I’m ashamed to say I’ve not really followed the news too much this past week. A little baby and football on the TV will do that to a person. Thankfully I have to make sure I have a selection of cool pix ready for your enjoyment at the end of each week and it allowed me to catch up with some world events. Which is your favorite image?
1A woman prepares to swallow a live fish that has been dipped in homemade medicine during a camp in Hyderabad. KRISHNENDU HALDER/REUTERS
2Palestinian protesters run away as an Israeli military bulldozer clears a road block placed by the protesters during clashes near Nablus. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS
3A mother eats with her family during a demonstration against the verdict for deposed leader Hosni Mubarak and against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik in Cairo's Tahrir Square. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS
4A soldier from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, guards an LZ at night at COP Pirtle-King in Afghanistan. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS
5A mourner reacts during the funeral for Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees at St. Mary's Chrurch in Thame, central England. STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS
6A farmer, wearing plastic sheets to cover himself from the rain, sits near coffee beans at a coffee farm in the jungle of Villa Rica. PILAR OLIVARES/REUTERS
7A farmer works at a pig farm on the outskirts of Shenyang. SHENG LI/REUTERS
8A child carries a suona as he walks past a receiving line for greeting visitors at Pianpo Village in Kai county, Guizhou province. JIANAN YU/REUTERS
9A stray dog stands on a rubbish dump at the seafront in Sidon. ALI HASHISHO/REUTERS
10The Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft wait to be transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS
11Britain's Prince Philip waves to members of the media as he leaves the King Edward VII Hospital in London. PAUL HACKETT/REUTERS
12A firefighter cuts steel to retrieve the trapped body of a construction worker from the rubble of a collapsed building in Mlolongo area. THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS
13Survivor Sfoundouris points at memorial on eve of anniversary of Nazi wartime Distomo massacre in village of Distomo. YANNIS BEHRAKIS/REUTERS
14The USS Iowa makes her way through the main channel of the Port of Los Angeles to her permanent home, Berth 87, in San Pedro. LORI SHEPLER/REUTERS
15Investigators secure the scene where a police helicopter crashed into a forest in the Kibiko area of Ngong township, on the outskirts of Nairobi. THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS
16A protester burns a China national flag during a protest to urge Chinese authorities to carry out a proper investigation into the death of Li Wangyang ,outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong. TYRONE SIU/REUTERS
17A damaged L-410 plane is seen in a field near Borodyanka aerodrome. ANATOLII STEPANOV/REUTERS
18Afghan boys look at a U.S. Army soldier of 5-20 Infantry Regiment attached to the 82nd Airborne Division, in Zharay district of Kandahar province. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS
19A woman leaves her house through a decorated doorway during Corpus Christi day in Zahara de la Sierra. JON NAZCA/REUTERS
20Man dressed in a red and yellow costume representing the devil, known as El Colacho, jumps over babies placed on a mattress during traditional Corpus Christi celebrations in Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, northern Spain. RICARDO ORDONEZ/REUTERS
21Souheil Duchene, 5, looks at his confiscated schoolbag next to his father Denis near the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve before the Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Montreal . CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/REUTERS
23Smoke fills the air over a small barn turning the sky orange as the High Park Fire burns near Laporte, Colorado. MARC PISCOTTY/REUTERS
24Host Neil Patrick Harris performs during the American Theatre Wing's 66th annual Tony Awards in New York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS
25Shawn Davis and his five-year old son Emerson fly-fish for trout at Spring Creek near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. GARY CAMERON/REUTERS
26Ethnic Rakhine people get water from a firefighter truck to extinguish fire set to their houses during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe. STAFF/REUTERS
27An ethnic Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he walks in front of houses that were burnt during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe. STAFF/REUTERS
28The body of a victim of the helicopter crash is seen on a zip line during the recovery operation in the Hualla Hualla area of Quispicanchis. HANDOUT/REUTERS
29A man walks past a damaged passenger bus which was hit by a bomb attack in Mastung. NASEER AHMED/REUTERS
30Coal miners blocked the Madrid-Gijon railway during a protest against government cuts in the mining sector in Cinera. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS |