Pictures of the Week:

 

Pictures of the Week: 

1- A picture of three seemingly terrified women being greeted by a giant stingray is spreading like wildfire online. 

The "photobomb", posted to Reddit.com, appears to show a man lurking behind the group of ladies lifting a stingray 

onto their backs - much to their horror.

2- Walking through deep foam ...... A woman makes her way through South Square in Fittie on the coast at Aberdeen. 

The prom was covered in a thick sea foam after flooding from the North sea as stormy weather hit the Scottish coast this week

3- Flood water washed away material surrounding a block of apartments in Newburn, Newcastle, 

leaving the building's foundations exposed (Tyne and Wear Fire Service/PA)

4- A fire bomb explodes behind a riot police squad in Athens. Officers clashed with hooded youths 

throwing firebombs on the sidelines of a large demonstration against a new round of austerity cuts.

5- A member of the Free Syrian Army opens fire from his machine gun during clashes with Syrian Army forces in Aleppo (Reuters)

6- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he drew on a picture of a bomb used to represent Iran's 

nuclear program as he addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York (Reuters)

7- David Cameron chats with talk show host David Letterman this week in an appearance that was roundly mocked. 

The PM was quizzed by Letterman on British trivia and failed to answer correctly the name of the composer of Rule Britannia 

and the meaning of 'Magna Carta'

8- A policeman leads inmates as they walk along a road with their wrists tied together to a rope in the Emei Mountain region,

Sichuan province, China. Police transported 594 inmates out of the mountainous area into a new prison 50 km (31 miles) away 

(Reuters)

9- The Hubble Telescope captured the deepest view ever seen of the night sky this week

10- Bungling workmen accidentally created the world's most dangerous playground - after digging this massive hole 

at the bottom of a slide. A team of construction workers excavated the cavern to get to a burst sewer pipe beneath 

the children's play area. But they failed to properly rope-off the site, meaning children can still climb up the steps 

and slide directly into the 10ft-deep hole. The playground, outside a block of flats in the city of Tolyatti, Central Russia, 

is still open to the public.

11- A waitress carries beer mugs in the Hofbraeuhaus tent after the opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in Munich

12- Meet Spangles, the cutest cross-eyed cat pirate you will see this year. 

The adorable kitty is picking up legions of fans after his proud owner Mary Buchanan 

posted a picture of him in swashbuckling costume online

13- Photographers crowded round as the curtain was pulled back to present what is claimed to be an early version of Leonardo da Vinci's 

Mona Lisa this week. But even the experts brought in by the non-profit Mona Lisa Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, were not sure 

about that claim yet.