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AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:38 PM ET
Tasty ice cube : A polar bear refreshes with a giant mackerel sauce flavour ice cube at the La Fleche zoo, western France. This treatment was set up by the Zoo aides to help the animals to better deal with the current heatwave. (AFP/Jean Francois Monier) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:28 PM ET
Painted protest : A demonstrator with his face painted in the colours of the Lebanese flag shouts slogans during a protest by Kuwaiti and Arab people against the Israeli offensive against Lebanon and the Palestinians, in front of Kuwait's National Assembly. (AFP/?Yasser Al-Zayyat) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:24 PM ET
Floyd drips : USA's Floyd Landis (Phonak/Swi) spreads water on his head during the 197 km eighteenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Morzine to Macon. (AFP/Javier Soriano) -
AP - Sat Jul 22, 7:58 PM ET
Mexico's Cinthia Valdez, performs her ball exercise to win the gold medal in women's Rhythmic Gymnastics competition at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia, Saturday, July 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) -
AP - Thu Jul 20, 6:43 PM ET
Jimmy Lee makes a cell phone call while wearing a mask of Anbu from the animated series Naruto at Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center ,Thursday, July 20, 2006, in San Diego. Comic-Con, the nation's largest celebration of comic books and pop culture, runs through Sunday, July 23. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy) -
Week in pictures: 15-21 July 2006
The first day of the G8 summit in St Petersburg, finds Presidents Putin and Bush in relaxed mood. -
Taiwan shows its military prowess with flares fired from F-16 fighters during exercises in Ilan in the east. -
Hundreds of people are now known to have been killed in a tsunami which struck the town of Pangandaran on the Indonesian island of Java. -
An ice bomb is presented to a polar bear at Berlin's zoo as temperatures soar across much of Europe. -
Children play in water jets in Paris to get some relief from 36C heat in the French capital. -
About 3,700 people are being evacuated from the slopes of the Tungurahua volcano, 135km (85 miles) south of Ecuador's capital Quito. -
At least 150 people have died in China as a result of tropical storm Bilis, which struck the south of the country over the weekend. -
The shuttle touches down on schedule at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, under overcast skies. There had been concern bad weather could delay the return, but this was unfounded. -
Thousands of people are being evacuated from Lebanon, in an often traumatic operation described as one of the largest mass evacuations since World War II. -
And emotional funerals are taking place for those killed by Hezbollah rockets in the northern city of Haifa. -
Day in pictures: 24 July 2006
A statue of Kung Fu hero Bruce Lee is unveiled in Hong Kong. Lee's family plans to produce a new film on the late martial arts star - the first such movie it has actively supervised. -
In Japan it is ancient heroes who are being honoured, in the Samurai horse race during the Nomaoi festival, or wild horse chase festival, in Minami-Soma. -
Folk dancers line up in Lijiang, China, as they perform in a musical entitled Impression of Lijiang. -
Two orangutans are carried through Ho Chi Minh City airport before being airlifted back to Indonesia. The pair had been taken to Vietnam by smugglers. -
A giant panda eats bamboo at the Chengdu research base in China. The government has set up over 50 panda reserves, but still only about 61% of the population is protected. -
A Japanese woman inhales oxygen scented with the aroma of herbs. Many office workers breathe the 90% concentrated oxygen at the "oxygen bar" to combat fatigue. -
Youths clean up a street in the town of Divo, in Ivory Coast, a day after violent clashes over preparations for upcoming elections. -
Indian nationals mark their arrival in Cyprus, after being evacuated from Lebanon, with a photograph. -
AFP - Mon Jul 24, 9:39 PM ET
Panda lunch : A giant panda eats bamboo at the Chengdu research base of giant panda breeding. (AFP/Liu Jin) -
AFP - Mon Jul 24, 9:38 PM ET
At the rally : An ethnic Albanian boy stands in front of a giant flag during a protest held in Kosovo capital Pristina, against the UN sponsored talks on the province's future status, which resumed on the highest level in Vienna. (AFP/Ermal Meta)