Pictures of the Week: August 3 – August 10

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From the battle for Aleppo and prayers in Hiroshima to the second week of the London 2012 Olympics and sheep fighting in China, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

August 6, 2012. Men carry the body of Hatem Qureya, 15, after he was trapped under rubble following an airstrike in the neighborhood of Bustan al Qasr in Aleppo, Syria.Nicole Tung
August 6, 2012. Worshipers in the Sikh community gather for a candle light vigil after prayer services at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin.M. Spencer Green—AP
August 7, 2012. Volcanic ash covers a tree as a farmer feeds her horses after the eruption of Mount Tongariro coated the area with ash at Rangipo in the Tongariro National Park, New Zealand.Marty Melville—AFP/Getty Images
August 3, 2012. French President François Hollande (L) and his partner Valerie Trierweiler go to the beach at the Fort de Bregancon in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southeastern France.Boris Horvat—AFP/Getty Images
August 4, 2012. People try to catch the various items being thrown into the crater of Mount Bromo. Thousands from different faiths and tourists witnessed the ceremony at Bromo Mountain, East Java, where visitors come to the volcano to make their yearly sacrifices as part of the festival of Yadnya Kasada.Reporter# 36810/Demotix/Corbis
August 6, 2012. China's Qin Kai performs a dive during the men's 3m springboard preliminary round at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre.Jorge Silva—Reuters
August 3, 2012. Skydivers come together at 18,000 ft and traveling at 175 mph in a bid to complete a record-breaking 138 man formation over Ottawa, Ill.Norman Kent—Barcroft Media/Landov
August 6, 2012. An Indian model displays a creation by Shivan and Narresh during the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India.Rajanish Kakade—AP
August 3, 2012. An Indian man adjust the veil of a young girl before breaking the fast during Ramadan in New Delhi, India.Tsering Topgyal—AP
August 7, 2012. Roadside dwellers protect themselves from rain with a plastic sheet in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi.Parivartan Sharma—Reuters
August 3, 2012. Britain's Jessica Ennis competes in her women's heptathlon shot put Group A event at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium.Eddie Keogh—Reuters
August 3, 2012. Congolese gather on the roadside at an impromptu site for the displaced in Kanyarucinya on the outskirts of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Phil Moore—AFP/Getty Images
August 4, 2012. A woman watches floodwater flow into a house following a dike breach caused by the storm in Navotas City, north of Manila, Philippines.Pat Roque—AP
August 4, 2012. Michael Phelps (R) of the United States of America (USA) swims the butterfly leg, while Nathan Adrian (L) waits on the starting block to take over in the men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final during the Swimming competition held at the Aquatics Center during the London 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.Patrick B. Kramer—EPA
August 4, 2012. An aerial view of New Yorkers taking in the sun on Manhattan rooftops in New York City.Mario Tama—Getty Images
August 4, 2012. An Indian photographer lifts a fake tiger used as a prop at the Table Top tourist destination at Saputara, India.Sam Panthaky—AFP/Getty Images
August 5, 2012. A seagull passes a girl preparing to refresh herself during high heat in Black Sea village of Zatoka, Ukraine.Sergei Supinsky—AFP/Getty Images
August 5, 2012. A NASA handout image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite shows an iceberg from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. The iceberg, twice the size of Manhattan, tore off one of Greenland's largest glaciers on July 16, 2012. AFP Photo / NASA
August 5, 2012. A boy with a pneumatic drill breaks rocks near a construction site in Myanmar's new capital Naypyitaw.Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters
August 6, 2012. This image shows one of the first views from NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5. It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on one of the rover's Hazard-Avoidance cameras.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Sipa USA
August 5, 2012. Italy's Giulia Lapi and Mariangela Perrupato are seen underwater as they perform in the synchronised swimming duets technical routine qualification round during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre.Tim Wimborne—Reuters
August 6, 2012. Monica Fraile swims before celebrating her wedding in a Sea Life Aquarium in Benalmadena, Spain, where two couples took the opportunity to get into the pool to get married.Jorge Guerrero—AFP/Getty Images
August 6, 2012. Photographed using a variable-plane lens, Prince Abdullah Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, riding Davos, competes in the 3rd Qualifier of Individual Jumping on Day 10 of the London 2012 Olympic Games in London.Alex Livesey—Getty Images
August 6, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children play on a segregated beach in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv.Oded Balilty—AP
August 6, 2012. Cyclists compete during the London 2012 Olympic Games women's omnium elimination race cycling event at the Velodrome in the Olympic Park in East London.Carl De Souza—AFP/Getty Images
August 6, 2012. Dark rain clouds cover the newly erected Nelson Mandela Statue in Howick, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The statue and exhibition are at the site that Nelson Mandela was arrested 50 years ago.Kim Ludbrook—EPA
August 6, 2012. A Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor offers a prayer for A-bomb victims at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima marked the 67th anniversary of the world's first usage of nuclear weapon at the end of World War II in 1945.Kimimasa Mayama—EPA
August 6, 2012. A man walks past a mural of trees in Mexico City.Tomas Bravo—Reuters
August 6, 2012. The "Fisht" Olympic stadium is seen under construction as workers take a break for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.Mikhail Mordasov—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2012. Crows, eagles and kingfishers hover over the Nigeen lake to catch dead fish in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Thousands of dead fishes were found floating on the lake due to depletion of oxygen and the fluctuation of water temperature.Javed Dar—Xinhua/Zuma Press
August 6, 2012. Thousands of fish are seen floating dead in Nigeen Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.Farooq Khan—EPA
August 7, 2012. A Palestinian refugee girl washes herself in the street during hot weather and high temperatures between makeshift tents in the Al-Zaiton neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPA
August 7, 2012. An Egyptian woman cries during a military funeral for soldiers killed during an attack at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel by unknown gunmen, at the Omar Makram mosque in Cairo.Mohamed Abd El Ghany—Reuters
August 7, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jews listen to their rabbi speaking as they celebrate the completion of Shas (Siyum Hashas, or seven years of studying Talmud) at the ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, located south of Jerusalem.Abir Sultan—EPA
August 7, 2012. Russian gymnast Kseniia Afanaseva holds a portrait of an Orthodox Saint after her performance during the artistic gymnastics women's floor exercise final at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Afanaseva placed the portrait near the mat prior to her performance. Gregory Bull—AP
August 7, 2012. An Afghan miner walks with his donkey laden with coal inside a coal mine in Samangan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.Qais Usyan—AFP/Getty Images
August 7, 2012. Indonesian fire victims rest beside tombs at a cemetery after their houses were burned down in Jakarta, following a massive fire triggered by a faulty electrical connection.Romeo Gacadromeo—AFP/Getty Images
August 7, 2012. Lokinder Kaur, whose husband Ranjeet Singh was killed in the shooting attack at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, mourns at the family home in New Delhi, India.Kevin Frayer—AP
August 7, 2012. Fafa, a lioness from Brasilia Zoo, undergoes a CT scan at the veterinary clinic in Brasilia. Ueslei Marcelino—Reuters
August 7, 2012. The walking sticks commonly carried by Somali elders and the protective gear worn by the United Nations staff rest against the wall outside a conference hall where a meeting to select members of the country's new parliament is taking place in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia.Dai Kurokawa—EPA
August 8, 2012. Muslims offer prayers before having their Iftar (fast-breaking) meal during the holy month of Ramadan at a religious school on the outskirts of Jammu, Kashmir.Mukesh Gupta—Reuters
August 8, 2012. Sheep fight at the 9th Sheep Contest in Shangyi County, north China's Hebei Province.Jin Liangkuai—Xinhua/Landov
August 8, 2012. A member of the Egyptian security forces takes position on a sand dune during an operation in the northern Sinai peninsula.AFP/Getty Images
August 8, 2012. Men search for bodies under rubble of a house, destroyed by a Syrian Air force air strike, in a village of Tel Rafat, Syria.Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
August 8, 2012. A boy dives into the Treska river for a swim as temperatures soared to 110 degrees Fahrenheit near Skopje, Macedonia.Ognen Teofilovski—Reuters
August 8, 2012. An alligator floats in a pond under rainy skies during a practice round as Tour players prepare for this week's PGA Championship golf tournament at The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, South Carolina. Mathieu Belanger—Reuters
August 8, 2012. A man brings down his dogs from their rooftop at a flooded area in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines.Aaron Favila—AP
August 8, 2012. A Congolese woman stands in a growing camp of newly arrived internal displaced people on the outskirts of the town of Kibati.SIPA USA
August 8, 2012. An African Union soldier is seen through a marred windshield of an armored truck at a military base in Afgoye district, some 30km northwest of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia.Dai Kurokawa—EPA
August 9, 2012, An ultra-orthodox Jewish Bride holds a strip of cloth attached to the brother of the groom as he dances during a traditional wedding ceremony in Bnei Brak, Israel, as hundreds of Hasidic Jews attend the wedding of the grandson of the Rabbi of Toldos Avraham. Abir Sultan—EPA
August 9, 2012. Usain Bolt of Jamaica kisses the finish line as he celebrates after winning gold in the Men's 200m Final on Day 13 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium in London, England.Offside/Rex USA

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