From the health care ruling and the Colorado wildfires to the U.S. Olympic trials and baby giant pandas, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
June 23, 2012. Rehana, 11 months, sleeps beneath a mosquito net on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.Rahmat Gul–APJune 23, 2012. Syrian anti-regime fighters and civilians are reflected in the window of a car during the funeral of one of the victims of the previous day's shelling on the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, outside Syrian city of Homs. AFP–Getty ImagesJune 24, 2012. A sandstorm blows past an inflatable blimp in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. Lucas Jackson–Reuters June 23, 2012. A horse rears in a crowd during the horse parade of the traditional San Juan festival in Ciutadella, Spain.Jaime Reina–AFP/Getty Images June 26, 2012. Swimmers warm up in the pool ahead of the start of competition on day two of the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Frederic J. Brown–AFP/Getty ImagesJune 24, 2012. Workers show off the baby pandas at the Giant Panda Research Base in Chengdu, China.AFP/Getty ImagesJune 24, 2012. Men and women dance around a bonfire in the countryside near the village in the Kulneva, Belarus.Alexey Gromov–AFP/Getty ImagesJune 22, 2012. Young Palestinian relatives of Basel Ahmed mourn during his funeral in the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Said Khatib–AFP/Getty Images June 22, 2012. A coal miner fires handmade rockets at riot police officers during clashes in Mieres Figaredo, Spain.Jose Colon–APJune 24, 2012. Three Israeli female soldiers enjoy the sun on the beach in Tel Aviv.Oded Balilty–APJune 22, 2012. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet, Srinagar, India. Dar Yasin–APJune 22, 2012. Students eat packaged meals during a feeding program at a slum area in Manila. Noel Celis–AFP/Getty ImagesJune 22, 2012. A child hides himself inside a rice dumpling costume before the opening ceremony of the Duanwu Festival in Beijing.Andy Wong–APJune 22, 2012. Ashton Eaton runs in the 400m during the decathlon competition at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore.Charlie Riedel–AP June 22, 2012. NATO military helicopters hover as smoke rises in the background at the hotel where Taliban militants took several people hostage on the outskirts of Kabul.S. Sabawoon–EPAJune 22, 2012. A young Palestinian protester runs away from Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Jaafar Ashtiyeh–AFP/Getty Images June 22, 2012. A resident breaks down after her shanty was gutted during a fire in New Delhi. Manan Vatsyayana–AFP/Getty ImagesJune 22, 2012. A police officer throws a chair onto a pile of burning papers and office supplies after looting a building that houses the legal department for disciplinary action against members of the police in La Paz, Bolivia. David Mercado–ReutersJune 23, 2012. The mother of six-year-old Ali Al-Shawaf hugs his body during his funeral in the southern Gaza strip. Ali was killed and his father wounded after Israeli air strike.Mohamed Saber–EPAJune 23, 2012. The presidential chair sits empty before the start of a news conference by Paraguay's new President Federico Franco at the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay.Jorge Saenz–APJune 24, 2012. Egyptians celebrate the election of their new president Mohamad Morsy in Cairo.Daniel Berehulak–Getty ImagesJune 24, 2012. A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood overcome by emotion is carried out of the crowd as Egyptians celebrate the election of their new president Mohamed Morsy in Cairo. Daniel Berehulak–Getty ImagesJune 24, 2012. Filipino devotees covered in mud and dried leaves pray at a Catholic church in a pagan religious tradition in a village of Bibiclat, northern Philippines. Francis R. Malasig–EPA
June 24, 2012. A frigate with scarlet sails floats on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia.Anatoly Maltsev–EPAJune 25, 2012. A Pakistani carpenter works on a fishing boat at the harbor of Karachi.Shakil Adil–APJune 23, 2012. A woman dressed as a mermaid rests in a grassy area off the boardwalk during the 30th annual Mermaid Parade in New York's Coney Island. Jeffrey Furticella–AP June 24, 2012. People watch fireworks as they take a bath in the Mediterranean Sea on San Juan's night in the southern Spanish town of Malaga. Jon Nazca–ReutersJune 25, 2012. A forensic team inspects a body at Mexico City's International Airport.Alexandre Meneghini–APJune 25, 2012. A Kashmiri resident tries to put out a fire with a pole at the nearly 200-years-old Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani Shrine in Srinagar, India.Dar Yasin–APJune 25, 2012. Local residents bury themselves in an ash deposit during a protest against a thermo-electric plant south of Santiago. Jose Luis Saavedra–ReutersJune 25, 2012. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in a prayer rally and protest in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Abir Sultan–EPAJune 25, 2012. Members of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines watch as the door closes on three fallen soldiers during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware. Mark Wilson–Getty ImagesJune 25, 2012. South Korean military forces began war games exercises to commemorate the 62nd Anniversary of the Korean War. Jeon Heon-Kyun–EPAJune 25, 2012. Members of the media take pictures and videos of the home of Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying in Hong Kong. Leung apologized for letting down the people of Hong Kong, following the controversy over illegal structures at his home.Vincent Yu—APJune 26, 2012. A ball girl places tennis balls on the racquet of Kei Nishikori of Japan during his men's singles tennis match against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London.Toby Melville—ReutersJune 26, 2012. Drug addicts watch a performance to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking at a drug addiction rehabilitation center in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.ReutersJune 26, 2012. An Afghan boy runs away as (L-R) Private First Class Ronnie Berryman, Sergeant Edward Jackson, and Sergeant Andrew McMeley from 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment open fire on insurgents that had fired on them from a ridge in the town of Manugay.Lucas Jackson—ReutersJune 26, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth waves to members of the public as she arrives in Enniskillen on the first day of a two day tour of Northern Ireland.Cathal NcNaughton—ReutersJune 26, 2012. An entire neighborhood burns near the foothills of Colorado Springs as the Waldo Canyon fire continues to burn northwest of Manitou Springs, Colorado.Helen H. Richardson—The Denver Post/PolarisJune 27, 2012. A helicopter drops water on the Waldo Canyon fire burning behind the U.S. Air Force Academy, west of Colorado Springs, Colorado.Rick Wilking—ReutersJune 27, 2012. An aerial view shows homes destroyed by the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado.John Wark—ReutersJune 27, 2012. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish Bride holds a strip of cloth attached to her groom during a traditional wedding ceremony in Bnei Brak, Israel.Abir Sultan—EPAJune 28, 2012. Swimmers compete in the GE Canary Wharf Triathlon in London.
Peter Cziborra—Action Images/Zuma PressJune 27, 2012. A veiled Lebanese Muslim woman swims in the Mediterranean sea in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.Joseph Eid—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 29, 2012. Spectators take in the sky walk view on the walk way between the Supertrees at Graden by the Bay at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The structures vary from 25-50 meters in height and stand in the financial district. Chris McGrath—Getty ImagesJune 27, 2012. Members of the junior national team watch Jazzy Kerber, foreground, compete during the rhythmic all-around finals at the USA Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, Calif.Jae C. Hong–AP June 28, 2012. Rafael Nadal of Spain dries himself off after he lost the third set to Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic during a second round men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England. Anja Niedringhaus—APJune 28, 2012. People wave during the inauguration trip of the world's first open-air double decker cable car system, the newly-built "Cabrio," on the Stanserhorn mountain, near Lucerne.Christian Hartmann—ReutersJune 27, 2012. Flood water surrounds homes in Live Oak, Fla.Dave Martin—APJune 28, 2012. Israeli Holocaust survivor and beauty pageant contestant, Estee Lieber, 74, looks on ahead of the beauty pageant in Haifa, Israel. During the pageant, the twenty women competing, between 74 to 90 years of age, shared Holocaust stories witht he audience. Uriel Sinai/Getty ImagesJune 27, 2012. Thais Silva, 10, sweeps in front of her home during the inauguration of a new Peacemaker Police Unit in the Chatuba slum in Rio de Janeiro. B.K. Bangash—APJune 27, 2012. A Pakistani woman walks on a dry bank in Islamabad. Low water levels in dams and rivers have caused water and energy shortages to civilians.
B.K. Bangash—APJune 28, 2012. A Serbian man walks with a wooden cross during a rally marking a historic battle at Gazimestan, near Pristina. The ceremony marked the 623rd anniversary of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, where the Serbian army was defeated by the Ottoman Empire.Armend Nimani—AFP/GettyImagesJune 27, 2012. A Kashmiri Muslim woman kisses the charred walls of a shrine that held a few relics from Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani in downtown Srinagar, India.Thousands of Indian forces patrolled tense streets in Kashmir's main city on Wednesday as residents boycotted work for a third straight day to protest the fiery destruction of the 200-year-old Muslim shrine. Mukhtar Khan—APJune 28, 2012. A protester against the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare Act in Washington, D.C.Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 28, 2012. Obamacare supporters react to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold President Obama's health care law in Washington, D.C.Mark Wilson—Getty ImagesJune 25, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama wipes his face in the heat at a campaign event at Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire.Larry Downing—Reuters
