The World This Week
Images from around the world, showing the current and interesting events of the week that went by.
UNITED KINGDOM: A zookeeper weighs a Penguin on a scale during the annual weigh-in at London Zoo. (Pic-AFP)
INDIA: Indians shouting anti-Pakistan slogans during a rally in Mumbai celebrating the sentencing of Ajmal Qasab, the lone surviving gunman of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks who was sentenced to death. (Pic-AFP)
FRANCE: A Dash 8Q400 drops water to extinguish a wildfire spreaded in southern France. The fire has destroyed about 300 hectares of forest. (Pic-AFP)
SPACE, MARS: This image taken on August 7 shows part of the deck of NASA's Curiosity rover taken from one of the rover's Navigation cameras looking toward the back left of the rover. On the left of this image, part of the rover's power supply is visible. To the right of the power supply can be seen the pointy low-gain antenna and side of the paddle-shaped high-gain antenna for communications directly to Earth. (Pic-AFP)
GERMANY: Participants of the Holi festival spread color pigments in Dresden, eastern Germany. (Pic-AFP)
UNITED STATES: Police and investigators inspect the body of the alleged shooter, who opened fire and killed a former co-worker in front of the Empire State Building in New York. He was later shot dead when police confronted him. (Pic-AFP)
NORWAY: Self confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik raises his fist in a right wing salute on arrival in court room in Oslo to be sentenced for his twin attacks last year that left 77 people dead, bringing to a close one of the most spectacular trials in Norway's history. (Pic-AFP)
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