The week in photos
Family members and friends of victims gather in front of a "hedge of compassion", made of thousands of soft toys, during a commemoration ceremony for the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Nieuwegein, near the central city of Utrecht, the Netherlands.Michael Kooren/Reuters
A helicopter flies over smokes billowing over Athens as firemen were battling a brush fire in northeastern Athens and another wildfire in the southern Pelopponese peninsula that prompted the evacuation of five villages.Andreas Solaro/AFP / Getty Images
A policeman (R) and firemen (lower L) run from the scene of an explosion at a chemical plant in Rizhao, east China's Shandong province.Stringer/AFP / Getty Images
Muslim worshipers pray at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, a day before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. The Grand Mosque can now hold 1.85 million people.Stringer/AFP / Getty Images
Hundreds of participant join a free yoga class on the front lawn of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. This photo was taken with a tilt shift lens.Dave Chan
Riot police stand while petrol bombs are thrown at them by anti-austerity demonstrators in front of parliament in Athens, Greece.Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
A tornado builds and travels southwest causing damage near in Hutchinson, Kansas.Sandra J. Milburn/The Associated Press
This time exposure in Zermatt, Switzerland shows lamps illuminating the path of British climber Edward Whymper, the first climber to summit the Matterhorn July 14, 1865.Fabrice Coffrini/AFP / Getty Images
A therapist applies traditional moxibustion treatment during the summer on a patient in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China to prevent diseases and ailments in the winter.Reuters
A rat, trained to clear landmines by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC,) is shown at Siem Reap province. Cambodia is still littered with landmines from decades of civil war.Samrang Pring/Reuters
Bodyguards try to protect Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic (C) from stones hurled at him by an angry crowd at the Potocari Memorial Center, near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica.Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP / Getty Images
Visitors crowd an artificial wave swimming pool at a tourist resort to escape the summer heat in Sichuan province, China.Reuters