The Best Pictures of the Week, August 6 – August 12

August 9, 2011. US President Barack Obama is saluted as he arrives at Dover Air Force Base where he will privately meet with families of the 30 Americans that died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

August 6, 2011. Revellers dance in front of the main stage during the 17th Woodstock Festival in Kostrzyn-upon-Odra River, close to the Polish and German border.

August 8, 2011. A shop is set on fire as rioters gather in Croydon, south London, violence and looting spread across some of London's most impoverished neighborhoods with youths setting fire to shops and vehicles, during a third day of rioting in the city that will host next summer's Olympic Games.

Aug. 9, 2011. An activist from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is beaten up by police during a protest against corruption in New Delhi, India. Police used bamboo batons and water canons to control thousands of angry supporters of India's main opposition party who were marching in New Delhi to protest against the government's hosting of last year's Commonwealth Games among other corruption charges.

August 10, 2011.Kashmiri Muslim women pray inside the Jamia Mosque in Srinagar, India. Muslims around the world are marking the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where the devout fast from dawn until dusk.

August 8, 2011. Lokor Logitel, a three-year-old girl, cries at the Mukutano feeding centre in Naduat Village, northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi. The famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of the lawless nation of Somalia.

August 7, 2011. A memorial plaque sits atop of a box carrying framed photos of the 19 soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division who were killed in action during the brigade's deployment, as soldiers from the unit land at the Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan. The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division is returning home after a year in Afghanistan as the last brigade to deploy as part of President Obama's 30,000 troop surge.

August 9, 2011. A trader looks to the German DAX stock index at the stock exchange in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Shortly after the Dax indicated a positive trend the index temporarily fell by 7 per cent.

August 6, 2011. A suspected rebel member of Al-Shabab was captured by Amisom (African mission in Somalia) in Mogadishu shortly after the militant group withdrew from the last four districts that they held after heavy fighting through out the night, Somalia. Reports state that the conflict has hindered aid efforts in the famine-hit country, with the militia barring some aid agencies from central and southern areas it controls.

August 9, 2011. An Earth-directed X6.9 flare(R) that began at 3:48 AM EDT, and peaked at 4:05 AM EDT. The flare burst from sun spot region AR11263, before it rotated out of view. These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to harm humans on the ground, however they can disrupt the atmosphere and disrupt GPS and communications signals. The flare is strong enough to potentially cause some radio communication blackouts. It also produced increased solar energetic proton radiation — enough to affect humans in space if they do not protect themselves. This image is from the beginning of the event just before the satellite sensors were overwhelmed by energetic particles.

August 11, 2011. Family members hold onto a man crying as the body of his dead brother, a policeman, is brought to the Lady Ready Hospital in Peshawar. Four policemen and one child were killed and 14 people wounded when a remote-controlled bomb concealed in a push-cart exploded in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

August 11, 2011. Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a prayer as they gather in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim to protest against summer events organized by the city council, Jerusalem.

August 8, 2011. An Israeli child sleeps next to a picture of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a sleeping bag in a 'tent city' set up in a small central Jerusalem park, Israel. Israel's parliament passed a housing bill aimed at alleviating the country's shortage of homes by cutting red tape to speed up the approval of building projects. But critics vowed to step up their protests after accusing the bill of failing to promote affordable housing. Leaders of the protest movement have also called for another mass rally to take place in Tel Aviv this weekend. Some 300,000 people demonstrated in major Israeli cities over the weekend, protesting the country's high cost of living.

August 9, 2011. Family and friends mourn after a double murder in Wedding, Germany. The suspect fired several shots at a vehicle occupied by his ex-wife, killing her 45-year-old mother and the 22-year-old sister.

August 11, 2011. An Indian police officer looks from behind his rain covered shield during a monsoon rain shower as he and others stand guard at a protest by the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi, India. According to local news reports , India's monsoon rain index rose nearly 14 percent in the last week, an increase over the previous period where rain levels were down.

August 9, 2011. A dog jumps as it is hit by a water cannon, used on students staging a rally to demand changes in the public state education system, in Santiago Chile.

August 6, 2011. Nikita Talichev, 10, runs with others during morning exercise at a training camp in the mountain valley of Eski-Karmen 50 km (31.07 mile) from Sevastopol, Ukraine. The camp "Crimea Sich" annualy welcomes about 150 children from Russia and Ukraine at the age from 7 up to 19 years old.

August 9, 2011. A skater rolls by confessionals set in Retiro Park in Madrid for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI during the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day. The pope arrives in Madrid on August 18 to attend the final four days of the Roman Catholic Church's six-day youth festivities, expected to draw more than one million faithful.

August 7, 2011. U.S swimmer Diana Nyad jumps into the Straits of Florida in Havana, Nyad, 61, started her swim at dusk on Sunday to begin what she hoped would be a world record 103-mile (168 km) swim from Cuba to Florida. She tried the crossing from Cuba in 1978 when she was 28, but failed in the face of winds and heavy waves.

August 8, 2011. Serbian state officials attend a ceremony as workers building the new Sava River Bridge in Belgrade near the Ada Ciganlija river island connect the river banks of Belgrade and New Belgrade. The first vehicles will cross over the bridge on December 15.