From the eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano and the first day of school around the world, to a debutante ball in Rio de Janeiro and a giant hippo in London’s river Thames, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Sept. 1, 2014. Ukrainian girls from cadet's lyceum attend a first day of school, which marks the traditional start of the academic year in Kiev, Ukraine.TATYANA ZENKOVICH—EPASept. 2, 2014. A sculpture of a giant hippopotamus, "HippopoThames", built by artist Florentjin Hofman is towed up the Thames past the Houses of Parliament in central London. ANDREW WINNING—REUTERS Sept. 1, 2014. A young North Korean boy peeps over his serving of noodles at the Ongnyugwan, a popular noodle restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea. The restaurant, built in 1960 at the instructions of the late leader Kim Il Sung, claims to serve 10,000 lunches a day. Wong Maye-E—APAug. 31, 2014. A man falls off the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the celebrations for the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta.DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI—REUTERS Sept. 1, 2014. A mother and child hide in a bomb shelter in Petrovskiy district in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The Petrovskiy district of Donetsk is currently a frontline and one of the districts which suffered the most from the artillery fights between Ukrainian army and Pro-Pussian rebels. Mstislav Chernov—APAug. 31, 2014. A dead bird floats in the water after a pipeline spill of premium gasoline contaminated the Hondo River near the town of Tierra Blanca, Mexico. According to PEMEX, the Aug. 27 spill was caused by an illegal tap in the pipeline by criminals trying to steal fuel.Felix Marquez—APAug. 29, 2014. Leber Vivas Gonzales, 16, center right, is accompanied by a rescue worker as he walks away from the entrance to the El Comal gold and silver mine in Bonanza, Nicaragua. Vivas was the first of 11 freelance gold miners trapped by a collapse in the mine to be rescued and crews were working early Saturday to free more the rest, officials said. Esteban Felix—AP Aug. 29, 2014. A teenage girl from the Santa Marta "favela" slum holds a pair of high heels before the start of a debutante ball organized by the Pacifying Police Unit from her neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Silvia Izquierdo—APAug. 31, 2014. Russia's president Vladimir Putin (C) gives a thumbs up during the closing ceremony of the 2014 World Judo Championships. Druzhinin Alexei—ITAR-TASS PhAug. 30, 2014. Wu Lunjiao (L), holds her daughter Yuanyuan, who is suffering from an unknown disease, as she looks out of the window on a taxi in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.Chen Wencai—REUTERSSept. 1, 2014. Supporters of Imran Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri, leader of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), attack Pakistani security forces' during the ongoing anti-government protests in Islamabad, Pakistan. M.NADEEM—Barcroft Media /LandovSept. 1, 2014. An army soldier tries to extinguish a fire at the park Floresta Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil. Six teams, a helicopter and an aircraft were mobilized to contain the fire. The Brazilian capital suffers of current low humidity and a period of drought.FERNANDO BIZERRA JR.—EPASept. 1, 2014. Participants dance during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York. ERIC THAYER—REUTERSSept. 2, 2014. In this aerial view, fountains of lava, up to 60 meters high, spurt from a fissure in the ground on the north side of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland.Stefano Di Nicolo—AP Aug. 30, 2014. Children who were transferred from orphanages in Donetsk and Makeyevka stand in their cribs in an orphanage in Kramatorsk. 76 children from orphanages in Donetsk and Makeyevka in eastern Ukraine were sent to Kramatorsk due to fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists. GLEB GARANICH—REUTERSAug. 29, 2014.
Ukrainian forces launch missiles from their camp to disperse pro-Russian militants from their positions, in the Donetsk region. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Russia on August 29 to halt its "illegal" military actions in Ukraine, accusing it of a "dangerous" attempt to destabilise its western neighbour. OLEKSANDR RATUSHNIAK—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 30, 2014. Sri Lanka's cricket fans watch the match from a tree during the final ODI (One Day International) cricket match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Dambulla.DINUKA LIYANAWATTE—REUTERSAug. 30, 2014. A competitor runs through a foam tunnel during the Brutal Run extreme obstacle course race in Budapest.LASZLO BALOGH—REUTERSSept. 1, 2014. A little girl walks the stairs of the bomb shelter in Petrovskiy district in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Petrovskiy district of Donetsk is currently a frontline and one of the districts which suffered the most from the artillery fights between Ukrainian army and Pro-Pussian rebels.Mstislav Chernov—APAug. 30, 2014. Slovak aerobatic group "Ocova Shepherds" paint the sky with their gliders at the Slovak International Air Fest SIAF 2014 at the Slovak Airforce Base of Sliac. JOE KLAMAR—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 31, 2014. A mother says goodbye to her son, a volunteer in the Kurdish peshmerga forces, as he prepares to leave home for the front line near Tuz Khurmatu, northeast of Tikrit city.YOUSSEF BOUDLAL—REUTERSSept. 1, 2014. Elementary school children take cover under their desks during an earthquake drill at a school in Tokyo on. Nationwide anti-disaster drills were held on September 1 on the anniversary of the massive 1923 earthquake which killed more than 140,000 people in the Tokyo metropolitan area.YOSHIKAZU TSUNO—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 1, 2014. First grade students during a class in one of the local schools at the start of a new school year on Knowledge Day in Ivanovo.SMIRNOV VLADIMIR—ITAR-TASS/LandovSept. 1, 2014. Students walk up the stairs to their classrooms inside the Angela Landa elementary school the Old Havana, Cuba. Monday marks the first day back to class for students across Cuba.Ramon Espinosa—APAug. 30, 2014.An Egyptian court security member looks on during a sentencing for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Badie, at a court in Cairo.MOHAMED EL-SHAHED—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2014. The Colombian team performs during the Squad Compulsory Vaulting competition at the World Equestrian Games at the Zenith in Caen.REGIS DUVIGNAU—REUTERSAug. 31, 2014. French cyclist Claude Bares, rides on his bicycle at the Alto Irpavi velodrome in La Paz, Bolivia. Bares, 75, raced 36 kms., 402 mts, and 55 cms. in an hour, trying to break his own world record in the 75-80 years category that he set last April in France.Juan Karita—APSept. 1, 2014. A cheerleader for the Edmonton Eskimos goes flying through the air while they played the Calgary Stampeders during their CFL football game at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Todd Korol—Getty ImagesAug. 31, 2014. Fishermen, firefighters, and Agriculture, Cattle, Rural Development, Fish and Food Secretary personnel collaborate in the cleaning of dead fish in the Cajititlan lake, Tlajomulco town, Mexican state of Jalisco. Close to 50 tons of fish have died over the last six days from unknown causes.Ulises Ruiz Basurto—EPASept. 1, 2014. A North Korean waitress is silhouetted as she pushes a trolley of noodles at the Ongyugwan dining hall of a popular noodle restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea. The restaurant, built in 1960 at the instructions of the late leader Kim Il Sung, claims to serve 10,000 lunches a day.Wong Maye-E—APSept. 3, 2014.
President Barack Obama visits Tallinn Estonia to meet with the president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves. Karli Saul—Scanpix Baltics/TT/Sipa USASept. 1, 2014. Indian homeless sleep covered with blankets near Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi, India. The Jama Masjid is one of India's biggest mosques situated at the busy street of the old quarters of Delhi.Bernat Armangue—APAug. 31, 2014. An ultra-Orthodox Jew carries a placard which reads, 'Israeli police. We and our sons are ready to be arrested to honour God, but will not be drafted into the army.'JIM HOLLANDER—EPASept. 2, 2014. Villagers dry their clothes on a stone wall in the mountain village of Chupon, Peru. The village lies in the Peruvian Andes in the province of Ayacucho and houses about 30 peasants that subsist on farming corn and potatoes.Rodrigo Abd—APSept. 2, 2014. Melvic Choo, 13, accepts the ashes of his father, MH17 co-pilot Eugene Choo, at his wake in Seremban. Malaysian Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 crashed after being shot down over war-torn Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people on board.OLIVIA HARRIS—REUTERSSept. 1, 2014. An Israeli soldier sits in his Merkava tank (R) on alert position on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the Quneitra crossing with Syria. Heavy fighting between Syrian government troops and opposition forces overflowed into the buffer zone separating Syrian and Israeli-occupied territory over the weekend.MENAHEM KAHANA—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2014. Syrian rebels take position near the Israeli-Syrian border, during the fighting between Syrian army and rebels. Islamist militants in Syria have demanded that their Al-Nusra Front group be taken off the UN list of terrorist organizations as a condition for releasing dozens of Fijian peacekeepers captured on the Golan Heights, local media said.ATEF SAFADI—EPASept 3, 2014 . Young girls hope to meet Pope Francis during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Evandro Inetti—ZUMAPRESS.comSept. 3, 2014. Children play on the hills in Kathmandu.NAVESH CHITRAKAR—REUTERSSept. 2, 2014. Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's latest creation, a 25 meters (82 feets) white rabbit, leans up against an old aircraft hangar as part of the Taoyuan Land Art Festival in Taoyuan, Taiwan.Wally Santana—APSept. 3, 2014. North Koreans watch as their others play an arcade game at the Kaeson Youth Amusement Park in Pyongyang, North Korea. Wong Maye-E—APSept. 4, 2014.
Pakistani residents wade through floodwaters following heavy rain in Lahore, Pakistan.ARIF ALI—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 4, 2014. Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers and officer use ropes to measure positions of honor guard members before a welcoming ceremony for Malaysia's Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Alhaj Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Lintao Zhang—Getty ImagesAug. 29, 2014.A man climbs down after partially chipping out the cross from the entrance of his house, after taking part in a religion conversion ceremony from Christianity to Hinduism, at Hasayan town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.ADNAN ABIDI—REUTERSSept. 3, 2014. A drug addict smokes drugs at a shanty town in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica.JEFFREY ARGUEDAS—EPASept. 3, 2014. Chinese dancer and choreographer Yang Liping performing during the dance performance 'The Peacock' in Beijing, China.HOW HWEE YOUNG—EPASept. 4, 2014. The mane of California Chrome is wet from a bath after a morning training session at Los Alamitos Race Course in Los Alamitos, Calif. Jae C. Hong—APSept. 4, 2014. A cataract eye patient lies on bed in an operating theatre during 'Brightness Action' free eye surgical treatment campaign in Yangon, Myanmar.LYNN BO BO—EPASept. 4, 2014. A long time exposed picture taken by night shows Slovakia's High Tatras mountains seen from the Solar observatory station on the Lomnicky Stit peak.JOE KLAMAR—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 1, 2014. A boy sleeps amid the rubble of his destroyed house in Gaza Strip. AHMED HJAZY—PACIFIC PRESS/ BI/Barcroft Media/LandovSept. 5, 2014. Misha, a brown bear (Ursus arctos) waits for his first in a lifetime dental treatments in his enclosure in the zoo of Poznan, Poland.JAKUB KACZMARCZYK&—EPA
