The Best Pictures of the Week, September 23 – September 30
The Best Pictures of the Week, September 23 – September 30
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September 27, 2011. Workers and officers attend the launch for the second nationally designed combat ship TCSG Buyukada, at the Tuzla Naval shipyard in Istanbul.Osman Orsal–REUTERS
From an inspection of the Washington Monument and a former Afghan president’s funeral to a building collapse in New Delhi and continued fighting in Libya, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
September 27, 2010. An engineer begins the process of conducting a block-by-block inspection of the exterior of the Washington Monument while suspended by ropes, Washington, DC. The National Park Service has closed the landmark in the nation's capital indefinitely due to damage caused by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August.
Win McNamee–Getty ImagesSeptember 24, 2011. Palestinian woman Lafata Achemed Bedran, the mother of Issam Bedran, is comforted by a relative as family members and friends mourn at the funeral of her son in the West Bank village of Qusra. Issam was shot dead during clashes with Israeli soldiers just before Mahmoud Abbas was about to give his speech at the United Nations where he submitted a letter asking for full UN membership.Heidi Levine–Sipa PressSeptember 27, 2011. Workers and officers attend the launch for the second nationally designed combat ship TCSG Buyukada, at the Tuzla Naval shipyard in Istanbul. Osman Orsal–ReutersSeptember 27, 2011. People look on from inside a bus at the rescue operations taking place at Yu Yuan Garden station after a subway train collision in Shanghai. Two subway trains collided in Shanghai injuring over 200 passengers. Carlos Barria–ReutersSeptember 23, 2011. Supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abduallah Saleh gather at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier where a Palestinian flag hangs during a rally celebrating his return to Sanaa, Yemen. President Ali Abdullah Saleh made a surprise return to Yemen after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a move certain to further inflame battles between forces loyal to him and his opponents that have turned the capital into a war zone. Hani Mohammed–AP PhotoSeptember 27, 2011. A captured wounded Taliban fighter lies on the back of a military truck in Combat Outpost Pirtle King, to be transported to the U.S. military's Forward Operating base in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan. Two Talibans were killed and one was wounded and captured after a joint U.S.-Afghan military engaged them in firefight, supported by mortar and helicopter attacks at the Taliban position near Combat Outpost Pirtle King in Kunar province. Erik De Castro–ReutersSeptember 23, 2011. Afghan men remove a tent from the Wazir Akbar Khan hill after the burial ceremony of Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council in Kabul. Weeping Afghans gathered under tight security to bury Rabbani, the government's chief peace negotiator killed this week by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy with a message about possible talks. After prayers at the presidential palace, a coffin draped in the black, red and green national flag was taken to a hilltop in the Wazir Akbar Khan district for burial.Omar Sobhani–ReutersSeptember 28, 2011. The body of a victim of a building collapse lies inside an ambulance outside a mortuary in New Delhi, India. Broken beams and mounds of clay lay in heaps where a three-story residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, killing at least seven people and highlighting the dangerous housing conditions among the city's poor. Tsering Topgyal–AP September 27, 2011. Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building in the old quarters of Delhi. A building in the old quarters of New Delhi collapsed, killing at least five people and injuring 25. ReutersSeptember 23, 2011. A would-be immigrant sits inside a police van after arriving at the port in Malaga, southern Spain. Some 44 would-be immigrants, including two women aboard a zodiac were intercepted off the southern Spanish coast as they were heading to European soil from Africa. Jon Nazca–ReutersSeptember 25, 2011. Spain's bullfighter Jose Tomas performs at the Monumental bullring in Barcelona, Spain. Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia bids farewell to the country's emblematic tradition of bullfighting with a final bash at the Barcelona bullring. Emilio Morenatti–APSeptember 25, 2011. Team of Germany performs with the three Ribbons and two Hoops in the groups final competition of the 31st Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Montpellier, southern France. Bulgaria won the gold medal, Italy the silver and Israel the bronze in the three Ribbons and two Hoops events. Pascal Guyot–AFP/Getty ImagesSeptember 26, 2011. A NASA image captured from the International Space Station shows rare aurora appearing in red. The colours depend on which atoms are causing the splash of light seen in the aurora. In most cases, the light comes when a charged particle sweeps in from the solar wind and collides with an oxygen atom in Earth's atmosphere. This produces a green photon, so most auroras appear green. However, lower-energy oxygen collisions as well as collisions with nitrogen atoms can produce red photons—so sometimes aurora also show a red band as seen here.Reuters/NASASeptember 28, 2011. Chinese soldiers guard Long March II-F rocket loaded with China's unmanned space module Tiangong-1 (not in the picture) at the launch pad in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu province, China. China will launch an experimental craft paving the way for its first space station, bringing the growing Asian power closer to matching the United States and Russia with a long-term manned outpost in space. Petar Kujundzic–ReutersSeptember 27, 2011. The exhaust trail left by the Minotaur IV rocket that lifted off from Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska is shaded in different hues by the rising sun. The rocket, which is carrying an experimental Navy satellite designed to provide safer combat communications, took flight at 7:49 a.m. Alaska time, approximately 15 minutes before sunrise. James Brooks—Kodiak Daily Mirror/APSeptember 28, 2011. A boy is covered as his mother carries him during rainfall in Kathmandu. The weather of Kathmandu is predicted to improve and the monsoon will retreat from the country in another five-six days, according to the Meteorological Forecasting Division. Navesh Chitrakar—ReutersSeptember 24, 2011. Anti-Gaddafi fighters fire a multiple rocket launcher near Sirte, one of Muammar Gaddafi's last remaining strongholds. Libyan provisional government forces backed by NATO warplanes swarmed into the city of Sirte but weathered heavy sniper fire as they tried to win control of one of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's last bastions of support. Goran Tomasevic—ReutersSeptember 24, 2011. A rebel on crutches fires a rocket propelled grenade while fighting on the front line in Sirte. Anis Mili—ReutersSeptember 24, 2011. Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany steers his car on this way to getting the pole position during the qualifying session for Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore.Wong Maye-E—AP September 22, 2011. A woman is reflected in a window of an office in the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China.Carlos Barria—ReutersSeptember 23, 2011. Pakistani flood victims gather on high ground at a flooded area in Sanghar. Two million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country's disaster authority said. More than 350 people have been killed and over 8 million people have been affected this year by floods that officials say are worse in parts of Sindh province than last year, when the country saw its worst ever disaster. Farooq Naeem—AFP/Getty ImagesSeptember 27, 2011. In this aerial photo, flood-affected farmers dry chili crops on high ground in the Umerkot District of Pakistan's Sindh province, where floods have killed over 200 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people. Neighboring Baluchistan province has also been affected. Shakil Adil—AP PhotoSeptember 27, 2011. A boy cries as he waits for the search and recovery of his relatives beneath the rubble after strong winds brought by Typhoon Nesat knocked down a wall killing four residents in Valenzuela City, Metro Manila. Typhoon Nesat pounded the Philippines' main island, lashing crop-growing provinces and bringing the capital to a near standstill as it disrupted power supplies and closed financial markets, government offices, transport and schools. Cheryl Ravelo—ReutersSeptember 28, 2011. A man hangs on to what remains of a house that was built on stilts as he tries to recover belongings after Typhoon Nesat wiped out most of his neighbors' homes along a coastal village in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines. Emergency services and residents in the Philippine capital cleaned up and restored electricity after the powerful typhoon unleashed flood waters and fierce wind that sent huge waves crashing over seawalls. Aaron Favila—AP September 26, 2011. An activist looks through barbed wire at the traveler settlement at Dale Farm near Basildon, in south-east England, as resident Kathleen McCarthy addresses the press. Residents battling eviction from Britain's biggest illegal travelers' site won yet another temporary reprieve as a judge granted them an extension on their injunction. Bailiffs acting for the Basildon Council local authority had been set to evict the Irish travelers, but a series of last-ditch legal moves have so far prevented the site being cleared. Carl Court—AFP/Getty ImagesSeptember 28, 2011. A Pakistani man showers in a watercourse in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen—AP September 24, 2011. An anti-Mubarak protester and supporter of Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, former leader of the Islamic Group who is serving a prison term in the U.S., is seen smoking a cigarette through a hole in a banner demanding political prisoners be freed, at the police academy where former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on trial in Cairo. Egypt's ruling military council head testified in Mubarak's trial on Saturday in a hearing that could decide the fate of the ex-president accused of responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators earlier this year. Amr Abdallah—REUTERSSeptember 27, 2011. An anti-riot Afghan policeman, right, keeps watch during a protest in Kabul. Hundreds of protesters rallied in Afghanistan's capital, vowing revenge for last week's assassination of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and accusing Pakistan's powerful spy agency of involvement in his killing. Ahmad Masood—ReutersSeptember 27, 2011. A Christian woman kisses a wooden cross during exaltation of the Holy Cross ceremony, the feasts of the Cross which commemorate the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel.Abir Sultan—EPASeptember 27, 2011. An anti-government protester showers at Tagheer (Change) Square in Sanaa. Yemen's defense minister survived an attack on his convoy, narrowly escaping death for the second time in a month, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a car in the southern city of Aden.Ahmed Jadallah—ReutersSeptember 28, 2011. An anti-abortion activist holds clay dolls in the shape of fetuses during a protest in Mexico City. Mexico's Supreme court upheld a law within the Baja California state constitution that says that life begins at conception, signaling a victory for anti-abortion campaigners. Seven out of 11 ministers deemed the measure unconstitutional but eight votes were needed to overturn it. Bernardo Montoya—ReutersSeptember 25, 2011. A malnourished Somali baby boy lays on the floor inside a net at Banadir Hospital, the only public hospital in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that Somalia has the highest mortality rate in the world for children under the age of five. The country's child mortality rate in 2010, prior to current famine, stood at 180 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is even getting worse with widespread famine and recurring drought. Six areas in southern Somalia have been declared famine zones by the United Nations and 750,000 people are at imminent risk of death while 1.5 million children need immediate assistance including 336,000 children under the age of five who are severely malnourished. Dai Kurokawa—EPASeptember 28, 2011. An Afghan burqa-clad woman leaves her home in Kabul. 10 years after the Taliban was toppled, most of Afghan women continue wearing burqa—a cloth on top of their normal dress to cover them from the head to ankle. Adek Berry—AFP/Getty Images
