Week in pictures: 12-18 July

HYDERABAD, SUNDAY: An Indian Muslim examines a 100-year-old one-inch Quran at Islamic University during the holy month of Ramadan. As well as abstinence and fasting, Muslims are encouraged to pray and read the Quran during Islam's holiest month.

LONDON, SUNDAY: A British police officer reacts as he watches a giant screen showing the second set tie-break in the men's singles final match between Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Switzerland's Roger Federer at Wimbledon.

PARIS, TUESDAY: Students from the Mexican military academy march down the Champs Elysees in front of French and international dignitaries during the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris.

BELFAST, MONDAY: Young Orange bandsman make their way along the main route of the Twelfth of July parade on July 13, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Twelfth is an Ulster Protestant celebration marking the victory of Protestant William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

GAZA CITY, TUESDAY: Palestinian Ateya Megdad washes his horse on the beach in Gaza City.

ATHENS, WEDNESDAY: A protester clashes with riot police in front of the Greek parliament. Anti-austerity protesters hurled petrol bombs as lawmakers began debating deeply unpopular reforms needed to unlock a new eurozone bailout.

FRANCE, WEDNESDAY: The peloton makes its way up the Col d'Aspin during stage eleven of the 2015 Tour de France, a 188 km stage between Pau and Cauterets.

MARYLAND, TUESDAY: Francis Murphy poses with a New Horizons probe hat at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. The unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on July 14, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the dwarf planet for the first time.