June 09, 2012. Al Qusayr, Homs, Syria: Medical volunteers treat wounded Free Syrian Army soldiers inside a home after the field hospital reached capacity in Homs, Syria.Robert King—Polaris
From sectarian violence in Myanmar and wildfires in Colorado to protests in Egypt and the Euro 2012 soccer championships in Poland and Ukraine, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
June 9, 2012. Thousands of students at Tagou Kung fu School participate in a Kung fu performance in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China.ChinaFotoPress/ZUMAPRESS.comJune 8, 2012. Artists perform during the Euro 2012 soccer championship opening ceremony in Warsaw, Poland.Gero Breloer—APJune 10, 2012. Protesters wear white dresses and cover eyes with white clothes to mourn for the death of Chinese labor activist Li Wangyang during a protest march in Hong Kong.Vincent Yu—APJune 9, 2012. A stray dog stands on a rubbish dump at the seafront in Sidon, southern Lebanon. The dump, located near schools, hospitals and apartment blocks in Lebanon's third biggest city, has partially collapsed into the Mediterranean sea several times.Ali Hashisho—ReutersJune 12, 2012. An Indian migrant boy works in a sari factory on World Day Against Child Labor in Katmandu, Nepal. This day serves as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labor.Niranjan Shrestha—APJune 10, 2012. Bride Nurasatilah Masae (L) standing in front of her bridegroom who was shot dead during their wedding in the Muslim majority province of Pattani, southern Thailand.EPAJune 11, 2012. Afghan youths learn how to paint at the Behzad Art Gallery in Herat. The Taliban, ousted from power in a US-led invasion in 2001, banned girls from going to school and forbade people from painting and learn the arts. Aref Karimi—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 8, 2012. Riot police clear a soccer goal and other debris used as roadblocks by Bahraini anti-government protesters to slow the police pursuing them during clashes in Abu Saiba, Bahrain.Hasan Jamali—APJune 11, 2012. Rafael Nadal celebrates at the mens final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Nadal secured a record, unprecendented seventh French Open title defeating world number one Djokovic 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.Panoramic/ZUMAPRESS.comJune 8, 2012. The front legs of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another are shown during a news conference at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.Matt Slocum—APJune 8, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI looks on following a meeting with the Sri Lankan President at the Vatican.Max Rossi—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 8, 2012. A man pushes a boat as a woman dries clothes in a paddy field flooded by rain water in Pobitora, India.Anupum Nath—APJune 8, 2012. A man stand-up paddle surfs as a Mexican navy ship patrols the bay waters in San Jose del Cabo in Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Security has been beefed up in preparation for the upcoming G-20 that will be held in Los Cabos June 18-19.Fernando Castillo—APJune 8, 2012. An Egyptian protester, wearing pictures of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser on his head, attends a demonstration at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.Nasser Nasser—APJune 09, 2012. Al Qusayr, Homs, Syria: Medical volunteers treat wounded Free Syrian Army soldiers inside a home after the field hospital reached capacity in Homs, Syria.Robert King—PolarisJune 9, 2012. Wang Jinxiang, mother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, cries as she talks about her son at their home in the village of Dongshigu in Shandong Province.David Gray—ReutersJune 8, 2012. Indian fishermen throw their fishing net in floodwaters in a paddy field in Pobitora, India.Anupum Nath—APJune 9, 2012. A soldier from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, guards a landing zone at night at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's Kunar Province.Tim Wimborne—APJune 10, 2012. Smoke fills the air over a small barn turning the sky orange as the High Park Fire burns near Laporte, Colorado.Marc Piscotty—ReutersJune 10, 2012. A man walks though a burnt Rohingya village during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe.ReutersJune 10, 2012. Uruguayan special forces soldiers fire their rifles during a combined assault event of the 9th edition of the commando forces competition at the military base of Tolemaida, Colombia. Elite troops from 21 American countries take part in the competition.Luis Acosta—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 10, 2012. A girl and a boy cool off in a fountain during a hot day at the port in Malaga, southern Spain.Jon Nazca—ReutersJune 10, 2012. A man dressed in a red and yellow costume representing the devil, known as El Colacho, jumps over babies placed on a mattress during traditional Corpus Christi celebrations in Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, northern Spain.The northern Spanish town has for centuries chosen to protect its young from evil spirits with the unusual ritual in which a man dressed as the devil leaps over mattresses each holding four or five babies.Ricardo Ordonez—ReutersJune 10, 2012. A model displays a creation of the Chechen fashion house Firdaws, that was founded Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's wife Medni Kadyrova, during the Moscow Halal Expo 2012, MoscowMaxim Shipenkov—EPAJune 10, 2012. At Forward Operating Joycen, in Afghanistan's north eastern Kunar province, soldiers from Task Force Lethal Warrior dance during Karaoke night.Sebastiano Tomada—Sipa USAJune 11, 2012. A Rohingya Muslim cries as he tries to cross the Naf river in Teknaf. Bangladesh border guards and coastguard patrol teams pushed back eight boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, fleeing religious violence in Myanmar.Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 10, 2012. Taking advantage of recent rainfall, farmers work in the fields of Mou'ai Village in Fengshan, China.Zhou Enge—Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.comJune 11, 2012. Los Angeles Kings' Jarret Stoll is pursued by photographers as he holds up the Stanley Cup after his team defeated the New Jersey Devils in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey final in Los Angeles.Lucy Nicholson—ReutersJune 11, 2012. A Palestinian girl attends a class on how to read the Koran, Islam's holy book, in braille at a camp in a local mosque in Gaza City.Mammud Hams—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 11, 2012. Demonstrators stand near a man lying on the ground whom they say was beaten by the police during a protest by taxi drivers outside the police headquarters in Casablanca.Youssef Boudlal—ReutersJune 11, 2012. Children climb on a canvas shelter in Levinsky Park in the Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv, where thousands of African migrants reside. Israeli authorities rounded up dozens of migrants slated for deportation, most of them Africans from South Sudan, as the government weighs tough penalties against Israelis who help illegal aliens.Jack Guez—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 12, 2012. 'Untitled (Paula)' by New York-based artist Rudolf Stingel is on display in the exhibition 'Art Unlimited' within the context of the international art show 'Art 43 Basel', in Basel, Switzerland.Georgios Kefalas—EPAJune 12, 2012. An Indian firefighter attempts to extinguish flames at the Khanna Paper Mill in the outskirts of Amritsar. No casualties were reported in the blaze.Narinder Nanu—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 12, 2012. Residents look on from their house amid ongoing violence in Sittwe, capital of Myanmar's western state of Rakhine. Dozens of people have been killed in a surge in sectarian violence in Myanmar as international pressure grows for an end to the bloodshed.AFP/Getty ImagesJune 12, 2012. U.S. Army soldiers carry their comrade wounded at patrol by an improvised explosive device (IED) towards a Blackhawk Medevac helicopter in southern Afghanistan.Shamil Zhumatov—ReutersJune 12, 2012. Brazil Army soldiers patrol along the nearby shores Copacabana beach ahead of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro.Felipe Dana—APJune 12, 2012. A helicopter drops water on a wild fire burning near the village of Vilanova i la Geltru.Lluis Gene—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 12, 2012. A boy lies on the side of a stream in Kabul.Mohammad Ismail—ReutersJune 12, 2012. An injured boy receives medical treatment at a hospital in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar. At least two people were killed and several others injured when a bomb exploded in Peshawar on Tuesday, local media reported. Umar Qayyum—Xinhua/LandovJune 12, 2012. Spanish coal miners demonstrate with their lamps lit through the streets of the city of Leon, northern Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a nationwide strike action organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions from 300 million euros to 110 million euros.Cesar Manso—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 13, 2012. Brazil's Santos fans cheer during a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Brazil's Corinthians in Santos, Brazil. Nelson Antoine—APJune 13, 2012. A model puts on make-up backstage during the 10th anniversary of Dakar Fashion Week.Finbarr O'Reilly—ReutersJune 12, 2012. Revelers gather before going to the Saint Anthony's Parade on Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon. Lisbon celebrates Saint Antony's day, its protector, with a parade that gathers participants from several typical neighborhoods of the city.Patricia De Melo Moreira—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 13, 2012. Pakistan's Azhar Ali runs back to pavilion as the match is stopped due the rain during their third One Day International (ODI) cricket match against Sri Lanka, in Colombo.Dinuka Liyanawatte—ReutersJune 13, 2012. A Pakistani girl sits on a merry-go-round, hoping to have a free ride, at an entertainment park in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 14, 2012. Soldiers pay a silent tribute after completing the exhumation of the remains of South Korean soldiers, who are believed to have been killed by North Korean soldiers during the 1950-53 Korean War, at an excavation site on a mountain in Sokcho.Lee Jong-kun—Yonhap/ReutersJune 15, 2012, A Bahraini anti-government protester holds up a child carrying a national flag toward riot police in Karbabad, Bahrain, just west of the capital of Manama. Police dispersed demonstrators who gathered for a pro-democracy protest called by opposition political societies for which authorities denied permission. Hasan Jamali—AP
