World News in Pictures

[Mr Lick]

Terenia Taras, a freelance journalist, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 23 June 2011



Clive Goodman, the former News of the World royal editor, was jailed in January 2007 for intercepting voicemail messages of the royal household. He was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 8 July 2011

[Mr Lick]

Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 8 July 2011



Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor, was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 14 July 2011



An unnamed 63-year-old man was arrested and bailed as part of Operation Weeting on 8 July 2011

[Mr Lick]

Thai security forces investigate the site of an attack in which three soldiers were wounded in Yala, late July 16, 2011.



A rebel fighter runs during a shootout with forces loyal to Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi on the outskirts of Al-Briqa, west of Ajdabiyah, July 14, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch speaks outside a hotel where he met the familly of murdered teenager Milly Dowler in central London July 15, 2011.



Police scuffle with an an ultra-Orthodox Jew during a protest by hundreds of ultra-Orthodox against the opening of a road on the sabbath in Jerusalem July 16, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

An explosion is seen after airstrikes by NATO-led forces during fighting between the Afghan and foreign troops and the Taliban insurgents in Shewa district of Nanagarhar province July 17, 2011.



A woman takes part in a SlutWalk protest, in central Seoul July 16, 2011. About 100 protesters, mostly women, attended the SlutWalk protest march which became a movement of rallies around the world after a Toronto policeman suggested in January that women could avoid sexual assault by not dressing like a "slut."

[Mr Lick]

A foreign visitor plays with mud during the 14th Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong, southwest of Seoul, July 17, 2011.



British Army Major Jamie Murray of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, shows his rifle to Afghan children during a patrol outside Checkpoint Tander near the town of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, July 14, 2011.



Italy's Francesca Dallape and Tania Cagnotto compete in the preliminary round of the women's 3m synchronised springboard diving event at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 16, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Ducati MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy rides during a free practice for the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, July 15, 2011.



Supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh attend a rally to show their support, after Friday prayers in Sanaa July 15, 2011.



The scenery for the opera 'Andre Chenier' by Italian musician Umberto Giordano is seen on a giant floating stage at Lake Constance during a photo rehearsal in Bregenz July 15, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

People play with water during a procession where a stature of the El Carmen Virgin is carried into the sea in Malaga, southern Spain, July 16, 2011.



A worker is seen inside Romania's new National Stadium, the Lia Manoliu Arena, which is under construction in Bucharest July 15, 2011.



A man busks with a monkey riding on a goat along a road in Faisalabad July 17, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Corey Patterson goes into the stands after a foul ball hit by New York Yankees batter Curtis Granderson during the first inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Toronto July 15, 2011.



A rescue worker cuts through steel and concrete during a search operation for survivors at the site of a collapsed residential building, in Ghaziabad, located in outskirts of Delhi July 16, 2011.



British Army Corporal Simon Ward of 3rd Battalion the Mercian Regiment (Staffords) familiarizes with a U.S. Marines armored vehicle near the Patrol Base Jahan Zeb outside the town of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, July 15, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Casey Anthony Goes Free
People react as they watch a vehicle carrying Casey Anthony, the young woman who was recently acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee in a sensational trial, leaves a jail in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday.



Art Lesson
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks at a statue as she tours the Acropolis Museum in Athens on Sunday before signing an agreement aimed at combatting the illegal trade of Greek antiquities.

[Mr Lick]

They're In Sync
Kazuki Murakami and Yu Okamoto of Japan dive together during the men's 10-meter synchro platform preliminaries at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Shanghai, China, on Sunday.



Make Way, Coming Through
A vendor walks through a crowd of Muslim women attending the 85th anniversary ceremony of the Nahdlatul Ulama organization in Jakarta on Sunday. The Nahdlatul Ulama is the largest Muslim group in Indonesia.



Viva Italia!
Fireworks with the colors of the Italian flag explode in the sky over Venice on Saturday. The festivities marked the end of the first day of the Redentore Festival, a beloved event that commemorates the end of the 1577 plague.



NATO Targeted in Pakistan
Residents and firefighters gather around a burning NATO oil tanker -- the result of a deadly militant attack -- in the suburb of Peshawar on Saturday night.

[Mr Lick]

A diver tries to rescue people swept away in overflowing waters at Patalpani waterfall after heavy rains at Patalpani near Indore, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on Sunday, July 17. Five picnickers were swept away in a flash flood after the heavy rains in the Malendi, Kodariya, Badgonda village Panchayat area.

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Gold rises above $1,600/oz as debt fears simmer | Reuters



(Reuters) - Gold prices rallied to record highs above $1,600 an ounce in Europe on Monday as investors spooked by the euro zone debt crisis and the threat of a U.S. default bought into the metal as a haven from risk.

Risk aversion swept the markets after euro zone stress test results failed to address the potential for a Greek sovereign debt default before a summit in Brussels on Thursday, and as a deadline to raise the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling loomed.

Stock markets, peripheral euro zone debt, oil prices and the euro came under pressure, while the Swiss franc -- often seen as a safe haven -- and precious metals climbed.

Spot gold rose as high as $1,602.86 an ounce and was up 0.4 percent at $1,600.26 an ounce at 2:10 a.m. British time. Gold rose more than 3 percent for a second straight week to Friday, a feat it has not achieved since February 2009.

"Gold has room to go up. The smouldering debt crisis in the euro zone peripheral countries and the uncertainty over the debt limit in the United States are currently supporting prices," said Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann.

[Mr Lick]

NoW phone-hacking whistle-blower Sean Hoare found dead



A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead.

Sean Hoare told the New York Times the practice was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.

A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.

It comes after Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after growing pressure over the scandal.

Meanwhile, computer hackers have tampered with the website of News International-owned The Sun's website, redirecting readers to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch has been found dead in his garden.

A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted games companies and US government websites, claimed responsibility via Twitter.

News International said it was "aware" of what was happening but made no further comment.

[Mr Lick]

Buddhist novice monk and aspiring ladyboy Pipop Thanajindawong looks outside from his room at the Wat Kreung Tai temple, in Thailand's northern border town of Chiang Khong. The Kreung Tai temple has run a course to teach masculinity to boys who are "kathoeys", the Thai term for transsexuals or ladyboys

[Mr Lick]

Tourists are driven up the side of the Eyjafjoell volcano to reach the crater on June 29. Icelandic volcanoes may be known for their ash-spewing ability to halt flights and make a mess, but they also pay their dues, attracting tourists eager to see the source of the chaos.

[Mr Lick]

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles from the asteroid Vesta

Today NASA unveiled the first pictures of the asteroid Vesta as seen from an orbiting spacecraft. The pictures of the not-quite-round, 330-mile-wide (530-kilometer-wide) world were sent across a distance of 117 million miles (188 million kilometers). after the Dawn orbiter's successful weekend rendezvous.

Dawn went into orbit around 1 a.m. ET Saturday, at a distance of about 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from Vesta. The pockmarked space rock ranks as the asteroid belt's No. 1 object in brightness, No. 2 in mass (behind the dwarf planet Ceres) and No. 3 in diameter (behind Ceres and the asteroid Pallas).

Size isn't everything: Scientists are interested in Vesta largely because it's thought to be made of the stuff that dominated the early solar system. Once upon a time, before they snowballed into the big planets we see today, most of the objects in our celestial neighborhood may well have looked like Vesta.




Dawn's arrival at Vesta comes after nearly four years of cruising through deep space. "Dawn slipped gently into orbit with the same grace it has displayed during its years of ion thrusting through interplanetary space," said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It is fantastically exciting that we will begin providing humankind its first detailed view of one of the last unexplored worlds in the inner solar system."



This composite shows the comparative sizes of eight asteroids that have been spotted by space probes.

[Mr Lick]

Walter Gatewood, 87, sits on his front porch trying to beat the heat in Flint, Mich., Monday, July 18. With a heat index well over 100 in most places, a heat wave smothered the Midwest Monday.



Jazia Pratt, 8, fills a bucket with water from a fire hydrant in the afternoon summer heat Monday, July 18, in Philadelphia

[Mr Lick]

Indian Hindu devotee of goddess Mahankali, M. Ramadass holds two limes in his seven feet moustache during a Swarnalatha Rangam ceremony at The Sri Ujjaini Mahakali Temple in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad on July 18.

Swarnalatha Rangam is a ritual where it is believed that the goddess Mahankali enters the body of an unmarried woman and predicts the future.

[Mr Lick]

A cyclist passes Israeli protesters as they sleep near their tents pitched on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard as part of a demonstration against high housing prices on July 18. Similar protests have been planned in other Israeli cities where rental costs have skyrocketed as a result of a shortage in available dwellings in primary locations.

[Mr Lick]

Greece's Evangelia Platanioti and Despoina Solomou perform during their synchronized swimming technical duets final at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai on Monday, July 18.



Mary Killman and Lyssa Wallace of the US compete in the technical duets final synchronized swimming competition in the FINA World Championships at the indoor stadium of the Oriental Sports Center, in Shanghai, on Monday, July 18.

[Mr Lick]

A man takes photos of models posing as mannequins as part of a protest in a COIN department store window in downtown Milan July 18, 2011. Italian unions had criticized modelling as "degrading" last week, according to local media reports. The words on the banner reads " Modelling is also a job."



A man walks past models posing as mannequins as part of a protest in a COIN department store window in downtown Milan July 18. Italian unions had criticized modelling as "degrading" last week, according to local media reports. The words on the banner reads " Modelling is also a job."

[Mr Lick]

Swans are captured on the River Thames in southeast England on Monday, July 18, during 'Swan Upping.'






A cygnet's head is measured during the annual swan census or 'Swan Upping' on the River Thames in south-east England, on Monday.

[Mr Lick]

Undocumented Mexican immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra (left), dines with her family on July 10 in Denver, Colorado. Vizguerra is a mother of four children, three of whom were born in the US as American citizens, and is faced a deportation hearing on July 13 at Denver's Federal Courthouse. If Vizguerra is deported back to Mexico, she says her husband and children will stay on in the United States.

The hearing on July 13 ended in uncertainty for her and her family, with the court not expected to announce her fate until October. Just one of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US, Vizguerra first came to Colorado from Mexico City with her husband and first child 14 years before. Now an activist for the immigration advocate group Rights For All People, she also owns a janitorial service and says she has always paid state and federal taxes on her income. Some two years ago she was stopped by a traffic policeman for driving with expired tags and taken to jail when she could not prove her legal immigration status. Out on bail during court proceedings, she now faces the real possibility that she will be deported to Mexico and separated from her family in the United States.

[Mr Lick]

A government employee tries to escape from dyed water sprayed by police to disperse a demonstration in Srinagar on Monday, July 18. Hundreds of demonstrators, some of whom were later arrested according to local reports, took to the streets to demand a pay rise.