October 16, 2014 9:00 PM EDT
F rom Malala Yousafzai winning a Nobel Peace Prize and the return of Kim Jong Un to Ebola diagnoses in Dallas and Angelina Jolie becoming a Dame, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
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Oct. 10, 2014. Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai gestures after addressing the media in Birmingham, central England. The Nobel Peace Prize went to 17-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi for their work promoting children's rights. OLI SCARFF—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 14, 2014. A radical protester clashes with law enforcement members on the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, marked by activists and supporters of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda (Freedom) Party and far-right activists and nationalists to honour the role of the movement in the history of Ukraine, during a rally near the parliament building in Kiev. GLEB GARANICH—REUTERS Oct. 14, 2014. A boy covers his face as others sift through garbage at the Maputo municipal garbage dumping site in Maputo, Mozambique. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 15, 2014. Solidified molten steel is pictured among the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the village of Rassipnoe, Ukraine. DOMINIQUE FAGET—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 10, 2014. Actress Angelina Jolie (R) is presented with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace in central London ANTHONY DEVLIN—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 14, 2014. An internally displaced Afghan child sleeps in a hanging cot inside a shelter at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. MOHAMMAD ISMAIL—REUTERS Oct. 12, 2014. A long exposure photo showing Ultra Orthodox Jews dancing during 'Simchat Beit Hashoeva', special celebration in the Intermediate days of the Sukkot holiday in the city of Beit Shemesh , Israel. ABIR SULTAN—EPA Oct. 14, 2014. The grandfather of the four-years-old girl Girija, who fell in an open borewell at an agricultural field, cries as National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel search for her body at Manchala, in Ranga Reddy district, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. Mahesh Kumar A.—AP Oct. 15, 2014. A demonstrator is seen behind a banner depicting faces of the missing students from Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos, during a protest outside the building of the office of Mexico's Attorney General in Mexico City. EDGARD GARRIDO—REUTERS Oct. 10, 2014. A car is revealed by the receding water in the Atibainha dam, part of the Cantareira System that provides water to the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, in Nazare Paulista, Brazil. The dam is drying up due to the worst drought to hit Sao Paulo in 84 years. Andre Penner—AP Oct. 15, 2014. Pro-democracy protesters hide behind umbrellas to protect themselves from police's pepper spray on a street outside of Hong Kong Government Complex in Hong Kong. Anthony Kwan—Getty Images Oct. 10, 2014. Indonesian students walk on a street covered in Mount Sinabung volcanic ash in Sukandebi village, Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia. DEDY SAHPUTRA—EPA Oct. 13, 2014. A woman reacts as smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, after a strike from the US-led coalition as it seen from the Turkish - Syrian border in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province. ARIS MESSINIS—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 14, 2014. An Afghan man looks on as the scene of a blast site is reflected on a broken window following an explosion from a magnetic bomb attached to a civilian car in Kabul. WAKIL KOHSAR—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 11, 2014. A protester's bracelets, left, and a law enforcement officer's plastic ties, right, juxtapose during a protest at the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Mo., Sait Serkan Gurbuz—Corbis Oct. 12, 2014.
Jewish men draped in prayer shawls perform the annual Cohanim prayer (priest's blessing) during the Sukkot, or the feast of the Tabernacles, holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. MENAHEM KAHANA—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 15, 2014.
Mozambicans queue outside a polling station in Maputo to vote in presidential and legislative elections. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 15, 2014.
Portraits of the victims of the sunken South Korean ferry "Sewol" are seen with yellow ribbons at Gwanghwamun square where relatives of the victims have been sitting in protest against the government, in Seoul. JUNG YEON-JE—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 13, 2014. A child plays on the propeller of a ship that was washed ashore at Anibong in Tacloban on the eastern island of Leyte, which was devastated in 2013 by typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines. NOEL CELIS—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 10, 2014. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man sleeps in a sukkah, or hut, during the second day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of the Tabernacles, in the Ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Meah Shearim, Israel. ABIR SULTAN—EPA Oct. 11, 2014. A child runs on a vehicle passageway after pro-democracy protesters have blocked the traffic from going through at the financial Central district in Hong Kong. TYRONE SIU—REUTERS Oct. 15, 2014. Christian pilgrims from Brazil embrace after they are baptized in the water of the Jordan River during a ceremony at the Yardenit baptismal site near the northern Israeli city of Tiberias. FINBARR O'REILLY—REUTERS Oct. 15, 2014. The brother of wheelchair-bound Palestinian Mohammed Abed al-Dayem, 25, pushes him as he enters his house in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza Strip. Medics say that Abed al-Dayem lost both of his legs when Israeli shelling hit the UN-run school where they took refuge during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas. MOHAMMED SALEM—REUTERS Oct. 13, 2014. Palestinians blocked from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third most holy site, clash with Israeli security forces during a protest against Jews entering the compound for the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, or Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. AHMAD GHARABLI—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 15, 2014. David McCallum, center, sits behind closed doors before his appearance in Brooklyn's Supreme Court in New York. McCallum and Willie Stuckey, who died in prison, were 16 years old when they were convicted of murder. A judge exonerated both men for wrongful conviction after nearly 30 years. Bebeto Matthews—AP Oct. 15, 2014. Boys run from the blowing dust as a U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor departs the site of an Ebola treatment center under construction in Tubmanburg, Liberia. John Moore—Getty Images Oct. 16, 2014. A Shi'ite Houthi protester sits at the main anti-government protest camp of the Shi'ite Houthi movement on a road leading to the Sanaa Airport in Sanaa, Yemen. Khaled Abdullah—REUTERS Oct. 16, 2014. Senior soloist of the Joburg Ballet Kitty Phetla performs in a classroom at the Nka-Thuto Primary School in Soweto, South Africa. MARCO LONGARI—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 16, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic (2nd R) attend a military parade to mark 70 years since the city's liberation by the Red Army in Belgrade October 16, 2014. Serbia feted Russia's Putin with troops, tanks and fighter-jets on Thursday to mark seven decades since the Red Army liberated Belgrade, balancing its ambitions of European integration with enduring reverence for a big-power ally deeply at odds with the West. MARKO DJURICA—REUTERS Oct. 15, 2014. A shadow of a cloud is cast on the fields as a farmer ties a shawl on her head at Khokana in Lalitpur, Nepal. NAVESH CHITRAKAR—REUTERS Oct. 14, 2014. Pro-Russian rebels fire artillery toward the Ukrainian position at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport outskirts the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Dmitry Lovetsky—AP A man dressed in protective hazmat clothing treats the sidewalk in front of an apartment where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides, in Dallas, Texas. Mike Stone—Getty Images Oct. 14, 2014. Smoke rises as the bodies of Ebola victims are disposed of at the government crematorium in Marshall, Liberia. John Moore—Getty Images Oct. 12, 2014. Ebola survivor Sontay Massaley, 37, smiles upon her release from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center in Paynesville, Liberia. John Moore—Getty Images Oct. 10, 2014. The NH-90 Helicopter is pictured during an evacuation of an injured soldier during an exercise at the Bundeswehr training ground, near Bergen, Germany. Alexander Koerner—Getty Images Oct. 14, 2014.
A flag with Albanian national symbols attached to a remotely operated drone flies in the stadium during the EURO 2016 group I football match between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade. ANDREJ ISAKOVIC—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 16, 2014. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walks through a field of ceramic poppies at The Tower of London. The poppies are part of an installation called 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' which marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Kirsty Wigglesworth—AP This undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang October 14, 2014. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance at the newly built Wisong Scientists Residential District. Kim, shown using a cane for support, re-appeared in state media after a lengthy public absence that had fuelled speculation over his health and grip on power in the country. KCNA—REUTERS Oct. 15, 2014. Pope Francis is partially seen behind traditional flags from a delegation of faithful from Carovigno, southern Italy, as he arrives in St. Peter's Square to attend the weekly general audience, at the Vatican. Gregorio Borgia—AP Oct. 17, 2014. A giant fork designed by Switzerland's artist Jean-Pierre Zaugg to commemorate Nestle's Alimentarium Food Museum 10th anniversary has been set up on Lake of Geneva , Switzerland. FABRICE COFFRINI—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 14, 2014.
An Afghan man walks past a shrapnel-riddled car door at the scene following an explosion from a magnetic bomb attached to a civilian car in Kabul. WAKIL KOHSAR—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 13, 2014. People walk through a sandstorm in the river bank of Ganga in Allahabad, India. Pacific Press—Pacific Press/Sipa USA Oct. 14, 2014.
Kurdish people attend a funeral ceremony for YPG (People's Protection Units) fighters in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, ARIS MESSINIS—AFP/Getty Images Oct. 10, 2014. Turkish Kurds in the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, offer their Friday prayers as they gather to support Syrian Kurds over the border in nearby Kobani, Syria, where fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group has intensified. Lefteris Pitarakis—AP Oct. 16, 2014. Oscar Pistorius inside the Pretoria High Court for sentencing in his murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa. Alon Skuy—The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images More Must-Reads from TIME