Pics of the Week: July 12-18, 2010

School students make a formation depicting the new symbol of the Indian Rupee in Chennai, on Friday, July 16, 2010. India got a new symbol for its currency, the rupee, which the government hopes will reflect the growing might of the Indian economy. The new symbol, chosen after a nationwide competition, shows a combination of the Roman letter R and its Hindi equivalent. (Photo: AP)

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer Inc., speaks during a press conference regarding the Apple iPhone 4 reception problems at the Apple headquarters on July 16, 2010 in Cupertino, California. Jobs announced that Apple will provide customers with cases at no additional cost to help solve the reception problems and refund customers who have already bought the apple bumpers until September 30, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Workers stage a car accident on the Michigan Avenue during the filming of the movie Transformers 3 on July 16, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Sections of Michigan Avenue, in the heart of the city's downtown, were closed until Monday morning to accommodate the filmmakers. (Photo: AFP)

This handout pictured provided by Greenpeace shows Greenpeace activists with oily skin who protested on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, against deep sea drilling for oil in front of the EU ministry in Brussels, where energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger met with managers of the oil industry to discuss consequences from the oil catastrophe in Gulf of Mexico. (Photo: Greenpeace)

This image made available by the Ministry of Defence in London, on Monday July 12, 2010, shows Taranis, the prototype of an unmanned combat aircraft of the future. Named after the Celtic god of thunder, the concept demonstrator will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) that would ultimately be capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent. Should such systems enter into service, they would. at all times be under the control of highly trained military crews on the ground. (Photo: AP)

A taxidermy exhibit by Roy Holdridge of Grandbury, Texas., is seen before competition begins at the 39th Annual National Taxidermist Association Convention Competition in Springfield, Ill., on Thursday, July 15, 2010. The exhibits were open for public viewing till Saturday, July 17. (Photo: AP)

Ducati rider Aleix Espargaro from Spain, left, loses control as he passes by crashed Honda rider Randy de Puniet, right, from France during the Moto GP race of the Grand Prix of Germany at the Sachsenring circuit in the village of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, near the city of Chemnitz, Germany, on Sunday, July 18, 2010. (Photo: AP)

A model poses for photographers during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Seeboden, at Lake Millstaettersee, in Austria's southern Carinthia province on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The festival is the world's biggest bodypainting event. (Photo: AP)

German Janne-Friederike Meyer jumps during the Grand Prix Jumping Competition at the CHIO World Equestrian Festival 2010 in Aachen, western Germany, on July 18, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Thomas Mueller, player of the German national football team, and his wife Lisa attend the Chio Media Night during the CHIO World Equestrian Festival 2010 in Aachen, western Germany on July 13, 2010. The CHIO is running until July 18, 2010 in Aachen. (Photo: AFP)

Germany's defender Philipp Lahm kisses his wife Claudia, former Claudia Schattenberg, in a carriage after their marriage in the church of Kleinhelfendorf, southern Germany, on July 14, 2010. Lahm came back from the FIFA world Cup in South Africa on July 12, where his team placed third. (Photo: AFP)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is draped with a seven-foot long Albino Burmese Python, named Buttercup, during his visit on the opening day of the California State Fair in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. In an attempt to increase attendance, the fair opened one month earlier than previous years and will run until Aug. 1. (Photo: AP)

Inter-Milan's Dutch football player Wesley Sneijder (L) and Dutch model Yolanthe Cabau kiss each other outside the Church of San Giusto e Clemente in Castelnuovo Berardenga near Siena on July 17, 2010 after their wedding in the Tuscan village. (Photo: AFP)

The rainbow is seen on Ankaroa bay in Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 12, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Casey Martin slides from his horse's saddle on to a steer in the steer wrestling on Friday evening, July 16, 2010, at the 26th Annual Frontier Days and Championship Rodeo & Bull- A-Rama in Benton, Pa. Martin would finish with a time of 6.4 second. (Photo: AP)

Film director Roman Polanski (L) and French actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner pose on this picture realised by Montreux Jazz Foundation on late July 17, 2010 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Director Roman Polanski, freed this week after Switzerland refused a US extradition request, made his first public outing to see his wife performing a concert at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. (Photo: AFP)

Scene of the Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida during a dress rehearsal on late Friday evening, July 16, 2010, at the floating stage on Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria. The opera, directed by British director Graham Vick, will have its premiere on July 22 at the annual Bregenz festival. (Photo: AP)

Alphajets from the French Air Force' Patrouille de France, or French Acrobatic Patrol, fly above the Louvre pyramid in Paris, on Wednesday July 14, 2010, as part of the traditional Bastille Day parade. (Photo: AP)

Fireworks burst over the Eiffel Tower during traditional Bastille Day celebrations on July 14, 2010 in Paris. A military parade and fireworks are held each year to commemorate the storming of the Bastille fortress in Paris by revolutionaries in 1789, the symbolic starting point of the movement that led to the first French republic. (Photo: AFP)

A pair of 6-foot-tall ruby red slippers are unveiled outside Madame Tussauds New York on 42nd Street in Times Square on July 13, 2010 to celebrate the launch of The Wizard of Oz Cinema 4D Experience and the interactive Land of Oz exhibit at Madame Tussauds New York. (Photo: AFP)

Judges (L-R) John Holly, actress Charley King, Michael Johns from American Idol, Carolyn Darnell and producer/director Bonnie Lythgoe pose for a photo as they take a break during the talent search for the next 'Cinderella' at Culver City in Los Angeles on July 14, 2010. The winner of the search will appear as the lead in Cínderella, A Modern Magical Musical Extravaganza that will be produced by Nigel, Bonnie, and Kris Lythgoe, who also produce So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars and American Idol. (Photo: AFP)

The mast heads of long time competitors Playboy and Penthouse men's magazines are seen July 15, 2010. Penthouse and Playboy, after decades of battling it out on the newsstands, are gearing up for another fight -- an ownership struggle. Penthouse owner FriendFinder Networks announced on Thursday that it was making a 210-million-dollar unsolicited bid for Playboy magazine publisher Playboy Enterprises. The Boca Raton, Florida-based FriendFinder's offer for the rival adult empire came three days after Hugh Hefner, Playboy's 84-year-old founder, offered to buy all of the outstanding shares in the company to take it private. (Photo: AFP)

A Russian hot air balloon flies over the golden crosses of the Trinity-Saint Sergius monastery, 70 kilometres outside Moscow, in Sergiyev Posad on July 16, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

The four main characters (L-R), Jessie, Woody, Buzz, and the new one Lot's-O'-Huggin Bear arrive in London's Leicester Square on July 18, 2010 for the British Premiere of their Pixar/Disney film, Toy Story 3 in 3D. (Photo: AFP)

Nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi of Italy (Fiat Yamaha Team) steers his bike during the training of of the Grand Prix of Germany at Sachsenring Circuit on July 16, 2010 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, eastern Germany. The 31-year-old Italian has been given the green light to make a return to MotoGP on July 18, just 40 days after suffering a double fracture of his right leg. (Photo: AFP)

The Spanish Eagle Patrol team performs in Vigo, northwestern Spain, on July 18, 2010, during the International Vigo Airshow. (Photo: AFP)

Spanish matador el Juli is injured by a bull during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival at Pamplona's bullring in northern Spain, on July 12, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

A fan places flowers down outside of Yankee Stadium in New York July 13, 2010 after hearing the news of the death of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner, age 80, suffered a heart attack at his home in Tampa. (Photo: AFP)

Actress Seregon O'Dassey with plastic bats on her door on July 14, 2010 in her apartment in Hackensack, New Jersey. O'Dassey has played the part of vampires in recent films. (Photo: AFP)

Haitians demonstrate in front of an earthquake destroyed house on July 13 2010 to demand the resignation of President Rene Preval and the CEP (conseil electoral provisoire) in Port-au-Prince. Haitians marked a sad anniversary on July 12, mourning the hundreds of thousands killed six months ago in a massive earthquake and eyeing a precarious future amid the slow trickle of aid. (Photo: AFP)

View of a skull of an adult Homo heidelbergensis, found in Sima de los Huesos, near Burgos in 1992, on display at the Museum of Human Evolution (MEH) on July 13, 2010 in Burgos, near the archaeological site of Atapuerca. The Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos (MEH) expects to attract around 300,000 visitors each year, a total area of 15,000 m2, distributed between a permanent exhibition space and temporary exhibitions. (Photo: AFP)

An Emirates A380 Airbus - the world's largest passenger aircraft is given a water cannon salute as it taxis after touchdown at terminal T-3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on July 15, 2010. The Emirates flight EK 516 was the first commercial A380 flight to land at the new terminal a day after it was inaugurated -- a shiny glass-and-steel symbol of the country's aspirations as an emerging global power. The state-of-the-art hub, which cost nearly three billion dollars and can handle 34 million passengers a year, was showcased at a special ceremony by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of its mid-July public opening. The airport which can handle 34 million passengers a year was built in a record 37 months, officials said. (Photo: AFP)

A student of the University Augsburg controls a Japanese android robot showing emotions on July 15, 2010 in Augsburg, southern Germany. The presentation was part of the open day programme of the university celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Women wearing wedding dresses take part in the "Still Life" Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture festivities with the initiative "100 brides for Marxloh" on the Autobahn A40 near Essen, western Germany on July 18, 2010, to represent Duisburg's grubby district Marxloh as the "most romantic street in Europe", as the neighbourhood offers more than 50 bridal fashion stores. Some 20,000 picnic tables were lined up end-to-end after the 60-kilometre-long stretch of one of Europe's busiest motorways was cleared of its usual traffic, between the cities of Dortmund and Duisburg, and became a stream of pedestrians and cyclists. The event is a highlight in the Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture festivities, which has seen Germany's rust belt region transformed into a hotbed of the arts with hundreds of concerts, plays and exhibitions planned throughout the year. (Photo: AFP)

Visitors of the Sydney Aquarium (R) look at the world's largest animatronics shark on July 12, 2010. The White Pointer Shark is 7.4 metres in length, constructed from fibreglass, silicone, steel and urethane and has four movable parts, a mouth that opens, protruding jaws, a snout that moves upwards and eyes that roll back in their sockets. (Photo: AFP)

Cars burn during Nationalist rioting in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 12, 2010. Rioting by Catholics left 27 police injured in Northern Ireland, including three with gunshot wounds, officials said on Monday, ahead of the biggest day of Northern Ireland's marching season. (Photo: AFP)

Optimistic pregnant spectator watching the play on day four of the British Open Golf Championship at St Andrews in Scotland, on July 18, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Pamela Anderson holds her new ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) while speaking to reporters during a news conference on Thursday, July 15, 2010, in Montreal. (Photo: AP)

Tourists play in the mud during the 13th Boryeong Mud Festival at the Daecheon swimming beach in Boryeong, 190 kilometers southwest of Seoul on July 18, 2010. The annual festival encourages the use of mud for its benifits for skin-care and to promote tourism in the region. The festival runs from July 17-25. (Photo: AFP)

French actress Clotilde Hesme performs with Jeanne Tremsal (L) during a rehearsal of "Ball" by Bertolt Brecht directed by French François Orsoni on July 18, 2010 in the Cloître des Celestins in Avignon, southern France, as part of the 64th edition of the city's theatre festival. The event runs from 7 to July 27, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Members of staff prepare for public display, the Robe of State used by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, for exhibition at Buckingham Palace in London Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The crimson velvet Robe of State was made for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, weighs 7kg and measures over 18 feet long with an ermine cape and a long rich crimson velvet train fully lined with ermine and decorated with gold lace. The Robe of State is worn by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament, and is being prepared for a special exhibition during the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace, when the general public will be able to tour some of the rooms and galleries of the palace. (Photo: AP)

Andy Samberg is seen on stage at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 in Los Angeles. (Photo: AP)

German boxer Susianna Kentikian, left, fights against Mexican boxer Arely Mucino in the WBA and WIBF and WBO World Championship flyweight fight in Schwerin, northern Germany, on Saturday, July 17, 2010. (Photo: AP)

In this picture provided by the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, shows octopus Paul swimming next to a golden cup similar to the World Cup trophy on Monday July 12, 2010. No more World Cup, no more Octopus Oracle. Paul, the octopus who became a pop culture sensation by correctly predicting the outcome of as many World Cup matches as he has legs - all seven of Germany's games plus the Spain-Netherlands final - is going to retire. However, Paul took one last curtain call on Monday. Aquarium employees presented the octopus with a golden cup - similar to the official World Cup trophy. (Photo: AP)

In this Thursday, July 15, 2010 photograph a technician works in an unmanned electric-powered vehicle as it makes its way in a street of Parma, Italy. Next week, four electric-powered orange vans depart on what has been conceived as the longest-ever test drive of unmanned vehicles: a 13,000-kilometer, three-month road trip from Italy to China. The vehicles, equipped with four laser scanners and seven video cameras that work in concert to detect and help avoid obstacles, will brave the traffic of Moscow, the intense summer heat of Siberia and the bitter cold of the Gobi desert before the planned arrival in Shanghai at the end of October. (Photo: AP)

Models pose on a cube among art work at the Bass Museum of Art before the Red Carter show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2011 in Miami Beach, Fla. on Sunday, July 18, 2010. (Photo: AP)

A child competitor is lent a hand from a military soldier and words from his mother while running through a mud pit which was the consistency of hot melted chocolate on their way to the finish line at the Merrell Down and Dirty National Mud Run Series on Sunday, July 18, 2010 in the urban Fairmount Park - Belmont Plateau, Philadelphia, Pa. A total of 4,500 competitors took part in the fun run series with a 10 K, 5 K, one mile and a 50 yard dash for the children. (Photo: AP)

An animal rights activist with his face painted as a tiger protests the exhibition of animals in zoos during a demonstration in Mexico City, on Saturday July 17, 2010. (Photo: AP)

President Barack Obama waves to media as he and first lady Michelle Obama, left, and their children Sasha and Malia Obama, second left, arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after a weekend vacation on Mount Desert Island in Maine, on Sunday, July 18, 2010. (Photo: AP)

Traisy Vivien Tukiet from Malaysia competes in the platform final at the 16th FINA Diving Grand Prix in Madrid, on Sunday, July 18, 2010. (Photo: AP)

Nepalese woman Nihita Biswas, 21, who reportedly married "Bikini Killer" Charles Sobhraj in prison two years ago, leaves the Supreme Court on the back of a scooter in Kathmandu on July 14, 2010. Nepal's Supreme Court on July 14 deferred its ruling on a murder conviction appeal by "Bikini Killer" Charles Sobhraj, the Frenchman linked to a series of backpacker killings in Asia in the 1970s. The two-judge bench, which was due to announce a decision on Wednesday, said it had not had enough time to study corroborating documents submitted during the latter stages of the appeal process. (Photo: AFP)

A woman visits the Museum of Human Evolution (MEH) during its inauguration on July 13, 2010 in Burgos, near the archaeological site of Atapuerca. The Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos (MEH) expects to attract around 300,000 visitors each year, a total area of 15,000 m2, distributed between a permanent exhibition space and temporary exhibitions. (Photo: AFP)

This undated handout photo released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on July 16, 2010 shows a purple octopus 1000 meters underwater in a ridge dominated by older volcanic rocks, photographed by a submarine robot. The joint US-Indonesia exploration of the deep ocean mission announced on July 12, 2010, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer mapped Kawio Barat, a huge undersea volcano rising 3,800 meters from the sea floor north of Sulawesi. The first joint scientific expedition will explore the unknown deep-sea areas in Indonesian waters bordering the southern Philippines. The mission aims to advance the understanding of the undersea ecosystem and the use and protection of the ocean and its resources. (Photo: AFP)

Two children play on bales of straw on a field in Petersdorf, eastern Germany, where the sun sets behind a red-colored sky on July 15, 2010. The country still experiences a heat-wave, with temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius and more. (Photo: AFP)

US golfer Ben Curtis takes two attempts to escape the road hole bunker during his opening round on the first day of the British Open Golf Championship at St Andrews in Scotland, on July 15, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Japan's second largest mobile communication operator KDDI unveils the stylish mobile phone, flashing triangular patterned colorful LED lights "Light POOL", designed by Japanese industrial designer Hironao Tsuboi in Tokyo on July 13, 2010. KDDI will put it on the market in this month as a part of the design conscious mobile phone project "Iiida". (Photo: AFP)

An undated handout photo obtained on July 15, 2010 shows a Peraphilla deep-sea jellyfish, as scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute, using high-tech cameras, photographed sea creatures at a depth of over 1000 metres at the Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea, some 350kms north-east of the northern Australian city of Cairns. The sea creatures, which live in a dark world where the pressure is 140 times greater than on land, were well adapted to their environment and team leader professor Marshall said "Learning more about these creatures' primitive eyes and brain could help neuroscientists better understand human vision." "We could also design better cameras and illumination systems because, as we've seen, nature often gets there first." (Photo: AFP)

A octopus named Cassandra at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science attaches herself to current prime minister Julia Gillard, picking her to win next month's general election ahead of Liberal leader Tony Abbott, in Sydney on July 16, 2010. Prime Minister Gillard said, "This morning I asked Her Excellency the governor-general to dissolve the House of Representatives so that elections can occur for the House and half of the Senate on Saturday, August 21. The announcement for August 21, kicks off a bitter campaign battle over asylum seekers, economic management and climate change. (Photo: AFP)

Midgets dance during the "Dance of the Midgets" of the 67th descent of the Virgin of the Snows (Virgen de las Nieves) in Santa Cruz de La Palma, on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, on July 15, 2010. Midgets dance until dawn throughout the main street of the city to the La Alameda square. (Photo: AFP)

A beluga or white whale exhales ring-shaped bubbles from his blowhole during its daily show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, suburban Tokyo, on July 18, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Ahu Akivi Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- are seen on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 13, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Israeli archeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology holds a clay fragment at her Jerusalem office on July 12, 2010. Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient encrypted clay fragment dating back some 3,400 years, the oldest-ever sample of writing found in the Holy City. (Photo: AFP)

Picture shows part of a mosaic of traditional Arabic sweets, measuring 112 meters long, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind on July 14, 2010 in Damascus. (Photo: AFP)

A handout picture from Ferrari press office shows an artist's illustration of "Ferrari World" theme park, the first of its kind for the iconic Italian carmaker that is being constructed in Abu Dhabi. (Photo: AFP)

An aerial picture taken on July 16, 2010, shows the Mont-Blanc, in the French Alps. The new height of Mont Blanc, which lies on the three-way border between France, Italy and Switzerland, is now 4,810.45 metres (15,782.3 feet), just over half that of Nepal's Everest but still the tallest Alpine peak, having lost 45 cm within the last two years. This new altitude, a reference for scientists, will be published in the new geography school books. (Photo: AFP)

A 70 million euro worth Eurofighter of the German Bundeswehr is carried on an articulated lorry near Buchloe, southern Germany on July 12, 2010. For several years, the high tech airplane was used as a learning object by the air force school in Kaufbeuren, southern Germany. After having been dismantled and assembled several times, it will now face an overhaul by European aerospace corporation EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) in the Military Air Systems branch in Manching. (Photo: AFP)

Cheerleaders perform during the opening parade on the first day of the Gentse Feesten festival in Gent, on July 17, 2010. The festival runs for ten days, with lots of shows, performances, and much more in the city center of Gent. (Photo: AFP)

Spain's football Star and 2010 football world champion Sergio Ramos (C) plays football with local residents on July 18, 2010 in Dakar during a UNICEF campaign to Senegal. (Photo: AFP)

US singer Pink performs on stage on July 13, 2010 in Nice, southeastern France. (Photo: AFP)

Nelson Mandela (C) blows out the candles on a cake on his 92nd birthday celebrations on July 18, 2010 as he is surrounded by his wife Graca Machel (L), grandchildren and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (top 2R) at his home in Johannesburg. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma hailed Nelson Mandela as a symbol of unity as the anti-apartheid icon celebrated his 92nd birthday. The day marked the first United Nations recognised Nelson Mandela International Day, aimed at promoting community service among nations. (Photo: AFP)