The Best Pictures of the Week, September 30 – October 7
The Best Pictures of the Week, September 30 – October 7
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October 1, 2011. Mourners wail at the funeral of Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf, a 61-year-old retired teacher in Indian-controlled Kashmir who died in police custody on September 30 after being arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes.Dar Yasin—AP
From continued “Occupy Wall Street” protests and Amanda Knox’s appeal verdict to Steve Jobs’ passing and the tenth anniversary of the U.S. War in Afghanistan, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
October 1, 2011. Mourners wail at the funeral of Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf, a 61-year-old retired teacher in Indian-controlled Kashmir who died in police custody on September 30 after being arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes.Dar Yasin—APOctober 3, 2011. Residents walk past a tattered Philippine flag at an area where most of the houses were wiped out by strong currents from recent typhoons along a coastal village in Tangos, Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines. Floodwaters slowly receded Monday in many parts of the nation, hit by back-to-back typhoons.Aaron Favila—APOctober 3, 2011. Devotees of the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui take cover as fireworks went off during a procession at the annual Vegetarian
Festival on Phuket Island off southern Thailand.David Longstreath—EPASeptember 30, 2011. Protesters demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pray on an empty billboard space in Sana‘a.October 5, 2011. A riot policeman, left, is hit by a homemade explosive thrown by a protester during a student protest against education reform at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Columbia.Jaime Saldarriaga—REUTERSSeptember 30, 2011. A Wall Street protester from upstate New York holds up a sign in New York City. "I came down because of the state of the economy, society and the system. The rich stomp on the poor, I feel we are at a tipping point," the protester, who goes by Zain, said. Hundreds of activists affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations have been living in a park in the Financial District near Wall Street to rally against the influence of corporate money in politics, among a host of other issues. Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesOctober 5, 2011. Demonstrators with the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park form a circle and meditate Wednesday in New York. The protests started September 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp nearby in Zuccotti Park.Craig Ruttle—APOctober 5, 2011. Scenes from the Occupy Wall Street march at Foley Square. Amy Sussman—CorbisOctober 3, 2011. A plain-clothed Pakistani police officer beats a man with the help of his colleague during a protest rally to condemn death sentence to Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani governor in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday. A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced Qadri to death for the killing of a liberal governor earlier this year, a murder that led to fears the country was buckling under the weight of extremism. K.M.Chaudary—APOctober 5, 2011. A protester hurls rocks at riot police during a demonstration in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in central Athens, where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy. Yannis Behrakis—REUTERSOctober 5, 2011. Riot policeman uses his baton against news photographer Panagiotis Tzamaros, who is on assignment for AFP, during a demonstration in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square. Tzamaros suffered light head wounds and bruises. Yannis Behrakis—REUTERSSeptember 29, 2011. A college student shouts slogans from a police bus after he was detained by the police during a sit-in demonstration on a street in central Seoul. College students demonstrated on Thursday to demand that President Lee Myung-Bak fulfill his presidential election pledge to cut tuition fees by half and provide solutions for youth unemployment. About 2,500 people attended the demonstration. Lee Jae-Won—REUTERSOctober 5, 2011. Indian artists Kandha Panday, right, and Shiva Sharma dressed as Hindu god Rama and his brother Lakshman have paint applied to their faces ahead of a religious procession during the Dussehra festival in Allahabad, India on Wednesday. The Dussehra festival commemorates the victory of Rama over Ravana, an evil ruler who had abducted Rama's wife, Sita Devi. Rama killed Ravana to free Sita. The burning of effigies of Ravana, signifying the victory of good over evil, brings the festivities to a close. Rajesh Kumar Singh—APOctober 4, 2011. Devotees perform the Garba, a traditional dance of the western Indian state of Gujarat, at the Umiya Mata temple on the eighth night of Navratri, or festival of nine nights, in Surat, about 270 kilometers (169 miles) south of Ahmadabad, India. Umiya Mata is the deity worshipped by Kadwa Patidar Hindus across the world. Ajit Solanki—APOctober 3, 2011. US student Amanda Knox takes her place for the last day of her appeal trial at Perugia's court. The day opened in Italy with dozens of photographers, cameramen and supporters of the 24-year-old American crowding into the frescoed courtroom.Tiziana Fabi—Getty ImagesSeptember 30, 2011. New Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, kisses his wife, Deanie Dempsey, after being sworn during a change of office ceremony at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va. Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP October 6, 2011. A revolutionary sniper scans for targets from a building in Sirt, Libya. Moammar Gaddafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country's new leaders. Manu Brabo—APOctober 5, 2011. Anti-Gaddafi fighters destroy Sirt's eastern gate, which was meant to separate the city—Gaddafi's birth place—and nearby towns.Esam Al-Fetori—REUTERSOctober 3, 2011. A camouflaged Israeli soldier from a counter terrorism unit aims his rifle during a drill near Beit Shemesh, about 20 km (12 miles) from Jerusalem, in terrain similar to Israel's northern front.Amir Cohen—REUTERSOctober 4, 2011. A Palestinian woman wearing a Hamas headband participates in a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Hebron. Her headband reads, "There is no God, but God."Bernat Armangue—APOctober 4, 2011. A young Israeli Arab boy stands in a mosque in the northern Israeli Bedouin village of Tuba-Zanghariyya, located in Upper Galilee, after the mosque was set on fire earlier in the week. The mosque was allegedly vandalized by Jewish extremists. Oliver Weiken—EPAOctober 2, 2011. Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Ronald Fields wore pink gloves during his team’s warmup before a game against the Chicago Bears. The gloves were a gesture of support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.Nam Y. Huh—APOctober 3, 2011. Pakistani Shaima Akram, 12, left, and her sister Shamila, 9, rest while working with their family in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APOctober 1, 2011. Chinese ethnic minority performers carry baskets on their backs as they perform in a play in Lijiang, Yunnan province.Stringer—REUTERSOctober 1, 2011. An Afghan girl peeks out of a window of her class room in a school in Kandahar, Afghanistan.Anja Niedringhaus—APOctober 1, 2011. A U.S. soldier from Alpha Co, 2nd Battalion 35th Infantry, Task Force "Cacti" wraps the bullets of a machine gun on his arm during a joint U.S.-Afghan military patrol in Serkey valley in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan. Erik De Castro—REUTERSOctober 4, 2011. An Afghan boy leans against a wall as he cries on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghanistan is at the bottom of the Mothers' Index, compiled by the nonprofit group Save the Children, which shows that mothers and their children endure "grim conditions," with one in six kids dying before the age of five, and one in three suffering from malnutrition. Shah Marai—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 3, 2011. North Korean soldiers walk on a road along a residential area in Hyesan.Jacky Chen—REUTERSOctober 3, 2011. A boy climbs over a tree flattened by a tornado near Duduza township outside Nigel, south-east of Johannesburg, South Africa. An eight-year-old child died and over 160 people were injured and transported to nearby hospitals for treatment. Jon Hrusa—EPAOctober 6, 2011. An apple with a bite—the Apple Inc. logo—rests on a fence post outside the home of Steve Jobs in Palo Alto, California, in the early morning. Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long battle with cancer. Beck Diefenbach—REUTERS October 2, 2011. A Bulgarian man holds a candle during a protest at the center of Plovdiv, some 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday. Soccer fans staged a rally in the city of Plovdiv Sunday as nationalist groups staged anti-Roma rallies across the country. Oleg Popov—AP
