The week in photos

 

 

An aerial view of York Maze, the largest maize maze in Europe.

This year's theme is Harry Potter. Farmer Tom Pearcy has cut two portraits

of the boy wizard in his crop of maize plants.

Subtle differences between the two images creates the world's largest spot the difference competition.

At over 50m in diameter each head is also believed to be the largest image of Daniel Radcliffe ever created

An aerial view of York Maze, the largest maize maze in Europe.

These kids put Glastonbury goers to shame as they run into a mud pit during the annual Mud Day

in Michigan on Tuesday. Two hundred tonnes of topsoil and over 20,000 gallons of water

were mixed to ensure that the mud is just right.

A picture taken on 8 July, displays a two-head Albino California Kingsnake at the terrarium of "Skazka"

(Fairy tale) Zoo in the Crimean city of Yalta. The snake will be on display at the zoo until mid-September.

The creatures are each able to think and eat separately and even steal food from each other.

 

The casket of Leibby Kletzky is carried into a synagogue for his funeral service in New York on 13 July.

8,000 mourners are reported to have attended the 8-year-old boy's funeral in Brooklyn.

A man was under arrest on Wednesday after the dismembered remains of Kletzky,

who had gone missing two days earlier walking home from a day camp, were found in the man's freezer

and a trash container, police said.

A baseball fan nearly died trying to make a catch
at the Home Run Derby in Texas. Keith Carmickle fell over
the railing chasing after a home run ball. Luckily for him,
he was grabbed by his brother and friends just in time.

East Africa's famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a US State Department official has said.

This tragic photo of a Kenyan toddler went viral around the Web this week, highlighting the plight of starving East Africans.

The space shuttle Atlantis is seen over the Bahamas on Monday prior to a perfect docking with the International Space Station.

Part of a Russian Progress spacecraft which is docked to the station is in the foreground. (NASA)

An Indian police officer inspects the debris at the Opera House, one of the three sites of explosions,

in Mumbai, India, 14 July. Indian officials called an emergency security meeting Thursday to investigate

three coordinated bombings that killed dozens of people Wednesday, in the country's financial capital

in the worst terrorist attack since the 2008 Mumbai siege.

A 18-ft long three-legged crocodile has been wowing the Web after a tourist photograph capturing

 its freakishly large stature emerged online. The striking creature named Brutus - which looks as though

 he is a special effect in a film - is said to be a starring attraction of a riverboat cruise in the Adelaide River, Australia.

Although some critics have questioned the legitimacy of the shot, the sightseer and the boat company

 have claimed that both the monster crocodile and this photo are indeed real

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ended their Royal North American tour this week on a high at the BAFTA 'Brits

To Watch' event at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles.

The sun is seen as it sets between Manhattan buildings on 42nd Street during a phenomenon known as

 "Manhattanhenge" on Wednesday. Manhattanhenge, sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice,

happens when the setting sun aligns with the east-to-west streets of the main street grid.

The term comes from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices in England.

On Wednesday, a protestor dressed as Rupert Murdoch holds a puppet of Prime Minister David Cameron,

 in Westminster, as the phone-hacking scandal deepened.

Piper Piganelli, Marley Meyer, and Maddie Meyer, lower left, pose for a photo.

It was taken moments before a man, in the spray at right, fell to his apparent death in a blow hole

 at Nakalele Point in Maui, Hawaii. The man spiralled down the blowhole, came up for a brief moment and disappeared

completely when a second wave hit. The 44-year-old man, identified as David Potts of San Anselmo, California,

has not been found since last Saturday afternoon. Authorities officially called off their search for the victim on Monday

Photographer Emmanuel Coupe was a winner in the 2011 National Geographic Traveller Photo Contest

 for this photo of a frozen Abraham Lake in Western Alberta,Canada. According to Coupe, it's rare to see a frozen lake

 this spectacular as they are usually covered in a thick blanket of snow. In this area, however,

there is little precipitation which allowed for stunning views of the frozen surface and beneath.

A homeowner released this bizarrre photograph of a silhouette of an owl after it crashed

 into a window pane at a house in Kendal, Cumbria.

A vintage tri-plane nose dived into a field in Duxford, Cambridgeshire after it collided with another fighter jet

 during an airshow. The pilot in the other plane fortunately parachuted out of the aircraft in time.

 

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