Week In Pictures
From space exploration to ghostly goings on, this week
has provided some truly out of this world pictures.
Mars rover Curiosity has taken a break from instrument checks to beam back a stunning 360-degree
view of its home on the Red Planet.The mission, which saw it travel across hundreds of millions of miles
of space this week, has been hailed an "unprecedented" technological feat.
A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-aircraft gun as a Syrian Air Force fighter bomber fires rockets
during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, some 37 km (23 miles) north of Aleppo (Picture: Reuters)
This picture only goes to show that, when Usain Bolt – the world's greatest ever sprinter and arguably
greatest athlete of all time – decides to hang up his running shoes, he will be able to carry on a career as a
pretty competent photographer.
Fresh from creating history as the first man ever to defend both Olympic sprint titles of 100m and 200m,
Bolt made his usual beeline towards the photographers' pit, took Swedish photographer Jimmy Wixtrom's camera
and began snapping away at the snappers themselves and also at his Jamaican training partner and silver medallist
in both sprint finals, Yohan 'The Beast' Blake.
Double Olympic gold medallists Laura Trott and Jason Kenny set tongues wagging when they were pictured
smooching at the London 2012 Beach Volleyball event (Picture: Reuters)
Edinburgh Airport was forced on Wednesday to backtrack on its decision to cover a poster of a famous Picasso nude,
which some passengers had deemed too risque. The poster hanging at the airport's terminal, featuring the Spanish master's
curvaceous "Nude Woman In a Red Armchair", was promoting an exhibition at the Scottish Museum of Modern Art (Picture: PA)
Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina, members of female punk band "Pussy Riot", sit in the defendant's cell
before a highly controversial court hearing in Moscow. They face prison for belting out a profanity-laced "punk prayer"
deriding Vladimir Putin on the altar of Moscow's main cathedral (Picture: Reuters)
People try to recover things that are being washed away by the flood in Boca Del Rio on the outskirts of Veracruz, Mexico
Palestinians perform the Ramadan's Taraweeh prayers in the West Bank city of Ramallah
Balloons fly over Bristol for the launch of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
A couple who set up a CCTV camera to catch vandals were stunned when it captured this spooky footage -
of a hoodie-wearing 'ghost'. Pictured here is Lisa Rigley with the CCTV footage of the ghostly image (Picture: SWNS)
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