1/43Elephant cub ‘Edgar’ takes a bath with its mother and its siblings at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Picture: AP
THE WEEK IN PICTURES
FEAST your eyes on an adorable baby snow leopard in Germany, the quirky dancers of Swan Lake in Scotland, and the last race for an Olympic legend in London.
2/43Dancers from ‘Tutu’, perform at St Margaret’s Loch in their spoof Swan Lake costumes on August 10, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show is an invitation to those who love dance to experience familiar favourites, in an opportunity to explore some of the most famous and significant works in the repertoire from Swan Lake to Pina Bausch in a fun way with with a twist. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
3/43Lady Gaga performs onstage during the “Joanne” World Tour at The Forum on August 9, 2017 in Inglewood, California. Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
4/43An inflatable chicken mimicking US President Donald Trump is set up on The Ellipse, a 52-acre (21-hectare) park located just south of the White House and north of the Washington Monument (rear). Picture: AFP PHOTO
5/43Australian cricket captain and Rising Pune Supergiant skipper Steve Smith poses for a profile shoot in New Delhi, India. Picture: Subi Samuel/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
6/43A bee gathers pollen from a flower of a vegetable marrow in a garden outside Moscow. Picture: AFP
7/43Netherlands’ forward Shanice van de Sanden celebrates with the trophy after winning with her team the UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 football tournament final match between Netherlands and Denmark at Fc Twente Stadium in Enschede on August 6, 2017. Picture: Tobias SCHWARZ/AFP
8/43A baby snow leopard lays in a basket at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin as he gets his first vaccination on August 10, 2017. The male snow leopard was born on June 13, 2017 and still has no name. Picture: Britta Pedersen /AFP
9/43This picture taken on August 9, 2017 and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 10, 2017 shows a rally in support of North Korea’s stance against the US, on Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang. North Korea on August 10 said US President Donald Trump was “bereft of reason” and would only respond to force, as it elaborated on a threat to attack the US Pacific territory of Guam. Picture: AFP
10/43Norway’s Karsten Warholm celebrates after winning the final of the men’s 400m hurdles athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London on August 9, 2017. Picture: AFP
11/43Residents fearing aftershocks sleep outside of their homes after an earthquake in Zhangzha in southwest China’s Sichuan province on August 10, 2017. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan province late on August 8, tearing cracks in mountain highways, triggering landslides, damaging buildings and sending panicked residents and tourists fleeing into the open. Picture: AFP
12/43US athlete Justin Gatlin kneels in front of Jamaica’s Usain Bolt after Gatlin won the final of the men’s 100m athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London on August 5, 2017. Picture: AFP
13/43Firefighters move down a slope to contain a forest fire on the hills near Abrantes, central Portugal, Thursday night, Aug. 10, 2017. Wildfires flared across Portugal on Thursday following a rise in temperatures and strong winds, ending days of cooler weather that had brought a brief respite from a spate of blazes. Picture: Armando Franca/AP
14/43An anti-government activist stands in front of security forces with his trousers down at a barricade set up on a street of Caracas to protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on August 8, 2017. Recent demonstrations in Venezuela have stemmed from anger over the installation of an all-powerful Constituent Assembly that many see as a power grab by the unpopular President Maduro. The dire economic situation also has stirred deep bitterness as people struggle with skyrocketing inflation and shortages of food and medicine. Picture: AFP
15/43Thomas Davis #58 of the Carolina Panthers is introduced during their preseason game against the Houston Texans at Bank of America Stadium on August 9, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Picture: Grant Halverson/Getty Images
16/43Officials and rescuers gather near vehicles after a car slammed into soldiers on patrol in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris on August 9, 2017 injuring six, two of them seriously, police in the French capital said. The vehicle took off after the incident, at about 8:00 am (0600 GMT) in the northwestern suburb of Levallois-Perret. Picture: AFP
17/43Russian President Vladimir Putin swims during his vacation in the remote Tuva region in southern Siberia. The picture taken between August 1 and 3, 2017. Picture: AFP
18/43Flight deck crew prepare, clean and arrange aircraft during joint military exercise, Saxon Warrior, aboard the USS George H.W. Bush on August 6, 2017 off the north west coast of the United Kingdom. The American Aircraft carrier the USS George HW Bush is a nuclear powered 97,000-tonne, 20 story high Nimitz class aircraft carrier. It has a 4.5-acre flight deck with around 80 combat aircraft and is home to around 5,000 US Navy personnel who are currently conducting joint military exercises off the coast of the United Kingdom. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
19/43Singer Glen Campbell, 81, passed away this week after a battle with Alzheimer’s - here he poses for a portrait playing a Martin acoustic guitar in 1967. Picture: Getty Images
20/43A man refreshes himself as he plays in a fountain in Piazza Castello, in Turin. Picture: AFP
21/43Katharina Molitor of Germany competes in the Women’s Javelin final during day five of the 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships London 2017 at The London Stadium on August 8, 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Picture: David Ramos/Getty Images
22/43Slackliner Kai is blindfolded as he walks on a highline over the river Elbe at the Koenigstein Fortress in Koenigstein near Dresden, eastern Germany, during an outdoor and trend sports festival. Picture: AFP
23/43Athletes compete in the heats of the men’s 3,000m steeplechase athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London on August 6, 2017. Picture: AFP
24/43In this photo taken on July 13, 2017, Vietnamese workers devein shrimp at the Khanh Sung Seafood Company in the My Xuyen district in southern Vietnam. The Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam”, is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans. Picture: AFP
25/43A hooded vulture flies in a park in Anna Paulowna on August 8, 2017. Picture: AFP PHOTO
26/43Luis Diaz competes in a heat of the World Surf League Boardmasters Quiksilver Open at the annual Boardmasters festival held on Fistral beach in Newquay on August 9, 2017 in Cornwall, England. Since 1981, the Boardmasters surfing competition has been held in Newquay and is now part of a larger five-day surf, skate and music festival becoming an integral part of the continually popular British surf scene, growing from humble beginnings, to one of the biggest events on the British surfing calendar. Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
27/43Men move a burning tire during a protest in Kibera, Kenya’s biggest slum, on August 9, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya. The protest started after police allegedly killed two protestors in Mathare, another slum in Nairobi. Tensions remain high as rumors of election fraud surround the presidential election between incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga. PICTURE: Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images
28/43Real Madrid’s players celebrate with the trophy after winning the UEFA Super Cup final football match between Real Madrid and Manchester United on August 8, 2017, at the Philip II Arena in Skopje. Pictue: AFP PHOTO
29/43Visitors and tourists ride a ferry toward Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty, August 8, 2017 in New York City. Immigration continues to be a hotly debated topic in the United States during the Trump administration. During a press briefing last week, Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior policy advisor, discussed President Trump’s support for a ‘merit-based’ immigration system. Picture: Drew Angerer/AFP
30/43A polar bear enjoys a patch of artificial snow at Moscow zoo on August 3, 2017. Picture: AFP PHOTO
31/43Rubber ducks float down the Chicago River during the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby on August 3, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Derby organizers drop 60,000 rubber ducks from a bridge above the river to start a race which helps to raise about $350,000 for Special Olympics Illinois. The sponsor of the first duck to float across the finish line is awarded a new SUV. Pictuer: Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
32/43French President Emmanuel Macron (C) poses for a selfie with medical staff members as he visits the Robert Debre pediatric hospital in Paris on August 9, 2017. Picture: AFP PHOTO
33/43Lorenzo Cain #6 of the Kansas City Royals watches a kitten run across the outfield in the sixth inning during a game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on August 9, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. Picture: Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images
34/43the trump of an eighteen-year old elephant bull Assam is sprayed with water by its keeper (unseen) in a pool of Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden on August 10, 2017. Picture: AFP PHOTO
35/43Indian members of the Maratha community in the state of Maharashtra cross a flyover as they take part in a rally in Mumbai on August 9, 2017. The Maratha Kranti Morcha silent protest is being held to demand emplyoment quotas for the Maratha in state-run education institutions and government jobs, a minimum support price for farm produce, and amendments to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Picture: AFP PHOTO
36/43Palestinian children look through a hole in a sheet metal fence outside their home in a poor neighbourhood in Gaza City on August 8, 2017. Picture: AFP PHOTO
37/43The mother of a man shot in the head allegedly by Kenyan police reacts as she passes a police van transporting her son’s body in an alley of Mathare slum in Nairobi, on August 9, 2017, as unrest broke out a day after general elections. Kenyan police shot dead two protesters in the capital’s flashpoint Mathare slum on August 9, as unrest broke out after opposition accusations that the general election was rigged, a senior officer told AFP. Picture: AFP PHOTO
38/43Athletes jump from a ferry into the Hardangerfjords as part of the swim leg during the start of the Isklar Norseman Extreme Triathlon August 5, 2017 in Eidfjord, Norway. Today 250 athletes participate in the 3.8 kilometers swim leg, 180 kilometers bike leg and the 42.2 kilometers run leg up to Mount Gausta, the fastest athlete is expected to finish the extreme triathlon in almost 11 hours. Picture: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images for Isklar Norseman Extreme Triathlon
39/43US athlete Tori Bowie (R) wins the final of the women’s 100m athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London on August 6, 2017. Picture: AFP PHOTO
40/43Performers dressed as Pikachu, a character from Pokemon series game titles, march during the Pikachu Outbreak event hosted by The Pokemon Co. on August 9, 2017 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. A total of 1, 500 Pikachus appear at the city’s landmarks in the Minato Mirai area aiming to attract visitors and tourists to the city. The event will be held through until August 15. Picture: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
41/43In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017 US singer Alecia Moore, known under the stage name Pink, performs during her concert at the 25th Sziget (Island) Festival in Northern Budapest, Hungary. Picture: Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP
42/43A Bangladeshi labourer works in a dockyard beside the Buriganga River in Dhaka on August 2, 2017. Twenty-eight dockyards occupying 30.96 acres of the Buriganga foreshore have been in operation for the last 50 years without any authorisation or guidelines, polluting the river and encroaching into the riverbank, reducing its navigability. Picture: AFP PHOTO
43/43A 6-year-old Syrian girl, Nur Setut, born in 2011 when Syrian civil war began, exercises karate with her own means in Aleppo, Syria on August 09, 2017. Despite all difficulties, her father and mother who are trainers, train their girl to realize her dreams of becoming a world karate champion. (icture: Yehya Alrejjo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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