Oct. 23, 2014. Militants of Islamic State (ISIS) are seen near an explosion from an air strike on Tilsehir hill near Turkish border at Yumurtalik village, in Sanliurfa province.BULENT KILIC—AFP/Getty Images
From the sentencing of Oscar Pistorius and a fatal shooting at the Canadian War Memorial, to a pair of white lion cubs in Serbia and Darth Vader on the campaign trail, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Oct. 23, 2014. Militants of Islamic State (ISIS) are seen near an explosion from an air strike on Tilsehir hill near Turkish border at Yumurtalik village, in Sanliurfa province. BULENT KILIC—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2014. South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is seen in a police van after his sentencing at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ending a trial that has gripped South Africa and the world.SIPHIWE SIBEKO—REUTERSOct. 21, 2014. Star Wars impersonators stand on the roof of a campaign van during an election event of the Ukrainian Internet Party, in downtown Kiev, Ukraine.SERGEY DOLZHENKO—EPAOct. 19, 2014. Bishops attend the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a mass for the closing of of a two-week synod on family issues, celebrated by Pope Francis, in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.Andrew Medichini—APOct. 22, 2014. Police officers take cover near Parliament Hill following a shooting incident in Ottawa. A Canadian soldier was shot at the Canadian War Memorial and a shooter was seen running towards the nearby parliament buildings, where more shots were fired, according to media and eyewitness reports.CHRIS WATTIE—REUTERSOct. 23, 2014. Greenpeace protestors wear masks of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto as they demonstrate in front of the National Palace in Mexico CityRebecca Blackwell—APOct. 21, 2014. Indian widows wave sparklers as they participate in a celebration for the Hindu festival Diwali on the banks of the Yamuna river in the northern city of Vrindavan.ROBERTO SCHMIDT—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 17, 2014. Police officials examine the scene of an accident at a shopping district in Seongnam. Fourteen people were killed at a open-air pop concert in South Korea on Friday when the cover of a ventilation shaft they were standing on gave way, officials and media said.KIM HONG-JI—REUTERSOct. 23, 2014. Men carry a coffin at a cemetery in Suruc, in the province of Sanliurfa, Turkey.BULENT KILIC—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2014. Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, takes her seat in a State Carriage for the procession to Buckingham Palace as part of the welcome ceremony for Singapore's President Tony Tan Keng Yam at the start of a state visit at Horse Guards Parade in London, England. The President is at the beginning of his four day stay during which he will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.Leon Neal—WPA Pool/Getty ImagesOct. 20, 2014. Members of the Syrian Kurdish Altay family look for their relative Zamani Suruc, who is fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Syrian border town of Kobane, from the Turkish Syrian border village of Mursitpinar.BULENT KILIC—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 23, 2014. Ultra-orthodox Jewish mourners carry the body of three-month-old baby Chaya Zissel Braun during her funeral in Jerusalem after she was killed in what Israeli police called a "hit-and-run terror attack" when a Palestinian driver rammed a group of pedestrians. Nine others were injured in the attack.MENAHEM KAHANA—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 17, 2014. Dr. Marius Kruger (C) and a member of the Kruger National Park keeps the head of a rhino up during a white rhino relocation capture. The Kruger National Park relocated four rhinoceros from a high risk poaching area to a safer area as part of ongoing strategic rhinoceros management plan.STEFAN HEUNIS—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2014.
Real Madrid's Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (L) reacts during the UEFA Champions League, group B, football match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at Anfield in Liverpool, northwest England.PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2014. Kansas City Royals warm up before Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the San Francisco Giants Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo.Matt Slocum—APOct. 22, 2014. A man does his morning exercise on a polluted day by the side of a lake at Nanhu Park in Changchun, Jilin province.REUTERSOct. 22, 2014. Actors perform at the MixC Shopping Mall in Chongqing, China. The "Fuerzabruta" held its first show for the next 30 formal performances within three weeks in Chongqing. "Fuerzabruta" is a creative show together with music, drama, dance, and blasting performance.ChinaFotoPress/Getty ImagesOct. 18, 2014. Young wrestlers practice during a training session in an auxiliary gym, in Old Havana, Cuba.Ramon Espinosa—APOct. 22, 2014. The evening sun casts shadows of North Korean boys on an apartment building facade as they make their way down a street in Pyongyang, North Korea.Wong Maye-E—APOct. 23, 2014. A general view of play during day two of the First Test cricket match between Pakistan and Australia at Dubai International Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Ryan Pierse—Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2014. Nepalese police officers kneel next to dogs with colored powder on their heads at Nepal's Central Police Dog Training School as part of the Diwali festival, also known as Tihar Festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Tihar festival is the second major festival for Nepalese Hindus.NARENDRA SHRESTHA—EPAOct. 17, 2014. Palestinian protesters run amid smoke to take cover after Israeli security forces (unseen) fired tear gas during clashes close to the Israeli Ofer military prison, near the West Bank village of Betunia following a protest after Israeli authorities restricted access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. Non-Muslim visits to Al-Aqsa complex are permitted and regulated by police, but Jews are not allowed to pray at the site for fear it could trigger major disturbances.ABBAS MOMANI—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2014. "Umbrellas", the sculpture by Giorgos Zogolopoulos is illuminated in pink light to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Thessaloniki in northern Greece.ALEXANDROS AVRAMIDIS—REUTERSOct. 22, 2014. Kurdish refugee children from the Syrian town of Kobani play on improvised swings in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province.KAI PFAFFENBACH—REUTERSOct. 21, 2014. Romela Bibi cries as she holds on to a bundle of burnt money wrapped in clothes that she says amounted to nearly US$ 2,000, saved for her daughter's marriage, after fire burnt scores of houses at a slum in Gurgaon, India. There were no casualties reported. The cause of the fire is unknown.Saurabh Das—APOct. 21, 2014. A Northern light (Aurora borelias) can bee seen outside the city of Tromso in Northern Norway.JAN MORTEN BJOERNBAKK—EPAOct. 22, 2014. Children, whose family moved to Islamabad from Sargodha in Punjab Province to look for work, stand outside their school at a slum in Islamabad.ZOHRA BENSEMRA—REUTERSOct. 22, 2014. The lights of the eTree come on as it gets dark at the prototype unit set up in a park in Zichron Yacov, northern Israel. The eTree is billed as an ecological sculpture assembling a real tree whose canopy is made up of solar panels producing energy from the sun. In addition to offering shade it provides a drinking fountain, free WiFi, a docking station to charge smartphones and tablets, and outlets for electrical appliances. It also has a water dish for dogs and lights that come on when it becomes dark. The next unit will be placed in Nice, France. JIM HOLLANDER—EPAOCt. 22, 2014. United States Secretary of State John Kerry (C) walks with an umbrella as he visits the Berlin Wall memorial site prior to a news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Wall Documentation Center in Berlin, Germany.MARKUS SCHREIBER / POOL—EPAOct. 22, 2014. A golfer hits a tee shot as African migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla.STRINGER—REUTERSOct. 18, 2014. Women burn incense as the image of the Lord of Miracles, the capital city's patron saint, is carried behind them in Lima, Peru. The Lord of Miracles is a 17th century mural of Jesus Christ, and the procession is the Andean country's largest Catholic event.Martin Mejia—APOct. 19, 2014. Denver Broncos cheerleaders perform wearing "509" jerseys celebrating quarterback Peyton Manning's record setting 509th career touchdown pass during a game between the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Col. Justin Edmonds—Getty ImagesOct. 19, 2014. Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning leaves the field after an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in Denver. Manning has broken Brett Favre's record for touchdown passes with his 509th. The Broncos won 42-17.Joe Mahoney—APOct. 17, 2014. A woman watches television inside her makeshift home at the Nova Tuffy slum in an abandoned factory in Rio de Janeiro. 1,800 families have been living inside the factory since March, with poor sanitation services and the fear of eviction.PILAR OLIVARES—REUTERSOct. 19, 2014. Palestinian children look out of the rear windscreen of a car as they pass damaged houses in the east of Gaza City. An open-ended ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants, mediated by Egypt, took effect on August 26 after a seven-week conflict.MOHAMMED SALEM—REUTERSOct. 24, 2014. Women work on the CT1SL428, a protective suit for use in handling people infected with the Ebola virus, in a sewing room of Lakeland Industries Inc. in Anqiu, some 500 kilometers south of Bejing, China.JOHANNES EISELE—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama gives a hug to Dallas nurse Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House October 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. Pham, a nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and was first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus.Olivier Douliery—Pool/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2014. People attend a ceremony at the National War Memorial, where Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed by a gunman two days earlier, in Ottawa, Canada. Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2014. Kathy Cirillo (center left), the mother of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, follows the casket carrying her son, two days after he was shot dead by a gunman while he guarded the National War Memorial, during a precession from Ottawa to Cirillo's hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, in Ottawa, Canada. Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesOct. 23, 2014. Dogs peek out from under a gate at the Cirillo family home in Hamilton, Ontario near flowers and flags that have been left on Thursday, Peter Power—APOct. 17, 2014. Zookeeper Nadezda Radovic kisses a three week old white lion cub at Belgrade Zoo, Serbia. The two white lions cubs, an extremely rare subspecies of the African lion were recently born at the Belgrade Zoo.Darko Vojinovic—APOct. 19, 2014. Marine One carrying President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign rally for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown at Wise High School, Sunday, in Upper Marlboro, Md. Evan Vucci—APOct. 17, 2014. An Ebola tracing coordinator checks the temperature of Benson, 2 months, finding him to have a fever of 100.76F (38.2C) in the West Point neighborhood in Monrovia, Liberia.John Moore—Getty ImagesOct. 17, 2014. A turkish soldier walks near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province. A U.S. State Department official held direct talks for the first time last weekend with a Syrian Kurdish group involved in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, including the besieged town of Kobani, the State Department said on Thursday.KAI PFAFFENBACH—REUTERSOct. 17, 2014. A Turkish couple share a romantic sunset at the back of a ferry on the Bosphorus, in Istanbul.BULENT KILIC—AFP/Getty Images
