Pictures of the Week: The Week in Pictures

Children practice splits at the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in Xiantao, China. More than 60 children aged between 3 and 10 from all over China train at the boarding school.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Moo-ving
A cow peers out of a cattle carrier at the motorway station Brockbachtal-Sued near Lotte, Germany.