Week in pictures - 13 July 2012
![A Hubble Space Telescope image shows U Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, a star nearing the end of its life located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North Celestial Pole. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star's latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star. The shell of gas, which is both much larger and much fainter than its parent star, is visible in intricate detail in Hubble's portrait. While phenomena that occur at the ends of stars' lives are often quite irregular and unstable, the shell of gas expelled from U Cam is almost perfectly spherical.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/8f/98b152be1f532bfb47982f8cb7b65/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "A Hubble Space Telescope image shows U Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, a star nearing the end of its life located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North Celestial Pole. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star's latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star. The shell of gas, which is both much larger and much fainter than its parent star, is visible in intricate detail in Hubble's portrait. While phenomena that occur at the ends of stars' lives are often quite irregular and unstable, the shell of gas expelled from U Cam is almost perfectly spherical. (Reuters)")
![A man holds an umbrella to shield himself from the rain as he walks at Girgaum Chowpatty beach during a monsoon shower in Mumbai.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/2d/f29e3245f2f0fac75f7579e71e352/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "A man holds an umbrella to shield himself from the rain as he walks at Girgaum Chowpatty beach during a monsoon shower in Mumbai. (Reuters)")
![A bull chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the Bous a la Mar festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia. During this festival, revellers emerging from protective barriers provoke bulls to chase them until they both fall into the sea. The bulls are then rescued by small boats who tow them to safety.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/9c/fa83ab1cd2638173316670914efc/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "A bull chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the Bous a la Mar festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia. During this festival, revellers emerging from protective barriers provoke bulls to chase them until they both fall into the sea. The bulls are then rescued by small boats who tow them to safety. (Reuters)")
![A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the Rapa Das Bestas traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/c1/622b0bdad12aa4f247666814b297c/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the Rapa Das Bestas traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. (Reuters)")
![A male snow leopard, Villy, is pictured in an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/be/5ff7d7e7471e1c8785b9cbb33747/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "A male snow leopard, Villy, is pictured in an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich. (Reuters)")
![Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Centre in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre were be buried on 11 July, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/93/9187d4cf13ada8bc7364edd6df3ab6/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Centre in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre were be buried on 11 July, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. (Reuters)")
![An Airbus A380 flies through cloud during a display flight at the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/5b/4aff205ade35a31f39fab4d93b1a3/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "An Airbus A380 flies through cloud during a display flight at the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England. (Reuters)")
![Tribesmen loyal to the al-Houthi Shi'ite rebel group shout slogans during a gathering in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada on the border with Saudi Arabia to denounce what they say is a US interference in Yemen. The mountainous province of Saada is the stronghold of Shi'ite rebels, known as the Houthis, after the clan of their leaders, who had fought government forces for years until an uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh last year gave them a free hand in the lawless frontier province. Trying to counter the threat of al Qaeda, Washington is deepening its involvement in Yemen, using drone strikes to target suspected militants and training the Yemeni army to fight them.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/ec/fd6da08e4c63663540f81ab241140/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Tribesmen loyal to the al-Houthi Shi'ite rebel group shout slogans during a gathering in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada on the border with Saudi Arabia to denounce what they say is a US interference in Yemen. The mountainous province of Saada is the stronghold of Shi'ite rebels, known as the Houthis, after the clan of their leaders, who had fought government forces for years until an uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh last year gave them a free hand in the lawless frontier province. Trying to counter the threat of al Qaeda, Washington is deepening its involvement in Yemen, using drone strikes to target suspected militants and training the Yemeni army to fight them. (Reuters)")
![Women compete in a race in high heels in Moscow. Participants raced in high heels over a 50 metre long course for a chance to win 100,000 roubles to spend at an online clothes shop, according to the organisers.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/cc/8afb13d54c752e7fd9d5cf51a4b7aa/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Women compete in a race in high heels in Moscow. Participants raced in high heels over a 50 metre long course for a chance to win 100,000 roubles to spend at an online clothes shop, according to the organisers. (Reuters)")
![Performers dressed as oversized traditional figures dance through the streets during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Visitors to the nine-day festival, depicted in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises", take part in activities including the running of the bulls, an early morning half-mile dash from the corral to the bullring alongside six bulls destined to die in the afternoon's corrida. This is followed by processions of giant traditional figures, concerts, firebulls, fireworks, and large doses of eating, drinking, dancing and late nights.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/36/7e28d923ace91de778ea730a29910/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Performers dressed as oversized traditional figures dance through the streets during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Visitors to the nine-day festival, depicted in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel \"The Sun Also Rises\", take part in activities including the running of the bulls, an early morning half-mile dash from the corral to the bullring alongside six bulls destined to die in the afternoon's corrida. This is followed by processions of giant traditional figures, concerts, firebulls, fireworks, and large doses of eating, drinking, dancing and late nights. (Reuters)")
![Kissima Kebe, a 32 year-old street salesman originally from Senegal and currently living in Zaragoza, sits on a bench at the Plaza de Recoleta, wearing some of his goods, on the fourth day of the San Fermin festival. Kebe has been coming to the festival for two years and says that although the number of people in the streets does not appear to have dropped, sales are down from last year, due to Spain's economic crisis.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/ed/748e4295124a352a127ff22b550c7/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Kissima Kebe, a 32 year-old street salesman originally from Senegal and currently living in Zaragoza, sits on a bench at the Plaza de Recoleta, wearing some of his goods, on the fourth day of the San Fermin festival. Kebe has been coming to the festival for two years and says that although the number of people in the streets does not appear to have dropped, sales are down from last year, due to Spain's economic crisis. (Reuters)")
![Spanish bullfighter Saul Jimenez Fortes prepares before the fifth bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/fc/b2866d8a2781dbafc9f5efa7af4/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Spanish bullfighter Saul Jimenez Fortes prepares before the fifth bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. (Reuters)")
![An dog is seen carrying a banner during a protest by Occupy Wall Street activists at Zuccotti Park in New York.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/fd/1fe56cdf49714ec425cfd59e2979e/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "An dog is seen carrying a banner during a protest by Occupy Wall Street activists at Zuccotti Park in New York. (Reuters)")
![A girl poses for a photograph in front of a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/89/e09042acfc2f313656a54ccf50489c/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "A girl poses for a photograph in front of a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. (Reuters)")
![Tori the orangutan smokes inside her cage at Taru Jurug zoo in Solo City, Indonesia. Tori is a 15 year old orangutan who has smoked cigarettes for a decade, but zookeepers are trying to help her kick the habit.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/98/de7084f019da2bb0decae6e30a834/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Tori the orangutan smokes inside her cage at Taru Jurug zoo in Solo City, Indonesia. Tori is a 15 year old orangutan who has smoked cigarettes for a decade, but zookeepers are trying to help her kick the habit. (Getty Images)")
![A worker show a newly-hatched baby crocodile during a hatching inside a crocodile farm in Pasay city, metro Manila. At least 10 baby crocodile eggs were hatched on the farm on Tuesday, according to farm officials.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/ae/c7befa8d7e68ff5a5ad31547136c2b/_h86_w115_m6_utrue_otrue_lfalse.jpg"}} "A worker show a newly-hatched baby crocodile during a hatching inside a crocodile farm in Pasay city, metro Manila. At least 10 baby crocodile eggs were hatched on the farm on Tuesday, according to farm officials. (Reuters)")
![Tanda, a white rhinoceros, stands next to her one-day old calf at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/6b/25cface111e95a4b7688910b4555/_h86_w115_m6_utrue_otrue_lfalse.jpg"}} "Tanda, a white rhinoceros, stands next to her one-day old calf at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv. (Reuters)")
![Cody, a one-year-old Cockaweenie, bails during the surfing competition of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge in San Diego, California. This canine sporting event features a variety of events including dog surfing, dog diving, freestyle flying disc, and head-to-head weave poles.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/8a/3fcef1d96f248816f012d266589226/_h86_w115_m6_utrue_otrue_lfalse.jpg"}} "Cody, a one-year-old Cockaweenie, bails during the surfing competition of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge in San Diego, California. This canine sporting event features a variety of events including dog surfing, dog diving, freestyle flying disc, and head-to-head weave poles. (Reuters)")
San Diego
Our selection of the best photos from the last seven days. Featuring a smoking orangutan, a mis-timed firework display, and impressive 3D art from China. See gallery
All 20,000 fireworks lit the sky in 15 seconds when they were accidentally set off prematurely by a computer glitch at the San Diego Independence Day show. The explosives were launched from four barges in San Diego Bay and from a pier. The fireworks, all 20,000 of them, went off five minutes before the show was supposed to begin and thousands of disappointed spectators were told the display was over.
U Camelopardalis
A Hubble Space Telescope image shows U Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, a star nearing the end of its life located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North Celestial Pole. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star's latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star. The shell of gas, which is both much larger and much fainter than its parent star, is visible in intricate detail in Hubble's portrait. While phenomena that occur at the ends of stars' lives are often quite irregular and unstable, the shell of gas expelled from U Cam is almost perfectly spherical.
Mumbai
A man holds an umbrella to shield himself from the rain as he walks at Girgaum Chowpatty beach during a monsoon shower in Mumbai.
Denia
A bull chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the Bous a la Mar festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia. During this festival, revellers emerging from protective barriers provoke bulls to chase them until they both fall into the sea. The bulls are then rescued by small boats who tow them to safety.
Sabucedo
A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the Rapa Das Bestas traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia.
Zurich
A male snow leopard, Villy, is pictured in an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich.
Potocari
Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Centre in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre were be buried on 11 July, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.
Farnborough
An Airbus A380 flies through cloud during a display flight at the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England.
Saada
Tribesmen loyal to the al-Houthi Shi'ite rebel group shout slogans during a gathering in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada on the border with Saudi Arabia to denounce what they say is a US interference in Yemen. The mountainous province of Saada is the stronghold of Shi'ite rebels, known as the Houthis, after the clan of their leaders, who had fought government forces for years until an uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh last year gave them a free hand in the lawless frontier province. Trying to counter the threat of al Qaeda, Washington is deepening its involvement in Yemen, using drone strikes to target suspected militants and training the Yemeni army to fight them.
Moscow
Women compete in a race in high heels in Moscow. Participants raced in high heels over a 50 metre long course for a chance to win 100,000 roubles to spend at an online clothes shop, according to the organisers.
Pamplona
Performers dressed as oversized traditional figures dance through the streets during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Visitors to the nine-day festival, depicted in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises", take part in activities including the running of the bulls, an early morning half-mile dash from the corral to the bullring alongside six bulls destined to die in the afternoon's corrida. This is followed by processions of giant traditional figures, concerts, firebulls, fireworks, and large doses of eating, drinking, dancing and late nights.
Plaza de Recoleta
Kissima Kebe, a 32 year-old street salesman originally from Senegal and currently living in Zaragoza, sits on a bench at the Plaza de Recoleta, wearing some of his goods, on the fourth day of the San Fermin festival. Kebe has been coming to the festival for two years and says that although the number of people in the streets does not appear to have dropped, sales are down from last year, due to Spain's economic crisis.
Pamplona
Spanish bullfighter Saul Jimenez Fortes prepares before the fifth bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.
New York
An dog is seen carrying a banner during a protest by Occupy Wall Street activists at Zuccotti Park in New York.
Hangzhou
A girl poses for a photograph in front of a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.
Solo City
Tori the orangutan smokes inside her cage at Taru Jurug zoo in Solo City, Indonesia. Tori is a 15 year old orangutan who has smoked cigarettes for a decade, but zookeepers are trying to help her kick the habit.
