The week in pictures, best images around the world

The week in pictures, best images around the world
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Summary Stunning pictures clicked by great photographers

 LAHORE (Web Desk) -- Great photographers from around the world clicked some very nice and stunning pictures for us to admire and see how happening this week had been. Here you go:

Hundreds of temples provide a perfect backdrop as more than 20 hot air balloons are silhouetted against the sunrise. The early morning light creates an ethereal look to this photo that was taken from the top of one of the many temples in Bagan, Burma.

Picture: Alberto Maccagno/Solent News

 

gyptians ride their motorbike through the streets of Cairo as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan
Picture: AP Photo/Amr Nabil

 

Venezuela s Genesis Rodriguez Gomez collapses during an attempt in the women s 53kg weightlifting competition at the Pan Am Games in Oshawa, Ontario. Rodriguez took silver in the event.
Picture: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

 

Nicolas Oliveira from Brazil makes a splash while competing in the Men s 200 metre freestyle preliminaries at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada
Picture: DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images

 

A man cools off during hot weather at a dam on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan
Picture: AP

 

People wearing facekinis on a beach in Qingdao, Shandong Province, eastern China
Picture: Rex Features

 

The newly crowned Miss USA Olivia Jordan from Oklahoma reacts after winning the 2015 Miss USA beauty pageant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Picture: REUTERS/Adrees Latif

 

Jose Pedro Gonzalez, a 56-year-old blind visitor touches a copy of the Mona Lisa by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The painting is one of six copies of works by masters such as El Greco and Francisco Goya made for the museum s first ever exhibition for the blind.
Picture: GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images

 

German cycling fan Dieter  Didi  Senft watches Lotto Soudal team riders in action during the 9th stage of the Tour de France
Picture: EPA/KIM LUDBROOK

 

Iain McFarland, an Orange bandsman, plays his flute during the 11th night bonfire at the New Mossley housing estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Picture: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

 

The glow from the Villarrica volcano lights up the night sky near the town of Pucon in Chile
Picture: REUTERS/Cristobal Saavedra

 

Solar powered lights along the Hoernli Ridge on the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland. Zermatt celebrates the first ascent of the Matterhorn on the Hoernli Ridge made by Briton Edward Whymper and his team of six mountaineers on July 14, 1865. The red light (4th from top) marks where on their descent four men fell to their death on the North Face. All mountaineering activities will be banned on July 14 on the Swiss and Italian side of the Alpine summit in remembrance of the more the 500 people who died trying to reach its summit.
Picture: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

 

A presidential guard marches near the tomb of the unknown soldier as riot police secure one of the entrances of the parliament during an anti austerity protest in Athens
Picture: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

 

Lightning lights up the midtown Atlanta skyline as strong storms move through the area
Picture: Ben Gray(/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

 

A powerful tornado travels southwest causing damage near Dean Rd. and 82nd Avenue in Hutchinson, Kansas
Picture: Sandra J. Milburn/The Hutchinson News via AP

 

One of the photos taken by Nasa s New Horizons spacecraft of a region near Pluto’s equator. The image shows a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.
Picture: REUTERS/NASA New Horizons

 

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