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Week in photos - Aug. 30, 2012

 

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  • BE HAPPY IN YOUR WORK--A reveler dances with a police officer as another police officer reacts during the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Europe's biggest street festival will reach its climax today with hundreds of thousands of revelers and brightly-dressed performers flocking to the capital for the headline day of Notting Hill Carnival.
  • GRADUATION DAY---Afghan National Police officers carry boxes of equipment during their graduation ceremony at a National Police training center in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 30, 2012. Over 141 National police officers graduated after receiving 2 months of training in Jalalabad.
  • STROLLING AT SUNSET--A man loads up lemon grasses in his motorcycle near a couple strolling on the river bank in the Mekong river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.
  • Students throw stones at riot police during a protest for education reform in downtown Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Students are demanding quality public schools as they protest the high cost of private universities and the banks that make education loans at high interest rates that most Chileans can ill afford. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)
  • AT LEAST THE DOGS ARE HAVING FUN--Protesters shield themselves from a police water canon after a student protest ended in clashes with authorities in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Protesters in favor of education reform say the education system fails families with poor quality public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and banks that make education loans at high interest rates most Chileans can ill afford.
  • Donkeys walk past a queue of men waiting to pay their respects to the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, lying in state at the national palace, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Zenawi is scheduled to be buried Sept. 2. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
  • OLYMPIC RELIC--A silver cup won at the first modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, by marathon runner Spyros Louis, is on display at the Acropolis Museum, on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. The cup, recently sold by the Greek athlete's descendants, was bought by a private Greek foundation at an auction in London.
  • UP TO HIS NECK--A man carrying a bottle in his mouth slips as he wades through a flooded street, triggered by Tropical Storm Isaac, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac swept across Haiti's southern peninsula early Saturday, dousing a capital city prone to flooding and adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the 2010 earthquake.
  • CORRUPTION PROTEST--An Indian anti corruption protester is arrested during a demonstration near Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi's residence in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. Indian police detained scores of anti-corruption activists who tried to march Sunday to the homes of top political leaders to protest a scandal over the government's sale of coal fields without competitive bidding.
  • FINDING SAFETY--Danessa Lee, left, comforts her granddaughter Ashanti Lee, 12, after their family was rescued in Pearlington, Miss., by law enforcement officers and first responders using boats, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, during the nonstop rain from Isaac. A number of residents of the small community were trapped by the rising waters and had be rescued or waited until the low tide when waters receded so they could walk out.
  • STARE DOWN--A shoebill is displayed at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.
  • PREACHER KILLING PROTESTED--A riot police officer near to a tire on fire, lit by Muslim youths, outside Masjid Musa Mosque, in Majengo, Mombasa, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Police and protesters fought running battles as a violent backlash to the killing of a radical Islamic preacher continued Tuesday in Kenya's second largest city, which left several people hospitalized, a police and human rights official said. Police officers teargased rowdy youth on their second day of protests over the killing Monday of Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who was sanctioned by the U.S. government and the U.N. for his alleged connection to an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group, al-Shabab, regional Police boss Aggrey Adoli said.
  • WHEELS IN A BLUR--Crystal Lane of Britain gets ready to start, as another cyclist passes during a training session at the velodrome for the women's individual C5 pursuit track cycling for the 2012 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in London.
  • WARMING UP--A swimmer warms up in the Aquatic Center during a swimming training session ahead of the 2012 Paralympics, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in London.
  • THE RED PLANET--In this image released by NASA on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, a chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this color image from NASA's Curiosity rover showing the base of Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual science destination. The image is a portion of a larger image taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mast Camera on Aug. 23, 2012. Scientists enhanced the color in one version to show the Martian scene under the lighting conditions we have on Earth, which helps in analyzing the terrain. The pointy mound in the center of the image, looming above the rover-sized rock, is about 1,000 feet (300 meters) across and 300 feet (100 meters) high.
  • PALESTINIAN PROTEST--An Israeli Soldier shoots rubber bullets towards Palestinian protesters, not pictured, during a demonstration supporting prisoners in Israeli jails outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.
  • AMMO ARRANGEMENT--A Pakistani army soldier arranges ammunition reportedly recovered from hideouts of militants in tribal areas, as they are displayed in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.
  • JUST LION AROUND--Two circus lions rest in their cage on zoo grounds, in Asuncion, Paraguay,Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. The lions are two of the seven African lions and nine Bengal tigers from an Argentine circus that were stuck in a Paraguayan border town for two months and recently moved to a shaded area at the Asuncion Zoo where Paraguay's wildlife agency hopes they will be more comfortable as circus owners and Argentine officials work out the circus animals' paperwork for re-entry.
  • WAITING FOR THE CONVENTION--Brad McCally from San Antonio, Texas sits in the chair on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
  • U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hugs his wife Ann after she addressed the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
  • COURTROOM OUTBURST--Wesley Thomas, the step father of Tiffany York, is tackled by courtroom security during the hearing of defendant Sgt. Anthony Peden at Long County Superior Court, Thursday Aug. 30, 2012, in Ludowici, Ga. District Attorney Tom Durden announced in court that he will seek the death penalty for Peden, Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, and Pvt. Christopher Salmon. The three Fort Stewart soldiers are accused of malice murder, felony murder and criminal gang activity in the Dec. 4 slayings of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York. The two were found shot to death off a dirt road near the Army post. Prosecutors say the accused men were part of a militia operating within the U.S. Army that was stockpiling weapons and wanted to overthrow the federal government.
  • Revelers throw tomatoes during the annual
  • HOLD THE KETCHUP--Revelers play with tomato pulp during the annual
  • REFINERY EXPLOSION--Fire rises over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said.
  • HONORS BY THE BAY--Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones acknowledges the crowd during the eighth inning inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 in San Francisco.
  • GREECE FIRE--A firefighting plane throws water during a fire at Neos Voutzas near the port of Rafina, some 30 kms northeast of Athens, Greece, on Thursday, Aug. 30 2012. A new wildfire broke up at the eastern suburbs of Athens on Thursday, damaging several houses, according to initial reports by local media. Local authorities suspected that arson has been the cause in dozens of destructive wildfires that broke out across Greece this summer.
  • THE RAINS CONTINUE--Residents of the Cambridge Neighborhood in LaPlace Louisiana Wednesday Aug. 29, 2012 evacuate their neighborhood. The state sent scores of buses and dozens of high-water vehicles to help evacuate about 3,000 people from St. John the Baptist Parish after Tropical Storm Isaac pushed water from lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas into parts of LaPlace.
  • POLICE FATALITY ACCIDENT--A Memphis police officer inspects the wreckage of a vehicle following a collision involving a fellow officer at the three-way intersection of Crump Blvd, Walnut St. and Georgia Ave. in Memphis, Tenn. Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. Two people in the private car were killed, while two others were rushed to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis in extremely critical condition. The officer was also injured, although not as seriously. Witnesses said the officer was driving at high speed without his lights or siren on.
  • HEADED TO WAR--Members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 229th Engineering Company say goodbye to loved ones during a send-off ceremony at Prairie du Chien High School in Prairie du Chien, Wis.Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. The Platteville and Prairie du Chien-based 229th Engineering Company heads to Afghanistan for up to 18 months.
 
 

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