19 July 2012 02:21 PM | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures - 20 July 2012

Athens

A boy cools himself at a fountain of a park in Athens. (© Reuters)
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  • Commuters dodge high wind and heavy rain during a thunderstorm in midtown Manhattan, in New York. (© Reuters)
  • A three-days-old gorilla baby lies in the arm of its mother Rebecca at the zoo in Frankfurt. (© Reuters)
  • A boy cools himself at a fountain of a park in Athens. (© Reuters)
  • Oscar Pistorius of South Africa trains before the men's 400 metres event at the 23rd International Athletics Meeting in Lignano Sabbiadoro. After striving to qualify for the 400 metres at the London Olympics for six years, Oscar Pistorius believes he will now be better placed to run at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. The South African, who wears carbon fibre blades, will become the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics. (© Reuters)
  • The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A trio of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spaceship on Sunday for a four-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) that Moscow hopes will help restore confidence in its space programme. (© Reuters)
  • Team Sky Procycling leads the peloton on the climb of the Col d'Aubisque as they defend the race leader's yellow jersey for Bradley Wiggins (second right) of Great Britain, during stage sixteen of the 2012 Tour de France, from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon, in Gourette, France. (© Getty Images)
  • An archeologist brushes off dust at a burial chamber at the archeological site of Atzompa, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in this photo released by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). A funerary complex, consisting of three burial chambers, was discovered at the pre-Hispanic site of Atzompa in Oaxaca. The discovery of the complex, which is more than 1,100 years old, is important because it was located inside a building designed exclusively to house a series of tombs, which are placed vertically, one above another, and unlike the ones found so far, they are not underground. (© Reuters)
  • A girl with stickers bearing the colours of the National League for Democracy (NLD) on her face looks on as she attends an event marking the anniversary of Martyrs' Day at the NLD head office in Yangon. The day marks the assassination of Myanmar's independence hero General Aung San (father of Aung San Suu Kyi) along with eight others in 1947. (© Reuters)
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