From the 13th anniversary of 9/11 and the Oscar Pistorius verdict to Yosemite ablaze and devastating floods in India and Pakistan, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Sept. 8, 2014. Medical staff carry James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola, into a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia. The reality and hysteria over Ebola is having a serious economic impact on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, three nations already at the bottom of global economic and social indicators.DANIEL BEREHULAK—The New York TimesSept. 8, 2014. The Tribute in Light rises behind buildings adjacent to the 1 World Trade Center in New York. The tribute, an art installation of 88 searchlights aiming skyward in two columns, is a remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Mark Lennihan—APSept. 9, 2014. A boy collects items thrown by devotees as religious offerings next to idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, a day after they were immersed in the waters of the Sabarmati river in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.AMIT DAVE—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. The moon shines in between lighting installation during Mid-Autumn or Lantern Festival at Hong Kong's Victoria Park. Chinese worldwide celebrate the festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Lunar calendar. BOBBY YIP—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. People pass by icons during a religious service at the Bistrita Monastery in Costesti, Romania.DANIEL MIHAILESCU—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 8, 2014. The Meadow Fire burns at dawn near Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. As of Wednesday the fire had burned over 4,500 acres and was 10% contained. Long exposure image.Stuart PalleySept. 9, 2014. A U.S. Border Patrol agent tries to tackle an undocumented immigrant in dense underbrush near Falfurrias, Texas. Thousands of migrants continue to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley has more traffic than any other sector of the U.S.-Mexico border.John Moore—Getty ImagesSept. 9, 2014. An injured man sits at a field hospital after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus.Badra Mamet—REUTERSSept. 7, 2014. A young boy sleeps in an underground room at a college in Yasinovataya, near Donetsk, where many residents are living in basements since their homes were damaged by recent shelling in Ukraine. Continued reports of fighting outside the pro-Russian militia held city of Donetsk on Sunday threatened a ceasefire that began Friday.MAURICIO LIMA—The New York TimesSept. 6, 2014. Residents extinguish a fire caused by what activists say was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Tal Abyad street market in central Raqqa.REUTERSSept. 7, 2014. Serena Williams of USA in action during the Ladies Final at the US Open, 2014.Ella Ling—BPI/Rex/REX USASept. 6, 2014. People dance and throw straw during a traditional festival in village Ozerco, some 10 km from Minsk.ULADZ HRYDZIN—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2014. A Chinese man holds himself upside down as he exercises on bars at a park in Beijing, China.Kevin Frayer—Getty ImagesSept. 8, 2014. Horses walk through flood water behind a home in Moapa, Nev. Flooding throughout the area damaged homes and roads.John Locher—APSept. 8, 2014. A businessman looks out of a window for the motorcade of Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko in the embattled city of Mariupol, Ukraine. Following over three nights of shelling on the outskirts of the strategic port city, European monitors say that a cease-fire in the region between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian separatists is largely holding.Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesSept. 6, 2014. A temple stands amid the waters of the overflowing river Tawi during heavy rains in Jammu. Authorities declared a disaster alert in the northern region after heavy rain hit villages across the Kashmir valley, causing the worst flooding in two decades.MUKESH GUPTA—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. A jogger runs through the snow at Nose Hill Park during an early year snow fall in Calgary, Alberta. The snow and unseasonably cold weather are supposed to last for two days, according to local media reports.TODD KOROL—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. A young boy dives in a creek near the Italian city of Portofino.OLIVIER MORIN—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2014. Drug mules carry a load of marijuana, according to U.S. federal agents, on the Mexican side of the border as seen from a helicopter flying on the Texas side of the border by the U.S. Office of Air and Marine near Rio Grande City, Texas. John Moore—Getty ImagesSept. 7, 2014. A woman practices Santeria in the waters of Havana Bay before a procession in honor of the Virgin of Regla, in the town of Regla, across the bay from Havana, Cuba. The black Madonna is honored on the same day as Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity, both of which are also recognized as powerful deities in the African-influenced religion of Santeria.Ramon Espinosa—APSept. 7, 2014. Pro-democracy activists are hit with water during a drill to simulate the scenario of being sprayed with a water cannon at the upcoming "Occupy Central" movement rally in Hong Kong. TYRONE SIU—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. Rebecca Redwine from Grandma's in the Park has one eye visible from between nearly 100 towels as she competes in the towel carrying contest during the 10th annual Iron Range Housekeeping Olympics held Monday at AmericInn in Virginia, Minn. Mark Sauer—APSept. 5, 2014. Indian schoolchildren crowd around a radio as they listen to a broadcast by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivering his Teachers' Day speech at a primary municipal school at Bakshi Kala Daraganj in Allahabad.SANJAY KANOJIA—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 8, 2014. A model is reflected in a mirror as she has her makeup applied before the Donna Karan Spring/Summer 2015 collection show during New York Fashion Week in the Manhattan borough of New York. CARLO ALLEGRI—REUTERSSept. 7, 2014. Russian military band members dressed in Russian World War I military uniforms march through a fog in memory of the 100th anniversary of its beginning during the closing ceremony of "Spasskaya Tower" International Military Orchestra Music Festival at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.Alexander Zemlianichenko—APSept. 7, 2014. Dozens of hot-air balloons in the sky during the start of the 24. Warsteiner Montgolfiade balloon festival in Warstein, Germany. Europe's biggest hot-air balloon festival is said to attract up to 200,000 visitors.THOMAS RENSINGHOFF—EPASept. 8, 2014. A boy covers himself under an umbrella as it rains during the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu. The annual festival, named after Indra, the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, rejoicing, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu Valley to mark the end of monsoon season.NAVESH CHITRAKAR—REUTERSSept. 9, 2014. A worker arranges China's and Denmark's national flags displayed outside a room as he prepares for a meeting between the visiting Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Chinese President Xi Jinping (both not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.Andy Wong—REUTERSSept. 7, 2014. Members of The Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of Russia from Russia perform on the final day of the International Military Music Festival "Spasskaya Tower" in Red Square in Moscow. MAXIM ZMEYEV—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. Models read a magazine prior to the Thom Browne fashion show during the Mercedes-Benz Spring Fashion Week in New York.STEPHEN CHERNIN—EPASept. 10, 2014. A child plays with soccer ball at a refurbished soccer field at the Mineira slum in Rio de Janeiro. The soccer pitch was refurbished by Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell using underground tiles which capture kinetic energy created by the movement of the players and combined it with the solar energy that feeds its new floodlights, the organizers said.RICARDO MORAES—REUTERSSept. 10, 2014. A performer practices a dance move before taking part in at the festivities marking the end of the annual harvest festival of Onam in Trichur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The ten-day long festival is celebrated annually in India's southern coastal state of Kerala to symbolise the return of King Mahabali to meet his subjects.BABU—REUTERSSept. 9, 2014. A Kyrgyz stuntman performs during the opening ceremony of the first World Nomad Games at the hippodrome of Cholpon-Ata, some 270 kms outside the capital Bishkek. Teams of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan are taking part in the games.VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2014. A woman looks through the window of a packed bus departing with commuters during a partial strike by Lisbon's subway workers, in Lisbon. The subway staff walked off the job during the morning rush hour in a protest against pay cuts and the company's possible privatization. The strike brought misery for commuters who faced long queues for buses in the rain.Francisco Seco—APSept. 9, 2014. A supermoon rises over Ciudad Juarez. The September full moon, also known as the Harvest Moon, is the last of this summer's three supermoons, and the final one of the year.STRINGER/MEXICO—REUTERSSept. 8, 2014. Jamila Berrabeh peers out of a window before learning that her eviction had been temporally suspended, in the outskirts of Madrid. Berrabeh, 26, and her five-year-old son Adam have been occupying the house, that belongs to Goldman Sachs-Azora, for the last nine months. She is unemployed and lives on subsidies.ANDREA COMAS—REUTERSSept. 10, 2014. Pakistani Army soldiers drop a blue bag of food supplies to flooded areas in Jhang, Punjab province, Pakistan. Pakistani troops and rescue workers raced to evacuate thousands of people as swollen rivers headed towards the southern province of Sindh. Mudslides and flooding killed more than 240 in the central province of Punjab and parts of disputed Kashmir region, the National Disaster Management Authority said. OMER SALEEM—EPASept. 8, 2014. An Afghan internally displaced 5-month old girl rests in a makeshift cradle inside a tent on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The war-torn country faces the challenges of poverty, unemployment, and a lack of infrastructure.Rahmat Gul—APSept. 8, 2014. A twelve-year-old boy sits outside a window of his eleventh-floor apartment as his relatives try to ask him to come back back inside, in Yibin, Sichuan province. The boy was afraid of being punished by his mother for not finishing his homework on time. After two hours' standoff, he was persuaded by police and family members to come inside. REUTERSSept. 9, 2014. An Indian Kashmiri man crosses over flood waters with the use of a rope in Srinagar. Bewildered families, nursing children and clutching meagre belongings, packed into makeshift relief centres after fleeing floods in India and Pakistan that have now claimed more than 400 lives.PUNIT PARANJPE—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 7, 2014. Nepalese children fly a kite from a hill in the fields surrounding the Khokana village near Kathmandu, Nepal. According to Hindu mythology, Nepalese start flying kites after rains have stopped and finishing the summer season with the message to spread that 'monsoon is over'.NARENDRA SHRESTHA—EPASept. 11, 2014. A building cleaner is seen working on the glass roof of the World Trade Center Dresden, eastern Germany. Protected with a professional climbing equipment, he and his colleagues clean an area of about 2,700 square meters in one week.ARNO BURGI—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2014. Abortion rights activists hold signs inside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Missouri lawmakers will consider whether to override a veto by Gov. Jay Nixon of legislation requiring a 72-hour waiting period for abortions, one of the longest mandatory delays in the nation, during a special legislative session that begins Wednesday.Jeff Roberson—APSept. 11, 2014. A general view taken from an airplane on shows cultured farms in northern Saudi Arabia.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 7, 2014. A Palestinian man plays with his baby on a beach in Gaza city.MAHMUD HAMS—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 7, 2014.
Women sunbathe by a lake in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, north of Donetsk. Fighting around two flashpoint cities in eastern Ukraine rattled a tenuous truce between government troops and pro-Russian rebels less than 48 hours after it came into force. FRANCISCO LEONG—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 9, 2014. Israeli children hold toy guns as they pretend to play war games next to newly built protection cement walls around a kindergarten in the center of Kibbutz Nahal Oz located near the border with Gaza Strip. Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following fifty days of fight most of Israeli residents leaving near the Gaza Border hace returned to their homes with high army alert and new measures to protect them.MENAHEM KAHANA—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2014. An emotional Oscar Pistorius is seen in the dock as judgment is handed down in his murder trial at the High Court in Pretoria. Pistorius has been acquitted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.PHILL MAGAKOE—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 7, 2014. A member of Iraqi security forces, backed by Sunni tribesmen, gives assistance to comrades who were wounded during an attack at a military post during the visit of Ahmed al-Dulaimi, the governor of Iraq's Anbar province. AZHAR SHALLAL—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 9, 2014. Smoke rises in the sky as a factory is burning after an explosion in Ritterhude, western Germany. According to local media an explosion occured earlier in the evening at a chemical plants area where lacquer companies Organo Fluid and Bergolin have sites.INGO WAGNER—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2014. A wounded Syrian child cries looking on at another wounded girl, as they wait for treatment, at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus after reported airstrikes by Syrian government forces.ABD DOUAMANY—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 12, 2014. An Italian Navy boat carries 956 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea.Giuseppe Lami—ANSA/Zuma PressSept. 11, 2014. A woman grieves at her husband's memorial at South Tower Reflecting Pool before the memorial observances held at the site of the World Trade Center before memorial observances are held at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on Flight 93. Chang W. Lee-Pool—Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2014. Mist lingers in Hope Valley at sunrise viewed from the top of Mam Tor in the Peak District in Castleton, United Kingdom. Much of the UK continues to enjoy mild Autumn weather with sunshine set to last for the next few days.Dan Kitwood—Getty Images
