From Michael Brown’s funeral and a cease fire in Gaza, to swarms of locusts in Madagascar and the US Open Tennis Championships, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Aug. 25, 2014. Michael Brown Sr. yells out as his son's casket is lowered into the ground at St. Peter's Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.Richard Perry—Reuters/PoolAug. 28, 2014. View of Tungurahua volcano from the area of Guadalupe, Ecuador. The volcano has registered a moderate to high activity since the end of July.JosÈ J·come—EPAAug. 24, 2014. Patients and relatives gather in a hospital basement after an early-morning shelling that hit the hospital compound in central Donetsk, Ukraine.MAURICIO LIMA—The New York TimesAug. 29, 2014. Metal boards in the shape of gunmen sit on an old bunker at an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria near the Quneitra province. Ariel Schalit—APAug. 24, 2014. Friends and relatives of four-year-old Israeli boy Daniel Tregerman mourn during his funeral in a cemetery near the border with the Gaza Strip.RONEN ZVULUN—REUTERSAug. 26, 2014. Central American migrants sleep atop a moving freight train as it heads north from Arriaga toward Chahuites, Mexico.Rebecca Blackwell—APAug. 26, 2014. A stray dog stands on a mound of garbage at a landfill site on the outskirts of Bangalore, India. Aijaz Rahi—APAug. 26, 2014. Tai Qing Tong of Malaysia competes in Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual All-Around Qualification on day ten of the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing OSC Gymnasium in Nanjing, China. Feng Li—Getty ImagesAug. 22, 2014. Sailors man the rails of the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, as it departs its home port in San Diego, California.MIKE BLAKE—REUTERSAug. 22, 2014. A rally car drive through the landscape during the FIA World Rally Championship of Germany in Trier, western Germany.PATRIK STOLLARZ—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2014. A workman sprays pesticide in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan. Sections of Yoyogi Park were closed to the public today as they underwent fumigation after three people were diagnosed with dengue fever after suffering mosquitoe bites in the park. Chris McGrath—Getty ImagesAug. 23, 2014. The hot summer sun took it's toll on a row of roses laid on Canfield Drive leading to the site where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by police on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson.David Carson—St. Louis Post-Dispatch/PolarisAug. 28, 2013. Revellers take part in the annual "tomatina" festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia. GABRIEL GALLO—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 26, 2014. Damaged goods lie in a damaged kitchen in downtown Donetsk, Ukraine. Ukraine said it had captured Russian soldiers engaged in combat on Ukrainian territory, a claim that could complicate efforts to end fighting between government forces and separatist rebels in the east of the country.SERGEI ILNITSKY—EPAAug. 28, 2014. Andy Murray of Great Britain in action during practice at the 2014
US Open Tennis Championships 2014, Flushing Meadows, New York.Ella Ling—BPI/Rex/REX USAAug. 24, 2014. A woman carrying her child walks on a street after an earthquake in Quillota province, Chile, on Aug. 23, 2014. An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale shook Chile on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.JORGE VILLEGAS—Xinhua /LandovAug. 25, 2014. Family members touch the copper top of the vault containing the casket of Michael Brown during his burial at St. Peter's Cemetery.Robert Cohen—PolarisAug. 24, 2014. A Palestinian woman holds the body of a one-and-a-half year old girl after her body was brought to the family house from the morgue before the funeral procession in Gaza City.ROBERTO SCHMIDT—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2014. Oklahoma City police officer Sgt. Ryan Stark, center, leans over the casket of his canine partner, K-9 Kye, following funeral services for the dog in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki—APAug. 26, 2014. A dying bird covered in spilled oil lies on a rock on the banks of the San Juan river in Cadereyta. An oil pipeline spill that contaminated the river in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon will take months to clean up, the country's top water authority said on Thursday. DANIEL BECERRIL—REUTERSAug. 26, 2014. Afghan students read and memorize the holy Quran at a madrassa (religious school) in Ghazni.RAHMATULLAH ALIZADAH—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 22, 2014. A cat wearing a ribbon with the Ukrainian national flag sits near a tank at a Ukrainian checkpoint in the town of Avdeevka, near Donetsk, Ukraine.ROMAN PILIPEY—EPAAug. 23, 2014. Divers train before the competitions at the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships 2014 in Berlin, Germany.MAJA HITIJ—EPAAug. 27, 2014. View of the artwork 'Fallen Angel' during the exhibition 'Ilya y Emilia Kabakov. Angelogy: Utopia and Angels' by Russian couple artists Ilya y Emilia Kabakov at the former school of San Idelfonso in Mexico City, Mexico.Sashenka Gutierrez—EPAAug. 28, 2014. A supporter of Pakistan's cricket celebrity-turned-politician Imran Khan takes part in an anti-government rally with writing on her forehead "Go Nawaz Go," in Karachi, Pakistan.
Shakil Adil—APAug. 26, 2014. A man crawls on a truss of a building to witness a fire that engulfed a warehouse in Manila.NOEL CELIS—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2014. Indian youths assisting at a shop shelter from rain behind a plastic tarpaulin in New Delhi.CHANDAN KHANNA—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 25, 2014. A cloth covered idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, is pictured at a roadside workshop in New Delhi. Idols of Ganesh are made two to three months before Ganesh Chaturthi, a popular religious festival in India.ANINDITO MUKHERJEE—REUTERSAug. 24, 2014. A man tries to grab a flag as he slips off the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the week-long celebrations for the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta.DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI—REUTERSAug. 27, 2014. A Palestinian man walks past a fire in a street set by a home owner in an effort to keep mosquitoes away from their shattered homes in Shejaiya.ROBERTO SCHMIDT—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 27, 2014. Palestinian men listen the press statement of the members of the Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, in the Shujaya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.Anadolu Agency—Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2014.
A swarm of locusts invades the center of Mdagascar capitol Antananarivo.RIJASOLO—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 27, 2014. A South Korean tour guide walks before the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. ED JONES—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 29, 2014. Mount Tavurvur erupting in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air, forcing the evacuation of local communities and international flights to be re-routed.OLIVER BLUETT—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 25, 2014. A Bangladeshi child worker poses during a break as he makes aluminium bowls at a small factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workers get 2/3 euro per day while they work in unsafe conditions.ABIR ABDULLAH—EPAAug. 29, 2014. An Indian vendor awaits customers as she sells idols of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh on the first day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Jammu, India.Channi Anand—APAug. 28, 2014. Runners clear a fence in The £500 Permanent Money Backs Handicap Steeple Chase at Fontwell racecourse in Fontwell, England.Alan Crowhurst—Getty ImagesAug. 26, 2014. Real's Gareth Bale steps on a chair with his new football shoes, during the presentation of the Real Madrid's new UEFA Champions League kit at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain.Andres Kudacki—APAug. 25, 2014. Israeli children from Kibbutz Nahal Oz play with water in Kibbutz Urim in southern Israel bordering Gaza Strip. JINI—Xinhua Press/CorbisAug. 27, 2014. Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.MAX ROSSI—REUTERSAug. 23, 2014. Jill Vardy, of the Bank of Canada, looks out at the Teton Range during a break at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyo.John Locher—APAug. 27, 2014. Female Afghan prisoners gather in a group inside the female prison in Herat. The facility, which was built by the Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team, holds approximately 140 inmates, some with their children alongside them, whose crimes range from murder, drug trafficking to running away from home. AREF KARIMI—AFP/Getty ImagesAugust 28, 2014. A Malaysian students look during a rehearsal for Malaysia National Day celebrations In Kuala Lumpur.MOHD FIRDAUS— NURPHOTOAug. 24, 2014. A newly-graduated female Afghan National Army (ANA) officer walks to get her certificate as she attends a graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army training centre in Kabul. SHAH MARAI—AFP/Getty ImagesAugust 28, 2014. A burial team in protective clothing removes the body an Ebola victim from an isolation ward in the West Point neighborhood of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.DANIEL BEREHULAK—The New York Times/ReduxAug. 26, 2014. A makeshift memorial for Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by a police officer on Aug. 9, on the spot where he was killed in Ferguson, Mo.TODD HEISLER—The New York Times
