From an eruption on the sun and the death of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in South Korea to Redhead Day in the Netherlands and students heading back to school around the world, TIME presents the best images of the week.
Sept. 3, 2012. First lady Michelle Obama finishes an interview during preparations for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Alex Wong–Getty ImagesSept. 3, 2012. Young students walk towards their classroom on the first day back to school at the Angela Landa elementary school in Old Havana, Cuba.Ramon Espinosa–APAug. 31, 2012. A Syrian child Hassan Kakaagi, 2, who fled his home with his family due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, suffers from malnutrition, as he and his family take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, near the Syrian town of Azaz.Muhammed Muheisen–APSept. 1, 2012. A villager offers flowers to a female adult elephant lying dead on a paddy field in Panbari village, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Gauhati, India.Anupam Nath–APAug. 31, 2012. A model displays a design by Agatha Ruiz De La Prada during Madrid's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.Daniel Ochoa De Olza–APSept. 1, 2012. A dancer of acclaimed Argentinian group Fuerzabruta performs in a piece entitled 'Mylar', while being suspended on a translucent 15m pool during Singapore's 5th annual Night Festival.Suhaimi Abdullah–Getty ImagesAug. 31, 2012. An Egyptian boy carries a child in Wadi El-Rayan, southwest of Fayoum, Egypt.Nariman El-Mofty–APSept. 3, 2012. Poland's Lukasz Mamczarz in action during the London 2012 Paralympic Games Men's High Jump F42 Final at the Olympic Stadium. Matthew Childs–Action Images/ZUMAPRESS.comAug. 31, 2012. Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier Bieth Keer, 22, injured in a rebel ambush, rests inside a ward at a military hospital in Juba. Adriane Ohanesian–ReutersAug. 31, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop in Lakeland, Fla.Evan Vucci–APAug. 31, 2012. A boy sits at a local bread bakery in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.Youssef Boudlal–ReutersAug. 31, 2012. A portrait of Syrian Mahmoud Zakariya, 70, when he was a soldier, hangs on a wall inside a Syrian house, one of more than a dozen homes destroyed in an airstrike.Muhammed Muheisen–APAug. 31, 2012. Children with their faces painted, accompany their mother in a demonstration in front of the Mexican Electoral Tribunal building while inside, a plenary takes place, in Mexico City.Yuri Cortez–AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 31, 2012. The U.S.'s Shirley Reilly, right, and China's Zou Lihong fall from their wheelchairs as they crash during a women's 100m T34 race at the 2012 Paralympics in London.Emilio Morenatti–APAug. 31, 2012. A long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space.NASA/GSFC/SDO/Sipa USAAug. 31, 2012. Some of the 200 pieces of World War I ammunition, which emerged from a melting glacier on a Trentino mountain peak. The 85-100 mm caliber explosive devices were found at an altitude of 3,200 meters, when a once-perennial glacier on the Ago de Nardis peak partially melted due to a recent heat wave that reached into Italy's highest peaks. Maffei Glauco–EPASept. 1, 2012. Australia's Reagan Wickens jumps into the swimming pool during training before the men's 400 metre Freestyle S6 competition at the 2012 Paralympics Olympics in London.Emilio Morenatti–APSept. 1, 2012. Private security guards keep watch outside the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, N.C. Tom Pennington–Getty Images Sept. 1, 2012. School children line up during a ceremony to mark the beginning of a new academic year at school-liceum number 12 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.Ilya Naymushin–ReutersSept. 2, 2012. A girl at a gathering for Redhead Day, or 'Roodharigendag' in Dutch, in the Dutch city of Breda, The Netherlands.Bas Czerwinski–EPA/BASSept. 2, 2012. Students throw barley flour as they attend a program to mark Tibetan Democracy Day in Katmandu, Nepal.Niranjan Shrestha–APSept. 2, 2012. Jared Smith lies prostrate during a public prayer service at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Charlotte, N.C.Stan Honda–AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 2, 2012. The Honey Bears dance squad from Livingstone College moves to the music of their school band which was performing near the venue for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Adrees Latif–ReutersSept. 2, 2012. Two boys play on a Syrian military tank, destroyed during fighting with the Rebels, in the Syrian town of Azaz.Muhammed Muheisen–APSept. 2, 2012. A wounded Syrian boy receives treatment at a hospital near the frontline in the city of Aleppo, Syria.Zavallis Achilleas–AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 2, 2012. Israeli police officers evacuate a Jewish settler from the roof of a structure in the unauthorized West Bank Jewish settlement of Migron. Sebastian Scheiner–APSept. 2, 2012. Hindu devotees carrying metal pots filled with water from the River Ganges, walk to a Lord Shiva temple to perform a ritual during "Malmas" in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh–APSept. 2, 2012. A Free Syrian Army fighter rests in exhaustion after heavy fighting in Aleppo, Syria. Niklas Meltio–CorbisSept. 3, 2012. Children cry over the bodies of eight children and two parents killed in a helicopter attack in central Aleppo, Syria. A six-month-old baby survived in the arms of his mother underneath the ruins.Niklas Meltio–CorbisSept. 3, 2012. A woman prays after the death of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon at prayer and devotions room of an Unification Church in Seoul.Lee Jin-man–APSept. 3, 2012. A Palestinian girls take part in a ballet class at Gaza college in Gaza City.Mohammed Salem–ReutersSept. 3, 2012. China's Juan Yao competes before wining the women's shot put F42/44 final at the 2012 Paralympics in London.Emilio Morenatti–APSept. 3, 2012. A Kashmiri boy dives on a summer day in Srinagar, India.Farooq Khan–EPASept. 3, 2012. Melanie Martinez (C) and Kala Martinez salvage items from their flooded home in Plaquemines Parish in Braithwaite, La.Mario Tama–Getty ImagesSept. 3, 2012. The mother of Ehab Abu Nada, 18, holds a photograph of her son as she reads the Koran at her house in Gaza City. The young man died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave.Mohammed Salem–ReutersSept. 3, 2012. A Syrian man holds his robe while walking in the partially destroyed Salaheddin neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.Joseph Eid–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 3, 2012. 7-year-old Michah Robinson poses in a souvenir photo booth at the Carolina Fest street festival during preparations for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Robyn Beck–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 3, 2012. Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere. David Cartier, Sr.–Reuters/NASASept. 3, 2012. A man leads his horses away as firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a rural area of Brasilia.Ueslei Marcelino–ReutersSept. 4, 2012. A helicopter drops water over a forest fire in Alvaiazere, Portugal.Rafael Marchante–ReutersSept. 4, 2012. A display on stage shows a video about Michelle Obama during day one of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Alex Wong–Getty ImagesSept. 4, 2012. First Lady Michelle Obama walks on stage to speak at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Brendan Hoffman—Prime for TIMESept. 4, 2012. Michelle Obama waves after addressing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Jae C. Hong–APSept. 4, 2012. Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth stand at the podium as she speaks to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Charlie Neibergall–APSept. 4, 2012. China's Xu Qing (L), Zheng Tao (C) and Brazil's Adriano de Lima prepare to race in the men's 50m Freestyle at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Luke MacGregor–ReutersSept. 5, 2012. A riot police officer with his masked stained with paint thrown by students watches a march by teachers and students protesting government educational policies in Bogota, Colombia.William Fernando Martinez–APSept. 5, 2012. An Israeli military cadet fires towards targets during training in a forest at the Elyakim training grounds, northern Israel.Ariel Schalit–APSept. 4, 2012. South Korean Marines search for land mines which were swept from North Korea by a recent typhoon, in Gimpo, north of Seoul.Yun Tae-hyun, Yonhap–APSept. 5, 2012. A young Afghani looks at soldiers from the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) and U.S. Army soldiers from the 3rd platoon Delta company on patrol at Nevay-deh village in Kandahar province.Tony Karumba–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 5, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.Feng Li–ReutersSept. 5, 2012. Arizona Diamondbacks starter Trevor Cahill, center, throws to the San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval as a rainbow appears in the sky during the first inning of a baseball game in San Francisco. Marcio Jose Sanchez–APSept. 5, 2012. People run for cover as smoke rises from the site of a fire at a fireworks factory on the outskirts of Sivakasi, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of Chennai, India. APSept. 5, 2012. A view of a Mother Teresa statue holding a child, seen through rain covered glass on the occasion of her 15th anniversary of her death, in Calcutta, India.Piyal Adhikary–EPASept. 5, 2012. Gisela Marulanda, 23, who claims to be possessed by spirits, participates in an exorcism ritual performed by Hermes Cifuentes (not pictured) in La Cumbre, Valle Cifuentes, Colombia.Jaime Saldarriaga–ReutersSept. 6, 2012. Palestinians gesture next to the body of a militant at a hospital in Gaza Strip after he was killed allegedly trying to launch short-range rockets into Israel. Ali Jadallah–Demotix/CorbisSept. 6, 2012. A Palestinian relative of Ihab and Akram al-Zaanin, two Palestinian brothers who were killed by Israeli fire, reacts during their funeral at their family house in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.Adel Hana–APSept. 5, 2012. Bill Clinton (L) bows to Barack Obama at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.Brendan Smialowski–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 6 2012. Former President Bill Clinton in greeted by President Barack Obama after speaking to the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, NC. 20120905. Callie Shell for TIMESept. 5, 2012. Former President Bill Clinton arrives on stage to speak at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Brendan Hoffman–PrimeSept. 6, 2012. People hold signs that say "Forward" as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on stage on the final day of the Democratic National Convention.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images
