Week in pictures 22 July 2023
WIMBLEDON: Carlos Alcaraz, the world's top-ranked tennis player, celebrates after he defeated Novak Djokovic to win his first Wimbledon title on Sunday, July 16. The five-set match lasted nearly five hours. Alcaraz, a 20-year-old Spaniard, is the third-youngest Wimbledon champion in the Open era (Alberto Pezzali/AP)
ATHENS: A police officer helps a child evacuate the Greek village of Agios Charalampos, near Athens, as a wildfire burns on Tuesday, July 18 (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
ATLANTA: Pallbearers carry the coffin of Christine King Farris, the eldest sister of the late Martin Luther King Jr., at her funeral service in Atlanta on Sunday, July 16. Farris, 95, was a founding board member and longtime volunteer of the King Center (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
AUCKLAND: Performers dance during the opening ceremony of the Women’s World Cup on Thursday, July 20. The tournament is taking place in New Zealand and Australia through August 20 (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
MIAMI: Soccer star Lionel Messi poses with his new jersey as he is introduced to inter Miami fans on Sunday, July 16. Messi signed with the Major League Soccer club through the end of the 2025 season (Marco Bello/Reuters)
LIMA: Anti-government protesters clash with police in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, July 19. After years of relative economic prosperity and hope for the future, Peru has been shaken by months of social unrest and political instability that seem to have no end (Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images)
BAGHDAD: Police try to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who stormed the main gates of the Swedish Embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday, July 20. The protest was over a planned burning of the Quran outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
ODESA: A firefighter works at a site of an administrative building that was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 20. Ukraine has been struggling to repel a wave of Russian strikes against the southern (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout/Reuters)
SCOTLAND: Golden retrievers from all over the world pose for a group picture Sunday, July 16, on the front lawn of Guisachan House, the breed's ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands (Roddy Mackay for The New York Times/Redux)
BEIRUT: People jump in the Mediterranean Sea to cool off on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday, July 16 (Hassan Ammar/AP)