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Pictures of the week: From baby twin pandas to a very slimy beauty treatment

Here's our pick of the pictures from around the world this week...

Zookeepers were stunned when giant panda Lun Lun gave birth to not one - but two - baby panda's at Zoo Atlanta this week (Reuters)

A pink, orange and purple sunset is pictured at Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire. Britain has been experiencing the longest heatwave since 2006 with temperatures regularly hitting the mid-30s (Drew Buckley / Rex Features)

The jet set: Holidaymakers have been soaring above the waves on jet packs which can thrust you into the air at 30mph. (Rex)

Off to Edward Snowden's hiding place? Vladimir Putin rides in a submersible in the Baltic Sea near Gotland Island, Russia. Putin is regularly pictured demonstrating his "masculine" hobbies, from arm wrestling to riding topless on a horse (Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

A hospital breakfast is seen beside Saurav Kumar, a boy who ate one of the contaminated free meals given to primary school children in Patna, India. At least 23 children died as a result of eating the lunches funded by the government (Reuters)

A child holds up balloons with images of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Mexico City. Supporters around the world wished the anti-apartheid leader happy birthday as he celebrated his 95th in a hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, where he is recovering from a lung infection (Reuters)

A teddy bear goes fishing in this pothole artwork. A woman who was sick of the potholes on her road turned them into artwork. Laura Murphy from Hailsham, East Sussex, was so annoyed by the six-month wait to fix the potholes outside her home that she made these arty snaps to get the council's attention - and it worked (M & Y News Ltd / Rex Features)

Keith Straw, 58, dressed in a pink ballet tutu and pink camouflage leg warmers bows his head under the scorching sun during the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley National Park, California. The 135-mile race, which bills itself as the world's toughest foot race, goes from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, California in temperatures which can reach 55C (Reuters)

A DC-10 tanker drops bright orange fire supression retardant on a wildfire near Idyllwild Wild, Palm Springs, California. Wildfires are a common occurence during this time of year (ZUMA / Rex Features)

Rule Britannia: A royal supporter is covered in Union Jacks as he stands outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, where Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth (Reuters)

Clinical-Salon Ci:z.Labo in Tokyo, Japan, demonstrates a unique facial treatment called "Celeb Escargot Course". The 10,500 yen (£69) hour-long treatment relies on snail's slime which is believed to make one's skin supple as well as remove dry and scaly patches (Reuters)

Pictures of the week: From a shy baby meerkat to a spectacular sunrise

Peekaboo: Four week old meerkat cub Monty is all cosy inside a Wellington Boot at Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling, Scotland (PA)

Prime real-estate: A small house built on a rock on the river Drina near Bajina Basta, Serbia (Reuters)

A damaged sign still stands among the wreckage outside the Plaza Towers elementary school, where seven children died in a huge tornado. Poignantly it was to have been "Super Kids Day" in Moore, Oklahoma, when the tornado struck. It tore through the suburb of Oklahoma City, flattening buildings and killing 24 people, including ten children (Reuters)

A spectacular skyline in this photograph taken near Bursa in Turkey. (Sky away from the Lights © Tunç Tezel, 2010)

Smoke billows from a burning car as firemen work to extinguish the flames in Rinkeby, a suburb of Stockholm. Swedish youths torched cars, schools and a police station on several nights of rioting this week (Reuters)

Don't forget your Oyster m'am: Queen Elizabeth and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrive in style during a visit to Cambridge

Three wolf cubs jostle for position in front of the camera at a zoo in Luoyang, China (HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride Hannah Batya Penet dances during her wedding ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel. Some 25,000 people joined to celebrate the wedding of Penet to Shalom Rokeach, the eldest grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach. The Belz Hasidic dynasty is one of the largest Hasidic groups in the world (Reuters)

The spectacular sunrise is reflected in the water as a fisherman casts his net into the Brisbane River, Australia (Jeff Camden/ Newspix/ Rex Features)