A day too late, but I’m sure you’ll forgive me. Sometimes spending some time with your family is more important than spending time with your computer. The past week was all supossed to be about the final ever landing of a Space Shuttle until a crazed gunman (or as reports are now saying two crazed gunmen) killed at least 91 people in Norway. Our thoughts go out to our Norwegian friends. Warning: some of the images below are shocking.
A man reads a newspaper as he swims in the salt waters of Tus lake in Russia's Khakassia region, about 370 km (230 miles) southwest of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 15, 2011. Russians from different regions annually arrive at Tus lake rich with curative black and blue mud to live in a camp, bathe in the bitter-salty water and smear themselves with mud, which is a healing remedy, in their opinion. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Colin Weir (L) and his wife Chris hold glasses of champagne after a news conference at a hotel near Falkirk, Scotland July 15, 2011. The couple scooped 161 million pounds ($259 million) in Tuesday's Euromillions jackpot. REUTERS/David Moir
People make their way under a train trestle as they drift down the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry holding onto each other's floats, in West Virginia July 14, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Mad Uren Moalim, who says he is 105 years old, sits in front of his makeshift shelter at a camp for internally displaced persons in Somalia's capital Mogadishu July 15, 2011. The Horn of Africa is in the grip of a major food crisis, with millions of people severely affected in drought-stricken areas of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda, according to the United Nations. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Buddhist devotees gather around the Shwedagon Pagoda during the Warso Full Moon Festival in Yangon July 15, 2011. The festival celebrates the conception of Buddha, the day he left his kingdom and the first time he preached. Today marks the 2,600th Anniversary of the day Buddha first preached. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
The Southern Lights or Aurora Australis is pictured in this July 14, 2011 NASA handout photo by an astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis while visiting the International Space Station. Part of the orbiter boom sensor system (OBSS) is seen (L), as it was attached on the end of the shuttle's robotic arm (out of frame). A part of the port side wing of the shuttle is at right. Picture taken July 14, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hugs his daughters Rosa (L) and Maria during a news conference at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas July 15, 2011. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he plans to return to Cuba for more cancer treatment, in a move that will raise further concerns about his illness that has upended the OPEC nation's politics. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
A worker places traffic cones on the road as the Mulholland bridge is closed over the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, California July 15, 2011. A 10-mile (16-km) stretch of the 405 freeway will be closed in both directions from July 15-18 for the partial demolition of the Mulholland bridge. The unprecedented 53-hour shutdown, expected to delay motorists for hours on alternate routes with ripple effects on about a dozen other major highways, will allow crews to demolish the bridge as part of a $1 billion freeway-widening project. REUTERS/Jason Redmond
France's Damien Cely competes in the preliminary round of the men's 1m springboard diving event at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 16, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray
A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province July 15, 2011. Picture taken July 15, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily
Security personnel stand guard as lightning flashes with an approaching storm before the start of the friendly soccer match between Arsenal and and Hangzhou Greentown at Meihu Sports Centre in Yiwu city, Zhejiang province July 16, 2011. REUTERS/Aly Song
Honda MotoGP rider Casey Stoner of Australia rides during free practice at the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, July 16, 2011. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz
A malnourished Somali baby sleeps in Banadir hospital in the capital Mogadishu, July 16, 2011. One in 10 children in parts of drought-hit Somalia is at risk of starving to death, twice as many as recently as March, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. Malnutrition rates were believed to be significantly higher in other conflict-torn parts of central and southern Somalia, where few aid groups have been allowed to bring food relief. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
A rescue worker cuts through steel and concrete during a search operation for survivors at the site of a collapsed residential building, in Ghaziabad, located in outskirts of Delhi July 16, 2011. Two people were killed and 18 injured when a four-storey building under construction collapsed in Ghaziabad on Saturday, police and local media reported. The reason for the building's collapse was still unknown. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Women in traditional costumes attend a procession of the statue of El Carmen Virgin as she is carried into the sea in Malaga, southern Spain, July 16, 2011. Pictured in the background are people who have rowed their boats out to await the Virgin's arrival, in hope of receiving blessings from her. Many seaside towns celebrated on Saturday the feast of El Carmen Virgin, worshipped as the patron saint of sailors. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
Casey Anthony and her lawyer Jose Baez (L) leave the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida July 17, 2011. Anthony was released from a Florida jail on Sunday to resume the life interrupted three years ago when she was charged with the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Anthony was acquitted by a jury on July 5 of culpability in Caylee's death. REUTERS/Red Huber/Pool
Thai security forces investigate the site of an attack in which three soldiers were wounded in Yala late July 16, 2011. More than 4,500 people have been killed in violence since January 2004 in Thailand's three southernmost provinces, a region of dense jungles and rubber plantations just a few hours drive from world-class beach resorts. Picture taken July 16, 2011. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom
A foreign visitor plays with mud during the 14th Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong, about 190 km (118 miles) southwest of Seoul, July 17, 2011. Around 2 to 3 million domestic and international tourists visit the beach during the festival each year to enjoy mud activities such as mud slides, mud wrestling and mud massages. The festival runs from July 16-24 this year. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak
Beekeeper Wang Dalin, 42, stands with bees covering his body on a weighing scale during a bee-attracting competition against fellow beekeeper Lv Kongjiang in Shaoyang, Hunan province July 16, 2011. Wang and Lv competed by standing on a scale wearing only a pair of shorts and using queen bees they reared to attract other bees onto their bodies. Wang won the competition after attracting 26 kg (57 lbs) of bees on his body in 60 minutes, while Lv had 22.9 kg (50 lbs), local media reported. Picture taken July 16, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily
Brian Viloria of the U.S. (R) hits Julio Cesar Miranda of Mexico against the ropes during the 12th round at the Neil Blaisdell Center during the Island Assault 2 Boxing event for the WBO flyweight title in Honolulu, Hawaii June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry
A man gestures as he ask for donations from pedestrians while sitting along the road in Karachi July 17, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
News Corporation Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch (L) leaves his flat with Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, in central London in this July 10, 2011 file photo. Police have arrested Brooks, the former chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper arm News International, Sky News reported on July 17, 2011. Brooks, 43, resigned over phone hacking allegations at News International's News of the World newspaper, of which she was once editor. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/Files
A man looks as a firefighting aircraft flies over a forest fire in Jerusalem July 17, 2011. The forest fire in Jerusalem forced the evacuation of visitors and workers from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Sunday as firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control, a police spokesman said. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Mexican officer cadets carry out an exercise at the Army National Training Center in Santa Gertrudis, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua July 16, 2011. The cadets conducted their final training exercise before their graduation at the military base. Picture taken July 16, 2011. REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya
Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland kisses the Claret Jug after winning the British Open golf championship at Royal St George's in Sandwich, southern England July 17, 2011. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Japan's Homare Sawa (C) holds up the trophy while celebrating with teammates after beating the U.S. in the Women's World Cup final soccer match in Frankfurt July 17, 2011. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Chile's Humberto Suazo (R) argues with Venezuela's Grendy Perozo during their quarter-final soccer match at the Copa America in Mendoza July 17, 2011. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
Malaysia's team performs during the preliminary round of the synchronised swimming team technical event at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 18, 2011. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
A boy rides on an improvised Banca made of styrofoam as he gets near crashing waves during high tide on a bay of Manila July 18, 2011. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
A commuter walks next to immobilized taxis during a protest near the Athens International airport, July 18, 2011. Greek taxi drivers blocked roads to Athens' airport and main harbour on Monday, holding up thousands of tourists at the start of a two-day protest against plans to liberalise their trade. REUTERS/John Kolesidis
A man from South Sudan displays new currency notes outside the Central Bank of South Sudan in Juba July 18, 2011. South Sudan started rolling out its new currency on Monday -- the South Sudan Pound -- escalating a point of simmering disagreement with Khartoum after the country split away from the north on July 9. REUTERS/Benedicte Desrus
A devotee, with coloured powder smeared on his face, holds a piece of pumpkin as part of an offering while taking part in the annual Hindu religious festival of Bonalu in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad July 18, 2011. Devotees believe that the offerings ward off evils and epidemics during the monsoon period. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder
Men hold onto windows to avoid a bull during the 'Toro de Cuerda' (Bull on Rope) festival in Grazalema, southern Spain, July 18, 2011. A bull restrained by a rope is allowed to run through the streets of the village during the annual festival. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
Children dressed as J.K. Rowling's famous character Harry Potter watch a presentation at the launch of the Harry Potter exhibition in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum July 19, 2011. The first tickets went on sale on Tuesday to the exhibition, which does not open for another four months. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina perform in the preliminary round of the synchronised swimming duets free routine at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 19, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray
Afghan women are seen through a cracked armored window on a street of the town of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) pays his respect as he stands in front of a flag-draped coffin during the military ceremony dedicated to the seven French soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan in the Invalides courtyard in Paris July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool
BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch (L) and his father, News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch, appear in images made from television as they are questioned by parliamentary committee on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London July 19, 2011. Murdoch and his son James apologised to the British parliament on Tuesday over a hacking scandal that has engulfed News Corp , but the veteran media mogul denied he was ultimately responsible for this fiasco. REUTERS/Parbul TV
A man (L) tries to attack News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch with a white substance during a parliamentary committee hearing on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Parbul TV
French singer Cali is pictured crowd surfing during the first day of the 36th Paleo music festival in Nyon July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud
Uruguay's Luis Suarez (R) celebrates his second goal with teammate Diego Forlan during their semi-final soccer match against Peru at the Copa America in La Plata, July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian
Armed villagers pose at the entrance to their village of Castanas, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, July 19, 2011. The villagers formed the armed group to defend themselves in response to an extortion threat last Friday by the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang, according to the leader of the armed villagers. There was no official comment from the local authorities. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Kansas City Royals' Eric Hosmer (R) tries in vain to avoid the tag by Chicago White Sox third baseman Brent Morel after trying for home on a Kansas City Royals Mike Moustakas fielder's choice in the sixth inning during their MLB American League baseball game in Kansas City, Missouri July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Dave Kaup
Space shuttle Atlantis is pictured while still docked with the International Space Station in this July 18, 2011 NASA handout photo taken by a crew member aboard the station. The Atlantis, the last U.S. space shuttle, departed the International Space Station on Tuesday, ending a 12-year program to build and service the orbital outpost, the primary legacy of NASA's shuttle fleet. Picture taken July 18, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Peru soccer fans react while watching the Copa America semi-final match against Uruguay at a bar in Lima, July 19, 2011. Uruguay beat Peru 2-0. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
NBA player Yao Ming reacts during a news conference to announce his retirement from basketball, in Shanghai July 20, 2011. Yao, who ignited China's interest in the NBA and became one of Asia's best-known athletes, announced his retirement from basketball on Wednesday. The 30-year-old had been widely expected to retire after he told the Houston Rockets he would not be returning next season after two years blighted by injuries. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A man smokes a traditional hookah pipe while riding a bicycle in Faisalabad July 20, 2011. A hookah, also known as a sheesha or water-pipe, is normally used to smoke tobacco filtered through water. REUTERS/Fayyaz Hussain
A member of South Africa's team performs during the preliminary round of the synchronised swimming team free routine at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 20, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray
Somali women talk as their drought-stricken camels wait for their turn to drink water from a tank near Harfo, 70 km from Galkayo northwest of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 20, 2011. The United Nations on Wednesday declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia, and warned that this could spread further within two months in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa country unless donors step in. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Goran Hadzic, a Croatian Serb wartime leader indicted for crimes against humanity during the 1991-95 Croatian war in seen this handout photo taken during his arrest in Fruska Gora national park, July 20, 2011. Hadzic was picked up by Serb forces in the picturesque Fruska Gora national park region about 65 km (40 miles) north of Belgrade. Serbia arrested the last major war crimes suspect from the 1600s conflicts in former Yugoslavia on Wednesday, closing what its president said was a burdensome page in the country's history. REUTERS/Politika Newspapers/Handout
A warden stands guard as an illegal consignment of five tonnes of Ivory confiscated from smugglers is destroyed during the African Elephant Law Enforcement Day in Tsavo West National Park, 380km (236 miles) east of capital Nairobi July 20, 2011. The confiscated consignment, recovered from smugglers in Singapore in 2002, originated from poaching activities in both Zambia and Malawi, government officials said. REUTERS/Noor Khamis
A boy dressed as in police uniform, marches behind a contingent of military police during the celebrations of Independence Day in Bogota, July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Fredy Builes
Acrobats from the Shenyang Acrobatic Troupe (Circus of China) perform during a rehearsal of Sky Mirage II in Sao Paulo July 20, 2011. The spectacle will run from July 20 until August 7, 2011. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Civil War reenactor Jefferson Dedrick of Allegany, New York poses with his musket on the eve of the anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run, or the First Battle of Manassas to Confederate forces, in his Union camp in Manassas, Virginia July 20, 2011. Thursday marks the 150th anniversary of battle, the first major clash of the Civil War. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Scott Schroeder, a U.S. Army Special Operations Chief Warrant Officer who lost both legs and full use of his right arm in a December 2010 attack in Afghanistan, scuba dives in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key West, Florida, July 19, 2011. Schroeder and his family are participating in a recreational therapy program organized by the Task Force Dagger Foundation that focuses simultaneously on injured soldiers, their spouses and children. REUTERS/Bob Care/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout
Venezuelan fans react in Caracas, after the team lost their semi-final soccer match against Paraguay at the Copa America in Mendoza July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Soccer fans hold up smoke flares during the presentation of their club Arka in Gdynia, northern Poland July 20, 2011. Picture taken on July 20. REUTERS/Damian Kramski/Agencja Gazeta
A girl, whose family was displaced by heavy floods almost a year ago, uses a hand pump to help bathe a boy while taking refuge in Nowshera, in north west Pakistan on July 21, 2011. The 2010 Pakistan floods affected 20 million people and left about 2000 dead. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
Toyota Motor Corp's Vitz hatchback (R) and flagship Crown sedan are seen colliding in a crash test during the Toyota Safety Technology Media Tour at the company's Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono, west of Tokyo July 21, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
A stone with the text 'Thank you that Mum survived' written upon it is pictured July 21, 2011, at the site where revellers were crushed during a stampede at the Love Parade techno music festival in Duisburg last year. Some 21 people were killed and more than 500 injured in a stampede after mass panic broke out in a tunnel at a Love Parade techno music festival in the western German city of Duisburg on July 24, 2010. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
Suldana Mohamed, 28, carries a child in Barmil in this recently taken handout photo released on July 21, 2011. A wide swathe of east Africa, including Kenya and Ethiopia, has been hit by years of severe drought and the United Nations says two regions of southern Somalia are suffering the worst famine for 20 years, with 3.7 million people facing starvation. Suldana has six children and finds it harder and harder to provide them with water and food. Three of her children are not yet in school, where they would receive one meal a day. REUTERS/Jakob Dall/Danish Red Cross/Handout
Men push bamboo logs to transport them down the river Howrah near Chakmaghat village, about 45 km (28 miles) west of Agartala, located in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura July 21, 2011. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey
Members of the Pilobolus dance company perform a scene from their piece Shadowland during a press preview at Komische Oper in Berlin, July 21, 2011. The show of the Connecticut-based company of choreographers and dancer-athletes consists mainly of images created by the performers' shadows and runs at Komische Oper from July 11-22. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Space shuttle Atlantis is towed to its hangar after landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 21, 2011. The mission to the International Space Station was the final flight for the Space Shuttle Program. REUTERS/Pierre Ducharme
Leopard-Trek rider Andy Schleck of Luxembourg climbs during the 18th stage of the Tour de France 2011 cycling race from Pinerolo to Le Galibier-Serre Chevalier July 21, 2011. Schleck won the stage while Europcar rider Thomas Voeckler of France retained the leader's yellow jersey. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
A boy cools off at the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, July 21, 2011. Crowds flocked to waterfronts and swimming pools on the U.S. East Coast and in the Midwest on Thursday to try to cope with a massive heat wave that has killed at least 22 people this week. REUTERS/Jim Young
A diver surrounded by sardines performs Taekwondo during a promotional diving performance for summer vacation visitors at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul July 22, 2011. The aquarium is running the dive performance daily during the summer season. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak
A huge wave breaks behind a surfer at Sydney's Deadman's Break July 22, 2011. A complex low pressure system over the Tasman Sea casued large swells to hit the Sydney coastline on Friday bringing waves in excess of 4 metres (13 feet). REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
An employee (R) in a fake Apple Store gestures with his middle finger to a photographer trying to take pictures of the store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2011. Chinese counterfeiters have had a field day pumping out knockoffs of Apple Inc's best-selling iPhones and iPads, but one appears to have gone a step further -- a near flawless fake Apple Store that even employees believe is the real deal. Complete with the white Apple logo, wooden tables and cheery staff claiming they work for the iPhone maker, the store looks every bit like Apple Stores found all over the world, according to a 27-year-old American blogger living in the city blogger, who stumbled upon the store and goes by the name BirdAbroad. To match Reuters Life! CHINA-APPLE/FAKE Picture taken July 21, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily
Paula Creamer of the U.S. hits her second shot on the fifth hole during the second round of the Evian Masters golf tournament July 22, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud
Team Breitling wingwalker Charlotte Voce performs, in advance of their appearance at Saturday's airshow at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune, over Edinburgh in Scotland July 22, 2011. REUTERS/David Moir
Wasieef, a Maaz Al Shami (Damascene goat), which won the first prize for the Most Beautiful Goat title in the female category, is seen at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Amman July 22, 2011. This is the first goat competition held in Jordan. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
Smoke billows from a 17-storey government building after a powerful explosion rocked central Oslo July 22, 2011. A huge explosion damaged government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters witness said. The blast blew out most windows on the 17-storey building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire. REUTERS/Andreas H Lunde/Demotix/Scanpix
An injured woman is helped by a man at the scene of a powerful explosion that rocked central Oslo July 22, 2011. A huge explosion damaged government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters witness said. The blast blew out most windows on the 17-storey building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire. REUTERS/Morten Holm/Scanpix
People are seen on the bank of the Utoeya island after a shooting took place at a meeting of the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party, July 22, 2011. It was unclear whether the people were hiding or dead. REUTERS/Vegard M. Aas/Presse30
Anders Behring Breivik, 32, who according to local media was arrested by police after the shooting in Utoeya, is seen in this handout photo released to Reuters on July 23, 2011. A gunman dressed in police uniform shot dead at least 84 people at a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling political party, hours after a bomb killed seven in the government district in the capital Oslo. Witnesses said the gunman, identified by police as a 32-year-old Norwegian who they believed was also linked to the bombing, moved across the small, wooded Utoeya holiday island on Friday firing at random as young people scattered in fear.
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