A Week in Photos.

SUNDAY: A Kern County fire helicopter makes a water drop on the Key fire near Keyesville, Calif., as another helicopter makes a drop in the rugged terrain near Lake Isabella. The U.S. Forest Service says the fire started Sunday near Keyesville 45 miles northeast. Three hundred firefighters from Kern County Fire Department, Bureau of Land Management, and US Forest Service responded to the incident. Three water dropping helicopters, three air tankers, Air Attack 490 from Kern County Fire Department, five crews, 11 fire engines, and two dozers are were utilized.

MONDAY: Cucumbers are spread on a field to be used as fertilizer by French farmers who are unable to sell their produce in Carquefou near Nantes, western France. Authorities in Germany have yet to pinpoint the exact source of the three-week outbreak that has killed 22 people in Europe and stricken more than 2,200 in a dozen countries -- all of whom had been travelling in northern Germany. So far, bean sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce have all been suspected of spreading ecoli.

TUESDAY: Volcanoes in Chile's Puyehue-Cordon-Caulle range have been erupting, sending 5km (three-mile) wide columns of ash and pumice stones into the air. Stiff winds blew ash from the Chilean volcano Tuesday in a widening arc across Argentina to the capital, grounding most air travel to and from the country.

WEDNESDAY: Blowing smoke rings - a South Korean K1 tank fires smoke shells during a joint military drill between South Korea and US forces in Paju near the border with North Korea.

THURSDAY: Suspects are lined up as weapons are displayed to the media by the Mexican Navy in Mexico City. According to the Mexican Navy, 204 rifles, 11 guns, 15 hand grenades, uniforms of the Mexican navy and of the U.S. army, over 29,000 cartridges and over 441 pounds of cocaine were seized in an operation against the Zetas drug cartel in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon in the north of Mexico.

FRIDAY: Madame Tussauds give a celebratory party makeover to the wax figures of the Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, to mark The Dukies 90th birthday. Happy Birthday Duke of Edinburgh!

SATURDAY: Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in Japan today as the country marked three months since its massive quake and tsunami, which resulted in the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

-ZB