12 July 2012 17:33 | By Antony Bennison
The week in pictures

San Diego

All 20,000 fireworks lit the sky in 15 seconds when they were accidentally set off prematurely by a computer glitch at the San Diego Independence Day show. The explosives were launched from four barges in San Diego Bay and from a pier. The fireworks, all 20,000 of them, went off five minutes before the show was supposed to begin and thousands of disappointed spectators were told the display was over. (© Reuters)
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  • All 20,000 fireworks lit the sky in 15 seconds when they were accidentally set off prematurely by a computer glitch at the San Diego Independence Day show. The explosives were launched from four barges in San Diego Bay and from a pier. The fireworks, all 20,000 of them, went off five minutes before the show was supposed to begin and thousands of disappointed spectators were told the display was over. (© Reuters)
  • A Hubble Space Telescope image shows U Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, a star nearing the end of its life located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North Celestial Pole. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star's latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star. The shell of gas, which is both much larger and much fainter than its parent star, is visible in intricate detail in Hubble's portrait. While phenomena that occur at the ends of stars' lives are often quite irregular and unstable, the shell of gas expelled from U Cam is almost perfectly spherical. (© Reuters)
  • A man holds an umbrella to shield himself from the rain as he walks at Girgaum Chowpatty beach during a monsoon shower in Mumbai. (© Reuters)
  • A bull chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the Bous a la Mar festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia. During this festival, revellers emerging from protective barriers provoke bulls to chase them until they both fall into the sea. The bulls are then rescued by small boats who tow them to safety. (© Reuters)
  • A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the Rapa Das Bestas traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. (© Reuters)
  • A male snow leopard, Villy, is pictured in an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich. (© Reuters)
  • Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Centre in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre were be buried on 11 July, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. (© Reuters)
  • An Airbus A380 flies through cloud during a display flight at the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England. (© Reuters)
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All 20,000 fireworks lit the sky in 15 seconds when they were accidentally set off prematurely by a computer glitch at the San Diego Independence Day show. The explosives were launched from four barges in San Diego Bay and from a pier. The fireworks, all 20,000 of them, went off five minutes before the show was supposed to begin and thousands of disappointed spectators were told the display was over.

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