The Best Pictures of the Week, October 7 – October 14
The Best Pictures of the Week, October 7 – October 14
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October 5, 2011. A portrait of Kim Il Sung, founder of the communist regime in North Korea, beams from a government building at 6 a.m. in the pariah state’s capital, Pyongyang. Soon the entire city would be awakened by propaganda songs blaring from the loudspeakers.Damir Sagoli—Reuters
From flooding in Bangkok and the baseball playoffs to Cairo’s deadly clashes and the Liberian-flagged Rena cargo ship grounded off New Zealand’s coast, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
October 5, 2011. A portrait of Kim Il Sung, founder of the communist regime in North Korea, beams from a government building at 6 a.m. in the pariah state’s capital, Pyongyang. Soon the entire city would be awakened by propaganda songs blaring from the loudspeakers.
Damir Sagoli—ReutersOctober 8, 2011. A fighter for Libya’s National Transitional Council takes on Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in Sirt, Gaddafi’s hometown. The rebels captured the city’s main hospital and university and a conference center.Majid Saeedi—Getty ImagesOctober 8, 2011. In London’s Trafalgar Square black balloons are released during an antiwar demonstration marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the Afghanistan war. PA Photos/LandovOctober 12, 2011. An Afghan policeman throws fuel over 26 tons of seized drugs before setting the stash on fire.
Safi—Xinhua/Zuma PressOctober 10, 2011. Uruguay’s bicentennial celebrations, which include an aerial performance by the Spanish postmodern theater group La Fura dels Baus.Daniel Caselli—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 7, 2011. A seven-year-old Indonesian boy sleeps on the streets of Jakarta while his mother begs nearby. In a country of about 246 million—the fourth most populated nation in the world—some 31 million people live below the poverty line. Romeo Gacad—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 11, 2011. Cars are submerged in floodwaters at a Honda factory outside the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok. Heavy monsoon rains caused floods that killed 500 people across Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Christophe Archambault—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 7, 2011. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay laments his team’s fate during the eighth inning of Game 5 of the National League Division Series. The St. Louis Cardinals, thanks to a masterly pitching performance by Chris Carpenter, beat Halladay and the Phillies 1-0 to advance to the League Championship Series against Milwaukee.Matt Rourke—APOctober 11, 2011. Palestinians pray at the site of a former mosque on the West Bank after Israeli bulldozers demolished it. The Israeli army said it razed the structure—for a third time—because it had been built without permission in an area used for army training. Nidal Eshtayeh—Xinhua/Zuma PressOctober 10, 2011. The Christ the Redeemer statue on view in Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture turned 80 years old on Oct. 12.Felipe Dana—APOctober 9, 2011. Protesters jump and run near a line of fire during a demonstration in Cairo. Nineteen people were killed on Sunday when Christians, some carrying crosses and pictures of Jesus, clashed with military police, medics and security in the latest sectarian flare-up in a country in political turmoil. Amr Abdallah Dalsh—ReutersOctober 11, 2011. Egyptian Copts carry the coffins of victims of deadly clashes during a funeral at Abassaiya on the road to Cathedral in Cairo, a day after 24 people, mostly Christians, died in clashes with Egyptian security forces.Owaise Mamoud—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 10, 2011. An Egyptian Christian woman mourns on the coffin of Coptic Christian Mina Daniel, who was killed during clashes with soldiers and riot police late Sunday, at the morgue of the Coptic Hospital in Cairo. Egypt's Coptic Christians turned their fury against the army on Monday after at least 25 people were killed when troops broke up a protest, deepening public doubts about the military's ability to steer the country peacefully towards democracy. Mohamed Abd El-Ghany—ReutersOctober 7, 2011. Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla is gored in the head by his second bull during the bullfighting at the Zaragoza bullring on the occasion of El Pilar Fair, in Zaragoza, Spain. Padilla suffered serious injuries.Javier Cebollada—EPAOctober 11, 2011. Female inmates at the Tripoli's infamous Djeida prison walk about the courtyard. Some 1400 inmates are detained in this facility, among them former regime ministers, loyalist fighters, ordinary criminals and foreign immigrants. Marco Longari—Getty ImagesOctober 8, 2011. A worker makes firecrackers at a factory for the upcoming Diwali festival, on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Firecrackers are in great demand ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which will be celebrated across the country October 26. Amit Dave—ReutersOctober 9, 2011. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy inspects the Etrog (Citron), one of four plants species to be used during the celebration of Sukkot, the Feast of the Tabernacles, in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Sukkot feast began Oct. 13 and commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt some 3,200 years ago. Abir Sultan—EPAOctober 11, 2011. An Ultra orthodox Jewish man carries palm fronds to be used to build a Sukka, in the Mea Shearim ultra Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem on Oct. 11. The holiday commemorates the Israelites' 40 years of wandering in the desert, and a decorated hut is erected outside religious households as a sign of temporary shelter. Oded Balilty—APOctober 12, 2011. Kim Ji-Yeon of South Korea reacts during her women's sabre qualifying event at the World Fencing Championships in Catania.Tony Gentile—ReutersOctober 11, 2011. A bag filled with toy guns is seen at a school in Ciudad Juarez. Children were asked to hand in their toy pistols and guns in exchange for non-combat toys and sweets as part of the Children's Festival for Peace.Jose Luis Gonzalez—ReutersOctober 12, 2011. A Bhutanese student carries a portrait of King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and future Queen Jetsun Pema, before hanging outside the Lungten Zanpa School, their alma mater in the capital of Thimphu, Bhutan on Oct. 12. The 31 year-old reformist monarch of the small Himalayan Kingdom married his commoner bride in a series ceremonies the following day.Kevin Frayer—APOctober 12, 2011. Bhutanese security officers use metal detectors to check the grounds of the main stadium in the build up to celebrations for the Bhutan Royal Wedding in the capital of Thimphu, Bhutan. Kevin Frayer—APOctober 13, 2011. A boy looks at a plume of smoke rising from NATO fuel trucks after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen on a highway near Shikarpur in Pakistan's Sindh province. Nadeem Soomro—ReutersOctober 13, 2011. Waves wash the Papamoa Beach dirtied with fuel oil from the Liberian-flagged container ship Rena, which has been stuck aground on a reef off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand. A salvage crew finally managed to board the cargo ship that has spilled hundreds of tons of oil since striking a reef off New Zealand, and was racing to assess whether oil could be pumped from the ship before the vessel breaks up. Natacha Pisarenko—APOctober 12, 2011. The 47,230 tonne Liberian-flagged Rena lists in heavy morning seas, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, a week after hitting the Astrolabe Reef. New Zealand Defence Force/ReutersOctober 9, 2011. A Catholic nun casts her vote at a polling station in Krakow, Poland. Poles are voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, likely to give the ruling center-right Civic Platform four more years in power to press on with gradual economic reforms and closer ties with the European Union. Agencja Gazeta/Michal Lepecki—ReutersOctober 8, 2011. Workers collect bird dung on the Ballestas island, south of Lima. Ballestas, as other 21 islands along the Peruvian coast, are home of nearly four million migratory birds as guanays, boobies and pelicans which excrement make up the world's finest natural fertilizer. The bird dung, also known as guano, reached its greatest economic importance in the twenty-first century as a coveted resource, being exported to United States, England and France. Pilar Olivares—ReutersOctober 13, 2011. Victims of a roadside bomb in Kunduz province, Afghanistan.DPA/LandovOctober 12, 2011. A pilgrim prays at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil's national saint, in the city of Aparecida, 165 km (103 miles) east of Sao Paulo. The Basilica is Latin America's most popular shrine and one of the world's largest cathedrals. Nacho Doce—ReutersOctober 12, 2011. A novice monk is framed by a window at the Dechen Phrodrang Buddhist monastery in Bhutan's capital Thimphu.Adrees Latif—ReutersOctober 10, 2011. A woman signs a huge banner during "Occupy DC" anti-corporations protest at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC. A four-day protest in Washington to reclaim American politics for the people went into overtime, its participants vowing to stay put despite the expiry of their permit. The Stop the Machine occupation of Freedom Plaza is one of two ongoing protests in the capital, alongside the like-minded but more youthful Occupy DC sit-in, now in its tenth day. Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 12, 2011 A picture taken and released by Iran's supreme leader's official website shows Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waving to his supporters from his car during a rally in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah. Iran's supreme leader has told a mass rally that the Occupy Wall Street movement will bring down capitalism in America. AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 7, 2011. A Libyan revolutionary fighter runs for cover while attacking pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirt, Libya. Rebel forces have besieged Sirt since Sept. 15 but have not managed to penetrate the heart of the city because of fierce resistance from loyalists inside the home town of Libya's ousted leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Manu Brabo—APOctober 11, 2011. A man rides a bicycle past a plume of smoke rising from fuel trucks after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen in Dasht, on the outskirts of Quetta. Four gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on three NATO fuel supply trucks in the Dasht area of southwestern Baluchistan province, about 120 km (74.5 miles) from the Afghan border killed two drivers. Naseer Ahmed—Reuters October 9, 2011. A Libyan flag is seen as black smoke rises from a university in Sirt, Libya. National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters say this is the final assault on Muammar Gaddafi's home town as they capture the main hospital, University and the Ouagadougou conference center in the city. Majid Saeedi—Getty Images
