09 August 2012 13:01 | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures: 9 August 2012

Kathmandu

Activists of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist affiliated Youth Association Nepal clash with Nepalese police personnel during a torch rally to demand the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in Kathmandu. (© Reuters)
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  • Activists of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist affiliated Youth Association Nepal clash with Nepalese police personnel during a torch rally to demand the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in Kathmandu. (© Reuters)
  • Houses swamped by floodwaters in Bulacan province, north of Manila is seen in this aerial photograph released by the Department of National Defense. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces. (© Reuters)
  • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (left), Yekaterina Samutsevich (right) and Maria Alyokhina, members of female punk band Pussy Riot, sit in the defendant's cell before a court hearing in Moscow. A state prosecutor on Tuesday demanded a three-year jail term for three women from the punk band, saying they had abused God when they burst into a Moscow cathedral and sang a protest prayer against the Russian Orthodox Church's close links to Vladimir Putin. (© Reuters)
  • Hot air balloons take to the skies over Bristol city centre in England. The early morning flight of over twenty balloons over the city was organised as a curtain raiser for the four-day Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. (© Getty Images)
  • A masked devotee stands next to a family as he takes part in a parade commemorating the Neku Jatra-Mataya festival, the festival of lights, in Lalitpur. Devotees celebrate the Buddhist festival which marks the victory of Sakyamuni Buddha over Mara, by praying for the souls of departed family members and holding parades throughout the city. (© Reuters)
  • A Syrian Air Force fighter plane fires a rocket during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat. Syrian troops and rebels fought over the country's biggest city Aleppo as President Bashar al-Assad's key foreign backer Iran gathered ministers from like-minded states for talks on Thursday about how to end the conflict. (© Reuters)
  • View of the Martian surface made up of two images from the navigation cameras on the mast of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. The rim of the Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. (© NASA)
  • Roberto Tony-Jean, and his dog Luna, run through water sprinklers during a hot day in New York. (© Reuters)
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Activists of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist affiliated Youth Association Nepal clash with Nepalese police personnel during a torch rally to demand the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in Kathmandu.

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