Pictures of the Week: June 1 – June 8

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From the final journey of the space shuttle Enterprise in New York and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in London to a landmark trial in Egypt and the once-in-a-lifetime Transit of Venus, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

June 3, 2012. The space shuttle Enterprise is carried by barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. Enterprise is on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will be put on permanent display.Michael Nagle—Getty Images
June 3, 2012. People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. Sunday Alamba—AP
June 3, 2012. Royal rowbarge Gloriana leads man-powered craft towards Westminster Bridge during Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in London. Stefan Wermuth—Reuters
June 1, 2012. Michael Kelvington (R), a U.S. Army Captain, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and Haji Lala, a local elder, sit on a carpet as they share dinner in the town of Senjaray, Afghanistan.Shamil Zhumatov—Reuters
June 2, 2012. A helicopter crosses dry creek beds as it makes an approach to a base in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan.Tim Wimborne—Reuters
June 2, 2012. Contestant Yu Wen competes during the 2nd China Pole Dance semi-final in Tianjin municipality, China.Jason Lee—Reuters
June 3, 2012. Dachshunds sit in a performance artwork titled DACHSHUND UN by Australian artist Bennett Miller at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.Tracey Nearmy—EPA
June 2, 2012. Charred trees are seen in the Gila National Forest as the result of a forest fire in the Whitewater-Baldy Complex in New Mexico. So far, 241,701 acres have been burned.Kari Greer—Reuters/US Forest Service
June 1, 2012. Lebanese Shiite women listen to Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (not pictured) on the 23rd anniversary of the death of the former Iranian supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Unesco palace in Beirut.Wael Hamzeh—EPA
June 1, 2012. A girl stretches out as she sits with her mother in an alleyway to escape the heat at the Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi.Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
June 2, 2012. The Russian aerobatic group "Russkiye Vityazi" (Russian Knights) flies their Sukhoi SU-27 jet fighters during a local airshow in Pushkin military airport outside St. Petersburg.Dmitry Lovetsky—AP
June 1, 2012. Members of the Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group use an improvised bomb to blast through the main door of a building, simulating an airport control tower seized by a mock terrorist group, at Taguig city, south of Manila. Romeo Ranoco—Reuters
June 1, 2012. A Pakistani child, whose family fled their village due to fighting between security forces and militants in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur, lies in a bed outside her home in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad.Nathalie Bardou—AP
June 2, 2012. Egyptian military officers stand guard in front of the courthouse before the verdict of the Mubarak trial in Cairo. The ousted Egyptian president has been sentenced to life in prison.Luca Sola—Corbis
June 2, 2012. A supporter of deposed president Hosni Mubarak holds his picture after a court sentenced him to life in prison, outside the police academy where the court is located in Cairo.Ammar Awad—Reuters
June 2, 2012. Protesters gather after the verdict in the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square in Cairo.Manu Brabo—AP
June 2, 2012. A malnourished child lies on a bed at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sana'a, Yemen.Yahya Arhab—EPA
June 2, 2012. Kazakh nomads herd livestock with their caravan across a plain in Altay, in far west China's Xinjiang region.AFP/Getty Images
June 2, 2012. A Bosnian Muslim girl sits amidst wooden grave markers during a mass funeral in the eastern Bosnian town of Kalesija. Thousands have gathered in Kalesija to bury the 32 Muslim Bosniaks, killed at the start of the country's 1992-95 war, whose remains were discovered in numerous mass graves and identified through DNA analysis.Amel Emric—AP
June 2, 2012. A runner is 'attacked' by a number of 'zombies' as she takes part in the a zombie-themed race in Madrid.Victor Lerena—EPA
June 3, 2012. Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade, left, drives to the basket against Boston Celtics forward Mickael Pietrus, right, during the fourth quarter of Game 4 in the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoffs series in Boston.Charles Krupa—AP
June 3, 2012. Protesters wave as they gather and chant anti-military council slogans during a protest in Cairo.Mohamed Abd El Ghany—Reuters
June 3, 2012. Orthodox Old Believer Nekrasov Cossacks attend a service to celebrate Pentecost in the village of Kumskaya Dolina, west of Stavropol, Russia.Eduard Korniyenko—Reuters
June 3, 2012. A soldier from the U.S. Army's Charlie Company, 1/12 Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, gestures to a goat while on patrol near Dokalam village in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.Tim Wimborne—Reuters
June 3, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth waves to onlookers as she returns to her vehicle during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in London. Toby Melville—Reuters
June 3, 2012. A woman wraps her sleeping baby on her back after a talk with members of the Spanish NGO Accion Contra el Hambre (Action Against Hunger) about good sanitation and hygiene practices in Niomel, Mauritania. Susana Vera—Reuters
June 4, 2012. Yemeni army forces fire a missile towards al Qaeda-linked militant positions in the southern province of Abyan, Yemen.Reuters/Yemen's Defense Ministry
June 4, 2012. A newborn baby stretches in a hospital bassinet after being cleaned following a caesarean section at a hospital in Shaya county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.Reuters
June 4, 2012. Nomad women milk buffaloes on the outskirts of Amritsar, India.Altaf Qadri—AP
June 4, 2012. Portraits of victims of the June 4, 1989, bloodshed are displayed at the June 4 Memorial Museum in Hong Kong to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown on a pro-democracy student movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.Vincent Yu—AP
June 4, 2012. A schoolgirl offers roses while another distributes leaflets in Hong Kong ahead of a candlelight vigil held in the city to mark the anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.Philippe Lopez—AFP/Getty Images
June 4, 2012. Married Hindu women tie sacred threads around a banyan tree in a ceremony during the religious festival of Vata Savitri Purnima in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. During the festival, married women fast for the whole day to pray for the betterment of their husbands, family and society. Amit Dave—Reuters
June 4, 2012. Spanish Civil Guard officers in full riot gear secure the area in front of a burning barricade blocking the A-66 highway in the northern Spanish village of Vega del Rey, during a protest by coal miners against government spending cuts in the mining sector.Eloy Alonso—Reuters
June 4, 2012. Buddhist monks meditate during a ceremony on Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok. This year marks the 2600th anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment.Sukree Sukplang—Reuters
June 3, 2012. Dancer Aleksandra Kolczynska during the 1st Polish Pole Dance Championship in Skaryszew, Poland.Piotr Polak—EPA
June 5, 2012. An Afghan refugee soaks in a polluted a stream to beat the heat on World Environment Day, in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—AP
June 5, 2012. The Rio Sucio or "Dirty River," where one branch is colored yellow/brown by the minerals it carries from the Irazu Volcano, is seen mixing with the clear waters filtered by the tropical rainforest in the Braullio Carrillo National Park, 50 km (31 miles) east of San Jose.Juan Carlos—Reuters
June 5, 2012. Palestinians inspect the damage at a chicken farm in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah following an Israeli air strike.APA/Landov
June 5, 2012. A soldier from the United States Army's Charlie Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division keeps watch at night at Observation Post Mustang in Afghanistan's Kunar Province.Tim Wimborne—Reuters
June 5, 2012. An Afghan refugee and her brother get caught in a sandstorm in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—AP
June 6, 2012. The planet Venus crosses the Sun's face during a rare celestial event, as seen from New Delhi.Anindito Mukherjee—EPA
June 5, 2012. A man runs onto a bridge over a canal in Santos, Brazil.Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty Images
June 6, 2012. A Pakistani boy who lives near by a brick factory covers his face with a scarf to avoid a sand storm, on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—AP
June 6, 2012. A music group performs on a path amid fields to greet the farmers at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong.Jacky Chen—Reuters
June 7, 2012. A horse and exercise rider make their way to the track during a morning workout at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Al Bello—Getty Images
June 6, 2012. The Nave of York Minster is covered in 1500 square meters of real grass as the Minster is prepared for the York Minster Rose Dinner. PA Photos/Landov
June 7, 2012. Bavarian inhabitants pray on boats as they take part in a Corpus Christi (Fronleichnam) procession on Lake Staffelsee in the southern German village of Seehausen. Michaela Rehle—Reuters

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