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Pictures of the week: From a firewalker to wild ponies swimming in Virginia

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

Sparks fly as a man, moving briskly, runs barefoot across a pile of hot coals. The traditional ceremony in Jinhua city, China, is believed to grant the daredevil firewalker luck and prosperity and prevent disaster (Imaginechina / Rex Features)

Human skulls adorned with a crown of flowers and the name and date of its owner's death are placed in rows at the Bone House in Hallstatt, Austria. The Bone House, known as Beinhaus, is home to 1,200 skulls and bones and was founded in the 12th century due to a lack of space at the village's small cemetery. Remains were dug up after ten to 15 years and taken there to make way for the newly deceased (Reuters)

Keep close: Three one-month-old meerkats made their first trip outside their enclosure this week in Bristol Zoo Gardens. Pictured here are two of the tiny triplets, carefully snuggled under mother Babushka's arms (Tim Ireland/PA Wire)

Andy Laird, 19, was left red-faced after he discovered his Vauxhall Corsa was submerged under 3ft of sea water. The teenager had parked his car on the beach at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, and then left it to have lunch with his family. When he returned to the beach at 5pm he was shocked to find the tide had come in so suddenly his car was now 50ft from the shore. (SWNS)

Boats are illuminated as a bolt of lightning streaks across the sky over Poole Harbour as heavy storms brought a temporary halt to Britain's heatwave to a dramatic end (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Time for a shower: Visitors to an exhibition in Taiyuan, China, were able to fully immerse themselves in art by interacting with 3D paintings (Rex)

Dancers in yellow and orange perform in front of thousands holding up coloured card in the May Day stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Ariring mass games got underway this week with an extraordinary spectacle of thousands of dancers, acrobats and singers participating in the patriotic and celebratory show. This week is particularly significant to North Koreans as it is the 60th anniversary of the day the armistice was signed to suspend hostilities between North and South Korea (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

An estimated one million Catholics gathered on Brazil's famed Copacabana beach to hear Pope Francis celebrate mass (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Baby parrots, whose feathers haven't begun to grow yet, are seen for sale in Dimapur, India (Caisii Mao / Rex Features)

A wagon of the crashed train that killed 80 people in north-western Spain is lifted from the wreckage. The country is in mourning after the terrible accident (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge present their son, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, to the world's media outside St Mary's Lindo Wing in London.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Where's my swimming cap? Wild ponies keep their heads above the water during the 88th Annual Pony Swim in Virginia, America. The tradition sees 118 ponies make a five-minute swim across the Assateague Channel to Chincoteague Island where they are auctioned for money for the local fire volunteer service (Photo by Maddie Meyer/The Washington Post)