17 May 2012 21:19 | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures - 18 May 2012

Manila

Residents paddle their makeshift boat to safety as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila. At least 1000 houses were razed in the fire, the cause of which is yet unknown, leaving 5000 families homeless, local media reported. (© Reuters)
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  • Residents paddle their makeshift boat to safety as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila. At least 1000 houses were razed in the fire, the cause of which is yet unknown, leaving 5000 families homeless, local media reported. (© Reuters)
  • Omar Deaibes (right), 10, smokes a hookah, or waterpipe, with his friends Hamid (centre), 11, and Ali, 10, at a waterpipe delivery service shop in a poor neigbourhood south of Beirut. Deaibes and his friends are the few street children in the neighourbourhood who often smoke the hookah. (© Reuters)
  • Paralympic swimmer Xavi Torres, 37, of Spain, carries his orthopaedic legs after a training session on the Balearic island of Palma de Mallorca. This summer, Torres, who has previously won 16 paralympic medals, will participate in his sixth paralympic games. He currently owns four world swimming records in different categories. (© Reuters)
  • People light torches during a protest march in Podgorica. Thousands of people gathered again in Montenegro's capital to protest against corruption, asking better living standards and demanding government resignation. (© Reuters)
  • A woman rests her model ray gun on the table as she watches a performer at the Watch City Festival celebrating Steampunk in Waltham, Massachusetts. (© Reuters)
  • Austria's synchronised swimming duet Nadine Brandl (not pictured) and Livia Lang perform during a training session in Maria Enzersdorf. Brandl, 22, and Lang, 18, practice seven hours a day six days a week and will participate at the 2012 Olympic games. (© Reuters)
  • The Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of ash and steam high into the air in Puebla. Mexico last month raised the alert level for the volcano Popocatepetl, 50 miles southeast of Mexico City, after it began pumping out red-hot fragments of rock and ash. (© Reuters)
  • Ken Shimizu, a Japanese impersonator of actor Johnny Depp, reaches out to receive an autograph from Depp upon the latter's arrival at Narita international airport in Narita. Depp arrived in Japan on Saturday to promote his film Dark Shadows. (© Reuters)
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Residents paddle their makeshift boat to safety as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila. At least 1000 houses were razed in the fire, the cause of which is yet unknown, leaving 5000 families homeless, local media reported.

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