Weekly Impressive Images: August 1 – 7, 2011

Norwegian people paying tribute to victims of the Friday’s bombing and shooting, Afghan police fighting against suicide attackers, and the four-meter mermaid sculpture by Oliver Voss being displayed on Alster lake in Hamburg, are among the most memorable pictures of the week from August 1 to 7, 2011.

People stand on a memorial on the shore of Tyrifjorden lake overlooking Utoeya island, where anti-Islam extremist Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 68 young victims on July 22, 2011. He also caused the Oslo’s bomb blast, killing six others. The Friday’s bombing and shooting Anders Behring Breivik carried out are claimed Norway’s worst violation since World War II.

                  People pay tribute to the victims of the Friday’s massacre on August 1, 2011

 Mother of a malnourished Somali refugee boy Fariyo Yusuf, 2, touches her son’s leg at Ifo camp’s hospital in Kenya on August 2, 2011

 Thai Muslim women pray at the Central Mosque in the restive province of Pattani, southern Thailand on August 4, 2011 during a mass prayer within the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan

 A young girl walks the inside of Miracoco, an air-filled sculpture by British artist Alan Parkinson, on display in downtown Lisbon on August 1, 2011

 A worker lays batik cloth out on the grass to dry in Solo, central Java province, on August 2, 2011. Indonesia will host the World Batik Global Summit next month in Jakarta

 A four-meter-high “mermaid” sculpture by Oliver Voss is seen in the late evening hours on Alster lake in Hamburg on August 3, 2011. It has been on display until August 12

 Police fight against suicide attackers, who took over a guesthouse in Kunduz province, on August 2, 2011. Three suicide bombers raided a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, killing four Afghan security guards

 Cristina Alfaro Mejia, whose husband and daughter were killed by soldiers during a massacre in the community of Dos Erres in Guatemala in 1982, holds a rose at the court that judged three former special forces soldiers for the massa

A faithfull covering his body in motor oil takes a rest in the celebrations honoring the patron saint of Managua, Santo Domingo de Guzman, in Managua, Nicaragua on August 1, 2011