June 18, 2012. Boots hang in a changing room in the partially abandoned and closed Santiago mine, as a result of the coal crisis near Mieres, Oviedo, Spain.Emilio Morenatti—AP
From Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel lecture in Norway and the death of Rodney King in California to violent mining strikes in Spain and a New Democracy in Greece, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
June 18, 2012. Boots hang in a changing room in the partially abandoned and closed Santiago mine, as a result of the coal crisis near Mieres, Oviedo, Spain.Emilio Morenatti—APJune 15, 2012. New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras, bottom right, waves to supporters during the main pre-election campaign in central Athens.Petros Giannakouris—APJune 15, 2012. Residents displaced by the Belo Monte dam stand atop a temporary earthen dam at the construction site after removing a strip of earth to restore the flow of the Xingu River, part of a protest against the construction near Altamira, Brazil.Mario Tama—Getty ImagesJune 15, 2012. Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario.Mark Blinch—ReutersJune 16, 2012. A television screen shows footage of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she gives her Nobel Lecture at City Hall in Oslo.Cathal McNaughton—ReutersJune 17, 2012. Australian diver Melissa Wu competes in the Women's 10m platform diving final at 18th FINA Grand Prix Meeting in Madrid.Juan Carlos Hidalgo—EPAJune 17, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama's golf clubs are brought aboard Air Force One in Chicago. Obama played a round of golf on Sunday before heading to Los Cabos, Mexico to attend the G20 summit.Jason Reed—ReutersJune 19, 2012. A large picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad covers a window of a building housing foreign students in Donetsk, Ukraine.Vadim Ghirda—APJune 18, 2012. Palestinian boys look through a hospital window at the bodies of two Islamic Jihad militants in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.Mohammed Salem—ReutersJune 18, 2012 Mitt Romney holds Davenport Rally at Le Claire Park and Bandshell.Lauren Fleishman for TIMEJune 15, 2012. His Holiness the Dalai Lama answers questions from the media during a press conference at The Lowry Hotel in Manchester, England. The exiled Buddhist Tibetan leader is taking part in a week long tour of the United Kingdom.Christopher Furlong—Getty ImagesJune 15, 2012. Heavy rain falls as the match is suspended between Ukraine and France during the Euro 2012 cup in Donetsk, Ukraine.Vadim Ghirda—APJune 15, 2012. Indigenous people point their bows and arrows at a police helicopter flying over the occupied barrier of the Belo Monte Dam's construction site in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in northern Brazil.Lunae Parracho—ReutersJune 15, 2012. Miners fire handmade rockets at riot police officers as they defend their positions inside the "El Soton" mine during clashes in El Entrego, Spain.Emilio Morenatti—APJune 16, 2012. An Indian girl dries a sari following rains as monsoon clouds are seen over the skyline along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai.Kevin Frayer—APJune 15, 2012. Pakistani child Laibah Ishaq, 6 months old, lies in a bed next to her family's makeshift tent in a slum in Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 15, 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Grand Hotel in Oslo during the first day of her visit to Oslo.Alexander Widding—ZUMAPRESS.comJune 16, 2012. Firefighters and volunteers try to extinguish a forest fire at Thymari, Greece.Yannis Behrakis—ReutersJune 16, 2012. Tanda, a white rhinoceros, stands next to her one-day old calf at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv.Baz Ratner—ReutersJune 16, 2012. An indigenous child from Kamayura tribe eats corn in front a fire at Kari-Oca village in Rio de Janeiro.Ricardo Moraes—ReutersJune 16, 2012. A Polish boy fetches a ball from a field during a game of soccer at a pitch in Lisewo, a village near Spain's Euro 2012 training base in Gniewino.Juan Medina—ReutersJune 15, 2012. Plastinated blood vessels of an human face are seen during a media viewing for the exhibition "The Human Body" in Ostend, Belgium. Francois Lenoir—ReutersJune 17, 2012. Explosives seized from positions of al Qaeda-linked militants are detonated by the army in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan.Handout/ReutersJune 17, 2012. A girl tries to save her umbrella caught by the wind in Mumbai.Rafiq Maqbool—APJune 17, 2012. Sandals are seen near where Rodney King was found dead in the bottom of the pool in Rialto, California.Kevork Djansezian—Getty ImagesJune 17, 2012. Bangladeshi fishermen fix their boat in Teknaf.Munir uz Zaman—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 17, 2012. A South Sudanese refugee boards a bus to Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv, where he will be deported to South Sudan. Israel was preparing to fly home about 120 illegal immigrants from South Sudan, the first wave in the planned expulsion of tens of thousands of Africans.Oren Ziv—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 17, 2012. A man holds money he received as aid at a Buddhist monastery used as a collective shelter for those displaced by recent violence in Sittwe, Myanmar.Soe Zeya Tun—ReutersJune 17, 2012. A voter checks her name before casting her vote during the second day of voting in Egypt's presidential election, at a polling station in Giza. Ahmed Jadallah—ReutersJune 18, 2012. Storm clouds gather over Gorzow Wielkopolski, western Poland.Lech Muszynski—EPAJune 18, 2012. The handmade woolen crochet work, "Golden Valkyrie," by Portuguese contemporary art painter Joana Vasconcelos, at the Palace of Versailles during a press visit of the exhibition.Kenzo Tribouillard—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 19, 2012. An Indian woman, standing on a makeshift raft made from the trunks of banana trees, assists her child as she moves family and belongings to higher ground in the flood affected area of Keotkuchi village in Barpeta district, India.AFP/Getty ImagesJune 19, 2012. A man struggles to control his umbrella against strong winds generated by typhoon Guchol in Tokyo.Franck Robichon—EPAJune 19, 2012. An Indian laborer welds iron as he along with others make a temporary pontoon bridge across the River Ganges for the upcoming Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh—APJune 19, 2012. A Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cries in a Bangladeshi Coast guard station in Teknaf.Munir uz Zaman—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 19, 2012.Mother Maura Castellanos (C) touches the feet of her daughter June 19, 2012. The body of Ana Victoria Chacon, 12, lies on the ground in the outskirts of Guatemala City. The girl was washed away by a river when it rained the night before.Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersJune 19, 2012. Catholic priest Fabio Colindres speaks with a member of Mara Salvatrucha gang during a mass at the prison of Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador.Jose Cabezas—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 19, 2012. Afghan President Hamid Karzai cuts the ribbon during the inauguration of a hydroelectric power plant at Shakardara district, north of Kabul.Massoud Hossaini—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 19, 2012. A helicopter transporting Afghan President Hamid Karzai departs following the inauguration of a hydroelectric power plant at Shakardara district.Massoud Hossaini—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 19, 2012. Turkish Stars, Turkish army's aerobic team perform with their supersonic jets over a military base in Konya, Turkey.APJune 20, 2012. Vacationers bask in front of the wreckage of capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbor of Giglio Porto, Italy. The salvage operation to move the capsized vessel will begin in June.Max Rossi—ReutersJune 20, 2012. A Bengal Tiger named Akasha dives into the water after a piece of meat at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan—Getty ImagesJune 20, 2012. Long-tailed mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) fly over the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszainoka, Hungary.Laszlo Balogh—ReutersJune 21, 2012. A woman eats breakfast as a window cleaner works outside on the 23rd floor of a hotel in Ningbo, China.Peter Parks—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 20, 2012. An addict is forced to wear a helmet to prevent him from hitting the wall with his head at a police-run rehab center for drug addicts in Fuzhou, China.Liu Tao—EPAJune 20, 2012. An Afghan man covers himself from dust picked up by wind as he sells toys along a street in Kabul.Omar Sobhani—ReutersJune 20, 2012. An exiled Tibetan watches television as a portrait of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is seen at a small Tibetan colony in New Delhi.Tsering Topgyal—APJune 20, 2012. A Palestinian man kisses the body of Ghaleb Ermilat, 21, killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral at the main Mosque in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.Eyad Baba—APJune 20, 2012. A public power electricity pole is in flames in the forest of Katharonas in Nafplion, Greece.Vangelis Bougiotis—EPAJune 21, 2012. A donkey stands in a field at a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 21, 2012. People raise their hands to receive the first beam of the rising sun during the winter solstice ceremony in Tiahunaco, Bolivia. The solstice coincides with the Aymara Indian New Year. Gaston Brito—ReutersJune 21, 2012. A child dives into the flooded compound of a school which remains closed several days of every month due to flooding during high tides, in Taknaf, Bangladesh.Saurabh Das—AP
