Week in photos (July 16-20)
View a gallery of photos from the week of July 16, 2012.
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Children learn roller skating on a square in Haikou in south China's Hainan province on Monday, July 16, 2012.
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Boats sit on the dry, cracked bottom in a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind., Monday, July 16, 2012. The reservoir is down nearly 6 feet from normal levels and being lowered 1 foot every five days to provide water for Indianapolis.
Michael Conroy Associated Press
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Pakistani health worker Naela Emanuel, 18, left, gives a polio vaccine to child in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are on the World Health Organization's list of countries where polio is endemic yet last June, Taliban in North Waziristan, Pakistan announced a ban on all polio vaccinations until U.S. drone assaults in that area end, effectively ensuring tens of thousands of children under five will not be vaccinated.
Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press
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Nasa Indians drag a soldier during an attack on half a dozen soldiers guarding a communications tower on the outskirts of Toribio, southern Colombia, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Six soldiers were attacked and dragged along the ground by dozens of indigenous people demanding the departure of security forces and guerrillas fighters because of their constant fighting. The soldiers dropped their guns, never firing. No injuries were reported.
William Martinez Associated Press
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Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie misses a foul ball hit by New York Yankees' Mark Teixeira during the third inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Seth Wenig Associated Press
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Children listen to the history of former president Nelson Mandela at the Melville Primary School as they join in celebrations of Mandela's 94th Birthday in Johannesburg Wednesday, July 18, 2012. People in the country were encouraged to sing "Happy Birthday" for Mandela, affectionately known as "Madiba" at 08h00 local time.
Denis Farrell Associated Press
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Young people stand together to support themselves in anticipation of the coming bow wave from the oncoming bus, in deep water following heavy rain in Minsk, Belarus, in the evening of Thursday, July 19, 2012.
Sergei Grits Associated Press
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Firefighters protest against austerity measures announced by the Spanish government in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, July 19, 2012. The country is in its second recession in three years and its government borrowing rates are unsustainably high as investors worry the government may face new costs in rescuing the banks. If the government's borrowing rates do not fall back down, it may eventually need a sovereign bailout like those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Manu Fernandez Associated Press
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In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, people watch the premier of "The Dark Knight Rises" inside the Liberty Science Center IMAX theater during the museum's first attempt at showcasing a full length Hollywood feature film on its premier day, Friday, July 20, 2012, in Jersey City, N.J. A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, July 20, 2012, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history.
Julio Cortez Associated Press
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A Palestinian reads from the Quran during the dawn prayer on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin, Friday, July 20, 2012. Muslims from Morocco to Afghanistan are steeling themselves for the toughest Ramadan in more than three decades with no food or drink, not even a sip of water, for 14 hours a day during the hottest time of the year.
Mohammed Ballas Associated Press