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The Week in Photos: Spirit

This is the week that was, in photos…

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THIS IS THE week that was, in photos …

The Week in Photos: Spirit
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  • The human spirit

    Jenna Talackova, the first transgender Miss Universe contestant, is seen on stage during the preliminary round of the Miss Universe Canada beauty pageant contest in Toronto. The Vancouver beauty, who was born male but underwent gender-realignment surgery four years ago, was among 62 contenders vying for the crown. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim)

  • Blockupy

    A protestor with her face reading "Occupy" and "Democracy", is taken away as German police officers break up a forbidden anti capitalism demonstration with some hundred participants on the Roemer square in downtown in Frankfurt, Germany. The demonstration is part the so called "Blockupy" days, where clashes between anti capitalism demonstrators and police are expected. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

  • Into the spirit

    Marine officer Humberto Gimenez poses for a photo with a snake before an Independence Day parade in Asuncion, Paraguay. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

  • Fortitude

    An Afghan woman carries her belongings on her head walks with a child in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012. Afghanistan, which was shattered by decades of war is suffering from severe poverty. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

  • Soulmates

    Dublin City Council has asked couple to refrain from adding anymore so-called ‘love locks’ to the city’s Ha’penny Bridge – saying these public symbols of love could damage the protected structure. Photo: Sam Boal/ Photocall Ireland

  • Shaken

    A Lebanese boy looks through a hole made by shrapnel that hit his house, after the Lebanese army deployed at Syria street which divides the Sunni and Alawite areas, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

  • Peaceful

    Duckweed floats over a river surrounding an apartment block in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress)

  • Super Natural

    A rainbow appears in the sky as lightning strikes during a rainstorm in Haikou, China. (Photo by Xiangzi/ChinaFotoPress)

  • Willpower

    A street cleaner is seeing at Puerta del Sol square after the eviction of a few demonstrators that remained for the third night to mark the anniversary of the "Indignados" movement in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Di Lolli)

  • Free spirit

    A man paints a woman's nails at a roadside nail salon stall at a night bazaar in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

  • Deference

    Young Indian Sufi Muslim children carry flower offerings during a visit to the Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi, India. The shrine is dedicated to the much-revered saint Hazrat Nizamuddin who died in the 14th century. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

  • Soul rebel

    A Yemeni boy with the Syrian revolutionary flag painted on his body and Arabic which reads "lovers of freedom" attends a demonstration demanding the relatives of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to be sacked from army posts and police in Sanaa. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

  • Spirit of enterprise

    A Pakistani vendor slices water melons for customers at a bus terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

  • A wing and a prayer

    A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays as a priest (unseen) displays a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad, during special prayers on the death anniversary of Abu Bakr Siddiq, the first Caliph of Islam at Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

  • Sweetness and light

    A kite vendor haggles with a customer near a bubble outside a park in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
  • Jenna Talackova, the first transgender Miss Universe contestant, is seen on stage during the preliminary round of the Miss Universe Canada beauty pageant contest in Toronto. The Vancouver beauty, who was born male but underwent gender-realignment surgery four years ago, was among 62 contenders vying for the crown. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim)
  • A protestor with her face reading
  • Marine officer Humberto Gimenez poses for a photo with a snake before an Independence Day parade in Asuncion, Paraguay. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
  • An Afghan woman carries her belongings on her head walks with a child in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012. Afghanistan, which was shattered by decades of war is suffering from severe poverty. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
  • Dublin City Council has asked couple to refrain from adding anymore so-called ‘love locks’ to the city’s Ha’penny Bridge – saying these public symbols of love could damage the protected structure. Photo: Sam Boal/ Photocall Ireland
  • A Lebanese boy looks through a hole made by shrapnel that hit his house, after the Lebanese army deployed at Syria street which divides the Sunni and Alawite areas, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
  • Duckweed floats over a river surrounding an apartment block in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress)
  • A rainbow appears in the sky as lightning strikes during a rainstorm in Haikou, China. (Photo by Xiangzi/ChinaFotoPress)
  • A street cleaner is seeing at Puerta del Sol square after the eviction of a few demonstrators that remained for the third night to mark the anniversary of the
  • A man paints a woman's nails at a roadside nail salon stall at a night bazaar in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
  • Young Indian Sufi Muslim children carry flower offerings during a visit to the Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi, India. The shrine is dedicated to the much-revered saint Hazrat Nizamuddin who died in the 14th century. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
  • A Yemeni boy with the Syrian revolutionary flag painted on his body and Arabic which reads
  • A Pakistani vendor slices water melons for customers at a bus terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
  • A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays as a priest (unseen) displays a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad, during special prayers on the death anniversary of Abu Bakr Siddiq, the first Caliph of Islam at Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
  • A kite vendor haggles with a customer near a bubble outside a park in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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