Week in pictures: 13-17 August

South Korean special commandos stage a drill south of Seoul, before an inter-Korean summit due later this month.

Tari wigmen from Papua New Guinea check their face paint before a performance at Parliament House in Port Moresby to welcome newly elected MPs.

Children run through a tide of rubbish washed up by the sea underneath traditional stilt houses in Papua New Guinea.

An Amur tiger cub plays with its mother's tail at Philadelphia Zoo in the US. Three tiger cubs made their public debut.

British soldiers use explosives to blow a hole in a compound wall during an anti-Taleban operation in central Helmand, Afghanistan.

A keeper at Berlin Zoo feeds a bunch of bananas to hungry hippopotamus Gregor.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attempts to catch a fish during a visit to the Republic of Tuva.

Journalists wearing gags march silently through Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to protest against a proposed law that would allow courts to compel reporters to reveal their sources.

A Lebanese army tank patrols the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

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