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Week in Pictures: 8-14 July

From a trillion-tonne iceberg to a Game of Thrones invasion - here are the images of the past seven days

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14 Jul 2017
Looted shop, G20 2017

SATURDAY, GERMANY:

A pharmacy owner in Hamburg assesses the damage after being attacked by looters during protests at the G20 summit

Red Bull Cliff Diving 2017

Samo Vidic/Red Bull via Getty Images

SUNDAY, PORTUGAL: Germany's Anna Bader dives 68ft into the sea at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in the Azores Islands

Iraqi soldier celebrates

MONDAY, IRAQ: A soldier celebrates in Mosul after government declares the city "liberated" from Islamic State

The Night King / White Walkers, GOT

TUESDAY, UK: The Night King and his White Walkers storm Oxford Circus in London to promote the new series of Game of Thrones

Heatwave, China

WEDNESDAY, CHINA: Locals in the Jiangsu province cool down with a dip as a heatwave hits the country

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Queen Elizabeth and King Felipe

WEDNESDAY, UK: The Queen welcomes King Felipe of Spain on his first state visit to the UK

Iceberg break, Antarctica

WEDNESDAY, ANTARCTICA: A trillion-tonne iceberg - one of the largest on record - breaks away from an ice shelf in Antarctica

Mitama Matsuri festival 2017

THURSDAY, JAPAN: A woman in Tokyo is captivated by rows of lanterns, lit for the Buddhist festival of Mitama Matsuri

Hope, Natural History Museum

Yui Mok/AFP/Getty Images

The Natural History Museum in London

Liu Xiaobo vigil

FRIDAY, CHINA: A vigil in Taipei pays tribute to Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who died, aged 61, while serving an 11-year jail sentence for demanding an end to one-party rule

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