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Image: South Korean elementary school students during an exercise at a marine boot camp
Ahn Young-joon / AP

The Week in Pictures

  A gaggle of geese, Russians in training and a refreshing California moment highlight a week of images.

Image: Workers clean the exterior of the Water Cube
Ge Gong / Reuters

PhotoBlog

The pictures and issues that caught our eyes.

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News photos

U.S., world, and environment
Edwin Llobrera / AP
Scare at 29,000 feet

  Qantas Airlines’ Flight QF30 made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a large hole in the fuselage caused a sudden descent and cabin decompression. Click the slide show for stunning images of the damage, pictures from inside the cabin, and more.

Image: Youth summer camp
Michael Eckels / AFP - Getty Images
The Mexican Army evacuates families in Matamoros
David De La Paz / EPA
Image: Relative of Ghassan Abu Teir
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Steven A. Gold
46664 Concert: In Celebration Of Nelson Mandela's Life - Performance
Gareth Davies / Getty Images
Image: Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama
AP, Getty Images
Image: Taj Mahal
Prakash Singh / AFP/Getty Images
Image: Jesse Helms
Alan Marler / AP
U.S. contractors Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes listen to U.S. ambassador to Colombia Brownfield in an aircraft in Colombia after being rescued by army forces
Ho / Reuters

Entertainment photos

Celebrity, music, movie, TV and fashion
Image: Comic-Con
Mike Blake / Reuters
Comic-Con 2008

  Superheroes, sci-fi geeks, film stars and more flock to the 39th annual Comic-Con Convention in San Diego.

Image: 30 Rock
Nicole Rivelli / NBC
John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell
Chris Pizzello / AP
CARLIN
Gregory Bull / AP
Image: Amy Winehouse
Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty Images
Eddie Vedder
Mark Humphrey / AP
Torn Curtain
Archive Photos / Getty Images
Image: Jon Stewart
Splashnews
Image: Ellen Page
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Image: Everett Collection
Everett Collection
June 01 2008
John Mccoy / Zuma Press
Image: Sydney Pollack
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Image: David Cook, Paula Abdul, David Archuleta
Chris Pizzello / AP
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI, MARK BALLAS
Kelsey Mcneal / ABC

Sports photos

Big matchups, sports stars and history
Image: Week in Sports Pictures
Nikola Solic / Reuters
Week in Sports

  Tennis swings, cattle wrestlers, a family golf celebration, and more

Image: Padraig Harrington
Paul Thomas / AP
Yankee Stadium is host to final All-Star game as MLB All-Star game opening ceremonies take place in New York
Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters
The pack of riders cycle in the rain during the 15th stage of the 95th Tour de France cycling race between Embrun and Prato Nevoso
Thierry Roge / Reuters
Image: Tiger Woods & Rocco Mediate
Charlie Riedel / AP
Exercise rider Michelle Nevin and a groom walk Triple Crown hopeful Big Brown in the paddock before the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Image: Doc Rivers
Elise Amendola / AP
Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Image: Wings' Lidstrom lifts the Stanley Cup after his team defeated the Penguins in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey final in Pittsburgh
Shaun Best / Reuters
Danica Patrick
Tom Strickland / AP
Jockey Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown rides to a win on the134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville
John Gress / Reuters
Image: Trevor Immelman
Andrew Redington / Getty Images
Darrell Arthur, Robert Dozier
Mark Humphrey / AP
Royals Tigers Baseball
Paul Sancya / AP

Travel photos

U.S. and worldwide destinations
Edwin Llobrera / AP
Scare at 29,000 feet

  Qantas Airlines’ Flight QF30 made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a large hole in the fuselage caused a sudden descent and cabin decompression. Click the slide show for stunning images of the damage, pictures from inside the cabin, and more.

Image: Taj Mahal
Prakash Singh / AFP/Getty Images
Image: Socotra, Yemen
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Tim Thompson
Geisha in the Gion District
Corbis
David Lefranc / Paris Tourist Office
Vancouver Skyline and Harbor in Morning Light
Richard T. Nowitz / Corbis
Climber Abseiling Down Table Mountain
Henrik Trygg / Corbis
AP
Couple Tango Dancing
Sergio Pitamitz / © Sergio Pitamitz/CORBIS
Lounge Chairs on Beach at Club Med
Macduff Everton / © Macduff Everton/CORBIS
2008 Beijing Olympics - Construction
Michael Reynolds / Corbis
Memphis Convention Visitors Bu

Technology and science photos

Space, technology, gadgets and science
NASA/ESA/CXC
Month in Space: Liftoffs and landings

  See highlights from the shuttle Discovery’s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June’s roundup of cosmic pictures.

Image: Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe
Reuters
Image: Stonehenge
Ken Geiger / National Geographic
Image: Nebula
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USGS / NASA
Image: Limestone sequence
John "Doug" Powell
Image: A humanoid robot, designed to make human-like facial expressions in response to English and Japanese words.
David Guttenfelder / AP
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Image: "Doomsday" vault in Norway
John Mcconnico / AP
Image: SpaceShipTwo
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Image: Sanyo's Xacti E1
Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images
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  SLIDE SHOW

Best of Cassini
Image: Antarctica
NASA
Image: Earth and moon
LPI/NASA, Lunar Orbiter

More photos

Pets, health and business slide shows
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Animal Tracks

  From marching elephants to a dancing toy poodle, find images of animals great and small.

Steven A. Gold
Image: Bill Gates
Andrew Gombert / EPA
Image: Jingle Luis
Richard Drew / AP
Image: Priscilla Presley 1968; 2008
AP; Michael Desmond / ABC
Image: A 1964 Chevrolet Impala "Gypsy Rose" lowrider
Ric Francis / AP
Image: City dogs herding
Bernadette Tuazon / AP
Image: Todd Zaki Warfel stands in front of broken and boarded up windows in an unoccupied unit.
Matt Rourke / AP
Image: BMW concept CS
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
An Iranian technician works at the Balal
Behrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images
Image: Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Coupe
Image: Mitsubishi's Concept-RA
Image: Nissan Forum concept vehicle
Bernd Weissbrrod / EPA
Pakistan World AIDS day
Mk Chaudhry / EPA
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