THE WEEK THAT WAS IN PICTURES

Naif Hazazi (right) of Saudi Arabia executes a bicycle kick while playing against Ri Kwang-Chon and Ri Jun-Il of North Korea. North Korea secured their place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after a goalless draw in Riyadh.

21-year-old male sealion Rook, wears sunglasses with his trainer Hideo Yamabe in preparation for the solar eclipse next month at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo.

Ellen Pontac (L) and her wife Shelly Bailes celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary and the one-year anniversary of a California Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriages. On June 16, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled providing a constitutional right to same-sex marriages went into effect, only later in November for it to be overturned by voters. The courts then announced a ruling on May 19 upholding Proposition 8, which banned gay marriages in California; but also upheld the marriages that had been performed before the proposition passed were still valid

Two baby Flamingos take their first steps at London Zoo. The one-month-old pair of birds called Little and Large were being hand reared by keepers using a pink Flamingo style sock puppet.

Cirque du Soleil performers wait outside the Bellagio in Las Vegas for a Guinness World Record stilt walking attempt to mark Cirque's 25th anniversary. There were 1,926 Cirque artists and employees expected to participate at the same time in Orlando, Fortaleza, Brazil, Macau, China, Moscow, Montreal and Las Vegas in walking on stilts for at least 300 meters in less than 15 minutes to break the record

Demonstrators at a protest in support of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi

A woman looks into a three dimensional drawing of a canyon on Regent's canal towpath in London. The artwork is part of the TwoTings safety campaign aimed at getting cyclists to slow down when using the towpath

US First Lady Michelle Obama and some 36 fifth grade students at work in the White House Kitchen Garden.

A Romanian woman and her child are escorted by police into the Ozone Leisure Centre in Belfast. Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness rapped 'racist criminals' who forced over 100 Romanians to seek refuge in a church hall after a series of attacks on their homes. The families, including one with a five-day-old baby girl, spent Tuesday night in the Belfast hall after the situation climaxed with an attack on an anti-racism rally Monday when youths made Nazi salutes and threw bottles. McGuinness said the attackers were 'racist criminals' who he wanted to see arrested and taken to court

A firefighting airplane drops water on a fire that broke out in southern Athens.

The River Simple company founder Hugo Spowers poses for photographs with his new design of hydrogen car in London. Powered by hydrogen fuel cells and featuring a composite body, four electric motors, no gearbox or transmission and regenerative braking the 'River Simple' car will be leased rather than sold. The design will be published on the Web for anyone to collaborate in the design under an open source licence.

A protestor holds up a hand covered in blood during a rally as Iranian supporters of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi demonstrated in the streets of Tehran.

Jesse Flores loads a truck carrying a bust of President Barack Obama in Illinois. The sculpture, created by Houston artist David Adickes, was being transported to Presidents Park located near Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota

Sukhdev Baba Santi, a sadhu (holy man) displays his hair which measures 15.5 foot in length at Kamakhya Temple. Hundreds of Sadhus visit Kamakhya Temple during the Ambubachi festival. The festival is organised, every year in June, to mark the menstrual period of Goddess Kamakhya. The traditional belief behind the festival is that the days of the Goddess's menstruation signify fertility