The 20 photographs of the week

The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow celebrated all things Scottish, including the statue of the Duke of Wellington outside the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow which, famously, always has a traffic cone on it. Photograph: Robert Perry/Rex Features

Photographer Tom Jenkins is covering the Commonwealth Games for us and you can keep up-to-date with his images here.
This picture shows the South African men's team pursuit riders at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome in Glasgow. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

The week's photojournalism has been dominated by images of suffering and loss from Ukraine, Gaza and Israel. It has been a difficult time for picture editors, as well as photographers, summed up eloquently by the Guardian's head of photography, Roger Tooth, in this piece.
Here a woman cries during a religious service held by villagers in memory of the victims at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight, near the village of Grabove, eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

People watch from a bridge as a convoy of hearses carries the bodies of those killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 through Boxtel in the Netherlands. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The funeral of Mahmoud Hamamrah, killed during an Israeli attack in the village of Husan near Bethlehem on the West Bank. Photograph: Xinhua /Landov/Barcroft Media

Palestinians rush a man, injured when a UN school being used as a refuge was apparently hit by an Israeli shell, into the overcrowded emergency room of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

The mother of Tal Yifrah, an Israeli soldier killed in the fighting in Gaza, throws herself over his coffin during his funeral in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

A member of a Palestinian family is rescued from the wreckage of his house, destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis, Gaza. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

An Israeli soldier eats a piece of watermelon near the Israeli-Gaza border during a break from fighting last week. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

A young flamingo on Fuente de Piedra lake, near Málaga, Spain, during a tagging and control operation of flamingoes attempting to monitor the evolution of the species. Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

Ranger Xiong Qiaoyong and one of the protected elephants at the Wild Elephant Valley, a nature reserve on the outskirts of Jinghong city in China. Photograph: Imaginechina/Rex Features

Another theme last week was eviction. Here, members of the Roma community attempt to save their homes, illegally built on the town park of Stara Zagora, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, from demolition. Photograph: Impact Press Group/NurPhoto/Corbis

A girl skates in the halls inside the world's tallest slum, the Tower of David, a half-built skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela abandoned by its developers in the 1990s only to be transformed by squatters into a vertical ghetto. It is now being cleared by officials and armed soldiers. Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

Members of the Montoya Jimenez family during eviction from their state-owned apartment having failed to keep up with the rent, in Madrid, Spain. Photograph: Andres Kudacki/AP

The cruise liner Costa Concordia during the complex operation to refloat it and tow it away to be scrapped in Genoa, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Photographer Clark Little has created a stunning set of surfer's-eye-view photographs from Oahu, Hawaii. You can see more here Photograph: Clark Little/Barcroft Media

Reuters photographer Danish Siddique shot an essay on life at the Mumukshu Bhavan (home of the ailing) in Varanasi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Varanasi, on the banks of the River Ganges, is widely considered Hinduism's holiest city and many Hindus believe that dying there and having their remains scattered in the Ganges allows their soul to escape a cycle of death and rebirth, attaining 'moksha' or salvation.
Here Savitri, an 80-year-old widow, poses for a photograph inside her room. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

An Indian worshipper offers prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan during the Laylat al-Qadr or 'night of power' at Jama Masjid in New Delhi. Photograph: Rebecca Conway/AFP/Getty Images

Lightning hit the UK at the beginning of the week. This is at Cley next the Sea in Norfolk, England. You can see more dramatic images here. Photograph: Brian Egan/Demotix/Corbis

German pianist Stefan Aaron plays an orange piano on a flying carpet platform suspended from a helicopter, over Munich airport, Gemany, as part of his world tour. Photograph: Lukas Barth/Reuters