This week around the world

Ramoncito Campo kisses his wife Hernelie Ruazol Campo on a flooded street during a southwest monsoon that battered Manila. The newly-wed couple pushed through with their scheduled wedding despite severe flooding that inundated wide areas of the capital and nearby nine provinces of the Phillipines.

A Free Syrian Army fighter reacts after hearing news that his commander had been killed by tank shell in Aleppo, Syria.

Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls perform during the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London.

A man holds balloons for sale near the National Stadium in Kabul.

Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, introduces US Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice-presidential running mate during a campaign event at the retired battleship USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia.

A man rides a bicycle in front of a bus that was burnt by a mob on the national highway near Rongia town in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

Devotees try to form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai, India.

Visitors walk past Israeli designer Ron Arad's video installation in the Art Garden at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Arad's piece, 720 degrees, is a circular screen made up of 5,600 silicon ropes that hang down from a circular frame 8 meters above ground. Video pieces by different artists from around the world are projected onto the screen.

US President Barack Obama delivers a statement to the media on the Heil Family Farm, a wind farm, in Haverhill, Iowa.

A king penguin swims in a pool at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland.

Gchan Choudhary, 17, left, helps his younger brother Drumpal, 11, to stand on wooden stilts while performing tricks on the street of Kathmandu. Gchan, Drumpal and their sister Shivani, who came to Kathmandu from India five years ago, earn their living by performing tricks on the streets of Kathmandu. According to Drumpal, they earn around $10 a day by performing tricks, which is not enough to feed their 10-member family living together in a small hut without a proper toilet or any basic needs.

Singer Psy performs a parody of Lady Gaga with dancers during his concert in Seoul. The chubby, rapping singer with slicked-back hair and a tacky suit is the latest musical sensation to burst upon the world from South Korea, via a YouTube music video that has been seen by over 20 million people in under a month. In a nation famed for the pretty-boy but often bland bands of K-Pop, nobody was more surprised by the success of the video "Gangnam Style" than its creator, Psy, a musician with a decade-long career in his homeland who never thought to break overseas.

A woman looks through a crack in a concrete barrier that is part of the former Berlin Wall border fortification at the memorial site in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany. Germany on Monday marked the 51st anniversary of the building of the inner border fortification that divided West Berlin from the socialist eastern party of the city.

Technicians pose for a souvenir photo at the conclusion of the boxing competition at the London Olympics.

Rescue teams search for victims in the earthquake-stricken village of Varzaghan in East Azarbaijan, Iran. Two powerful earthquakes killed 250 people and injured around 1,800 in northwest Iran.

A Kashmiri villager rows his boat through the waters of Wular Lake, which is covered with water chestnuts.

Local men fish with trained cormorants perched on their boats during early evening at an ancient village in Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province, China.