News Photos of the Week
Collapsed people get first aid after a panic on this year's techno-music festival "Loveparade 2010" in Duisburg, Germany, on Saturday, July 24, 2010. More than a dozen people were killed and others injured when mass panic broke out in a tunnel at the Love Parade.
A Pied Myna is caught in a bird trap in the Barpeta district of the north-eastern state of Assam, about 100 kms from the capital Guwahati on July 22, 2010. In spite of the ban on bird hunting in northeast India, a few traditional bird hunters still make their living from bird hunting in Assam. Due to the vanishing of wildlife in the vicinity of human habitation, bird trapping is confined to certain localities of Assam state only. The entire tradition of trapping birds is now restricted to a few underprivileged, elderly people and the birds are usually captured for food and medicinal purposes.
A Palestinian youth jumps to kick a ball as he plays soccer with others in an alley of Al-Amari refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
A U.S. soldier watches an Afghan movie on TV while relaxing at Combat Outpost Nolen, an outlying base for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Rescuers were searching Tuesday for 30 people buried in landslides as flood waters from days of heavy rain surged past the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest.
Janine Thiele from the biotechnology department of GMB GmbH, a subsidiary of energy supplier Vattenfall, works on a reactor with microalgae on July 22, 2010 at an experimental greenhause of the heat and power plant in Senftenberg, eastern Germany. Swedish energy group Vattenfall said it had launched a major pilot project, using algae to scrub greenhouse gas emissions from the coal-fired power plant. The two-million-euro trial run, which will continue until October 2011, in the depressed Lausitz mining region is part of an experimental bid by the company to reduce its carbon dioxide output.
A CF-18 fighter jet crashes during a practice flight for this weekend's Alberta International AirShow on Friday, July 23, 2010, in Lethbridge, Alta., at the Lethbridge County Airport. The pilot ejected before impact and is said to have only suffered minor injuries.
A CF-18 fighter jet crashes during a practice flight for this weekend's Alberta International AirShow on Friday, July 23, 2010, in Lethbridge, Alta., at the Lethbridge County Airport. The pilot ejected before impact and is said to have only suffered minor injuries.
A red Fiat sticks out from the roof of a house in Alassio, northern Italy. The cars owner had forgotten to apply the handbrake while taking photos of the view.
40 ton southern right whale jumps towards the deck of a yacht near Hermanus, South Africa.
