The Week in Pictures

Audience members watch performances at the Sonar music festival in Barcelona.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

Indian police officers chase Kashmiri protesters who threw rocks in Srinigar, India. Troops fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Kashmir who tried to torch a paramilitary bunker Sunday.  (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the fourth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open.  (Donald Miralle / Getty Images)

Green-winged macaws study a visitor to the Chiba zoo in Japan.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

A fire burns on a mountain behind the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.  (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

Youths cool off in New Delhi during an unrelenting heat wave in the Indian capital. Temperatures hovered around 109 degrees with no sign of rain.  (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP/Getty Images)

Russell Henley, right, has some fun with the crowd as he walks up the 18th hole during the final round of the U.S. Open. Henley, of the University of Georgia, finished the tournament at eight-over par.  (David J. Phillip / Associated Press)

Planes perform acrobatics at an air show before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma. Full coverage  (Jonathan Ferrey / Getty Images)

A Myanmar refugee in traditional dress holds a candle during an event to celebrate the 65th birthday of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.  (Lai Seng Sin / Associated Press)

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Duchess of Vastergotland, and her husband, Prince Daniel, Duke of Vastergotland, are seen during their wedding ceremony.  (Torsten Laursen / Getty Images)

A man poses as he celebrates during the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin. The event is an enormous outdoor gay and lesbian party that has taken place every summer in Berlin since 1979. The festival is named after the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York that happened after police raided a gay bar on Christopher Street.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange is on display at Sotheby’s for a preview of the Polaroid collection, which will go up for auction next week. Other pieces include works by Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams and Chuck Close.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)

Colombia’s Camilo Villegas lines up a putt on the 12th green Saturday during the second round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links.  (Robyn Beck /AFP/ Getty Images)

Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima sprawls near the net after the Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder scored Saturday in a 1-0 Dutch victory in World Cup action. The Netherlands became the first team to qualify for the round of 16.  (Roberto Candia / Associated Press)

A wounded Iraqi woman and her daughter are treated at a hospital after a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq. Car bombs tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks targeting a police captain and a provincial council member.  (Emad Matti / Associated Press)

Pete McLeod of Canada whirls in the air above the Hudson River during the Red Bull Air Race in New York.  (Mark Thompson / Getty Images for Red Bull Air Race)

Scott Speed, driver of the #82 Red Bull Toyota, sits in his car during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway.  (Rusty Jarrett / Getty Images for NASCAR)

Plate-glass windows at Valet Parking Service on Flower Street in Los Angeles were broken in the violence that erupted after the Lakers won the NBA Finals championship. “It’s disappointing, but it could have been a lot worse,” said claims manager Jolene Taylor. Unruly crowds hurled bottles and other objects at police, smashed marquees, jumped on vehicles, broke windows, and set rubbish bins and vehicles on fire near Staples Center. Dozens were arrested.  (John W. Adkisson / Los Angeles Times)

Birds threatened by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are taken to the Fort Jackson rehabilitation center to be cleaned. Full coverage of the gulf oil spill  (Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press)

Coach Phil Jackson and the Lakers get a champagne shower as they celebrate their second consecutive NBA title on Thursday night in their locker room at Staples Center.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

A Lakers fan pushes a burning shopping cart along Venice Boulevard after the team’s victory over the Celtics.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A car is left in a precarious position after the floodwaters that inundated areas of southeastern France subsided. One of the worst floods in two centuries in the Cote d’Azur left 22 people dead.  (Christian Alminana / AFP/Getty Images)

Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm that prompted Chinese authorities to suspend flights at Beijing’s international airport.  (Olli Geibel / AFP/Getty Images)

An emergency worker evacuates a baby affected by tear gas used by police during a protest by street vendors in El Salvador’s capital. The vendors were protesting their removal by city authorities.  (Luis Romero / Associated Press)

A soccer fan with a wristband that reads in Spanish “I love Mexico” is among those cheering the national team on while watching a World Cup match between Mexico and France on a giant screen in the Zocalo. Mexico defeated France, 2-0.  (Eduardo Verdugo / Associated Press)

Drivers navigate a highway at sunset.  (Mustafa Ozer / AFP/Getty Images)

A protester is arrested on Capitol Hill in Washington as BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward testifies before a House panel.  (Haraz N. Ghanbari / Associated Press)

Space is tight as Greece’s Dimitris Salpingidis and Nigeria’s Taye Taiwo vie for the ball during a World Cup Group B match at Free State Stadium.  (Thanassis Stavrakis / Associated Press)

Diego Forlan, a player on the Uruguay squad, is seen on a TV screen in a bar before the team’s World Cup match against South Africa. Uruguay won, 3-0.  (Matilde Campodonico / Associated Press)

Soldiers march during a rehearsal in Colombo, the capital. Security forces are preparing for June 18 celebrations of Sri Lanka’s military victory last year over Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended a 37-year ethnic conflict.  (Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP/Getty Images)

From left, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, Managing Director Robert Dudley and BP America President Lamar McKay listen as the company’s chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, makes a statement outside the White House after their meeting with President Obama.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

A mock cemetery in Grand Isle, La., calls attention to some of the casualties of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

A youth waits in goal during a soccer match in Mamelodi township in Pretoria, South Africa. World Cup matches got underway this week at Pretoria’s main soccer stadium.  (Joe Klamar / AFP/Getty Images)

People are drenched by a wave hitting the shore during high tide on the Arabian Sea coast. Heavy monsoon rains coupled with strong winds claimed 46 lives in Maharashtra state even as hot conditions prevailed in northern India, news reports said.  (Rajanish Kakade / Associated Press)

People walk by damaged cars in the aftermath of flooding in southeastern France. At least 11 people have been killed by flash floods in the region, caused by heavy rains.  (Stephane Danna / AFP/Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police as they protest against the removal of ancient tombs in Jaffa, just south of Tel Aviv. Construction is scheduled to take place at the site where the protesters say Jewish graves are located.  (Jack Guez / AFP/Getty Images)

North Korean players celebrate after scoring a goal during a World Cup match with Brazil. Brazil won the match, 2-1.  (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

President Obama greets troops at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. Obama was on a two-day visit to Gulf Coast communities suffering from the oil spill.  (Michael Spooneybarger / AP Photo)

Supporters of opposition Law and Justice Party Presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski wait for a political rally, in Lomza, Poland. Poland will choose a new president on Sunday.  (Czarek Sokolowski / AP Photo)

A boy plays with a bubble maker at a park.  (Wally Santana / Associated Press)

A white-handed gibbon sits in its enclosure at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin.  (Barbara Sax / AFP/Getty Images)

A Paraguay supporter cheers before the start of the 2010 World Cup Group F first-round soccer match between Italy and Paraguay at Green Point stadium. The game ended in a 1-1 tie.  (Karim Jaafar / AFP/Getty Images)

Franklin Gutierrez of the Seattle Mariners misplays a fly ball against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. The Cardinals won, 9-3.  (Dilip Vishwanat / Getty Images)

The aerobatics team Patrouille de France performs in Nice, southern France, during a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the return of Nice and Savoy to France. To secure an alliance against Austria in the wars of unification of Italy, the prime minister of the kingdom of Sardinia, Camillo Cavour, met in secret with the French emperor Napoleon III on July 21, 1858. The treaty annexing Nice and Savoy to France was signed in Turin, Italy, on March 24, 1860.  (Stephane Danna / AFP/Getty Images)

Owner Barry DiLibero pulls on a vent rope as he controls the hot air inside his huge American Flag balloon in Hoboken, N.J.. The balloon was inflated for Flag Day and to promote this summer’s Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning on July 23-25 in Readington.  (Mel Evans / Associated Press)

President Obama poses with a resident while enjoying a snow cone after a roundtable discussion with locals concerned about the gulf oil spill.  (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)

Workers lay out boom lines near a pier. U.S. government scientists have estimated that as much as 40,000 barrels of oil per day may be gushing out of the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico.  (Chris Graythen / Getty Images)

A new mural by the artist Banksy at the Princess of Wales Pub in London.  (Neil Mockford / Getty Images)

Palestinian fishermen prepare their nets on the beach in Deir al Balah as the sun sets over the central Gaza Strip.  (Mohammed Abed / AFP/Getty Images)

A Uzbek youth goes through the wreckage of his burned home. Deadly gun battles raged in the Kyrgyzstan city of Osh, where bodies littered the streets as ethnic violence escalated and Uzbekistan raced to cope with a massive influx of refugees.  (Victor Drachev / AFP / Getty Images)

Uzbek emergency workers and volunteers pass traditional flatbread to ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan. Several hundred refugees fleeing ethnic violence gathered near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan.  (Anvar Ilyasov / Associated Press)

A young girl comforts her crying sister. At least 124 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities in Kyrgyzstan in the last few days.  (Igor Kovalenko / EPA)

A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft at Baikonur Cosmodrome. U.S. astronauts Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft Wednesday.  (Vyacheslav Oseledko / AFP / Getty Images)

A youth dives into the Dambovita River in downtown Bucharest. Temperatures reached the mid-90s in the Romanian capital.  (Daniel Mihailescu / AFP / Getty Images)

A Cameroon fan, left, has his picture taken with Japanese fans before a World Cup Group E soccer match between Japan and Cameroon at Free State Stadium.  (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)

Andrew Thai, with the 1st Battalion/ 3rd Marines, Charlie Company, greets his wife, Sarah, and daughter Mikalah upon his return to Hawaii after a seven-month deployment in southern Afghanistan.  (Patrick Baz / AFP / Getty Images)

Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan celebrates after scoring on a penalty kick during the World Cup Group D soccer match between Serbia and Ghana at Loftus Versfeld Stadium. Ghana won, 1-0.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

A father holds his son as he reaches to feed an elephant at South Africa’s National Zoo in Pretoria.  (Joe Klamar / AFP/Getty Images)

Residents of Grand Isle, which is threatened by the gulf oil spill, and visitors gather in prayer during an interfaith blessing on the beach.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Serbia’s Nemanja Vidic, top left, jumps for a header during the World Cup Group D soccer match between Serbia and Ghana at Loftus Versfeld Stadium.  (Hassan Ammar / Associated Press)

Unable to fly, an oil-covered brown pelican tries to clean and dry its wings after landing on a dock on Grand Isle. Animal rescue workers were called and the bird was captured for treatment.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Jose Zarate, center, celebrates with thousands of fans as Mexico scores a goal against South Africa while watching the second half of play on big-screen monitors at Plaza Mexico in Lynwood during World Cup play.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A South Africa fan shows her support during the Opening Ceremony.  (Cameron Spencer / Getty Images)