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The Week in Pictures

From Occupy's first birthday to labor struggle in South Africa, a look at what dominated the headlines this week

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  • "Occupy" security-style tape is stuck to Laura Nagy during an Occupy Wall Street anniversary concert in Foley Square in New York on Sunday. The Occupy Wall Street movement marked its first anniversary on Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    Occupy's first birthday

  • Angela Merkel in Berlin Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

    Angela Merkel

  • Public transport workers demonstrate during a partial national rail strike in Barcelona, Spain, Monday. Hundreds of Spanish train services have been canceled as rail and subway workers staged strikes to protest wage cuts and reforms. State rail company RENFE said Monday it had canceled some 300 high-speed and intercity trains. The banner reads in Spanish "No more cutting budgets, transport of Barcelona struggling." (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

    Spanish train strike

  • A French soldier investigates the scene of a suicide bombing Tuesday in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a minibus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least nine people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

    Afghanistan

  • Indonesian Muslims burn an American flag during a protest against an American film that ridicules Prophet Muhammad outside the U.S. consulate in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

    Indonesia protest

  • Chinese policemen stand guard near the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, where Wang Lijun will be tried on Tuesday, in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday. At the height of his career, Wang Lijun led a police crackdown on the violent underworld in a sprawling metropolis, arresting hundreds of gangsters and government officials, some of whom were sentenced and executed in a matter of months. Now the former police chief is in the hands of the opaque Chinese justice he once brandished against others. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

    Wang Lijun

  • Belarus plainclothes security officer (center right) reaches his hand to grab a journalist's camera as two others run, right, in Minsk, Tuesday. Associated Press photographer Sergei Grits was beaten and briefly detained by plainclothes security officers in the Belarusian capital. Sergei Grits says he was among eight journalists covering a protest by four opposition activists calling for a boycott of this weekend's parliamentary elections when plainclothes security officers attacked them in downtown Minsk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

    Sergei Grits

  • Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, center, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

    Egyptian diplomacy

  • Female soldiers train on a firing range while wearing new body armor on Tuesday, in Fort Campbell, Ky. Female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, are field testing the first Army body armor designed to fit women's physiques in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan this fall. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey).

    Female body armor

  • Indian policemen baton charge protesting Muslims, during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Chennai, India, Tuesday. The protest was held against an anti-Islam film called "The Innocence of Muslims" that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo)

    India protests

  • Miners return to work at the Lonmin Platinum mine after Lonmin resolved a five-week strike by agreeing to pay raises of up to 22 percent, in Marikana, Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

    South Africa strike

  • Georgian women kick a police bus outside a prison during a protest rally against prison abuse in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday. Street protests against the brutal abuse of prisoners escalated Thursday in the Georgian capital, fueling anger against the Western-allied government and possibly boosting support for the opposition before a tight parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

    Georgia protest

  • Participants hold placards as they march in a gathering to mark the International Day of Peace in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Friday. They pray in hope of a cease-fire in the long-running ethnic insurgency in their Kachin State. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

    Day of Peace, Myanmar

  • Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, left, with his Italian counterpart Mario Monti, at Palazzo Chigi government office in Rome, Friday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

    Greek Prime Minister

  • Trader Peter Mancuso, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. A batch of worrying economic figures tugged stock markets slightly lower Thursday. Measures of manufacturing and business activity in both China and Europe slumped. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

    NYSE

  • People evacuated by Pittsburgh Police from the Gateway Three office building wait outside as the police negotiate with a man who claims to have a bomb in a suite in the 16th floor, in downtown Pittsburgh, Friday. A call about an armed man inside the building prompted the evacuation amid reports of a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

    Pittsburgh evacuation

  • Nigeria's largest airline announced Thursday that it has halted all domestic flights alleging that government corruption made it impossible for it to fly. Arik ending its domestic flights will add further chaos to Nigeria's aviation industry. The country is still trying to recover from an airline crash that killed more than 160 people in June. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

    Nigeria airline

  • This photo released on Friday by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office shows James Holmes. Holmes is being held on charges in the shooting at an Aurora, Colo., theater on July 20 that killed 12 people and wounded 52. (AP Photo/Arapahoe County Sheriff)

    James Holmes

  • Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets members of law enforcement in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Mitt Romney

  • Lebanese girls chant slogans during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad in Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek Friday. Tens of thousands of people take part for the latest in a series of protest rallies organized by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

    Lebanese protest

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  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
    Credit: AP/LM Otero

  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
    Credit: AP/Matt Rourke

  • A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
    Credit: AP/Jenny Aicher

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
    Credit: AP/Molly Riley

  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
    Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite

  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
    Credit: AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Jeff Scheid

  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
    Credit: AP/NASA/Chris Hadfield

  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
    Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

  • A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
    Credit: AP/The Duluth News-Tribune/Clint Austin

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