The best photos from around the world this week
A giant hot air balloon over Melbourne, pregnant women taking part in yoga classes, the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan, t-shirts featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and much more... We have prepared for you a selection of the best photos from around the world over the past week.
(Total 30 photos)
1. Pregnant women practice yoga, trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records, in Changsha, Hunan province, June 8, 2014. 505 pregnant women took part in yoga classes for 37 minutes and 28 seconds on Sunday, surpassing the world record set in Shenzhen in 2013 by 423 women, local media reported. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)
2. Girls take part in the flower festival in Moscow. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
3. Young people play football in front of a graffiti depicting Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi (left) and Brazil international Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8, 2014, just four days before the championship. World Cup 2014. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
4. Argyll - a historical region in the west of Scotland, in the mountains on the coast of the Firth of Lorne. (Photo: Getty Images)
5. A boy collects recyclables at a landfill in the Philippine city of Paranac. (Photo: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)
6. Stephanie Dolson (left) falls off the stage during a gala event with the participation of the President of the United States in honor of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball teams in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: Reuters)
7. Paper pandas, created by French artist Paulo Grangeon, laid siege to the Buddha statue on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. (Photo: Reuters)
8. Fireworks on the occasion of the 93rd birthday of Prince Philip in Hyde Park, London, England. (Photo: Getty Images)
9. A giant hot air balloon hovers over Melbourne on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
10. Newlyweds Michael Walber and April Hartley pose for a photograph in front of a wildfire on the outskirts of Bend, Oregon, USA. Due to the rapid approach of the fire, the priest held an abbreviated marriage ceremony, after which the guests were evacuated to the city center to continue the banquet. (Photo: AP)
11. Kashmiri farmers work in the rice fields in Bandipora, India. After the end of the rainy season, people began to plant rice, cotton and legumes in many developing areas of Northwest and South India. (Photo: Reuters)
12. A protester kicks a police officer during a student demonstration in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: AP)
13. Circus workers take part in a protest against a law that prohibits the use of animals in their shows in Mexico City. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
14. A man in a lake full of algae on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Jammu, India. (Photo: Reuters)
15. Demonstrators protest against fuel shortages in Yemen. (Photo: Reuters)
16. A butcher throws the severed head of a sacrificial ram during the religious holiday of Lomisoba (a mixture of pagan and Christian traditions, celebrated annually) in the Georgian village of Mleta on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters)
17. T-shirts with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin are on sale in GUM in the center of Moscow on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters / Sergey Karpukhin)
18. Actors go on stage before a dress rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" at the foot of Masada, an ancient Jewish fortress mountain near the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel. The opera will be performed during the fourth annual Israeli Opera Festival from June 12 to June 17. The festival is Israel's largest cultural event with 700 performers and musicians and 50,000 people expected to attend the show. (Photo: Reuters)
19. Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in the celebrations after the wedding ceremony of Esther Rokeach and Abraham Safrin (not pictured) in Jerusalem. Thousands gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding between Safrin and Rokeach, the granddaughter of the spiritual leader of the Belz Hasidim, one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world. (Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters)
20. The guard of honor is prepared before the official ceremony with the participation of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Photo: AP Photo)
21. Morning sun rays in the largest park in Berlin Tiergarten on Thursday. (Photo: AP)
22. American actress and UN special envoy Angelina Jolie poses for photographers in London on Thursday. Jolie co-chaired a summit on combating sexual violence in armed conflict. (Photo: AP Photo)
23. People look at the "Gates of Hell" - a gas crater in Turkmenistan, 90 km from the village of Yerbent. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
24. US President Barack Obama hugs a graduate who has just received a diploma from the Higher Technical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. (Photo: Reuters)
25. Iguazu Falls, located on the border of Brazil and Argentina. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
26. A girl shoots a bow at a portrait of US President Barack Obama on International Children's Day. (Photo: AP)
27. Canal in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The air temperature here exceeded 46 degrees Celsius. (Photo: AFP/EastNews)
28. A Virgin Airlines plane is illuminated by the rays of the setting sun during a full moon after taking off from Sydney Airport on June 12, 2014. (Photo: Jason Reed/Reuters)
29. People look at the "Gates of Hell" - a gas crater in Turkmenistan, 90 km from the village of Yerbent. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
30. A Palestinian boy near his house, which, like many other families in Gaza, is a tent. According to human rights activists, more than 70% of the population of Gaza live, according to international standards, below the poverty line. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/Rex Features)
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