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Week in Photos

The Week in Photos: Discomfort

This is the week that was, in photos…
7.00pm, 14 Sep 2014
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THIS IS THE week that was, in photos…

The Week in Photos: Discomfort
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  • Discomfort

    A local health worker administers a vaccine to a baby in Manila. Source: Bullit Marquez

  • Discomfort

    Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi, of Italy, crashes during a first free practice session for today's San Marino Moto GP.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Spain Evictions

    Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Escorted by police and security, Oscar Pistorius leaves the court in Pretoria.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Soldiers are left to sit on a wall as they wait for the start of a military review in preparation for Independence Day celebrations in Mexico. Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    A flood affected Kashmiri girl comforts her grandmother at a mosque in Srinagar.Source: Altaf Qadri

  • Discomfort

    Long distance bus driver Clemente Lovera, 29, lies still, his lips sewn together with wire and his hands nailed to a wooden cross during a hunger strike in protest over losing his job when he and two other drivers demanded social security benefits and reduced working hours, in San Lorenzo.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Steven Martinez of Western Towing prepares to lift a vehicle stranded in about two feet of water in Phoenix. Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    A high school student gets her hair adjusted by friends outside a school Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    A man climbs a vertical wall at the 'Bleau' indoor climbing gym, in Ghent, western Belgium.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Migrant workers cover themselves with plastic sheets to shield from the rain, as they camp on a highway after the area they were living in was inundated by floodwaters in Srinagar, IndiaSource: Dar Yasin

  • Discomfort

    Bury's Tom Soars get stuck between a pair of Wycombe Wanderers. Source: Nigel French

  • Discomfort

    That's not a great viewing spot for the cricket at the cricket One Day International final between South Africa and Australia in Harare, Zimbabwe.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Street style at Somerset House during London Fashion Week.Source: Empics Entertainment

  • Discomfort

    A woman jumps over a puddle as commuters, background, queue to board buses during a partial strike by Lisbon's subway workers.Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Must have been a bit cold for Queen Elizabeth at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering.Source: PA Wire/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    Actors Pierce Brosnan, right, and Olga Kurylenko pose, eh, comfortably. Source: AP/Press Association Images

  • Discomfort

    This seagull was looking for a spot of comfort at Hove County Cricket Ground.Source: EMPICS Sport

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