The week in pictures: 21 - 27 August

All hope gone

Efforts to rescue 118 sailors on board the Russian submarine Kursk ended in failure

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Streets of fear

Soldiers return to support police in Belfast as a deadly feud among loyalist paramilitaries continues

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Death crash

Wreckage in the water from a Gulf Air flight which crashed near Bahrain airport killing 143 people

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Grief suppressed

An angry relative of a sailor who died on the Kursk is sedated with a syringe at a public meeting

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Police to see you

Former MI5 agent David Shayler faces charges of breaching the UK's Official Secrets Act

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Who is a clever boy then?

Mark Richardson got stunning exam results but girls were ahead in GCSEs across the UK

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You paw bear

Paws burnt but alive, one victim of fires raging in 11 American states

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