In pictures: The week that was in Arts and Life ending August 3

Participants warm up before The Sumo Run in Battersea Park, London July 27, 2014. The runners, wearing inflatable costumes, take part in the 5km run with the aim of raising money for a charity to help educate children in Africa. Reuters

The gloves that boxing legend Muhammad Ali wore in his legendary 1971 fight against Joe Frazier in what became known as the Fight of the Century will come up for auction on Thursday and are expected to fetch more than a million dirhams. Reuters

A woman and two small girls pose in traditional dresses of the style of village Rimoc during a Paloc festival honouring St Anna in Balassagyarmat, 80kms north of Budapest, Hungary. The Paloc are a group of Hungarian ethnicity with their own traditions, folk art and dialect living in a region in northern Hungary. EPA

Boys climb a rock before jumping into the Mediterranean Sea on El Salon beach in Nerja, near Malaga on July 27, 2014. Reuters

A picture taken on July 1, 2014 shows a car in which Prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, on display at Vienna’s Austrian Military Museum (HGM) before the upcomming 100-year anniversary of the beginning of World War I. Franz Ferdinand, an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, was assassinated by a revolutionary Serb in Sarajevo on July 28, 1914. AFP

An giant inflatable figure in the shape of a pink river dolphin floats offshore of the Ponta Negra beach along the Amazon river in Manaus, July 27, 2014. The figure was placed by organizers of the Red Alert conservation campaign which is trying to halt the killing of dolphins, which is illegal but common. Reuters

Colombian salsa dancers Leidy Casanova (bottom) and Carlos Estacio participate in the Caleno style category during the IX World Salsa Festival at the Cañaveralejo Bullring in the Colombian city of Cali on July 27, 2014. AFP

Singer Anaik Morel as Paulinka Bimbam performs on stage during a dress rehearsal of Marc-Andre Dalbavie’s opera Charlotte Salomon in Salzburg July 24, 2014. The opera will premiere as part of the annual Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele) on July 28, 2014. The Salzburg Festival, one of the biggest cultural festivals worldwide, will take place from July 27 to August 31, 2014. Reuters

A queen of the Carnival of Flowers participates in the second day of the carnival on July 28, 2014 in Port-au-Prince. The three-day festival takes place through the streets of the Hatian capital’s downtown area. AFP

Holidaymakers jostle at a Toshimaen Amusement Park pool in Tokyo, Japan, 2 August 2014. EPA

Cast members Jack Reynor and Nicola Peltz pose during a news conference for the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction in Tokyo July 29, 2014. Reuters

James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in a scene from Of Mice and Men, in New York. Franco’s play Of Mice and Men has left Broadway with a roar – a box office record. AP

Oleg Zubkov, creator of the safari park Taygan, gestures to a lion in the park, near the city of Belogorsk in Crimea, on July 26, 2014. About 50 African lions live freely on more than 300 000 square meters of Safari park. AFP

A man holds a baby wearing ear protection during a performance at the Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Friday, August 1, 2014. AP

A river otter stands up after hitting the waterslide at Ichikawa Zoological and Botanical Garden in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Playful otters spend their time swimming and playing in the waterslide that was built two years ago in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the zoo for the mammals to beat the summer heat. AP

Ladies take part in the Best Dressed Ladies competition sponsored by L’Ormarins at Glorious Goodwood at Goodwood on August 1, 2014 in Chichester, England. Samir Hussein / Getty Images for Goodwood

Three lifelike dinosaurs, part of the Walking with Dinosaurs, the Arena Spectacular, in New York. The show, based on an award-winning BBC Television series, travels 200 million years from Triassic to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and features 10 species of dinosaur. It is produced by Global Creatures, the Australian company behind the new musical King Kong, the Tony Award-winning War Horse and How To Train Your Dragon. AP

Kunal Nayyar, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Simon Helberg in a scene from The Big Bang Theory. Production on a new season of The Big Bang Theory is being delayed due to a contract dispute with its top actors. The series is heading into its eighth season, and the Warner Bros is trying to hammer out new deals with actors Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar. AP

A security guard observes works by Spanish artist Joan Miro displayed at the exhibition La Fuerza de la Materia (The Strength of the Substance) in Santiago, Chile, 01 August 2014. EPA

Couples celebrate during a mass wedding ceremony to mark the Qixi Festival in Shenyang, Liaoning province in China on August 2, 2014. According to local media, 77 couples attended the mass wedding on Saturday. Qixi, also known as the Double Seventh Festival and the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day, falls on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Reuters

Children watch a competitor at the National Rubik’s Cube Championship at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey August 1, 2014. Reuters

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