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    Week in pictures: 16 - 22 July

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    By The Week Staff
    published 21 July 2016

    SATURDAY, TURKEY:

    Soldiers involved in the coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surrender on Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul

    SATURDAY, GERMANY: People dressed as singer Kate Bush in her 1978 Wuthering Heights video set a record for the most people dancing in costume to the song at once

    SATURDAY, FRANCE:

    Race leader Chris Froome, in the yellow jersey, heads the pack during stage 14 of the Tour de France

    SATURDAY, GEORGIA:

    asmin Halil of Serbia competes in the boys' high jump final at the European Athletics Youth Championships

    MONDAY, ENGLAND: Swans and cygnets are rounded up to be weighed and tagged during the annual swan-upping census

    MONDAY, US: Presidential nominee Donald Trump enters the stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention

    TUESDAY, UK:

    Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and US Secretary of State John Kerry joke together during a press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London

    TUESDAY, ENGLAND:

    a Cornish Pasty as he visits Port Isaac, Cornwall, the location of the fictional Doc Martin TV show

    TUESDAY, US: Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is hit in the head by a pitch during the seventh inning at the team's Angel Stadium

    WEDNESDAY, GERMANY:

    Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Theresa May review a guard of honor at the Chancellery in Berlin

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