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The weekly galleries from msnbc are always top-notch and the offering from July 18-25 is no exception. Scroll down the page and check out the Week in Sports Pictures as well.

The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features It's hot outside, a gallery of images demonstrating the hot conditions around the world.

The Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal, a large-image gallery, features a fine selection of the day's best images from July 1.

What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the field. At that time, Apple's MacBook Pro 15 inch was pegged as being acceptable for this purpose, but barely: hue accuracy trailed the other portables we looked at, while the display's glass front meant it was a battle to keep reflections at bay. Fast forward to today and the overall MacBook Pro story is quite different: not only does the recently-revamped MacBook Pro 15 inch now ship with a superb colour-accurate display, but the new MacBook Pro 13 inch does too. Plus, the third member of Apple's MacBook Pro trio - the 17 inch - has both a great laptop display and the option of ordering it in a much-needed antiglare version. Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we've ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo - display glossiness - coming a bit later this year.

National Public Radio features a story on recently discontinued Kodachrome slide film and The Picture Show: Great Moments in Kodachrome History, a gallery of old images.

The New York Times features U.S Troops Withdraw from Cities and in the Lens blog, Dateline: Iraq, Moses Saman, a photographer from the Times, talks about the situation as U.S. combat troops pull out of Iraqi cities and towns today. A Reuters gallery shows images from Six years in Baghdad.

The Washington Post has posted the Top 10 Sports Photos, a gallery of last week's best peak action and otherwise interesting sports images.

The Wild Wonders Of Europe site exhibits some excellent photography from nature photographers throughout various European countries.

There are many slideshow tributes to Michael Jackson but one of the most thorough is The Life and Career of Michael Jackson in Photos in the Denver Post photoblog Captured.

Phase One has signaled their intent to acquire a portion of the Kodak-owned Leaf business. The deal, once complete, would see Leaf digital backs and perhaps other Leaf products be developed and sold by a newly-formed company called Leaf Imaging, which would be owned by Phase One.*UPDATED*

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a gallery on Soccer in South Africa.

Reuters features a gallery of disturbing images of children playing in Polluted playgrounds throughout the world

Photo Journal, The Wall Street Journal's large-image gallery, is always worth a look and the June 24 gallery is no exception.

SanDisk today unveiled the 32GB Extreme SDHC, promising that its read/write speed rating of 30MB/s will make it the fastest card of its capacity when it ships in August 2009. The company is also in the process of renaming its Extreme III 30MB/s Edition SDHC cards, which will be known hereafter simply as Extreme SDHC. The renamed 4, 8 and 16GB models are expected to hit store shelves at about the same time as the new 32GB is released.

Showing some compelling sequences of images, Reuters has added Photo technique: In a series to its collection and also an interesting gallery on the Top 25 cities.

Showing some compelling sequences of images, Reuters has added Photo technique: In a series to its collection and also an interesting gallery on the Top 25 cities.

Lens, the new photojournalism blog in The New York Times, features Shoptalk: Dial "P" for Photo, a story and cellphone image gallery from professional photographer Shawn Rocco. Be sure to watch the YouTube clip at the end of the story where United States President Barack Obama poses for a cellphone portrait.

Lens, the new photojournalism blog in The New York Times, features Shoptalk: Dial "P" for Photo, a story and cellphone image gallery from professional photographer Shawn Rocco. Be sure to watch the YouTube clip at the end of the story where United States President Barack Obama poses for a cellphone portrait.

Reuters offers a collection of images on the photo technique of reflections.

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 2.4 as well as v5.4 of the Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop CS4.