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The Week in Pictures

A selection of some of the best images from around the world this week.
  • Captain George Ashby of the Household Cavalry gets it straight from the horse's mouth in London

    Captain George Ashby of the Household Cavalry gets it straight from the horse's mouth in London

  • Vehicles wait on a road following a landslide due to heavy rain between Rudraprayag and Srinagar in India

    Vehicles wait on a road following a landslide due to heavy rain between Rudraprayag and Srinagar in India

  • South Korean soldiers wear North Korea's military uniforms, acting as North Korean soldiers, as they take part in a re-enactment a battle of the Korean war in Chuncheon

    South Korean soldiers wear North Korea's military uniforms, acting as North Korean soldiers, as they take part in a re-enactment a battle of the Korean war in Chuncheon

  • Smurfs 'invade' the Great Wall of China in celebration for Global Smurfs Day

    Smurfs 'invade' the Great Wall of China in celebration for Global Smurfs Day

  • Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky celebrates beating defending champion Roger Federer at Wimbledon

    Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky celebrates beating defending champion Roger Federer at Wimbledon

  • Rudina Hatipi smokes as she joins fellow revellers for the sunset at the stone circle at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

    Rudina Hatipi smokes as she joins fellow revellers for the sunset at the stone circle at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

  • Nik Wallenda walks without any safety precautions on a tightrope across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon

    Nik Wallenda walks without any safety precautions on a tightrope across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon

  • A dog plays with Miura fighting bull at Zahariche land near Lora del Rio, Spain

    A dog plays with Miura fighting bull at Zahariche land near Lora del Rio, Spain

  • A woman walks through haze as a forest fire burns bushes and fields in Indonesia

    A woman walks through haze as a forest fire burns bushes and fields in Indonesia

  • A window seat lies empty after US whistleblower Edward Snowden failed to board a flight from Moscow to Havana

    A window seat lies empty after US whistleblower Edward Snowden failed to board a flight from Moscow to Havana

  • An Israeli fighter jet launches anti-missile flares during an air show at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert

    An Israeli fighter jet launches anti-missile flares during an air show at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert

  • A demonstrator kicks a tear gas shell during clashes with the police outside the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    A demonstrator kicks a tear gas shell during clashes with the police outside the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil