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The week in pictures is Msn weekly round up of the most striking images from the week's news. Each week the collection is compiled by Msn photo editor Antony Bennison and features images from across the globe Czech artist Harald Eichhorn finishes building the Simpsons' television set, Wednesday, May 21 2008, at the village of Pera in southern Portugal's Algarve coast. The sculpture is part of a series depicting Hollywood films and characters created by more than 60 sculptors in a park that opens to the public Thursday. In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, an epidemic prevention soldier sprays disinfectants at a primary school before students resume study at the school in Zundao Township of Mianzhu city, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Local residents look on as the body of a whale is removed with a bulldozer, on Yoff beach in Dakar, Senegal Wednesday, May 21, 2008. The bodies of at least 38 whales have washed up on a Dakar beach and wildlife officials say as many as 100 swam up close to shore. A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. A visitor to the annual Chelsea flower show studies the floral arrangements in the Great Pavillion. Italy's Danilo Di Luca (L) reacts as a woman in a bridal gown waves to riders during the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race 218-km from Civitavecchia to San Vincenzo May 18, 2008. Chelsea pensioner Arthur Barrow, 81, with a controversial floral sculpture by artist Tony Smith, which symbolises the shortage of equipment for British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, unveiled at the Chelsea Flower Show, London. A local man throws rocks at South African police in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg Monday May 19, 2008. Mobs rampaged through poor suburbs of Johannesburg in a frenzy of anti-foreigner violence over the weekend, killing at least 12 people, injuring dozens and forcing hundreds to seek refuge at police stations. Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates with the Champions league trophy. Baby crowned lemur Kali born on April 19, with mother Rose, at Twycross Zoo, Leicestershire. American actress Gwyneth Paltrow arrives for the premiere of the film "Two Lovers" at the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France. American director Steven Spielberg plays with photographers as he leaves the "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" premiere during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France. A woman dressed as a maiko (apprentice geisha) walks down a street wearing U.S. Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama campaign buttons in Kyoto, Japan. Joe the gorilla celebrates his 45th birthday by eating a slice of birthday cake, at Twycross Zoo, Leicestershire.