23 August 2012 10:42 | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures - 23 August 2012

Yichang

A fisherman walks with his catch on the banks of the Yangtze River, near the Three Gorges dam in Yichang, Hubei province, China. (© Reuters)
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  • A fisherman walks with his catch on the banks of the Yangtze River, near the Three Gorges dam in Yichang, Hubei province, China. (© Reuters)
  • A four-day-old baby hippopotamus plays with its mother, Kibu, at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur. The calf was temporarily named Syawal, after it was born on the first day of month of Syawal in the Islamic calendar. (© Reuters)
  • Japanese festival-goers play in the mud during the village mud festival at Yumesaki in Himeji, Japan. The festival is held to encourage youths of the village to participate in the community. (© Getty Images)
  • Members of the female punk band Pussy Riot (right to left)) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina sit in a glass-walled cage after a court hearing in Moscow. A judge sentenced three members of the Russian feminist punk band to two years jail on Friday for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin in a church, an act the judge called "blasphemous". (© Reuters)
  • Israeli Arab children play inside an air ball in a swimming pool at an amusement park as Muslims celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the old city of Acre, Israel. (© Getty Images)
  • Tracer bullets ricochet off their targets as the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force Type 74 and Type 90 armoured tanks fire machine guns during a night annual training session at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba, west of Tokyo. Mt. Fuji is seen in the background. (© Reuters)
  • Hong Kong fishing vessel Kai Fung No.2, which went to the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu islands, bearing China and Taiwan flags, sails past Hong Kong's financial Central district at Victoria Harbour. Anti-Japanese protests rocked Chinese cities on Sunday after nationalists from Japan landed on an East China Sea island at the heart of a territorial dispute between the two nations, the largest flare-up of Chinese public anger over Japan in years. (© Reuters)
  • A Filipino miner uses a blowtorch to refine gold nuggets in the gold mining town of Diwalwal in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines. (© Reuters)
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A fisherman walks with his catch on the banks of the Yangtze River, near the Three Gorges dam in Yichang, Hubei province, China.

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