This week’s roundup of startling images from around the world

Saturday 26 June 2010
Sailing ships sail on the Baltic Sea during the tall ship parade. More than 120 tall sailing ships, yachts and small boats take part in this highlight of the Kiel Week sailing event that ends on Sunday.
Credit: AP Photo/Heribert Proepper

Monday 28 June 2010
Two sailors hang onto the centerboard of the 420 they were piloting, which overturned in high winds, on the Charles River in Boston. The pair were able to upright the boat and continue sailing after their plunge into the river.
Credit: AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Tuesday 29 June 2010
A striker drinks water in front of tied up ships at the port of Piraeus. Public services shut down across Greece as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike that disrupted public transport, left hospitals operating on emergency staff and pulled all news broadcasts off the air.
Credit: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

Wednesday 30 June 2010
People enjoy a picnic on the first day of the annual Henley Royal Regatta in Oxford.
Credit: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Wednesday 30 June 2010
Closed intakes are seen in a compartment across from one of 12 vents that is designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day on the “A Whale” oil skimming ship, which is anchored in the Mississippi River. Billed as the world’s largest oil skimming vessel, the ship is the length of 3 1/2 football fields, 10 stories high and has a 2 million barrel capacity.
Credit: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Source: motorboatsmonthly.co.uk

