Week in pictures: 15-21 July

LAST UPDATED AT 20:30 ON Fri 20 Jul 2012
Yellow jersey holder Bradley Wiggins leads his British Sky team-mate Chris Froome
Credits: 
Bryn Lennon

FRANCE, WEDNESDAY: Yellow jersey holder Bradley Wiggins leads his British Sky team-mate Chris Froome up the Col du Tourmalet during stage sixteen of the Tour de France. Wiggins is on course to become the first Briton to win the race in its 109-year history.

Yellow jersey holder Bradley Wiggins leads his British Sky team-mate Chris Froome
People are interviewed at the Century 16 movie theatre where a gunmen attacked cinema goers
Ashraf, Karzai and Cameron shake hands
A soldier throws a tear gas cannister
US singer Erykah Badu performs on stage at the Theater Circo Price in Madrid.
A white lion named Princess licks one of her week-old cubs
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke waits to deliver his mid-year economic report to Congress
Rain clouds gather over Manhattan prior to a dramatic summer storm
Family and friends mourn at the funeral of Mahmud Derwish, a 17-year-old member of the Free Syrian Army.
The Olympic flame arrives in the UK capital on board a Sea King Helicopter