The Week in Pictures: July 28 - Aug. 4

Canada geese swim along a stretch of the Regent's Canal covered with green algae, on Aug. 2, in London. Reports suggest that the toxic algae have thrived following a sudden spell of hot weather.

An Afghan carries his belongings as he passes burning fuel tankers on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 4. Police said several tankers carrying fuel for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan caught fire inside a depot in Kabul. No casualties were reported, and it was not immediately clear what caused the fire.


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Joshua Miller, left, Ryan Mancuso, center, and Robbie Russell climb behind Oneonta Falls, July 31, in the Oneonta Gorge near Corbett, Ore.

Riders on the Hi-Miler rollercoaster get their thrills at the OC Fair in Costa Mesa, Calif., July 31.

Vaea Salt, 5, runs into a hanging wedding dress during the second annual Rivertown Revival festival held in Petaluma, Calif., July 30.

People watch as President Barack Obama walks past to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 3, en route to Chicago. Obama urged Congress to break its vacation to end a dispute that has shut airport construction and halted tax payments by airlines.

A child stands in front of her home at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, Aug. 4. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people, now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all are from war-ravaged Somalia. Some have been here for more than 20 years, fleeing when the country first collapsed into anarchy, but now more than 1,000 are arriving daily in an effort to escape fighting or hunger.

A malnourished child lies in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, July 27. The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country. It has set up a containment camp where it is holding displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.


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In this picture taken July 27, Hindu pilgrims make their way to the Amarnath cave shrine over a glacier near Panchtarni, India. At least half a million devotees make the pilgrimage to the icy cave, which lies 13,500 feet above sea level in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Hindus worship a stalagmite inside the cave as an incarnation of the Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration. Editor's note: This image was received Aug. 1.

A woman sleeps in a tent encampment in protest of the cost of living in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug. 2. What started out as a sprinkling of tents pitched along Tel Aviv's tony Rothschild Boulevard, named for a scion of the wealthy Jewish banking family, has swollen into the most ferocious popular outcry in decades. The protest initially was against soaring housing prices, but quickly morphed into a sweeping expression of rage against a wide array of economic issues.

A boy swims in knee-high floodwaters brought about by continuous rainfall from Typhoon Muifa along a main street in Manila, Philippines, Aug. 2.

A Kashmiri villager searches the wreckage of an overturned bus after an accident in Langanbal village, near Srinagar, July 30. At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured when the bus skidded from a road and fell into a stream in Indian Kashmir.

A Nepalese worker carries cases of empty bottles of Coca-Cola at the Swayambhunath temple, above Katmandu, Nepal, July 30.


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With the help of instructor Josh Higgins, top, Gary Lenzner, 85, of Mission Viejo, Calif., free-falls while skydiving on July 31 at Sky Dive San Diego in San Diego, Calif. Lenzner, a Holocaust survivor, celebrated his 85th birthday by going skydiving with his grandson.

Expedition 28 astronaut Ron Garan shares his view of the moon aboard the International Space Station, July 31. Since the station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, the crew experiences this scene about 16 times a day.