Week in pictures

Our photo editor picks the best shots of the week that was, from Big Ben to the Middle East

<p>Palestinian fighters from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stand inside an underground tunnel in Gaza August 18, 2014. A rare tour that Hamas granted to a Reuters reporter, photographer and cameraman appeared to be an attempt to dispute Israel&#8217;s claim that it had demolished all of the Islamist group&#8217;s border infiltration tunnels in the Gaza war. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)</p>

Palestinian fighters from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stand inside an underground tunnel in Gaza August 18, 2014. A rare tour that Hamas granted to a Reuters reporter, photographer and cameraman appeared to be an attempt to dispute Israel’s claim that it had demolished all of the Islamist group’s border infiltration tunnels in the Gaza war. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

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