The Best Pictures of the Week, September 2 – September 9
The Best Pictures of the Week, September 2 – September 9
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September 6, 2011. A test of the Tribute in Light rises above lower Manhattan, in New York. The memorial, sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, will light the sky on the evening of Sept. 11, 2011 in honor of those who died 10 years before in the terror attacks on the United States.Mark Lennihan—AP
This week; The tribute lights rise above Manhattan on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Texas wildfires, North Korea’s special economic zone, hostage rescue in Australia, starvation in Somalia, plane crash kills top Russian ice hockey team, the view from an Afghanistan observation post, the Ganesh Chaturti Festival, Mexican bodybuilders, and elephant polo.
September 6, 2011. A test of the Tribute in Light rises above lower Manhattan, in New York. The memorial, sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, will light the sky on the evening of Sept. 11, 2011 in honor of those who died 10 years before in the terror attacks on the United States. Mark Lennihan—APSeptemebr 5, 2011. Tourists look over the ground zero construction site in New York. 10 years after the 9/11 attacks.Oded Balilty—APSeptember 3, 2011. A girl waits for a ration of rice during a donated food distribution at the Beri Iman, a shrine of famous Sufi Saint Beri Imam, in Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APSeptember 4, 2011. Supplies are dropped at Juan Fernandez islands, about 420 miles (670 km) off Chile's coast, during search and rescue operations for a crashed plane. All 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the remote Juan Fernandez islands perished, as rescuers and fishermen searched for bodies. Search and rescue teams have recovered four bodies so far from Friday's crash, one of Chile's worst air disasters in recent years. Luis Hidalgo—ReutersSeptember 6, 2011. A man sits in front of elephants as he follows the match in the 10th annual King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Hua Hin, nearly 160 km (100 miles) south of Bangkok. 12 international teams ride Thai street elephants during the week-long tournament, which will conclude on Sept. 11 with the final. Damir Sagolj—ReutersSeptember 5, 2011. A man carries an idol of Hindu elephant headed god Ganesha for immersing it in the Arabian Sea on the fifth day of the 10 day long Ganesh Chaturti festival in Mumbai, India. The festival celebrates the birth of the Hindu god. Rajanish Kakade—APSeptember 2, 2011. A .50 caliber machine gun points towards Taliban positions from Observation Post Mustang in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. The area, in the Hindu Kush mountains in northeastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, is considered a major infiltration route by Taliban fighters coming across from Pakistan and has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war. John Moore—Getty ImagesSeptember 2, 2011. U.S. Army soldiers from the 2-27th Infantry Regiment return to Observation Post Mustang in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. The area, in the Hindu Kush mountains in northeastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, is considered a major infiltration route by Taliban fighters coming across from Pakistan and has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war. John Moore—Getty ImagesSeptember 3, 2011. US 1st Lt Brandon Smith, right, of the 2nd Platoon of Task Force 3-66, Bravo Company from the 172 Infantry Brigade speaks with young boys during a mission in the village of Hasti in the province of Paktika. The first and second Platoon secured a convoy from Sharana to Kuschamond as part of their mission. Despite the deployment of U.S. and NATO reinforcements, the insurgency in Afghanistan has grown every passing year since it was launched by the remnants of the Taliban in late 2001, after their regime was toppled in a U.S.-led invasion. Johannes Eisele—AFP/Getty ImagesSeptember 7, 2011. Drivers compete during the first session at 2011 Round-Taklimakan Rally Championship in Shanshan County, China.Yang Guang—Xinhua/Zuma PressSeptember 6, 2011. Afghan soldiers jump off a pickup truck carrying the bodies believed to be of two Germans who were found in Salang, north of Kabul. The bodies, believed to be those of the Germans who went missing last month in mountains north of Kabul, were recovered and handed over to U.S. soldiers. Wrapped in white plastic bags, the cadavers arrived in a police vehicle after being taken by a team of Afghan security forces from a hard-to-reach area three hours' walk from the main road linking the capital with the mountainous north. Shah Marai—AFP/Getty ImagesSeptember 7, 2011. Visitors look at jewelry exhibited at the Bulgari 125 Years of Italian Magnificence show in the National Museum of China, in Beijing, China. The National Museum of China is hosting another luxury brand exhibition after Louis Vuitton's controversial show in June as businesses court the world's fastest growing market for luxury goods. The 'made-in-Italy' retrospective exhibition, which is held for the first time in Asia after Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni in 2009 and the Grand Palais in Paris in 2010, shows more than 600 pieces of jewelry, watches and other precious objects from different eras of the brand's design since founder Sotirio Bulgari opened his first shop in Rome in 1884. How Hwee Young—EPASeptember 4, 2011. Contestants prepare backstage during the Mr. Mexico bodybuilding contest in Mexico City.Marco Ugarte—APSeptember 5, 2011. Muslim children bathe inside an ancient Laddu Hindu Temple in Laddu south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Due to the outbreak of insurgency in Indian Administered Kashmir in 1989, public administration had partially collapsed with many areas of Indian culture receiving little attention. One such area are the monuments that depict the cultural heritage of Kashmir. Yawar Nazir—Getty ImagesSeptember 2, 2011. A man stands near a wharf damaged by Mangyongbyong cruise ship during its first trip as a cruise ship, in the North Korean special economic zone of Razon City, northeast of Pyongyang. The North Korean state launched itself into the glitzy world of cruise tourism when about 130 passengers set sail from the rundown port of Rajin, near the China-Russia border, for the scenic Mount Kumgang resort near the South Korean border. The Isolated North Korean State Tourism Bureau has teamed up with a Chinese travel company to run the country's first ever cruise aboard an aging 9,700 ton vessel, which once plied the waters off the east coast of the divided peninsula, shuttling passengers between North Korea and Japan.Carlos Barria—ReutersSeptember 2, 2011. Female soldiers guard the entrance of the port in Rajin, at the North Korean Special Economic Zone of Rason City, northeast of Pyongyang. Impoverished North Korea appears to have emerged from the depths of a bad winter and late spring in reasonable shape, at least in the far north and south, where a variety of crops are nearly ready for harvest. The North has pleaded for food aid this year due to bad weather and the impact of international sanctions imposed for its nuclear program, winning donations in recent months from Russia, the European Union and U.N. organizations after sending in their own assessment teams. South Korea and the United States have so far refused food aid, granting only emergency aid to help the impoverished state deal with flood damage from a series of bad storms in the middle of the year. Carlos Barria—ReutersAugust 21, 2011. The India-Pakistan border appears as an orange line in this photograph taken by the Expedition 28 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) on August 21, 2011 and released September 4, 2011. The fence between the two countries is floodlit for surveillance purposes. Srinagar left, Islamabad bottom center, Lahore, center near the borderline, and Delhi, top center, can be seen as brighter spots.Reuters/NASASeptember 5, 2011. A wildfire burns out of control in Bastrop State Park near Bastrop, Texas. The fire has burned over 14,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of homes. With much of the state of Texas under severe drought, wildfires continue to spring up burning thousands of acres. Larry W. Smith—EPASeptember 6, 2011. A statue of a woman holding a water bucket stands in front of the remnants of a burned-down home on the east side of Lake Bastop outside Bastrop, Texas. Several large wildfires have been devastating Bastrop County for the last two days. Erich Schlegel—Getty ImagesSeptember 6, 2011. Fire damage is seen in an aerial image taken over the wildfires in the Bastrop, Texas area. More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze near Austin that is still raging out of control.William Luther—San Antonio Express-News/APSeptember 6, 2011. A reveller covered in grease sits as she takes part in the annual "Cascamorras" festival in Baza, Spain. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the villages of Baza and Guadix over the possession of the image of the Virgin of Piedad. The Cascamorras refers to representatives from Guadix, who are sent to the town of Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras have to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the statue, Baza residents attempt to make them as 'dirty' as possible. Marcelo del Pozo—ReutersSeptember 3, 2010. Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province. The university set out mats for some 600 parents accompanying freshmen students on their first day of school.China Daily/ReutersSeptember 6, 2011. Police officers rescue a girl who was held hostage by a man in Parramatta, an outer Sydney suburb. A man claiming to be carrying a bomb occupied a legal office in Sydney, holding his daughter captive. the incident was believed to be linked to a custody dispute. Daniel Munoz—ReutersSeptember 2, 2011. A girl wearing a costume sits on a chair at the main square of Tripoli, Libya.Alexandre Meneghini—APSeptember 7, 2011. An Indian policeman looks on at the scene of a blast outside the High Court in New Delhi, India. A bomb apparently hidden in a suitcase exploded outside a crowded gate leading to the High Court in New Delhi. Kevin Frayer—APSeptember 5, 2011. Six of the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team jumped from a plane despite strong winds on Labor Day, the last day of the 2011 Cleveland National Air Show. The Golden Knights used smaller parachutes because of the gusty winds, and jumped from a lower altitude. LandovSeptember 8, 2011. Rescue divers work next to the wreckage of a plane that crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl. A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on, killing 43 people and plunging the Russian and international sports world into grief. Maxim Shipenkov—ReutersSeptember 6, 2011. A famine stricken internally displaced boy stands outside a war-ravaged compound in the Hamarweyne district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation.Feisal Omar—ReutersSeptember 3, 2011. An 18-year-old man who claims he was sexually abused by Uruguayan peacekeepers lies on his bed at his home in Port Salut, Haiti. A preliminary U.N. investigation has found no evidence for allegations that Uruguayan peacekeepers raped the 18-year-old man, Uruguay's Defense Ministry says, but the troops broke rules by having a civilian in their barracks. The alleged victim was snatched by a soldier outside the front gate of a U.N. base and was taken inside, according to the judge, Paul Tarte, and the alleged victim's mother. Dieu Nalio Chery—APSeptember 7, 2011.Afghan soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) play a game of volleyball at sunset at the Forward Operating Base in Kuschamond of Paktika province. Afghanistan's police and army are due to take control of security across the war-torn country by 2014. Johannes Eisele—AFP/Getty ImagesSeptember 5, 2011. A tourists looks over the ground zero construction site in New York. Sept. 11, 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States.Oded Balilty—APSeptember 7, 2011. Beams of light from the Tribute in Lights reach into the sky ahead of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City. The Tribute in Light is comprised of 88 7000 watt searchlights that beam into the sky near the site of the World Trade Center in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images
