Pictures of the Week: Jul. 25 – Aug. 1

1 minute read

From an Ebola outbreak in Africa and Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world, to the destruction of underground tunnels in Gaza and people dancing in the streets of North Korea, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

CA Fires
Jul. 27, 2014. The El Portal Fire burns on a hillside in the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park on Sunday evening. The community of El Portal was under a mandatory evacuation. By Tuesday the blaze had burned nearly 3,000 acres. Stuart Palley
ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-GAZA
Jul. 29, 2014. Israeli residents and relatives take cover from a rocket attack from Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip during the funeral of Israeli soldier Corporal Meidan Maymon Biton, 20, at the cemetery of the southern Israeli city of Netivot.Gil Cohen Magen—AFP/Getty Images
PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA
Jul. 30, 2014. Flyers are dropped over Gaza City by the Israeli army urging residents to evacuate their homes. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict.Mohammed Abed—AFP/Getty Images
Tokyo Disaster Prevention City
Jul. 29, 2014. Tokyo Metropolitan Government employees light a large underground regulating reservoir in Tokyo.Franck Robichon—EPA
TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-MALAYSIA-ACCIDENT-CRASH
Jul. 26, 2014. Flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), in the Donetsk region.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
A crane lifts a puppet of a girl in Liverpool
Jul. 26, 2014. A crane lifts a puppet of a girl in Liverpool, northern England. The puppet is part of the "Memories of August 1914" World War One commemorative event in Liverpool.Nigel Roddis—Reuters
John Kerry
Jul. 26, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane in Paris, as he returns to Washington, following efforts to reach a longer truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.Charles Dharapak—AP
Workers remove the wreckage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane that crashed, on Taiwan's offshore island Penghu
Jul. 25, 2014. Workers remove the wreckage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane that crashed on Taiwan's offshore island Penghu.Pichi Chuang—Reuters
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City
Jul. 31, 2014. The collapsed minaret of a mosque seen from the destroyed living room of a Palestinian family in a building across the street in Gaza City.Oliver Weiken—EPA
PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA
Jul. 30, 2014. Gurneys are seen piled up outside the morgue at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty Images
Relatives of Jalila Ayyad, a Christian woman who was reportedly killed during an airstrike, carry her coffin during her funeral at the Church of Saint Porphyrius.
Jul. 27, 2014. Relatives of Jalila Ayyad, a Christian woman who was reportedly killed during an airstrike, carry her coffin during her funeral at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City. Sergey Ponomarev—The New York Times
APTOPIX Pakistan
Jul. 31, 2014. A Pakistan Navy helicopter evacuates a recovered body of a victim who drowned over Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan. Scores of people drowned despite a ban on entering and bathing in the sea due to high tides, after thousands of people turned up on various beaches of Karachi to celebrate Muslims festive day of Eid. Fareed Khan—AP
CORRECTION-MALI-BURKINA-ALGERIA-FRANCE-AVIATION-CRASH
Jul. 29, 2014. A man is comforted paying homage to a relative he lost in the crash of AirAlgeria flight AH5017, at the crash site in Mali's Gossi region.Sia Kambou—AFP/Getty Images
Child walks toward the shore of the Malagueta beach at the Mediterranean Sea in Malaga
Jul. 27, 2014. A child walks toward the shore of the Malagueta beach at the Mediterranean Sea in Malaga, Spain was host to 28 million foreign tourists in the first half of 2014, a 7.3% increase over the same period in 2013, according to figures from the Spanish Institute for Tourist Studies.Jon Nazca—Reuters
TOPSHOTS-CGAMES-2014-SWIM
Jul. 26, 2014. Swimmers dive in during the Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.Andrej Isakovic—AFP/Getty Images
20th Commonwealth Games - Day 5: Artistic Gymnastics
Jul. 28, 2014. Daniel Purvis of Scotland competes in the Men's Team Final and Individual Qualification at SECC Precinct during day five of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, United Kingdom.Hannah Peters—Getty Images
*** BESTPIX *** 20th Commonwealth Games - Day 3: Track Cycling
Jul. 26, 2014. Eleanor Richardson of Scotland competes in the women's sprint qualifying at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome during day three of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, United Kingdom.Mark Kolbe—Getty Images
Israel renewed intense airstrikes on Gaza
Jul. 29, 2014. A Palestinian man takes a picture of a fire raging in Gaza's main power plant following an overnight Israeli airstrike, south of Gaza City.Oliver Weiken—EPA
Town of Gorlovka in aftermath of attack by Ukraine government troops
Jul.29, 2014. A local resident, Lyubov Konstantinovna lies on a bed in bomb shelter in Gorlovak, Donetsk, Ukraine. Dzhavakhadze Zurab—ITAR-TASS
BESTPIX Eid Celebration Marks The End Of Ramadan
Jul. 28, 2014. Indonesian Muslim women attend Eid Al-Fitr prayer on 'sea of sands' at Parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
North Korea War Anniversary
Jul. 27, 2014. A North Korean student cleans his tuba ahead of a parade to celebrate the anniversary of the Korean war armistice agreement in Pyongyang, North Korea.Wong Maye-E—AP
North Korea War Anniversary
Jul. 27, 2014. North Koreans dance in downtown Pyongyang, in North Korea. North Koreans celebrated the 61st anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.Wong Maye-E—AP
North Korea Daily Life
Jul. 25, 2014. A traffic controller stands in her rain gear in Pyongyang, North Korea. A typhoon was approaching North Korea on Friday as the country entered its rainy season.Wong Maye-E—AP
A sculpture and a painting are seen above debris after a fire at the Jiangbei Cathedral in Ningbo
Jul. 28, 2014. A sculpture (C) and a painting are seen above debris after a fire at the Jiangbei Cathedral in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.Reuters
Men are seen at the window of a train as they make their way home, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, at Karachi's Cantonment railway station
Jul. 27, 2014. Men are seen at the window of a train as they make their way home, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, at Karachi's Cantonment railway station. Akhtar Soomro—Reuters
*** BESTPIX *** Costa Concordia Is Seen Near The Port Of Genoa
Jul. 27, 2014. Tug boats move the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia while completing maneuvers inside the port of Pra-Voltri in Genoa, Italy.Jacopo Raule—Getty Images
UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-MALAYSIA-ACCIDENT-CRASH
Jul. 28, 2014. Relatives of people detained by separatist Donetsk People's Republic's military wait outside of the military building in Donetsk. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
IDF in action inside Gaza
Jul. 30, 2014. Israel Defense Forces soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade guarding and neutralizing tunnels that were dug by the Hamas organization and leading into Israel.Ziv Koren—Polaris
IDF in action inside Gaza
Jul. 30, 2014. Israel Defense Forces soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade during a military operation in the southern Gaza Strip.Ziv Koren—Polaris
Mideast Israel Palestinians
Jul. 31, 2014. Friends of Staff Sgt. Matan Gotlib, a Maglan elite unit soldier, morn during his funeral in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion, central Israel.Ariel Schalit—AP
Ebola in Liberia
Jul. 28, 2014. A nurse from Liberia sprays preventives to disinfect the waiting area for visitors at the ELWA Hospital where US doctor Kent Bradley is being quarantined in the hospitals isolation unit having contracted the Ebola virus.Ahmed Jallanzo—EPA
SSUDAN-UNREST
Jul. 29, 2014. Young people attend an anniversary celebration of the Red Army Foundation (RAF) in Juba. In the early 1980s, the SPLA recruited and began training boys as young as 12 to fight in its independence battle with Sudan, in a group called the Red Army. Samir Bol—AFP/Getty Images
Poppies lie in Tower of London moat to commemorate WW1 victims
Aug. 1, 2014. A bemedalled Chelsea Pensioner walks amongst red poppies in the moat at the Tower of London in London, Britain.Andy Rain—EPA
SKOREA-WEATHER
Aug. 1, 2014. A child lies in a pool of water to cool down in central Seoul, South Korea.Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
Landslide in Pune, Maharashtra
Jul. 31, 2014. An Indian National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team looks for dead bodies in the river after a landslide in Malin village, Pune district, Maharashtra, India.Divyakant Solanki—EPA
A Nepalese Muslim boy offers prayer during Eid al-Fitr celebrations at a mosque in Kathmandu
Jul. 29, 2014. A Nepalese Muslim boy offers prayer during Eid al-Fitr celebrations at a mosque in Kathmandu. The Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan.Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA
Jul. 29, 2014. Smoke billows in the background from the site of an Israeli strike as Palestinian children play on a mini ferris wheel in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty Images
ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-GAZA
Jul. 29, 2014. Females comrades of 21-year-old Israeli Sgt. Barkey Ishai Shor, mourn during his funeral at the Mount Herzel military cemetery in Jerusalem, after he was killed the previous day in combat. Gali Tibbon—AFP/Getty Images
APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians
Jul. 30, 2014. Palestinians gather leaflets that fell from an Israeli plane warning residents in Gaza City to stay away from Hamas militants and to report possible rocket launches. Hatem Moussa—AP
Humanitarian Cease Fire Reveals Massive Gaza Destruction
Jul. 26, 2014. A small white lamb follows a white donkey through the rubble of homes in the northern district of Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip during an humanitarian truce.Heidi Levine—SIPA
Peat fires in Russia's Tver Region
Jul. 31, 2014. A forest ravaged by a peat fire that emerged due to an abnormal heat. Sergei Bobylev—ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis

More Must-Reads From TIME

Contact us at letters@time.com