July 14, 2013. A member of the Zr. Ms. Johan de Witt Dutch navy warship says goodbye to a loved one on the quayside in Den Helder, Netherlands.Catrinus Van Der Veen—AFP/Getty Images
From the Trayvon Martin verdict and a deadly school meal poisoning in India to Mariano Rivera’s final All Star game and Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
July 12, 2013. A Palestinian man prays in a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAJuly 15, 2013. A man holds his son while participating in a candle lit vigil for Trayvon Martin, the teenager who was shot and killed in Florida last year, in New York. Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. Doctors examine a patient in a hospital in Bor, South Sudan, suffering from injuries sustained during tribal clashes that erupted in Jonglei State.Camille Lepage—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 14, 2013. A man sunbathes in a shade at a park during hot afternoon in Tokyo.Shizuo Kambayashi—APJuly 16, 2013. Children walk in front of ripped presidential campaign posters in Bamako, Mali. Joe Penney—ReutersJuly 14, 2013. Spanish bullfighter Jimenez Fortes performs with out shoes during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APJuly 14, 2013. A member of the Zr. Ms. Johan de Witt Dutch navy warship says goodbye to a loved one on the quayside in Den Helder, Netherlands.Catrinus Van Der Veen—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. A novice Tibetan Buddhist monk peeps through a hole as he hides behind a desk holding a toy gun during a break from their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's religious sermon outside the Gyudmed Tantric Monastery in Gurupura 132 miles southwest of Bangalore, India.Aijaz Rahi—APJuly 14, 2013. A six-year-old gymnast practices on a horizontal bar at the gymnastics hall of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China.William Hong—ReutersJuly 12, 2013. A priest reads from the Bible to a group of well-wishers outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa.Ben Curtis—APJuly 16, 2013. Bobby Woyjeck, brother of deceased firefighter Kevin Woyjeck, right, holds an axe with his brother's name engraved on it during funeral services at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif.Jae C. Hong—APJuly 16, 2013. Visitors at the Intercession Cathedral (Pokrovsky Cathedral, St. Basil's Cathedral) in Moscow. Smertin Pavel—ITAR-TASS Photo/CorbisJuly 12, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up a position as he uses a mirror to look out for snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighborhood.Muzaffar Salman—ReutersJuly 12, 2013. Palestinians from the West Bank wait to cross the Qalandiya Checkpoint on their way to pray in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Debbie Hill—UPI/LandovJuly 12, 2013. A young Indian Muslim boy tries to fold an umbrella on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at an old Mughal era mosque in New Delhi.Altaf Qadri—APJuly 12, 2013. Female supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi participate in the evening Friday prayer on the third day of Ramadan, the sacred holy month for Muslims where many will fast from sun-up to sun-down in Cairo, Egypt.Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesJuly 12, 2013. A Palestinian Muslim worshipper sneaks through a hole in the Old City wall near the Lions Gate after prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City.Abir Sultan—EPAJuly 12, 2013. Hundreds wait in line to enter the Senate Gallery at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas.Tamir Kalifa—APJuly 12, 2013. A pro-abortion rights protester is removed from the Texas Senate gallery by Texas state troopers as the Senate debates an abortion bill in Austin, Texas.Eric Gay—APJuly 13, 2013. Young people throw colored powders at each other during the 'Festival of Colors' in St. Petersburg, Russia.Dmitry Lovetsky—APJuly 13, 2013. Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla turns his head to look at a bull as he kneels down during the seventh bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain.Susana Vera—ReutersJuly 13, 2013. A 'Mayoral' or bull keeper, left, stands near bullfighter assistants before a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APJuly 14, 2013. Family members pray over the bodies of two Syrian children, Safia Baour, 14, and her three-year-old brother Khaled, who were killed after a shell landed on their family home as they gathered to break their fast with the iftar meal in Maaret Al-Numan in southern Idlib province.Daniel Leal-Olivas—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 12, 2013. Royal Fusiliers carry the coffin of British soldier Lee Rigby — who was hacked to death in broad daylight near his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, on May 22 — out of the Bury Parish Church, northwest England following his funeral. Lindsay Parnaby—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 12, 2013. A Palestinian boy brings his horse into the sea to cool off as hot weather sends people to the beach for relief.Ali Jadallah—Zuma PressJuly 14, 2013. A Kashmiri Muslim boy jumps in a spring during a hot Ramadan day in the outskirts of Srinagar as Kashmir Valley undergoes a heat wave during the holy month.Syed Shahriyar—Demotix/Corbis July 14, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a homemade bomb towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as fellow fighters watch in Deir al-Zor. Khalil Ashawi—ReutersJuly 15, 2013. Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi wave national flags shouting slogans during a rally in his support outside Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Gianluigi Guercia—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. A man injured during tribal clashes that erupted in Jonglei State, lies in a hospital in Bor, South Sudan.Camille Lepage—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. Los Angeles police arrest about a dozen people after a peaceful protest supporting Trayvon Martin turned unlawful in the Leimert Park neighborhood Los Angeles, Calif.Jason Redmon—ReutersJuly 15, 2013. A driver inspects one of the government buses damaged by students protesting against caste-based affirmative action in recruitment examinations for government jobs in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh—APJuly 15, 2013. Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) is seen through the glass of C-Explorer 5 submersible after a dive to see the remains of the naval frigate "Oleg", which sank in the 19th century, in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. Aleksey Nikolskyi—RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters July 15, 2013. A resident fishes on the emerged shoal of the Yellow River after an artificial flood peak in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province.Xu Suhui—Xinhua/LandovJuly 15, 2013. Displaced Congolese flee the area of Kanyarucinya through Munigi on the outskirts of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. Civilians react to shell fire erupting as Congolese armed forces drive through the area of Munigi on the outskirts of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. People wounded in tribal clashes are seen in Bor hospital, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin—APJuly 15, 2013. Former President George H. W. Bush sits in a wheelchair during an event in the East Room at the White House in Washington.Mark Wilson—Getty ImagesJuly 16, 2013. School children hold Belarus and China national flags and flowers wait at a welcoming ceremony for visiting Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko, not in picture, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.Andy Wong—APJuly 16, 2013. A monkey plays in a pond surrounded by carps at a wildlife park in Hefei, Anhui province, China.ReutersJuly 16, 2013. Herdsmen ride during a horse race in Xilin Gol League, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Jacky Chen—ReutersJuly 16, 2013. People gather at the Hub Shopping Center in New Jersey where they staged a rally in memory of Trayvon Martin.Lauren Lancaster for TIMEJuly 16, 2013. Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, and Spain's Alberto Contador, right, speed down manse pass in the last kilometers of the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 105 miles with start in in Vaison-la-Romaine and finish in Gap, France.Laurent Cipriani—APJuly 16, 2013. Men in traditional costumes carry a statue of the El Carmen Virgin into the sea during a procession in Malaga, southern Spain.Jon Nazca—ReutersJuly 16, 2013. American League’s Mariano Rivera, of the New York Yankees, acknowledges a standing ovation during the eighth inning of the MLB All-Star baseball game in New York. Matt Slocum—APJuly 16, 2013. Afghan boys read the Quran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque on the outskirts of Kabul.Rahmat Gul—APJuly 16, 2013: Jersey City, NJ - People gather at the Hub Shopping Center on Martin Luther Drive for a ralling in memory of Trayvon Martin.Lauren Lancaster for TIMEJuly 16, 2013. People cool off in the spray of an open hydrant on a hot evening in Lawrence, Mass. Elise Amendola—APJuly 16, 2013. A man accused by the Congolese Army of being a spy for rebels of the M23 movement is tied and taken away in Munigi on the outskirts of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 16, 2013. A Humpback whale jumps to the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia.Luis Robayo—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 16, 2013. Penitents take part in the "Virgen del Carmen" brotherhood procession during the Carmen day celebrations in Malaga, southern Spain.Jorge Guerrero—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 16, 2013. A man shouts blessings at a statue of the El Carmen Virgin (not pictured) after it was carried into the sea during a procession in Malaga, southern Spain.Jon Nazca—ReutersJuly 17, 2013. Grief-stricken family members react over the bodies of their children who died after consuming a free midday meal at a school at Gandaman in Saran District, India's Bihar state.AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 16, 2013. A crew member sleeps on a mattress aboard a North Korean-flagged ship at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama.Arnulfo Franco—APJuly 17, 2013. Fatima Darrar (R), the 17-year-old daughter of the Syrian pro-government politician Mohammed Darrar Jammo, who was assassinated earlier this day, mourns at her home in Sarafand village, south Lebanon.EPAJuly 16, 2013. An Indian worker makes vermicelli inside a cottage factory in Lucknow, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh—APJuly 17, 2013. Under portraits of former Florida Governors Bob Graham and Reuben Askew, protestors sit on the floor outside Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office at the Capitol in Tallahassee.Phil Sears—APJuly 17, 2013. An Afghan refugee sleeps on the floor of a mosque, while children read verses of the Quran, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APJuly 17, 2013. French climber Antoine Le Menestrel performs a scene of the creation "Cour d'honneur" directed by French Jèrùme Bel at the Cour d'honneur du Palais des Papes in Avignon, as part of the Avignon theater festival.Anne-Christine Poujoulat—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 17, 2013. Kashmiri Muslim children attend recitation classes of the Quran at a local Madrasa or Muslim religious school, during Ramadan in Srinagar, India.Dar Yasin—APJuly 17, 2013. Rain drops fall on an office window as heavy rains and high winds pass over the SkyView Atlanta ferris wheel downtown in Atlanta. David Goldman—APJuly 17, 2013. People look at men enjoying parasailing on the beach in the French southeastern city of Nice.Valery Hache—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 17, 2013. An Israeli soldier cleans the barrel of a tank near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.Baz Ratner—ReutersJuly 17, 2013. A Congolese army helicopter flies amidst smoke from rockets fired at M23 positions north of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 17, 2013. Congolese army soldiers react to shelling in Kanyarucinya, around 10km from Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 18, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter (R) carries his weapon as he stands inside a room in Deir al-Zor.Khalil Ashawi—ReutersJuly 17 , 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a shower outdoors to beat the heat in Deir al-Zor. Khalil Ashawi—ReutersJuly 17, 2013. Diving competitors practice during a training session ahead of the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Quinn Rooney—Getty ImagesJuly 18, 2013. Learners from the Melpark Primary School in Johannesburg listen to the history of former president Nelson Mandela as they celebrate the 95th birthday of Mandela during their school assembly in South Africa. Denis Farrell—APJuly 18, 2013. Tiger Woods of the United States plays out of the rough on the first fairway during the first round of the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland.Jon Super—APJuly 18, 2013. Judge Sergei Blinov (back) reads the verdict during the hearing of the Alexei Navalny trial in Kirov, Russia.Sergei Karpukhin—ReutersJuly 18, 2013. Palestinian children wait to receive food, donated by the Islamic endowment authority Islamic waqf, at a soup kitchen in the West Bank city of Hebron during the holy month of Ramadan,Ammar Awad—ReutersJuly 18, 2013. The breakfast provided by the hospital is kept beside Saurav Kumar, a sick boy who consumed contaminated meals given to children at a school in the eastern Indian city of Patna.Adnan Abidi—Reuters
