Croke Park, Dublin

  • A woman rides on a camel as people gather at Seaview waterfront to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day in Karachi, Pakistan
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    A woman rides on a camel as people gather at Seaview waterfront to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day in Karachi, Pakistan

  • Graffitti artists begin working on what is set to be the UK's largest street art project in Bristol
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    Graffitti artists begin working on what is set to be the UK's largest street art project in Bristol

  • Construction continues on One World Trade Center in New York, with the memorial footprints of the twin towers visible
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    Construction continues on One World Trade Center in New York, with the memorial footprints of the twin towers visible

  • A Ugandan AU soldier guards a street in the infamous Bakara market in Mogadishu, Somalia
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    A Ugandan AU soldier guards a street in the infamous Bakara market in Mogadishu, Somalia

  • Celebrations to mark the 66th Independence Day in Seoul, South Korea
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    Celebrations to mark the 66th Independence Day in Seoul, South Korea

  • Fu Haifeng goes to play a smash at the World Badminton Championships in London, England
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    Fu Haifeng goes to play a smash at the World Badminton Championships in London, England

  • Rescuers bring aboard five yacht crew members who had spent three hours in the water off Cork
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    Rescuers bring aboard five yacht crew members who had spent three hours in the water off Cork

  • The Royal Ubud family pray during the Hindu Royal cremation for the late mother of the Gianyar Regent in Ubud, Bali
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    The Royal Ubud family pray during the Hindu Royal cremation for the late mother of the Gianyar Regent in Ubud, Bali

  • Jared Waerea-Hargreaves of the Roosters hits Dan Hunt of the Dragons with a high tackle in Wollongong, Australia
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    Jared Waerea-Hargreaves of the Roosters hits Dan Hunt of the Dragons with a high tackle in Wollongong, Australia

  • A python regius inspects the head of a rabbit at a pet fair in Leipzig, Germany
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    A python regius inspects the head of a rabbit at a pet fair in Leipzig, Germany

  • Yannic Lerjen of Switzerland competes in the Freeski Half Pipe Final in Wanaka, New Zealand
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    Yannic Lerjen of Switzerland competes in the Freeski Half Pipe Final in Wanaka, New Zealand

  • A Roe Deer runs across the first fairway during the Skins PGA Fourball championship in Musselburgh, Scotland
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    A Roe Deer runs across the first fairway during the Skins PGA Fourball championship in Musselburgh, Scotland

  • Tom Wood of England wins a lineout ball during the rugby friendly between Wales and England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
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    Tom Wood of England wins a lineout ball during the rugby friendly between Wales and England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff

  • Christopher Butler of the USA during Stage Three of the Tour of Utah in the United States
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    Christopher Butler of the USA during Stage Three of the Tour of Utah in the United States

  • Hot-air balloons begin to rise during the early morning mass assent at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in England
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    Hot-air balloons begin to rise during the early morning mass assent at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in England

  • Halima Hassan holds her severely malnourished seven-month-old son Abdulrahman Abshir at Banadir hospital in, Somalia
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    Halima Hassan holds her severely malnourished seven-month-old son Abdulrahman Abshir at Banadir hospital in, Somalia