Pictures of the week brings you the best images over the past seven days from around the world, chosen by our very own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Tahira Mirza and Michael Cripps.
Pictures of the week
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People look at the work-in-progress ceramic poppy art installation by artist Paul Cummins entitled 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' in the dry moat of the Tower of London in London, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The finished installation will be made up of 888,246 ceramic poppies, with the final poppy being placed on Armistice Day on November 11. Each poppy represents a British and Commonwealth military fatality from World War I. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Colored water from a police water cannon hits Kashmiri government employees as they shout slogans during a protest in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Aug 21, 2014. Police used force to disperse Kashmiri government employees during the protest demanding regularization of contractual jobs and a hike in salary. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Jose Mourinho was one in a line of celebrities to this week complete the ALS #IceBucketChallenge
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A visitor takes a picture during the Dinosaurs exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. ''Dino Park" has been opened at Belgradeâs Kalemegdan Fortress. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Rihanna (2nd from L) and Cara Delevingne (R) attend the 2014 Summer Classic Charity Basketball Game at Barclays Center on August 21, 2014 in New York City. (credit:Jerritt Clark via Getty Images)
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A person dressed as Darth Vader, center, from the movie "Star Wars" throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Storm Troopers stand by prior to a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, in Los Angeles. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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lululemon athletica hosts a mass yoga class at the Serpentine Pavilion, Hyde Park, London as a celebration of summer. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday August 20, 2014. (credit:Matt Alexander/PA Wire)
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Kumbuka the silverback gorilla gets measured at the annual London Zoo weigh-in where animals are weighed and measured. (credit:Philip Toscano/PA Wire)
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A tornado is seen approaching the costal city of Genoa, in Northern Italy, Tuesday, Aug 19, 2014. At right, in background, the profile of the Costa Concordia cruise liner wreck which was towed to Genoa for scrapping. Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit Genoa and the Liguria region coast Tuesday, causing damages to seaside cabins and floods but no victims. (AP Photo/Tano Pecoraro) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Children look out from a bus before leaving for a train station at a refugee camp set up by the Russian Emergencies Ministry about 10 kilometers from the Russia-Ukrainian border, near Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that is nearly dry on August 19, 2014 in Oroville, California. As the severe drought in California continues for a third straight year, water levels in the State's lakes and reservoirs is reaching historic lows. Lake Oroville is currently at 32 percent of its total 3,537,577 acre feet. (credit:Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)
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Type-89 armored combat vehicles of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force flare up a smoke screen during an annual live firing exercise at Higashi Fuji range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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FC Barcelona's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez (C) poses with Barcelona's sports director Andoni Zubizarreta (L) and Barcelona's vice-president Jordi Mestre (R) during a press conference of his official presentation as new FC Barcelona player at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain on August 19, 2014. (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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British singer Lily Allen performs on stage during V Festival 2014 at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, England, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) (credit:Joel Ryan/Invision/AP/Invision/AP)
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Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, left, shakes hands with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a press conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Monday Aug. 18, 2014, where Assange confirmed he "will be leaving the embassy soon". The Australian Assange fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 to escape extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted over allegations of sex crimes. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Police guard the entrance to the Buzz Westfall Justice Center in Clayton, Mo., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, where a grand jury is expected to convene to consider possible charges against the Ferguson, Mo. police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. Brown's shooting in the middle of a street has sparked a more than week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A demonstrator protesting the shooting of Michael Brown waves the American flag August 21, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Crowds continue to gather to march along Florissant Road after Brown was fatally shot by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson August 9th. (credit:JOSHUA LOTT via Getty Images)
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Indian youth form a human pyramid to break the "Dahi handi," an earthen pot filled with curd, an integral part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami in Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Janmashtami is the festival that marks the birth of Hindu god Krishna. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Workers hang outside the clock face as they clean the face of the clocktower popularly known as Big Ben at the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, as they undertake essential maintenance and cleaning of the four faces of the clock . (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Oscar the pug wearing a floatation vest during an open dog swim in Seattle
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Niagara Falls is illuminated by colorful lights near the border between the United States and Canada in Washington D.C (credit:Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media)
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Victor, England's only captive polar bear takes a swim as he is unveiled at his new home at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster after making the journey from Holland by ferry. (credit:Lynne Cameron/PA Wire)
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World Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing, China - Fatma Elsharnouby of Egypt competes barefooted during Women's 1500 Qualification (credit:Rex)
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An earthquake or a leaking levee may be behind the appearance of a kilometre-long trench near Hermosillo in Mexico.
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Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly and his wife Amber leave a news conference after being released from Emory University Hospital., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, in Atlanta. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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President Barack Obama, left, bumps fists with Cyrus Walker, right, cousin of White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, as Glenn Hutchins, center, looks on while golfing at Vineyard Golf Club, in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Obama is taking a two-week summer vacation on the island. Golf caddie at right is unidentified. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A squirrel monkey looks into a photographers lens during a photocall at London Zoo, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. The Zoo held it's annual weigh-in where the vital statistics of animals were taken in an aid for keepers to detect pregnancies and check the animals general wellbeing. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Palestinians gather around the rubble of a destroyed house following Israeli strikes in the Rafah refugee camp, Southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Actor Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean performs square dance during a programme recording on August 21, 2014 in Shanghai, China. (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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Host Jimmy Fallon challenges actress Lindsay Lohan to the 'Ice Bucket Challenge' on August 20, 2014 (credit:NBC via Getty Images)
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Prime Minister David Cameron (L) with wife Samantha Cameron have coffee at Surfside cafe on Polzeath beach in Cornwall on August 19, 2014 in Wadebridge, England. The Prime Minister David Cameron is starting his second holiday of the summer. Mr Cameron has insisted he remains in control and fully able to manage the government's response to the growing crisis in Iraq whilst in Cornwall. (credit:Matthew Horwood via Getty Images)