Tima Kurdi, seen here next to a painting of her late nephew, Alan Kurdi, says she has received official approval to welcome her brother and his family into her home in Canada. Virginia Mayo/AP hide caption
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Saturday
Demonstrators do push-ups Friday as others block motorists along Chicago's Michigan Avenue as they protest the shooting of Laquan McDonald who was killed by a police officer in 2014. Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption
Officials remove the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tutankhamen from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor in 2007. New radar scans show that other rooms may be hidden behind the tomb's walls. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is accused of attacking a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and killing three people, including a police officer. Nine others were injured. Colorado Springs Police Department hide caption
Thursday
An image of Ceres taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the two mysterious, bright spots on the dwarf planet. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA hide caption
Tuesday
The New Shepard, seen here taking off with its capsule in place, returned to its launch site in a vertical landing after reaching an altitude of 100 kilometers. Blue Origin hide caption
A memorial to Laquan McDonald, 17, is seen in April at the Sullivan House Alternative High School in Chicago. McDonald was shot 16 times by Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke in October 2014. Zbigniew Bzdak/TNS/Landov hide caption
Monday
Barbra Streisand On 'Fresh Air' (2012)
Saturday
French gendarmes patrol outside the Printemps department store in Paris, a city that's still on edge and on a security alert after last week's deadly terrorist attack. Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi, left, and Gianluigi Nuzzi face criminal charges, along with three former Vatican officials. They're seen here at events publicizing their new books about financial dealings in the Catholic Church. AP hide caption
Anti-terror police detain a man identified as Ahmet Dahmani, an alleged ISIS member, in Antalya, Turkey, Saturday. One of three people arrested, Dahmani is accused of scouting locations for last week's terror attacks in Paris. IHLAS News Agency/EPA /LANDOV hide caption
A photo shows a scorched hotel room in the Radisson Blu in Bamako, Mali, Saturday, one day after a deadly jihadist siege at the luxury hotel. Habibou Kouyate/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A soldier patrols outside a Brussels shopping center Saturday, after the government put the city on its highest terror alert. All metro train stations in the city are now closed. John Thys/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Kerry Washington, who plays Olivia Pope on Scandal, speaks during the "Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder" panel at a summer press tour event in Beverly Hills, Calif. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption