The week in photos

This is the week that was, in pictures.

By Michael Freeman Friday 24 Jun 2011, 7:02 PM

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SKATEBOARDING ARRIVED IN Afghanistan, a newborn tiger took its first look at the world and Enda Kenny enjoyed a good chuckle – maybe it wasn’t such a bad week after all…

The week in photos

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Happy trails
The light trails produced by worshippers carrying candles during a Corpus Christi procession in Brasilia, Brazil (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Umbrella weather
A Chinese man pulls his tricycle on a flooded road during a heavy rain storm in Beijing, China (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
Hotel Bollywood
Bollywood dancers practice before an event in a hallway of the Royal York hotel in Toronto, Canada (The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese)
Winging it
A homemade seaplane built by Liu Chunsheng, 40, after studying aeroplane magazines in Guangzhou, China (ChinaFotoPress/GZRB/Photocome/Press Association Images)
Papal relics
A priest kisses the relics of Pope John Paul II in Kiev, Ukraine (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
An Gleeseach
Enda Kenny enjoys a joke with Angela Merkel at the EU summit in Brussels - but Nicolas Sarkozy doesn't look impressed (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
A bit of a stretch
Hundreds of people take part in a synchronized mass exercise in Beijing (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
Family reunion
Wasee Ahmed, captain of a ship which was held captive by Somali pirates for nearly a year, meets his family again in Karachi, Pakistan (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Slow day
A vendor takes a nap as he waits for customers at a food store in Beijing, China (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Up in flames
A North Korean defector burns pictures of Kim Jong Il and his son Kim Jong Un during a rally in Seoul, South Korea (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Muddy good time
Revellers' footprints in mud at the Glastonbury Festival 2011 (Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
Precious cargo
A pack of beer falls off a wheelbarrow at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday 23 June, 2011. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Blue for you
An Indian weaver checks silk threads in a small scale factory near Hyderabad, southern India (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Appy to be here
Tourists use their iPad to video the landscape in Dingle, Co Kerry (Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
One small step for owl
Gloria, an 11 week-old eagle owl chick, takes her first few steps outside her enclosure at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland (Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
Earn your stripes
Sumatran tiger Kirana with her as yet unnamed three day-old cub at Chester Zoo (Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
Badges of honour
WWII veteran Lev Yatsevich marks the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, in Moscow (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Open fire
Rebel fighters fire their mortars towards pro-Gaddafi forces in Misrata, Libya (AP Photo)
Hurt in action
A PSNI officer bandages PA photographer Niall Carson's leg after he was shot by a rioter in Belfast (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Making a splash
Danielle Lowrie celebrates finishing her Leaving Cert at the 40 Foot in Sandycove, Dublin (Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Road closed
A pothole 10m across and 30m deep appeared after rainstorms in Quzhou, China (CFP/Photocome/Press Association Images)
Getting shirty
A topless protester stands in front of Greek riot police officers following a rally against plans for new austerity measures (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
The tug of home
Animal caretaker Kim Muth plays tug-o-war at a centre which offers lifetime care for animals whose owners have died, in Texas (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
On a roll
An Afghan girl skateboards down a street to mark Go Skateboarding Day in Kabul (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)
Piece of cake
Rory McIlroy cup cakes for sale in his hometown of Holywood, Co Down after his US Open win (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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The week in photos

This is the week that was, in pictures.

Happy trails

Umbrella weather

Hotel Bollywood

Winging it

Papal relics

An Gleeseach

A bit of a stretch

Family reunion

Slow day

Up in flames

Muddy good time

Precious cargo

Blue for you

Appy to be here

One small step for owl

Earn your stripes

Badges of honour

Open fire

Hurt in action

Making a splash

Road closed

Getting shirty

The tug of home

On a roll