A look at the week's most striking photos from across the globe.
1: A South Korean dairy farmer shouts slogans after pouring milk over his head during a rally demanding
increase of milk price near the National Assembly in Seoul. Thousands of dairy farmers opposed South Korean
government signing FTA, free trade agreement, with various countries including the European Union and the U.S.
2:mAn elderly giant panda that is the equivalent of 78 years old in human years has given birth to a female cub
at a research base in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Li Li gave birth to the 161g female cub on July 24th
after 128 days of pregnancy. Giant Pandas have an average life span of 25 years and Li Li is 19,
which is equal to a human age of 78.
3: A Chinese man who went to hospital after suffering stomach pains has discovered that he has had a surgical clamp
inside his abdomen for the past 37 years. Liu Mou, from of Xiantao in central China's Hubei Province, had gastric ulcer surgery
in 1974 and since then has frequently suffered from stomach pains.
4: Mayor of London Boris Johnson in front of Samantha Brown who fell off her 'Boris' bike.
The 26-year-old took atumble before admitting that she had not ridden a bike in three years.
The Mayor was promoting the bicycle hire scheme which has seen 6 million journeys across London
since its inception last year.
5: This high jumping hound proves that he really knows how to make a splash.
Named after one of Father Christmas' reindeers, Blitzen certainly lives up to his high flying name.
The four-year-old rescue dog ecstatically leaps and twists in the air during a visit to Loch Morlich
near Aviemore in Scotland.
6: Jockey James Richard Barry falling from Excellent as Usual during the Galway Festival, Galway.
7: St Helens Francis Meli is nearly hit by a beer bottle thrown from the crowd as he is tackled by
Hull KR's Kris Welham (right) during the Carnegie Cup Quarter Final match at the Stobart Stadium, Widnes.
8: Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain hits a spectator as he climbs
Alpe d'Huez during the 19th stage of the race.
9: Rob Thomas, the conservation and research manager for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland,
inside the outdoor penguin enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo. Mr Thomas is training for the London
Triathlon and has taken several practice swims in the enclosures pool. Edinburgh Zoo has one of the largest
gentoo colonies in the world, they breed well at Edinburgh Zoo, rearing many chicks to independence
over the past few years
10: Josh Sheehan competes in the Moto X Best Trick final at the X Games in Los Angeles.
11: Buildings in the political area of Oslo showing destruction caused by a car bomb believed to have been detonated
by Anders Behring Breivik.
12: People pay their respects to the victims of the Utoeya terror attacks during a memorial ceremony.
13: At least 35 people have died and more than 200 are hurt after one high-speed train crashed
into the back of another that had broken down after being struck by lightning, knocking two of its carriages
off the rail bridge.
14: A Caribbean Flamingo chick is cared for by one of its parents on a nest mound at Miami Zoo.
15: -year-old Maya from London discovers a huge Ploughman's lunch at the UK Foodies Festival
in Battersea Park, London, commissioned by Seriously Strong.The piece of edible food art consisted
of over 1 tonne of Seriously Strong cheddar, 160 bloomers, 21 kilos of lettuce, 60 kilos of tomatoes,
1,500 spring onions, 6,500 pickled onions, 100 litres of pickle, and 175 kilos of butter.
16: The hot air balloon world record is broken at the Lorraine World Air Balloon Festival, Chambley-Bussieres, France.
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