Photos of the Week
Waves break in front of the South Pier on Blackpool Promenade, Britain. Abigail, the first named storm to hit Britain, whipped up winds of up to 84 miles per hour and cut power to 12,000 home according to local media reports.Phil Noble/Reuters
A tower of Abengoa solar plant at "Solucar" solar park is pictured in Sanlucar la Mayor, near the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain.Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds up his hands in a "namaste", an Indian gesture of greeting, as he arrives at Heathrow Airport for a three-day official visit.Reuters
An orangutan, smuggled into Thailand from Indonesia, waits at a Thai military airport to be returned.Sakchai Lalit/The Associated Press
A Canadian Air Force member places a poppy at the resting place of William George Barker, Canada's most decorated war hero, at Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.Chris Young/The Canadian Press
Polish nationalists, including organizations opposed to immigrants, march on the Poniatowski Bridge on Independence Day in Warsaw.Alik Keplicz/The Associated Press
Britain's Prince Charles watches warily as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, holds a knife at Seppeltsfield Winery in South Australia's Barossa Valley.Reuters
A girl looks on after she received polio vaccine drops during a house-to-house vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa.Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
A gaucho falls from a colt at a rodeo exhibition during during "Tradition Day" in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina.Eitan Abramovich/AFP / Getty Images
Israelis in a boat help a stranded motorist in Ashkelon, Israel, after 30 millimetres of rain fell in less than an hour.Amir Cohen/Reuters
Japan's players celebrate with their teammate after beating Hong Kong in the final of the Asia Rugby Sevens qualifier, in Hong Kong, China.Bobby Yip/Reuters
People take part of the rally outside the National League for Democracy (NLD) office after Myanmar's first free and fair election in Yangon, Myanmar.Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images