This week in photos (July 11-15)

View a gallery of photos from the week of July 11, 2011.

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Sat., July 16, 2011

Indian Railway workers use a crane to clear the mangled wreckage of the Kalka Mail passenger train that derailed Sunday near Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, Monday, July 11, 2011.The rescue operation that ended Monday found 68 bodies and at least 239 passengers were injured.

Rajesh Singh Associated Press
So Yeon Ryu, left, of South Korea, and her caddy Dean Herden are sprayed with champagne by other Korean golfers after Ryu won the 2011 Women's U.S. Open golf tournament at the Broadmoor Golf Club on Monday, July 11, 2011, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mark Terrill Associated Press
Staff Sgt. Rulberto Qjendismiranda, 20, of Seaside, Calif, with the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment based in Hawaii, looks at a photo of his son Marziano, 11 months, on his mobile phone aboard a military transport flight Monday, July 11, 2011 out of Forward Operating Base Fenty in Kunar province, Afghanistan.

David Goldman Associated Press
A young boy is lifted into the sky by his uncle in Tigers Bay in north Belfast during 11th night celebrations, as a bonfire Beacon is set alight Monday July 11 2011. Bonfires blaze across Northern Ireland on the eve of 'The Twelfth' (also called Orangemen's Day) which is an annual Protestant celebration on July 12. Originating in Ireland, especially within Ulster, it celebrates the Glorious Revolution (1688) and victory of Protestant king William of Orange over Catholic king James II at the Battle of the Boyne (1690).

Colm O'Reilly Associated Press
An investigator makes his way to a Wheels of Soul location Tuesday, July 12, 2011, in Philadelphia. Eighteen members of a motorcycle gang known as Wheels of Soul face a federal indictment on charges ranging from racketeering to kidnapping to murder, including for fatal shootings in three states.

Matt Rourke Associated Press
Chilean soccer fans light up a flair before a Group C Copa America soccer match against Peru in Mendoza, Argentina, Tuesday, July 12, 2011.

Jorge Saenz Associated Press
Gang member of the criminal organization Mara 18, Axel Danilo PErez Espinoza, alias "Smiley," looks out from a paddy wagon as he waits for his sentencing hearing in Guatemala City, Tuesday July 12, 2011. PErez Espinoza was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the murdered of two Korean citizens in the outskirts of Guatemala City in 2009.

Rodrigo Abd Associated Press
A penitentiary officer is illuminated by the lights of a paddy wagon that will transport gang member of the criminal organization Mara 18, Axel Danilo PErez Espinoza, alias "Smiley," to his sentencing hearing in Guatemala City, Tuesday July 12, 2011. PErez Espinoza was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the murdered of two Korean citizens in the outskirts of Guatemala City in 2009.

Rodrigo Abd Associated Press
A group of Sri Lankan young Buddhist monks parade, seeking alms in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. In Buddhism, giving of alms is the beginning of one's journey to Nirvana, the state of perfect bliss.

Eranga Jayawardena Associated Press
Revellers jump into the sea followed by a bull during the 'Bous a la mar' or "Bulls to the sea" festival in the eastern town of Denia, Spain, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Bulls are later brought back to land by small boats.

Fernando Bustamante
Iranian Safi Zadeh Hossein, 28, covers his face as a custom official displays two pieces of methaphetamine, foreground and right, that came in the shape of the artworks during a news conference at custom office in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Hossein was arrested on Tuesday upon his arrival at Suvarnabhumi international airport when custom officials found 15.3 kilograms (33.6 pounds) of methamphetamine in his possession.

Apichart Weerawong Associated Press
A military honor guard carries the casket bearing the body of former first lady Betty Ford past a statue of former President Gerald R. Ford at the Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, July 14, 2011, prior to funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. The former first lady will be buried today at the museum next to her husband.

Paul Sancya Associated Press
Pakistani security personnel stand near buses which were torched by angry supporters of Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement, as they condemn a senior minister of Pakistan People's party for his harsh remarks against their leader, in Karachi, Pakistan, on on Thursday, July 14, 2011. Angry mobs torched more than a dozen vehicles and some fourteen people were killed in the fighting, home minister Manzoor Wasan said Thursday.

Imran Ali Associated Press
Barbara Stopinska is cleaning a state-of-the-art toilet for man's at Warsaw's Central train station, which is getting a face-lifting for the Euro 2012 football championships, in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, July 14, 2011. Thousands of football fans expected for next year's European Football Championship in Poland will enjoy new stadiums and roads but they will also get something extra: fancy toilets at Warsaw's main train station.

Czarek Sokolowski Associated Press
A boy jumps into the Dambovita river with empty plastic bottles around his waist to improve flotation in Bucharest, Romania, on a hot day, Thursday, July 14, 2011. The national weather authority issued a extreme hot weather warning for the coming weekend across many areas of Romania.

Vadim Ghirda Associated Press
Rupert Murdoch, centre, attempts to speak to the media after he held a meeting with the parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler in London, Friday, July 15, 2011.The lawyer for the Milly Dowler's family says Rupert Murdoch has issued a full and sincere apology to the murdered schoolgirl's family for the actions of journalists at his newspaper. Mark Lewis told reporters that the media baron called the private meeting and apologized "many times," telling the Dowlers the events that transpired at the News of the World tabloid were not in keeping with the standards set out when his own father entered the media industry.

Kirsty Wigglesworth Associated Press
Denmark's Thomas Bjorn plays a shot on the 15th fairway during the second day of the British Open Golf Championship at Royal St George's golf course Sandwich, England, Friday, July 15, 2011.

Peter Morrison Associated Press
A gecko clings to a tree as it is released into the sprawling compound of the Parks and Wildlife office at suburban Quezon city east of Manila, Philippines Friday July 15, 2011. The Philippines warned Friday against using geckos to treat AIDS and impotence, saying the folkloric practice in parts of Asia may put patients at risk. Environmental officials have also expressed alarm about the growing trade in the wall-climbing lizards in the Philippines. An 11-ounce (300-gram) gecko reportedly sells for at least 50,000 pesos ($1,160).

Bullit Marquez Associated Press