World coolest pix of week 36

We’ve already showed you some of this week’s highlights in major galleries such as The Texas Wildfires, Burning Man 2011 and that lovely looking North Korean Cruise. This week’s coolest pix are a pick and mix from across the globe. A bomb attack in Pakistan, a runner attacked by a moose, Libyan rebels still fighting, the start of the Rugby World Cup and of course the Russian air crash which killed en entire top class ice hockey team.

Hurricane Katia is seen from the International Space Station in this NASA handout picture taken August 31, 2011 and released on September 1, 2011. Katia, a Category 1 Hurricane, has weakened to a tropical storm but some restrengthening was forecast during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report on Thursday. Picture taken August 31, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

Two-month-old Sumatran tiger cubs play at their enclosure in Prague zoo, September 2, 2011. REUTERS/Petr Josek

The U.S. team throw their coxswain, Mary Whipple, into the lake after winning the Women's Eight at the World Rowing Championships in Bled September 2, 2011. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic

Cigarettes on the production line are pictured at Bulgartabak's Sofia cigarette mill September 2, 2011. BT Invest, an Austrian-registered company controlled by Russian state VTB bank won a tender to buy a 79.8 percent stake in Bulgaria's dominant cigarette maker Bulgartabak for 100 million euros ($145 million). REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

A man holds a prayer bead and waits for donations from pedestrians while sitting along a road in Faisalabad, located in Pakistan's Punjab province September 2, 2011. REUTERS/Fayyaz Hussain

Actress Keira Knightley poses for photographers on the A Dangerous Method red carpet at the 68th Venice Film Festival September 2, 2011. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

A student dressed as a skeleton stands inside a subway train after a students' rally to demand Chile's government make changes to the public state education system in Santiago September 2, 2011. The words on the heart read: No more profit. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero

A cyclist looks over smoky hills in the Hill Fire in Oak Hills in the Cajon Pass September 2, 2011. The fast-moving fire, which broke out on a median of Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass, was burning at the edge of Oak Hills, where 1,500 homes were under a mandatory evacuation order, authorities said. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

Lightning strikes over Zenica, in central Bosnia, during a summer storm September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

A Maori warrior performs during an official welcome ceremony for the Rugby World Cup in Auckland September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

A Drum Major drops his baton during their display competition at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering in Scotland September 3, 2011. REUTERS/David Moir

A man lies on a mat as a traditional masseuse massages him under a bridge on the banks of the Ganges river in Kolkata September 3, 2011. People from all walks of life can enjoy a traditional open-air oil massage for just a few hundred rupees. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

Libyan rebels fire tank shells from Om El Khanfousa, 100 kilometres (62 miles) east from Sirte, September 3, 2011. The head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) on Saturday gave Libyan cities still controlled by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi one week to surrender. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

Rahim, 38, looks on as children play on his swing ride at a slum in Karachi September 3, 2011. The ride costs five Pakistani rupee ($0.06) per child. REUTERS/Athar Hussain

An Ohio State band member performs with a bag of ice on his head during the third quarter of their NCAA football game against the University of Akron in Columbus, Ohio September 3, 2011. Temperatures in the region were forecast to rise above 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). REUTERS/Matt Sullivan

Brazil's Alex Garcia is hit in the face by Cuba's Yudniel Perez (not seen) during their first round FIBA Americas Championship basketball game in Mar del Plata September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Andres Stapff

An aerial view shows a large demonstration in Ha'medina Square calling for lower living costs and social justice in Tel Aviv September 3, 2011. Hundreds of thousands marched on Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel's history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform. REUTERS/Stringer

Police and members of a forensic team investigate near the body of a man on the outskirts of Oaxaca September 3, 2011. The handcuffed body was dumped near a road, according to local media. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata

Fire-fighters try to extinguish a fire at the Dudhsagar dairy in the Mehsana district of the western Indian state of Gujarat September 3, 2011. At least six people are feared to be dead and about a dozen injured in the fire that broke out in the dairy due to a leakage in a gas pipeline passing from a storage tank near the milk powder manufacturing department. A blast in the boiler was also later reported, fire officials and local media said on Sunday. Picture taken September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Amit Dave

Anti-racist demonstrators confront members of white supremacy groups gathering in West Allis, Wisconsin, September 3, 2011. Neo-Nazi demonstrators gathered for a rally in defense of white America in response to an incident that Milwaukee Police Chief described as racially charged violence outside the Wisconsin state fair on August 4, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Hauck

A boy performs at an auditorium in Rajin at the Special Economic Zone of Rason city, northeast of Pyongyang, August 29, 2011. Picture taken August 29, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A plane flies on Juan Fernandez Islands landing strip, about 676km (420 miles) off Chile's coast, September 4, 2011. All 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the remote Juan Fernandez islands perished, Chile's government said on Saturday, as rescuers and fishermen searched for bodies. Search and rescue teams have recovered four bodies so far from Friday's crash, one of Chile's worst air disasters in recent years. REUTERS/Luis Hidalgo/Pool

Members of the Band of the Moscow Suvorov Military Music College from Russia perform during the Spasskaya Tower international military music festival on Moscow's Red Square September 4, 2011. Military bands from several countries participate in the third such annual tattoo. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Fireworks explode above St. Basil's cathedral during the Spasskaya Tower international military music festival on Moscow's Red Square September 4, 2011. Military bands from several countries participate in the third such annual tattoo. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Bubba Watson of the U.S. hits from the rough on the side of the fairway on the 15th hole during the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament in Norton, Massachusetts, September 4, 2011. REUTERS/Adam Hunger

Participant Kevin Wagter, dressed as the Dust Demon, walks across the playa during the Burning Man Rites of Passage arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, September 4, 2011. More than 50,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival which is celebrating its 25th year. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

The India-Pakistan border appears as an orange line in this photograph taken by the Expedition 28 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) on August 21, 2011 and released September 4, 2011. The fence between the two countries is floodlit for surveillance purposes. Srinagar (L), Islamabad (bottom C), Lahore (centre near the border line) and Delhi (top C) can be seen as brighter spots. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

An aerial view of rescue workers searching for missing people among the debris of houses destroyed in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo, September 5, 2011. Japan's death toll from tropical depression Talas, earlier downgraded from a tropical storm, has risen to 25 with 52 missing, the government said on Monday, as torrential rain pounded the west of the country at the weekend, triggering mudslides and bursting river banks. Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo

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Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province September 3, 2011. The university set out mats for some 600 parents accompanying freshmen students on their first day of school, local media reported. Picture taken September 3, 2010. REUTERS/China Daily

Amanda Knox, the U.S. student convicted of killing her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy on November 2007, attends her appeal trial session in Perugia September 5, 2011. Kercher was found half-naked lying in a pool of blood with her throat cut in the house the two women shared in the Italian town of Perugia. Knox, her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Ivorian Rudy Guede were convicted and jailed in 2009 for the murder. REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito

An anti-Mubarak demonstrator's head bleeds after being hit with a stone by pro-Mubarak demonstrators during clashes with riot policemen in front of the police academy where former president Hosni Murbarak is on trial in Cairo September 5, 2011. Egyptian demonstrators scuffled with police outside the court where the trial of Mubarak resumed on Monday, when senior policemen were due to give the first witness testimony. Mubarak, in hospital since April with heart problems and other reported ailments, was wheeled on a gurney into a metal defendants' cage in the court, at the Cairo Police Academy. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama yawns as he attends the 24th convocation ceremony of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi September 5, 2011. The Dalai Lama was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by the university during the convocation. REUTERS/B Mathur

An anti-Gaddafi fighter looks up at his weapon hanging from a window at the last checkpoint before the town of Bani Walid, currently held by pro-Gaddafi forces, in south east Tripoli September 5, 2011. Libyan forces made ready to storm a desert town held by loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi on Monday but held off in the hope of a surrender that would avoid bloodshed. On-off negotiations involving tribal elders from Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, and a fog of contradictory messages in recent days, reflect the complexities of dismantling the remnants of Gaddafi's 42-year rule and building a new political system. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

A supporter is reflected in her iPad as she makes a video of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaking at a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester, New Hampshire September 5, 2011. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

An advertisement for Burberry is seen on Duomo cathedral in Milan September 5, 2011. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

Artist Sergei Bobkov, 54, shows a sculpture of a life-sized owl made from cutting chips from the Siberian cedar at an exhibition of his works in a local school in the settlement of Kozhany, 207 km (129 miles) southwest of Krasnoyarsk, September 5, 2011. Bobkov, who received a patent on manufacturing art sculptures made of cutting chips, has made a total of 15 life-size wooden sculptures of Siberian birds and animals. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

A Chilean navy diver prepares to search aircraft wreckage on a shore at the Juan Fernandez Islands, about 676km (420 miles) off Chile's coast, September 5, 2011. All 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the remote Juan Fernandez islands perished, Chile's government said on Saturday, as rescuers and fishermen searched for bodies. Search and rescue teams have recovered four bodies so far from Friday's crash, one of Chile's worst air disasters in recent years. REUTERS/Luis Hidalgo/Pool

A labourer washes animal skin at a local leather processing site in Nigeria's northern city of Kano August 5, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

A man believed to have strapped what appeared to be a bomb to himself looks out of a window next to the Parramatta court building near Sydney September 6, 2011. The man was holding a young girl, believed to be his daughter, Australian media reports said. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz

Residents use their hands to measure a 21-feet (6.4 metres) saltwater crocodile, which is suspected of having attacked several people, after it was caught in Nueva Era in Bunawan town, Agusan del Sur, southern Philippines September 4, 2011. The crocodile captured on Sunday evening weighs 600 kg and is the largest crocodile caught in the country to date, according to the Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center. Picture taken September 4, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

A boy rows a boat on a lake at Pacaya Samiria National Reserve in the Amazon jungle, September 3, 2011. The Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, measuring close to 2,080,000 hectares in area, is the biggest national reserve in Peru, containing 85 natural lakes which are home to 250 species of fish as well as both pink and grey freshwater dolphins, according to the country's official tourism website. Picture taken September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Celine Monrad-Haslum, a competitor taking part in an uphill race, lays injured after being attacked by a moose (background) in Nittedal, some 30 km (18 miles) north of Oslo September 5, 2011. Monrad-Haslum was evacuated on a helicopter to a nearby hospital to be treated for the injuries sustained during the attack. REUTERS/Knut Haavard Solberg/Varingen/Scanpix

Police officers rescue a girl who was held hostage by a man next to the Parramata court building near Sydney September 6, 2011. A man strapped what appeared to be a bomb to himself outside a Sydney court building Tuesday and was holding the young girl, believed to be his daughter, Australian media reports said. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz

An internally displaced woman walks along a war-ravaged street in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, September 6, 2011. Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations said on Monday, and hundreds of people are dying each day despite a ramping up of aid relief. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

A reveller covered in grease takes part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain September 6, 2011. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the villages of Baza and Guadix over the possession of the image of the Virgin of Piedad. The Cascamorras refers to representatives from Guadix, who are sent to the town of Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras have to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the statue, Baza residents attempt to make them as 'dirty' as possible. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

A mannequin is seen at the beach in Tripoli September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Anis Mili

A man sits injured, in front of a dead child, at the site of a double suicide bombing in Quetta on September 7, 2011. Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, a police official said. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed

A sunset over statues is seen at the main entrance of the All-Russia Exhibition centre in Moscow September 6, 2011. The centre was opened in 1939 as a showcase of Soviet productivity and remains a favourite with tourists for its representations of communist ideology, and for Moscovites as a recreational park. Picture taken September 6. REUTERS/Nikolay Korchekov

A combination photo shows an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, March 16, 2011 (top) after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and its aftermath taken June 3, 2011 and September 1, 2011, (bottom), all taken by Kyodo and released September 7, 2011, ahead of the six month anniversary this weekend since the disaster. Mandatory credit. REUTERS/Kyodo

An aerial view shows Leonardo da Vinci's The Vitruvian Man recreated by artist John Quigley on the Arctic sea ice August 29, 2011. Greenpeace commissioned the work to highlight the fact that the Arctic is melting and the need for world leaders need to take urgent action on climate change. This September could mark the lowest sea ice minimum on record. Picture taken August 29, 2011. REUTERS/Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace/Handout

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on a bed while being taken to the courtroom at the police academy in Cairo September 7, 2011. An Egyptian court trying Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters who ousted him convened on Wednesday to hear more testimonies after police witnesses suggested this week that neither he nor his interior minister gave orders to shoot. REUTERS/Stringer

Crushed cars caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami are collected in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, September 7, 2011, ahead of the six-month anniversary this weekend since the disaster. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Emergency workers search the wreckage of a plane that crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl September 7, 2011. Forty-three people were feared dead after a plane carrying a Russian hockey team crashed on Wednesday near the city of Yaroslavl, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. REUTERS/Stringer

Lokomotive Yaroslavl ice-hockey team of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) pose for a team photo in this August 21, 2011 handout file photo by the KHL. Forty-three people were feared dead after a plane carrying the Russian hockey team crashed on Wednesday near the city of Yaroslavl, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. REUTERS/Agentstvo KHL/Handout/Files

Candles and flowers are placed around a Slovak national hockey jersey at the Ice Hockey Stadium in Trencin September 7, 2011. A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, leaving 43 people feared dead. Slovakia's Pavol Demitra, who played for Russian team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, was amongst the 43 people feared dead. Demitra used to play for Trencin. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa

African lion Katya licks zoo owner and artist Aleksandr Pylyshenko in a cage at his private zoo situated in his backyard in the city of Vasilyevka, southeastern Ukraine September 7, 2011. Pylyshenko broadcasted on the internet his experience of living in the cage with Katya and her cubs for 36 days, before leaving it on Wednesday. According to local media, Pylyshenko wanted to raise funds to improve the lions' living conditions and also raise awareness of the plight of wild animals in private Ukrainian zoos. REUTERS/Stringer

Riot policemen are hit with an improvised petrol bomb thrown by students during a protest march in Bogota September 7, 2011. Thousands of students and teachers marched in a nationwide protest against the education government's reform of public universities, student organizations reported. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez

Spectators look at contestants competing in the National Ballooning Championship, held to commemorate Brazil's independence day, in Brasilia September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Workers clean the windows of a building in Quito September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja

GOP presidential candidates (L-R): former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) , former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rep. Ron Paul, (R-TX), Herman Cain, and former U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman stand on stage before the Reagan Centennial GOP presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

A man walks past pigeons on his way back after offering prayers from a nearby temple at Bashantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

A dragonfly lands on a stalk of wheat ready for harvest during sunset on the Canadian prairies near Vulcan, Alberta, September 7, 2011. Canada's overall stockpile of wheat as of July 31 dropped by 8.2 percent from a year ago, a smaller decrease than traders had predicted, Statistics Canada data indicated. REUTERS/Todd Korol

The moon is seen behind decorative lights prepared for the upcoming Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival at a park in Hong Kong September 8, 2011. Chinese worldwide will celebrate the festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Lunar calendar. The festival began as a harvest moon celebration in ancient China and also marks the overthrown of the Mongol rulers during the Yuan Dynasty. The festival falls on September 12 this year. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Mohan, a 30-year-old tailor, works inside a shop under a staircase inside a

residential building in Mumbai September 8, 2011. The shop is also his residence which he shares with his wife and mother. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

An anti-Gaddafi fighter from the Warfallah tribe stands guard with a heavy machine gun at Wadi Dinar, 15 km (9 miles) from the town of Bani Walid, currently held by pro-Gaddafi forces, in southeast Tripoli September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Dale and Ronda Dittrick of Dayton, Ohio, read a sign at the temporary memorial for Flight 93 outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 8, 2011. Dale Dittrick was part of the Ohio Task Force that worked at Ground Zero in New York after the attacks on September 11, 2001. Sunday is the tenth anniversary of the attacks on New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, and the permanent Flight 93 Memorial will be dedicated on Saturday. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

The facade of the Bank of Greece is stained with red paint thrown by demonstrators after a rally against Greek government's planned education reforms in central Athens September 8, 2011. Greece is missing fiscal and reform targets set out under the first, 110-billion euro bailout it obtained in May 2010, despite the spending cuts and tax hikes it took to comply. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

Sailboats under spinnaker race near the Golden Gate Bridge on San Francisco Bay during the Rolex Big Boat Series sailing regatta in San Francisco, California September 8, 2011. San Francisco will host the America's Cup in 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington September 8, 2011. Obama proposed a $447 billion jobs package to help boost the U.S. economy, challenging Congress to pass legislation made up largely of tax cuts for workers and businesses. REUTERS/Jason Reed

A couple walk their dogs past a malfunctioning traffic intersection following a power outage in Cardiff, September 8, 2011. A massive power outage left well over a million people without electricity in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, San Diego Gas and Electric said, warning service might not be restored until the next day. REUTERS/Mike Blake

A vendor smokes a cigarette as he sits in front of piles of Chinese watermelons at a market in Hefei, Anhui province, September 9, 2011. China's annual inflation cooled slightly to 6.2 percent in August from three-year highs the month before, matching expectations and lending support for a pause in Beijing's 10-month-long policy tightening campaign. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Tourists camp under the stars on the steppe near Hashaat in Mongolia's Dundgovi province early August 8, 2011. Picture taken August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Tim Chong (MONGOLIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRAVEL TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

The 2011 NIKE MAG shoe, based on the original NIKE MAG worn in 2015 by the Back to the Future character Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, is unveiled at The Montalban Theatre in Hollywood, California September 8, 2011. Fifteen hundred pairs of the 2011 NIKE MAG will be auctioned on eBay with all net proceeds going directly to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

A performer participates the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup at Eden Park in Auckland September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

New Zealand All Blacks captain Richie McCaw (R) and his teammates perform the Haka before their Rugby World Cup Pool A match against Tonga at Eden Park in Auckland September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen