Week in photos (July 23-27)
View a gallery of photos from the week of July 23, 2012.
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A man walks past symbolically painted walls in a tunnel in Duisburg, Germany, Monday, July 23, 2012. The painting is a symbol for dancing people of the music festival Love Parade, on the eve of the 24th of July, as mourners remember the second anniversary of a stampede at the Music Festival Love Parade where 21 people were killed on July 24, 2010.
Frank Augstein Associated Press
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A police office stands guard on a roof while James E. Holmes appears in Arapahoe County District Court, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Centennial, Colo. Holmes is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations stemming from a mass shooting last Friday in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured dozens of others.
Barry Gutierrez Fr170088 Ap
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Researcher Silvia Gori works inside the Sant'Orsola monastery in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Archeologists found a skeleton buried inside the monastery that could belong to Lisa Gherardini, the first model of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' painting. Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a silk merchant called Francesco del Giocondo (in fact, Italians refer to the Mona Lisa as the "Gioconda"). According to art historian Giorgio Vasari, del Giocondo commissioned Leonardo to paint a portrait of his wife. Leonardo took about 15 years to complete what was to become one of the most famous paintings in the world. When her husband died, Lisa retired to the Sant'Orsola convent where she died age 63, on the 5th of July 1542.
Fabrizio Giovannozzi Associated Press
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Cable cars move along, seen through a window pierced by bullet holes at a police station used by the "Pacifying Police Unit," in the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Public safety authorities say a police officer was shot and killed in this hillside "favela" slum that's a key symbol of the Olympic city's highly publicized slum pacification program. Authorities didn't provide any details on the circumstances of the officer's death, but media reports say the officer was hit inside a police base during an overnight firefight.
Felipe Dana Associated Press
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A trainer, left, helps Chinese children on the gymnastics team perform stretching exercise on the floor at a sports school during the summer holiday in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province, Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
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Genevieve Huizar, third from left, the mother of Manuel Diaz, who was shot to death by Anaheim police, breaks down after pleading for a stop to the violence and says she doesn't want that to be her son's legacy after a news conference in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Far left is her daughter, Correna Chavez. Others are unidentified. Her news conference followed a fourth day of violent protests over Saturday's police shooting of Manuel Diaz and the Sunday death of another man.
Damian Dovarganes Associated Press
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Performers welcome athletes to the Olympic Village ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics at the Olympic Park on Thursday, July 26, 2012, in London. The opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics will be held Friday, July 27.
Alexander Hassenstein Pool Getty
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A mourner at the funeral for Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting victim Micayla Medek wears a pink ribbon with the "Hello Kitty" character that was Medek's favorite, Thursday, July 26, 2012, in Denver.
Ted Warren Associated Press
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New Orleans firefighters work to put out a fire at Hubig's Pies in New Orleans, Friday, July 27, 2012. The bakery that pleased New Orleans' tastes for generations with its locally iconic line of fried snack pies was gutted by fire early Friday. Customers went into a buying frenzy to snatch up pies already on store shelves. The Simon Hubig Pie Co. was a total loss, said Capt. Edwin Holmes, a New Orleans Fire Department spokesman.
Catherine Threlkeld The Times-Picayune
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An Indian Muslim women sits inside the the Jama (Grand) mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 27, 2012. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar where devout fast from dawn till dusk.
Tsering Topgyal Associated Press