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The week in photos: Speed

This is the week that was, in photos…

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THIS IS THE week that was, in photos…

The week in photos: Speed
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  • Let it slide

    Chinese children play on a pool at a park during summer in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • Rush hour

    Indian policewomen detain a Kashmiri government employee protesting against the government in Srinagar. The employees demanded the government compensate them for unpaid salaries and raise the retirement age. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

  • Blast from the past

    Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan. China sends its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

  • The quick and the dead

    Competing Mountain Bike racers try out the forest trails covered in deep mud at the iXS European Downhill Cup race in Innerleithen, Scotland, ahead of the start of the racing. (PA)

  • Cut to the quick

    Jon Smith of Brentwood twists his bike as he gets some air going over a jump at the Skills Park at the North Park Free Ride Area in Allison Park, Pa. Smith says he has been coming to the spot at the Allegheny County Park north of Pittsburgh since he found out about it at the end of Summer in 2011. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

  • Keep your head

    A boy plays with pigeons in front of the Parliament in central Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

  • Moment of quiet

    A woman takes photos inside an installation aimed to educate visitors about nature at the TEDXRio+20 forum in Rio de Janeiro. TEDXRio+20 aims to help people understand man's capacity to destroy, but above all to help visitors understand how to build a new and sustainable way of life. The event is parallel to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

  • Speed demon

    Mojiba Zakir, front, 13, pulls ahead of Maame Quakyi, nine-years-old, as they race their soap box derby cars down a steep street near downtown in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

  • Think on your feet

    Xingu Indians fight during an exhibition of their traditional games at Kari-Oca village, where indigenous groups are staying during the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

  • Run the gaunlet

    An Afghan boy pushes a wheel on a hill in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

  • Fast and loose

    Australia's Marinko Matosevic in action against France's Richard Gasquet on day two of the AEGON International at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne. (PA)

  • Quick kiss

    Ukraine fans in the stands (PA)

  • More Haste, less speed

    A woman cools down in the water sprinklers at Dundas Square in Toronto. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

  • Old school

    Torchbearer 004 Josephine Loughran carries the Olympic Flame on the Scots Guardsman steam locomotive as they make the journey from York to Thirsk. (PA)
  • Chinese children play on a pool at a park during summer in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
  • Indian policewomen detain a Kashmiri government employee protesting against the government in Srinagar. The employees demanded the government compensate them for unpaid salaries and raise the retirement age. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
  • Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan. China sends its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
  • Competing Mountain Bike racers try out the forest trails covered in deep mud at the iXS European Downhill Cup race in Innerleithen, Scotland, ahead of the start of the racing. (PA)
  • Jon Smith of Brentwood twists his bike as he gets some air going over a jump at the Skills Park at the North Park Free Ride Area in Allison Park, Pa. Smith says he has been coming to the spot at the Allegheny County Park north of Pittsburgh since he found out about it at the end of Summer in 2011. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
  • A boy plays with pigeons in front of the Parliament in central Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
  • A woman takes photos inside an installation aimed to educate visitors about nature at the TEDXRio+20 forum in Rio de Janeiro. TEDXRio+20 aims to help people understand man's capacity to destroy, but above all to help visitors understand how to build a new and sustainable way of life. The event is parallel to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
  • Mojiba Zakir, front, 13, pulls ahead of Maame Quakyi, nine-years-old, as they race their soap box derby cars down a steep street near downtown in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
  • Xingu Indians fight during an exhibition of their traditional games at Kari-Oca village, where indigenous groups are staying during the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
  • An Afghan boy pushes a wheel on a hill in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
  • Australia's Marinko Matosevic in action against France's Richard Gasquet on day two of the AEGON International at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne. (PA)
  • Ukraine fans in the stands (PA)
  • A woman cools down in the water sprinklers at Dundas Square in Toronto. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)
  • Torchbearer 004 Josephine Loughran carries the Olympic Flame on the Scots Guardsman steam locomotive as they make the journey from York to Thirsk. (PA)

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