The Week in Pictures

Netherlands’ Arjen Robben, left, reacts after failing to score a goal past Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas.  (Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press)

San Fermin revelers light a flare as they celebrate Spain’s 1-0 victory over the Netherlands in soccer’s World Cup final in South Africa.  (Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press)

A Bosnian Muslim woman mourns over the coffin of a relative during preparations for burial at the Potocari cemetery near the eastern town of Srebrenica. Tens of thousands of Bosnians gathered to remember those slain when Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica and massacred about 8,000 Muslims, most of them men and boys.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP/Getty Images)

A newborn gets a helping of grass from its mother at a wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of town.  (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

Fireworks are seen over Soccer City Stadium after the World Cup final in which Spain defeated the Netherlands, 1-0.  (Gero Breloer / Associated Press)

Fans rejoice at a fountain at the Plaza Espana after Spain’s soccer World Cup victory.  (David Ramos / Associated Press)

Illuminated by a flashlight, a U.S. soldier with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, has his head shaved at Combat Outpost Ware in the volatile Arghandab Valley.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

Boats skim oil and ignite it on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The burning program was suspended for several weeks but has resumed.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

The New York Mets Jeff Francoeur tumbles into the stands while trying to field a ball.  (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)

Paula Creamer hugs Colin Cann, her caddie, after winning the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament at Oakmont Country Club.  (Darron Cummings / Associated Press)

Diego Godin of Uruguay shows his dejection at the final whistle following the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa third-place playoff match between Uruguay and Germany at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Germany won, 3-2.  (Lars Baron / Getty Images)

Workmen remove a large mural of NBA star LeBron James from a building in downtown Cleveland. James, who played seven years for the Cleveland Cavaliers, signed with the Miami Heat after becoming a free agent after the season.  (Mark Duncan / Associated Press)

A model walks the runway at the Starstyling Show during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Bebelplatz on July 10 in Berlin.  (Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images)

A Bosnian Muslim man mourns at a relative’s memorial in Potocari cemetery, near Srebrenica. The region is marking the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Serbian forces after Srebrenica’s capture on July 11, 1995.  (Amel Emric / Associated Press)

A girl walks inside a walking ball at an entertainment center in the town of Logoisk, Belarus.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Fireworks burst over lighted floats in the waters off Dumaguete City during the Dal-Uy Festival of Hope. The event attracted thousands of students who decorate the floats and inscribe them with their hopes for the coming school year. The plywood and paper craft are then cast into the sea in the port city, located in the central Philippines.  (Hersley Ven Casero / For The Times)

Spanish matador Oliva Soto looks at his nemesis during a bullfight at the San Fermin festival in northern Spain.  (Rafa Rivas / AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan national army soldier wears an ammunition belt around his neck during a joint patrol with U.S. counterparts outside Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

A model wears a creation from the spring/summer 2011 collection presented by JI + B during Berlin Fashion Week.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

A Bosnian Muslim woman holds the casket containing the remains of her son at the memorial center at Potocari, near Srebrenica. His remains were among those recovered from mass graves in which Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre by Bosnian Serb forces were buried.  (Amel Emric / Associated Press)

Two Indian elephants at the local zoo bear the colors of the German flag.  (Thomas Kienzle / AFP/Getty Images)

Curator Julian Schnabel stands in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new “ Dennis Hopper Double Standard” exhibition. The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of the late actor and artist’s work and runs July 11 through Sept. 26 at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.  (John W. Adkisson / Los Angeles Times)

A worker waters freshly laid turf at City Hall. Seoul will play host to a summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations in November.  (Park Ji-Hwan / AFP/Getty Images)

A skateboarder uses a seaside skate park covered with graffiti.  (Carl de Souza AFP/Getty Images)

A performer jokes with Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara, right, in the yellow jersey of overall leader, and Norway’s Thor Hushovd, second left, wearing a green jersey signifying best sprinter, before the start of the 6th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race between Montargis and Gueugnon.  (Pascal Pavini AFP/Getty Images)

Mt. St. Helens dulled by smog provides the backdrop as an Alaska Airlines plane prepares for landing at Portland International Airport. Officials have issued a heat advisory and smog alert for the area as temperatures are expected to reach into the mid to high 90s.  (Don Ryan / Associated Press)

Two boys dive while a girl watches them from the other side through a window at a pool. All over Germany, temperatures are extremely high.  (Julian Stratenschulte / EPA)

A Vision airlines plane presumed to be carrying 10 men and women who allegedly worked as Russian spies in the United States sits on the tarmac at the Vienna airport where it parked next to a Russian jet. They were then flown to Moscow as part of a U.S.-Russia spy exchange.  (Dieter Nagl / AFP / Getty Images)

A Bosnian woman touches memorial stones at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica. Bosnians will mark on Sunday 15 years since the darkest episode of the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, the Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslims by Serbs. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the commemoration, including Serbian President Boris Tadic, who also attended the 10th anniversary ceremony; his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic; and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  (Cimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

A model presents a creation by German designer Patrick Mohr at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The presentation of the Spring-Summer 2011 collections takes place through Sunday.  (Britta Pedersen / EPA)

Young women dressed in Spanish clothes take to the streets of Durban. They formed part of the Durban Street Carnival to celebrate all those involved in the successful hosting of the 2010 World Cup.  (Rajesh Jantilal / AFP/Getty Images)

Georgian woman Antisa Khvichava, 130, marks her birthday in her home. Her birth documents date back to 1880, and Georgian authorities have reportedly sent her name to the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person in the world. If verified, she will take away the title from a 114-year-old woman in Japan.  (Zurab Kurtsikdze / EPA)

Andrew Grim hangs more than 200 New Era caps in preparation for Fan Fest at the the Anaheim Convention Center for the All-Star game.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The Solar Impulse is prepared for takeoff from Payerne’s airbase in the first attempt to fly around the clock fueled by nothing but the energy of the sun.  (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images)

A group of Chinese men turn to the Yangtze river to cool off from the summer heat in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. Temperatures in most parts of China have soared above 100 degrees.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Spanish fans celebrate their team’s 1-0 victory over Germany in a World Cup semifinal match played in South Africa. Spain will next play Netherlands on Sunday for the championship.  (Dani Pozo / AFP/Getty Images)

Models present creations by 5elements at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.  (Jens Kalaene / EPA)

On the fifth anniversary of terrorist bombings that killed 52 people, a woman prepares to lay flowers at the Hyde Park memorial to the victims. The attacks by four suicide bombers targeted the London Underground and a bus in Tavistock Square.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

Quadruplet white Bengal tiger cubs are presented to the media at a zoo. The two male and two female cubs are their mother’s firstborn, but she abandoned them after giving birth on June 20.  (Wang Shan / EPA)

Thick smoke rises over one of the firefighters tackling a blaze at a plant that produces foamed polystyrene.  (Jerzy Undro / EPA)

Visitors watch sharks and other fish swimming in a tunnel at the Sea Life aquarium.  (Patrik Stollarz / AFP / Getty Images)

A fire hydrant helps ease the heat in Philadelphia. The East Coast broiled under triple-digit temperatures, with forecasters saying relief would not arrive until Friday.  (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)

A man jumps from a fountain to be caught by fellow revelers during the first day of the San Fermin running-of-the-bulls festival. Fighting bulls are run through the historic heart of Pamplona for eight days starting Wednesday in this fiesta made famous by the 1926 novel of U.S. writer Ernest Hemmingway “The Sun Also Rises.”  (Denis Doyle / Getty Images)

Revelers react during the ‘Chupinazo’, the official opening of the San Fermin fiesta. The fiesta, held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights.  (Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press)

Passengers cross a flooded bridge to a passenger boat on the Danube river. Flooding continued to plague eastern Romania, with officials bracing for more rising water over the weekend, local media reported.  (Alexandru Enache / EPA)

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist devotees carry a portrait of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as they celebrate his birthday in Katmandu, Nepal. Dozens of Tibetan exiles on their way to take part in a celebration for the Dalai Lama’s birthday were detained by police in the Nepalese capital.  (Gemunu Amarasinghe / Associated Press)

A woman walks past a fire station which has fire scenes painted on its walls in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district.  (David Gannon / AFP / Getty Images)

Sri Lankan National Freedom Front activists burn an effigy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a protest rally. Protesters led by a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister surrounded the United Nations office in Colombo to protest against a U.N. panel due to probe war crimes allegations.  (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP / Getty Images)

Robinho of Brazil celebrates scoring the opening goal during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa quarterfinal match against Netherlands at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. The Netherlands ended up winning, 2-1.  (Doug Pensinger / Getty Images)

A Cambodian woman is vaccinated against A- H1N1 at the Cambodian People’s Party headquarters. Cambodian Premier Hun Sen and several top officials have been infected with swine flu, a government spokesman said on June 29. In Cambodia, six people have died from the virus and another 591 have been infected, according to the country’s health ministry.  (Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP / Getty Images)

President Obama greets soccer player Tasha Kai during a White House ceremony honoring the women’s professional soccer team Sky Blue FC.  (Saul Loeb / AFP-Getty Images)

Visitors walk past the Canadian pavilion at the World Rxpo 2010 in Shanghai. Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean visited the pavilion on the occasion of Canada Day.  (Philippe Lopez / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman was among the people who headed to a shelter as Hurricane Alex was set to make landfall south of the U.S. border with Mexico. It was possible that Alex could arrive as a Category 2 hurricane, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.  (Luis Acosta / AFP / Getty Images)

Demonstrators paste up portraits of missing people during a march protesting Army Day in Guatemala City. Human rights groups say 98 percent of the civilian slayings during the 36-year Guatemalan civil war were committed by the army.  (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press)

The statue of Christ the Redeemer is lighted with Brazil’s national colors after the completion of a four-month renovation. The statue reopened to the public Wednesday.  (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

A cloud of incense hangs in the air as the funeral of California Highway Patrol Officer Philip Ortiz ends at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Ortiz was writing a ticket in the emergency lane of the 405 Freeway when a vehicle struck his patrol car and pinned him against the SUV he had pulled over. He died of his injuries June 22.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A Russian Progress cargo ship carrying supplies for the International Space Station blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The robotic space freighter is to dock at the station Friday.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters battle a blaze that swept through three homes, killing at least one person. The cause is under investigation.  (Bill Tompkins / Associated Press)

Tourists visit the renovated Christ the Redeemer statue at Corcovado hill. The monument was reopened following restoration with a $3.8-million private investment.  (Vanderlei Almeida / AFP / Getty Images)

Players jog around the pitch during the Brazil team training session at St Stithians College. Brazil will play The Netherlands on Friday in the quarterfinals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.  (Richard Heathcote / Getty Images)