03 August 2012 06:26 AM | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures - 3 August 2012

Ahmedabad

A woman carries an idol of Hindu goddess Dashama on the banks of the river Sabarmati, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Hindu devotees keep the idols in their house for 10 days for the Dashama festival, before immersing them in the Sabarmati river on the tenth night. (© Reuters)
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  • A woman carries an idol of Hindu goddess Dashama on the banks of the river Sabarmati, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Hindu devotees keep the idols in their house for 10 days for the Dashama festival, before immersing them in the Sabarmati river on the tenth night. (© Reuters)
  • Britain's Fiona McCann (top) and Australia's Ash Southern fight for the ball during their women's preliminary round Group B water polo match at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (© Reuters)
  • A villager looks closely at a whale shark which died after being stranded on the Pandansimo beach in Bantul, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (© Reuters)
  • Philipp Boy of Germany competes in the horizontal bar event during the men's gymnastics qualification in the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Picture taken with multiple exposures. (© Reuters)
  • Residents past bicycle carts as they wade through floodwaters brought on by Typhoon Saola, locally named Gener, at Navotas city, Philippines. (© Reuters)
  • Runners throw coloured powder into the air at the finish line of the Colour Run in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The Colour Run is a 5k race where runners are hit with a different types of coloured powder at each kilometre they pass. (© Reuters)
  • Passengers rest inside a train while waiting for the electricity to be restored at a railway station in Kolkata. Grids supplying electricity to half of India's 1.2 billion people collapsed on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days. (© Reuters)
  • A tattoo on Jessica Lopez of Venezuela is seen as she competes in the asymmetric bars during the women's gymnastics qualification in the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (© Reuters)
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A woman carries an idol of Hindu goddess Dashama on the banks of the river Sabarmati, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Hindu devotees keep the idols in their house for 10 days for the Dashama festival, before immersing them in the Sabarmati river on the tenth night.

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