From the first Ebola death in the US and rising tension on the Turkish Syrian border, to the blood moon and Putin’s surprising selfie, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Oct. 6, 2014. Neighboring people watch a man in a hazardous material suit work on cleaning the apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas.JIM YOUNG—REUTERSOct. 9, 2014. Mount Sinabung spews hot lava and volcanic ash as it is seen from Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia.DEDY SAHPUTRA—EPAOct. 3, 2014. Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat, near Mecca, as they take part in one of the Hajj rituals. ASHRAF AMRA—APA/LandovOct. 8, 2014. Balinese men lashing each other with burning coconut husks during 'Mesabatan Api,' a sacred firefighting ritual at a Hindu temple in Bali, Indonesia.Firdia Lisnawati—APOct. 7, 2014. A destroyed car hangs from a tree after heavy floods in Grabels, near Montpellier, Southern France. Parts of Montpellier lay under water after the Lez river, which flows through the city, burst its banks.GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO—EPAOct. 8, 2014. Samaritans take part in celebrations marking the holiday of Sukkot (the Tabernacles Feast) on Mount Gerizim, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Sukkot marks the exodus of the ancient Hebrew people from Egypt.JAAFAR ASHTIYEH—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 8, 2014. Romanian soldiers carry a wreath during ceremonies at a Holocaust memorial in Bucharest. Romania is commemorating the Holocaust in a move to come to terms with its past and recognize the murder of thousands of Jews at Romanian hands during World War Two.BOGDAN CRISTEL—REUTERSOct. 6, 2014. Indian vendors rest near their sheep and goats on Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India. Eid al-Adha is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the prophet Abraham's offering for his son to god.Bernat Armangue—APOct. 8, 2014. A man searches for coins thrown by devotees as religious offerings at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. JITENDRA PRAKASH—REUTERSOct. 9, 2014. Smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani as Turkish Kurds watch near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc.UMIT BEKTAS—REUTERSOct. 6, 2014. Health workers enter the high-risk zone as they make the morning rounds at the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit in Sgt. Kollie Town near Gbarnga, Liberia.DANIEL BEREHULAK—The New York Times/ReduxOct. 8, 2014. A religious cross is seen as the moon is illuminated by sunlight reflected off the Earth during a total lunar eclipse, one of four so-called "blood moons", in Los Angeles, California. David McNew—Getty ImagesOct. 6, 2014. A Balinese man in a state of trance, stabs his chest in front of a palanquin, the symbol of god, during Ngusaba Gumang Ritual in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia.Agung Parameswara—Getty ImagesOct. 7, 2014. Palestinian policemen inspect the damage at the French Culture Center after a fire burned part of the compound following two explosions which were heard at the site in Gaza city. The Gaza interior ministry said it was checking the causes of the incident.MOHAMMED SALEM—REUTERSOct. 7, 2014. Ultra-Orthodox Jews inspect etrogs, or citrons, outside a shop in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood in Jerusalem as they look to purchase an unblemished fruit ahead of the holiday of Sukkot. The etrog is one of the 'four species' used by religious Jews during the week-long Autumn harvest holiday.JIM HOLLANDER—EPAOct. 6, 2014. A model of an F-16 aircraft, marking the 4,400th F-16 produced and delivered for Poland, is seen at dusk at Lask air base.KACPER PEMPE—REUTERSOct. 4, 2014. Muslim pilgrims arrive to cast stones at pillars symbolizing Satan, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca.MUHAMMAD HAMED—REUTERSOct. 3, 2014. Policemen try to get a man to let go of a fence guarded by pro-democracy demonstrators in an occupied area of Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters clashed with opposition groups in two of Hong Kong's busiest shopping districts on October 3, with police stepping in to try to calm the chaos.PHILIPPE LOPEZ—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 5, 2014. Members of the Castellers Joves Xiquets de Valls try to complete their human tower during the 25th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain.Emilio Morenatti—APOct. 4, 2014. Turkish troops patrol along the Turkish border with Syria near the city of Sanliurfa. Kurdish fighters supported by US-led air strikes held back jihadists attacking a Syrian border town, following an international outcry at the murder of a British hostage by the Islamic State group.ARIS MESSINIS—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 7, 2014. A wall of post-it messages of support is seen near an occupied area in Hong Kong. Small knots of pro-democracy demonstrators remained on Hong Kong's streets after protest leaders agreed to talks with the government and dwindling demonstrator numbers dropped further.PHILIPPE LOPEZ—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 8, 2014. Excalibur, the dog of Teresa, a Spanish nurse, and her husband Javier Limon, stands on their balcony in Alcorcon after they were admitted Sunday and Monday respectively to a Madrid hospital fearing infection with the deadly Ebola virus. CURTO DE LA TORRE—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 5, 2014. Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops ArriveJohn Moore—Getty ImagesOct. 7, 2014. Women faint (Bottom) as another reacts while volunteers (unseen) take away from a nearby house the body of a woman who died of Ebola, in Waterloo, some 30 kilometers southeast of Freetown. FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 8, 2014. Indian village girls look out from a window as they take shelter at a relief camp in Salehar village near Jammu. Five civilians were killed and thousands took refuge in camps in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday after some of the most intense fighting between nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and India in a decade.MUKESH GUPTA—REUTERSOct. 3, 2014. A tree with autumn leaves in front of a pine forest in Tiergarten near Stoetten, Germany.KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND—DPA /LANDOVOct. 6, 2014. An Indian village woman mourns the death of her relative whom locals say was killed by firing from the Pakistan side of the border at Arnia village, near Jammu.MUKESH GUPTA—REUTERSOct. 8, 2014. Bodies are piled up at the mortuary of Donetsk's Kalinina hospital. Workers at the mortuary have been trying to cope with stress and despair as the casualties from the 6-month old confrontation between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists continues.JOHN MACDOUGALL—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 5, 2014. Palestinian women from Gaza pray inside the Dome of the Rock during their visit at the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.AMMAR AWAD—REUTERSOct. 3, 2014. A yellow umbrella, a symbol of what has been dubbed the 'Umbrella Revolution', is seen in front of the government headquarters building in Hong Kong. Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying agreed on Friday to open talks with pro-democracy protesters but he and his Chinese government backers made clear that they would not back down in the face of the city's worst unrest in decades. CARLOS BARRIA—REUTERSOct. 8, 2014. Pope Francis waves as he leads his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican. MAX ROSSI—REUTERSOct. 6, 2014. A white swan (lat. Cygnus olor) flies over the Main-Donau canal in Bamberg, Germany.DAVID EBENER—EPAOct. 5, 2014. Health workers eat breakfast at the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit near Gbarnga in rural Bong County, Liberia. The food is prepared off site, at a university that is closed because of the Ebola outbreak and houses many of the staff members.DANIEL BEREHULAK—The New York TimesOct. 7, 2014. A pro-democracy student protester sleeps on an occupied roadway surrounding the government complex in Hong Kong. Student-led protests for democratic reforms in Hong Kong continued to shrink Tuesday morning but a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out in the streets, vowing to keep up the pressure until the government responds to their demands.Wally Santana—APOct. 3, 2014. Tourists holding umbrellas visit the stone sculptures at the Baoding Mountain on the third day of the seven-day National Day holiday, in Chongqing municipality, China. REUTERSOct. 7, 2014. Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) soldiers conduct rescue operations on Mount Ontake, which erupted September 27, 2014 and straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan. REUTERSOct. 7, 2014. President barack Obama leaves the Oval Office as he departs the White House in Washington for a trip to New York for a Democratic National Committee event.DOUG MILLS—The New York Times/ReduxOct. 5, 2014. A jockey, his face soiled with sand, is weighed after a horse race at La Rinconada racetrack in Caracas, Venezuela. Gambling rings have been known to kidnap and threaten jockeys in order to fix races.Fernando Llano—APOct. 3, 2014. A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park in south west London. Over 600 red and fallow deer roam in the largest of London's Royal Parks, and have their numbers managed in an annual cull each November and February.TOBY MELVILLE—REUTERSOct. 8, 2014. A Worker comes out of a tank as he processes animal skins slaughtered during the Eid Al Adha, at a Leather factory in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ABIR ABDULLAH—EPAThe moon is seen glowing red as it rises in Kathmandu, Nepal during a total lunar eclipse.NARENDRA SHRESTHA—EPAOct. 9, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin poses for a photo surrounded by teenage athletes as he attends a meeting with officials, ministers and governors on sport development in Cheboksary, Russia.Sasha Mordovets—Getty Images
