Week in Pictures | July 20, 2012

July 20, 2012 at 08:38 AM
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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week by 34,000, Angela Merkel gets a headache, banks are up to no good (again) and tragedy strikes Colorado moviegoers. This and more in this week's Week in Pictures. 

In this undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a large supply of vials, pills and other medical supplies seized by the FBI in a drug diversion scheme are shown in the FBI's evidence room in New York. Prosecutors say that the scheme cheated Medicaid out of hundreds of millions of dollars by buying mountains of HIV medications and other drugs from down-and-out Medicaid recipients in New York City, then marketing the pills to pharmacies that dispensed them to unsuspecting consumers, authorities said Tuesday, July 17, 2012. (AP Photo/FBI, Matthew Coleman)

Irene Dorner, president and chief executive officer of HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC North America Holdings, Inc., testifies before the permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing, "U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering, Drugs, and Terrorist Financing: HSBC Case History," Tuesday, July 17, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

In this Tuesday, July 17, 2012, file photo, business employment specialist Linda Reynolds, right, helps job searcher D'Andre Preston at WorkSource Oregon in Tualatin, Ore. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose by 34,000 last week, a figure that may have been skewed higher by seasonal factors. Applications for benefits increased to a seasonally adjusted 386,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, July 19, 2012. The gain followed a drop of 24,000 the previous week and was the biggest jump since April 2011. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is shown in his office at the state Capitol in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Thurs., July 19, 2012. Mead spoke about the state's options following the recent Supreme Court decision on health care. The state is concerned about the possibility of adding thousands of people to its Medicaid program. (AP Photo/Ben Neary)

Former Barclays Bank Chief Operating Officer Jerry del Missier leaves Portcullis House in London after giving evidences on interbank rates fixing, to the government Treasury Select Committee, Monday, July 16, 2012.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens to a speech during a special session of the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 19, 2012. Germany's Parliament is interrupting its summer break to vote on a rescue package worth up to euro 100 billion (US dollar 122 billion) for Spain's ailing banks. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

Police use a video camera to look inside an apartment where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. As many as 12 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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