Week in pictures 17 Jul 2021
Here is the top news photography from the past week:
INSUL: Houses are damaged by flooding in Insul, Germany, on Thursday, July 15. Severe flooding caused by historic rainfall has led to dozens of deaths in western Europe (Michael Probst/AP)
HAVANA: Cars are overturned in the street as people in Havana, Cuba, take part in protests on Sunday, July 11. Thousands of Cubans took the streets Sunday to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic and US sanctions (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)
LONDON: Italian players celebrate after defeating England in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday, July 11. The match was decided by a dramatic penalty shootout (Laurence Griffiths/Pool/AFP/Getty Images)
SPACE: Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, experiences weightlessness after successfully rocketing to space on Sunday, July 11. Branson is the first billionaire to travel to space aboard a spacecraft he helped fund (Virgin Galactic)
DEATH VALLEY: Visitors take photos in front of a thermometer at Death Valley National Park in Death Valley, California, on Saturday, July 10. A day earlier, the park hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit for only the fifth time in recorded history (Roger Kisby/The New York Times/Redux)