October 24, 2011. A Buddhist monk trudges through floodwaters in Bangkok. Thailand is experiencing its worst flooding in half a century.Damir Sagolj—Reuters
From the Turkey earthquake and Libya after Gaddafi to protests in Yemen and Halloween monsters, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
October 24, 2011. A Buddhist monk trudges through floodwaters in Bangkok. Thailand is experiencing its worst flooding in half a century. Damir Sagolj—Reuters October 20, 2011. In the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 430 and injured at least 1,000, mostly in Turkey's southeastern region, rescue workers join to carry a survivor from a collapsed building in Ercis. Caner Ozk An—ReutersOctober 24, 2011. In Guatemala City, protesters set tires ablaze on Periferico Avenue to press their demand for a law that would guarantee housing and basic services for people living in makeshift settlements around the city. William Gularte—ReutersOct. 21, 2011. A healthy newborn in a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduran officials estimate that 220,000 babies are born each year in their country, where the cost of a hospital delivery is $10. On Oct. 31 the world population is expected to reach seven billion.Edgard Garrido—ReutersOctober 23, 2011. Near the village of Phakding in the Nepalese Himalayas, a sherpa does a balance check while painting a devotional text on a mani stone, which is used in Buddhist prayer. The site is on the main route to Mount Everest.
Kevin Frayer—APOctober 22, 2011. After the fight for the Cruiser Weight WBO World Championship in Ludwigsburg, Germany, a referee confirms that Argentine boxer Rogelio Rossi is unconscious. The bout, which ended when Rossi was KO’d in the sixth round, was won by 26-year-old Marco Huck, the defending champion from Germany.
Franziska Kaufmann—EPAOctober 24, 2011. In the crowded slums of Rio de Janeiro, a girl carries water in front of the city’s recently inaugurated cable-car system. The Complexo do Alemao cable railway can transport 30,000 people a day—without ever making a wrong turn.
Felipe Dana—APOctober 22, 2011. Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters, who first gathered near St. Paul’s Cathedral, opened a camp at a second site, Finsbury Square.Oli Scarff—GettyOctober 22, 2011. Rebel forces’ months-long fight to topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi ended with the despot’s death on Oct. 20 in Sirt— Gaddafi’s birthplace and the last stronghold of his loyalists. On Oct. 22, the city looked quieter, perhaps a result of dust from its new ruins.
Manu Brabo—APOctober 25, 2011. Compatriots carry a wounded Yemeni protester from the site of violent clashes with security forces in the country’s capital, Sana‘a. Troops loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on thousands of citizens calling for the President’s ouster. At least two protesters were killed.
Hani Mohammed—APOctober 26, 2011. Yemeni women burn veils to protest government crackdown against peaceful protests during a demonstration demanding the ousting of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sana'a, Yemen. Yahya Arhab—EPAOctober 25, 2011. A woman mourns as she sits next to a grave of her relative, killed during an earthquake, in Ercis. Rescue workers dug deeper into collapsed buildings in a battle against time to find survivors from an earthquake in southeast Turkey that killed at least 366 people and made tens of thousands homeless. Morteza Nikoubazl—ReutersOctober 25, 2011. A day after the earthquake struck the province of Van in eastern Turkey, rescue workers struggle to clear the rubble of destroyed buildings in the hope of finding survivors. Quentin Top—Wostok Press/Maxppp/ZUMAPRESS.comOctober 26, 2011. Rescue workers look for survivors trapped under debris after the earthquake in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van. Turkey struggled to provide shelter on Wednesday to tens of thousands left homeless by an earthquake that killed nearly 500, and rescue teams began taking painful decisions to call off searches for those buried alive. Umit Bektas—ReutersOctober 26, 2011. A man sits covered against the cold and snow at the "Occupy Denver" protest camp in Denver, Colorado. Some 25 protesters slept at the camp overnight as a winter snow storm moved in, and several demonstrators have been taken to the hospital for hypothermia. John Moore—Getty ImagesOctober 20, 2011. A man transports a coffin across a river using rope and pulley as he travels with others to collect the body of a relative at the flood-affected remote community of San Nicolas, 154 km (95.7 miles) north of Managua, Nicaragua. Twelve people died in the floods after heavy rains in the area. Oswaldo Rivas—ReutersOctober 22, 2011. Sebsatian Harmsen of Peru reacts after taking a fall in the men's wakeboard final during the water skiing event at the Pan American Games in Chapala, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico.Dario Lopez-Mills—APOctober 21, 2011. An orphan reacts inside a UNICEF bus as he is taken away after the closure of the Son of God orphanage In Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The orphanage, whose director was accused by U.S. missionaries of not feeding children and selling donated goods, was closed Oct. 21 in a rare crackdown by Haitian authorities. Dieu Nalio Chery—APOctober 24, 2011. An exiled Tibetan girl cries outside the gate of the United Nations Information Center at a protest against the U.N. on its foundation day in New Delhi, India. The protest was held to express solidarity with the plight of people in Tibet, some of whom have set themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule. Mustafa Quraishi—APOctober 24, 2011. A defected army soldier now backing the anti-government protesters takes a position at a checkpoint near the Taghyeer (Change) Square, where protesters are camping to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a.Khaled Abdullah—ReutersOctober 27, 2011. Riot police order people to move at the entrance to the Zhili town government building in Huzhou city, Zhejiang province. Hundreds of people have clashed with police and smashed public property in China's eastern Zhejiang province after a dispute between tax authorities and a local shop owner snowballed into protests.Carlos Barria—ReutersOctober 23, 2011. A wooden cross is placed on a concertina wire at the barricades in the village of Jagnjenica, near the town of Zubin Potok. Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs prevented NATO troops in Kosovo from removing roadblocks on roads to two contested border crossings between the country's volatile north and Serbia.Marko Djurica—ReutersOctober 24, 2011. An injured man lies on a bed at the Kenyatta hospital in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on as he waits to be x-rayed for possible bone injuries following a grenade attack on a bar. A grenade was thrown into a discotheque in Kenyan capital Nairobi early injuring 14 people, all Kenyans, in an attack police linked with recent threats made by Somali Shebab insurgents. Tony Karumba—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 21, 2011. Palestinians wield a sling-shots at Israeli troops during clashes outside Israeli military prison Ofer near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Majdi Mohammed—APOctober 25, 2011. 24-year-old Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen lays on the ground bleeding from a head wound after being struck by a by a projectile during an Occupy Wall Street protest in Oakland, Calif. Olsen suffered a fractured skull while marching with other protesters attempting to re-establish a presence in the area of the disbanded camp. Jay Finneburgh—APOctober 21, 2011. An inflatable sculpture is seen on a facade of the Louvre museum as part of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) in Paris.Regis Duvignau—ReutersOctober 27, 2011. A therapist from the Gezenguz (Rascal) Foundation works with an infant during an underwater nerve therapy session in Budapest. Infants and children who have birth injuries and congenital developmental conditions or diseases seek rehabilitation at the foundation. Ferenc Redei—ReutersOctober 23, 2011. An unidentified man burns a bible on St. Peter's Square in Rome during Pope Benedict XVI's canonisation of three founders of religious orders as saints of the Catholic Church. Alessandra Benedetti—CorbisOctober 23, 2011. A boy models his monster costume during the kids costume competition at the "Scaredy Cats and Dogs" Halloween fund-raising event at a mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Cheryl Ravelo—ReutersOctober 25, 2011. An effigy of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi with writng in Arabic reading "Libya Hura", meaning "Libya Free" is displayed at a check point at the entrance of Misrata, Libya. The bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son, Muatassim Gaddafi, and his ex-defense minister Abu Bakr Younis were removed from Misrata Monday night to be buried at a secret location.Francois Mori—APOctober 21, 2011. A Libyan rebel fighter covers a dead body of an alleged Muammar Gaddafi loyalist, killed by a NATO air strike in the outskirts of Sirt, Libya. Libyan deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi was arrested on Oct. 20, he was found hiding in a drainage pipe in Sirte. He died later, along with his son Motassim. Guillem Valle—EPA
