Images of the week: Istanbul, Montevideo, Tel Aviv // Images of the week: Istanbul, Montevideo, Tel Aviv (© 2012 RELAXNEWS)

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Images of the week: Istanbul, Montevideo, Tel Aviv

A Thai volunteer plays with a tiger at a tiger Buddhist temple in Karnchanaburi province, western Thailand on April 24, 2012. Thailand is one of just 13 countries hosting fragile tiger populations and is a hub of international smuggling. Worldwide, numbers are estimated to have fallen to only 3,200 tigers from approximately 100,000 a century ago.