The Week in Pictures

France’s Richard Gasquet eyes the ball during his final game against Spain’s Nicolas Almagro at the Swiss Open ATP tennis tournament. Almagro won, 7-5, 6-1.  (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images)

People attend a ceremony in honor of Mother Earth on the outskirts of the city. According to local agrarian tradition, Mother Earth awakes hungry and thirsty in August and it is necessary to offer her food and drink so she will produce good crops.  (Dado Galdieri / Associated Press)

Flames travel along the forest floor, about 300 miles south of Moscow. Hundreds of new fires broke out Sunday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried by drought and record heat.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

Baltimore Orioles’ Felix Pie, right, is chased by Kansas City Royals second baseman Chris Getz as Pie is caught in a rundown during the second inning of a baseball game.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Devina Sen, foreground in orange, performs with the Odissi Dance Circle during the 34th annual Festival of the Chariots, which took place Sunday in Santa Monica and Venice Beach. Three handmade 40-foot-tall floats, as well as a free beachside feast and cultural performances, were part of the festivities.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Boston Red Sox’s Marco Scutaro celebrates his game-winning bunt-single, which scored Darnell McDonald, background, on a throwing error by Detroit Tigers pitcher Robbie Weinhardt that second baseman Will Rhymes, right, could not handle at first base during the ninth inning of Boston’s 4-3 win at Fenway Park.  (Winslow Townson / Associated Press)

A man launches fireworks during festivities honoring St. Dominic of Guzman, the capital city’s patron saint.  (Esteban Felix / Associated Press)

Ronald Talley of the Green Bay Packers gets transportation to NFL football training camp in Green Bay.  (Morry Gash / Associated Press)

Beachgoers get their feet wet at Tolovana Beach State Park in Oregon.  (Rick Bowmer / Associated Press)

A competitor flies through the air while competing in the Men’s BMX Freestyle Vert Final at the ESPN X Games 16 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.  (John W. Adkisson / Los Angeles Times)

The smoldering remains of a home destroyed by the Crown fire on Elizabeth Lake Road in northern Los Angeles County.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Travis Pastrana goes end-over-end while winning the men’s moto X freestyle event of the X Games at the Coliseum.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama, surrounded by Native American leaders and members of his administration, signs the Tribal Law and Order Act during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.  (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)

British-born rocker Slash performs in Hong Kong. The former Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver member is touring Asia after the release of his solo album, “Slash.”  (Ed Jones / AFP/Getty Images)

Britain’s Tom Parsons reacts during the Men’s High Jump final during the European Athletics Championships, in Barcelona.  (Matt Dunham/ Associated Press)

Opponents of Arizona‘s immigration law march through the streets of downtown Phoenix as a rainbow fills the dawn sky.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

A photo released at the La Silla Observatory shows the brilliant star WR 22 and its surroundings. The very hot and bright star is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the sun.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Japan’s Ai Miyazato plays out of a bunker on the seventh hole during the first round of the Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.  (Tim Hales / Associated Press)

A fruit vendor takes shelter under his cart during a heavy rainfall.  (Channi Anand / Associated Press)

A worker walks in Shanghai’s landmark Peace Hotel. The hotel, known as the Cathay Hotel in the 1930s, reopened to the public Wednesday after a three-year renovation.  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

Rescuers work at the scene where two men died and a third was injured after becoming trapped in a grain bin. Authorities say the incident is under investigation.  (Alez T. Paschal / Sauk Valley Newspapers)

A fixed-wing aircraft drops fire retardant Wednesday on a wildfire near the Kern County community of Tehachapi, Calif., as firefighters try to mop up the blaze, which destroyed more than 30 structures.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

France’s Christophe Lemaitre, left, wins the men’s 100-meter final at the European Championships. In a very tight finish, Norway’s Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, right, did not even place in the top five.   (Victor Caivano / Associated Press)

A cat shows interest in a frog sitting on a rock in the eastern German town of Sieversdorf.  (Patrick Pleul / AFP/Getty Images)

William Robles draws cheers from a crowd at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix as he waves a copy of Wednesday’s injunction blocking key provisions of the state’s controversial immigration law.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Rescue workers search through the wreckage of a crashed airliner in the Margalla Hills on the outskirts of Islamabad. All 152 aboard were killed.  (Adil Khan / AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama joins four of the hosts of the ABC daytime talk show “The View” in New York for a taping. With him are, from left, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The segment will air Thursday.  (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)

Young girls wear traditional flower headdresses outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Pakistani rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane at the Margalla Hills on the outskirts of Islamabad on July 28, 2010. A Pakistani airliner carrying 152 people crashed in a ball of flame into densely wooded hills outside Islamabad amid heavy rain and poor visibility, killing everyone on board. Rescue officials said pieces of charred flesh and body parts were littered around the smoldering wreckage, partially buried on a remote hillside, in the deadliest crash involving a Pakistani passenger jet in 18 years.  (Adil Khan / AFP/Getty Images)

Stephane Rousson of France controls a Scubster, a new pedal-powered submarine, July 28, 2010, in Villefranche sur Mer, near Nice, southeastern France. The streamlined carbon fiber Scubster, built by Rousson, can operate at a speed of up to 6.2 mph and a depth of 16 feet. A Scubster team will take part in next year’s International Submarine Race, to be held at the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Carderock Division, Bethesda, Md., between June 27 and July 1.  (Terence Dewaele / Associated Press)

South Korean children enjoy a cool splash in a fountain beside the Han-River in Seoul, where summer temperatures were in the 90s on Wednesday.  (Jeon Heon-Kyun / EPA)

World No. 1-ranked surfer Jordy Smith of South Africa looks at waves before his heat in the Cold Water Classic surfing competition in Cape Town, South Africa, on July 28, 2010. This week’s Cold Water Classic is part of the World Qualifying Series surfing competition, which pits surfers in extreme conditions in cold waters off Tasmania, Scotland, Canada, California and South Africa.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

A facial prosthetic with an artificial eye is seen in a lab at the Wilford Hall Medical Center.  (Eric Gay / Associated Press)

Competitors cool off during the men’s 20-kilometer race walk at the European Athletics Championships.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

Los Angeles fire officials discovered two bodies as they mopped up an early morning fire Monday at a commercial structure in East Los Angeles. A third person was critically injured in the blaze.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca holds a Ruger mini semiautomatic rifle at a news conference at Sheriff’s Department headquarters, where he announced the destruction of over 8,300 weapons confiscated from criminals in Los Angeles County.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Students in Bangalore hold a candlelight vigil to honor the Indian army and commemorate Victory Day, the anniversary of the end of the Kargil war with Pakistan. More than 520 Indian soldiers were killed in the 1999 fighting with Pakistan in the Kargil, Drass and Batalik areas of disputed Jammu and Kashmir state.  (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama, in the White House Rose Garden, addresses campaign finance legislation on the eve of a crucial Senate vote. He urged Republicans to cross party lines and support the bill. Full story  (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)

Philippine policemen wear protective armor as they prepare to secure parliament for the State of the Nation address by new President Benigno Aquino. Thousands of protesters are expected to march to demand the new government prosecute former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and do something to stop extra-judicial killings.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

People visit a make-shift memorial site near the tunnel where at least 19 people died in a stampede during the Love Parade in Duisburg, western Germany. More than 300 people were injured in the panic. Read the full report on the Love Parade stampede here.  (Patrik Stollarz / AFP/Getty Images)

A butterfly enjoys a hot summer day from its perch on a flower.  (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)

Minnesota Twins center fielder Jason Repko catches a fly ball hit by Kansas City Royals’ Billy Butler during the first inning of a baseball game Monday.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia returns a shot against Hilary Barte during the first day of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford University. Cibulkova won, 6-2, 6-2.  (Jed Jacobsohn / Getty Images)

Fireworks explode at the end of the opening ceremony of the European Athletics Championships.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

People mourn in the tunnel that formed the entrance to Love Parade grounds in Duisburg, Germany, where 19 people died and at least 340 were injured during a mass panic at the techno music festival.  (Oliver Berg / EPA)

A Cuban flag is held aloft at a rally celebrating the Cuban Revolution. Monday’s festivities commemorate the date in 1953 when Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in the city of Santiago and a smaller outpost in nearby Bayamo. Dictator Fulgencio Batista was ousted from office on New Year’s Day 1959.  (Javier Galeano / Associated Press)