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
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.
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 PalleyJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 ImagesJul. 29, 2014. Tokyo Metropolitan Government employees light a large underground regulating reservoir in Tokyo.Franck Robichon—EPAJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 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 Jul. 25, 2014. Workers remove the wreckage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane that crashed on Taiwan's offshore island Penghu.Pichi Chuang—ReutersJul. 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—EPAJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 TimesJul. 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—APJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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—ReutersJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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—EPAJul.29, 2014. A local resident, Lyubov Konstantinovna lies on a bed in bomb shelter in Gorlovak, Donetsk, Ukraine. Dzhavakhadze Zurab—ITAR-TASSJul. 28, 2014. Indonesian Muslim women attend Eid Al-Fitr prayer on 'sea of sands' at Parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Ulet Ifansasti—Getty ImagesJul. 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—APJul. 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 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—APJul. 28, 2014. A sculpture (C) and a painting are seen above debris after a fire at the Jiangbei Cathedral in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.ReutersJul. 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—ReutersJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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—PolarisJul. 30, 2014. Israel Defense Forces soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade during a military operation in the southern Gaza Strip.Ziv Koren—PolarisJul. 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—APJul. 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—EPAJul. 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 ImagesAug. 1, 2014. A bemedalled Chelsea Pensioner walks amongst red poppies in the moat at the Tower of London in London, Britain.Andy Rain—EPAAug. 1, 2014. A child lies in a pool of water to cool down in central Seoul, South Korea.Ed Jones—AFP/Getty ImagesJul. 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—EPAJul. 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—ReutersJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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 ImagesJul. 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—APJul. 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—SIPAJul. 31, 2014. A forest ravaged by a peat fire that emerged due to an abnormal heat. Sergei Bobylev—ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis
