From the Olympics to Ramadan, forest fires to devastating floods, the heat is on in this week's batch of memorable photos from the week that was.
Photos Of The Week -- July 21-27
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A Syrian girl lies on top of luggage at a makeshift refugee camp inside Iraq after crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at Albu Kamal-Qaim, the main border post between the two countries, on July 24. (REUTERS/Saad Shalash)
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Young refugees who fled the violence in Syria are seen at the Bashabsha camp near the Jordanian city of Al Ramtha, at the Syrian border on July 25. (REUTERS/Majed Jaber)
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Girls recite verses from the Koran at a madrasah in Islamabad on July 27. (REUTERS/Rebecca Conway)
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British athlete Nicholas Robinson Baker's tattoo of the Olympic rings is seen as he dives during a training session at the Aquatics Center in London on July 26. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
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Paralympian Ade Adepitan waves to the crowd below as he carries the Olympic flame across the Millennium Bridge in front of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 26. (REUTERS/Luke MacGregor)
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A woman wearing sunglasses featuring the Olympic rings cheers during the torch relay on July 26. (AFP/Miguel Medina)
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Fireworks light up the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of the London 2012 Games in the early mornings hours of July 28. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
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Belarussian paratroopers take part in a drill near the village of Goroshki, some 30 kilometers west of Minsk, on July 25. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)
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A man finds refuge on an inflatable sofa on a flooded street near the Yangtze River in China's Chongqing municipality on July 25. Torrential rain swept through 17 provincial areas, leaving nearly 100 people dead. (REUTERS)
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Chinese soldiers place sandbags to block a breaching dyke after heavy rainfalls hit the Fangshan district of Beijing on July 25. (REUTERS)
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Water is released from the Three Gorges Dam, the gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province on July 24 after heavy downpours in the upper reaches of the dam caused the highest flood peak of the year. (AFP)
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Artist Pyotr Pavlensky, a supporter of jailed members of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot, sewed his mouth shut in protest outside the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg on July 23. (REUTERS)
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Pakistani Muslims wait to break their fast in Quetta on July 25. Muslims fasting in the month of Ramadan must abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn until sunset, when they break the fast with the meal known as iftar. (AFP/Banaras Khan)
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A man raises his hands to pray near the sea at sunset after a day of fasting in the holy month of Ramadan in Benghazi, Libya, on July 24. (REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori)
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A Spanish firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire in Ller near La Junquera on July 23. Three people were killed as winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in northeastern Spain. (AFP/Lluis Gene)
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An Iraqi man tries to cool off as temperatures reached 48 degrees Celsius in Baghdad on July 26. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)