
Madrid — A bloodied woman is detained by riot police during a demonstration by Spanish coal miners. The miners had marched to Madrid to protest government subsidy cuts for their industry.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Denis Doyle / Getty Images
Link
Hyderabad, India — A hand-made sign declares no vacancies at the Catholic Cemetery in Hyderabad. Africa and Asia are the continents that will see the fastest urban population growth in the next 40 years, a U.N. report said earlier this year, noting that India and China are leading the surge.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: NOAH SEELAM / AFP / Getty Images
Link
Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, France — A cycling fan holds an anti-doping placard as riders pass by during the 10th stage of the 2012 Tour de France.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: JOEL SAGET / AFP / Getty Images
Link
Nambal Nard, India — Villagers fill the surrounding hillsides watching as rescue workers pick through the wreckage of a school bus that ran off the road and plunged into a gorge during a picnic trip. A teacher and a student were killed and 51 others injured.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP / Getty Images
Link
Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Women mourn over the coffin of a relative at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, where thousands gathered Wednesday for the mass burial of 520 bodies to mark the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Marko Drobnjakovic / Associated Press
Link
A computer-simulated image of gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space. Using observations from telescopes in space and on the ground, astronomers gathered the most direct evidence yet for this violent process: a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: AFP / Getty Images
Link
Pamplona, Spain — Sometimes the bulls get the upper hoof during the annual running of the bulls that highlights the San Fermin festival.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Link
Oxford, Miss. — Landon Ward plays in a sprinkler during water day at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bruce Newman / OXFORD EAGLE
Link
Farnborough, England — An Airbus SAS A380 aircraft operated by Malaysia Airline on the runway on the third day of the Farnborough International Air Show.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg
Link
Berlin — Monika Brzostek, left, and Kinga Kolosinska of Poland set up a scoring attempt during the Beach Volleyball Grand Slam 2012 tournament.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Hannibal Hanschke / EPA
Link
Varanasi, India — Hindu devotees bathe in the River Ganges in the early morning. Varanasi, also known as Kashi and Benaras, is Hinduism's holiest city.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press
LinkMore galleries on Framework
return to galleryThe Week in Pictures | Jan. 2 - 8, 2012
Enjoy this week's selection of our favorite images from around the world. View Post»
Pictures in the News | Nov. 8, 2011
In today's Pictures in the News, an airborne black rhinocerous in South Africa, efforts in Jordan to have the Dead Sea chosen as one of the "Seven Wonders of Nature," a mass... View Post»
A storm near Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand has created a strong southwest swell that is hitting the Southern California coast. Pedestrians had to take take quick... View Post»
Dylan Catania was born with what his surgeon called "a big, bad brain." Would severing half of it give him a chance at a normal life? Times photographers Francine Orr and... View Post»







