Week in Pictures: October 3 – 9, 2011

The week’s best photos from around the world

<p>Female Amur tiger Iris licks its 7-week-old cub during one of their first walks in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia&#8217;s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk September 29, 2011. Iris gave birth to three cubs in the beginning of August, according to zoo employees. The Amur tiger is an endangered species. (Ilya Naymushin/REUTERS)</p>

Female Amur tiger Iris licks its 7-week-old cub during one of their first walks in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk September 29, 2011. Iris gave birth to three cubs in the beginning of August, according to zoo employees. The Amur tiger is an endangered species. (Ilya Naymushin/REUTERS)

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