Sept. 9, 2012. One World Trade Center stands tall on the skyline of New York's Lower Manhattan as a boy stands on a pier in Hoboken, N.J.Gary Hershorn—Reuters
From ceremonies commemorating September 11th and attacks on U.S. Embassies around the world to the Pencil Nebula in space and playtime weightlifting in North Korea, TIME presents the best images of the week.
Sept. 9, 2012. One World Trade Center stands tall on the skyline of New York's Lower Manhattan as a boy stands on a pier in Hoboken, N.J.Gary Hershorn—ReutersSept. 10, 2012. Palestinian protesters throw shoes at a banner of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad during a demonstration against high living costs and the government in the West Bank city of Hebron.Darren Whiteside—ReutersSept. 11, 2012. Relatives and mourners of Abdullah Alrayzar, 23, left, and Mohammed Abdul Samee, 35, pray during a funeral for four men, who were killed in a government airstrike in Marea, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria.Muhammed Muheisen—APSept. 12, 2012. People watch workers cutting down a pine tree, the so-called "miracle pine" that survived last year's tsunami, to give it anti-decay treatments and restore it in Rikuzentakata, Japan.Jiji Press/AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2012. Two Limousin breed cows are pictured before being loaded onto a plane bound for Mongolia with 174 others, on at the Marcel Dassault airport in Deols near Chateauroux, France.Alain Jocard—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2012. Pakistani children play cricket in the monsoon rain in Karachi.Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2012. Zhou Zhanchang, a 12-year-old survivor, rests after receiving medical treatment in a tent outside a hospital after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province, China.Jason Lee—ReutersSept. 10, 2012. A Bangladeshi boat man struggles to make his way through a water hyacinth-filled Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.A.M. Ahad—APSept. 10, 2012. An Indian artist works on an idol of the Hindu god Biswakarma at the artisan village, known locally as Kumartoli, in Siliguri, India.Diptendu Dutta—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 10, 2012. Andy Murray of Great Britain celebrates after defeating Novak on day 15 of the 2012 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y.Chris Trotman–Getty Images for USTASept. 7, 2012. Paramilitary soldiers evacuate victims injured in the earthquake in Yiliang county in Zhaotong city in southwest China's Yunnan province.Li Sanming–Color China Photo/AP Sept. 8, 2012. Afghani boys from the Pashtun tribe during a joint patrol between U.S. army soldiers from the 1st Platoon, 1-64 Armored Batallion operating under NATO command, in the Morghan-Khecha village, Kandahar province, Afghanistan.Tony Karumba–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 8, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Va.Brian Snyder–ReutersSept. 8, 2012. A model presents a creation from the Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week.Andrew Burton–ReutersSept. 8, 2012. An Indian youth exercises at dusk on a roof terrace at a residential neighbourhood in New Delhi.Rahul Singh–AFPSept. 7, 2012. A Palestinian boy uses a slingshot to hurl a stone during a protest against the confiscation of Palestinian land to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah.Abbas Momani–AFPSept. 7, 2012. A Hindu devotee performs evening rituals on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh–APSept. 7, 2012. Afghan youths pose as they ride a donkey on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan.Aref Karimi–AFP/GettyImagesSept. 9, 2012. A kite in the shape of a humpback whale flys above the ocean as part of the Festival of the Winds at Bondi Beach in Sydney.Paul Miller–EPASept. 9, 2012. Afghans attend ceremonies marking the anniversary of the death of national hero Ahmed Shah Massoud in his hometown of Panjshir, 140 kilometers, (87 miles) north of Kabul.Ahmad Nazar–APSept. 10, 2012. Residential houses and a mounted machine gun manned by an Afghan National Army soldier is pictured during a helicopter flight from Kabul to Bagram Air Base for a prison handover ceremony.Shah Marai–AFP/GettyImagesSept. 10, 2012. An Afghan villager walks down a road in Qalacha village in Kandahar.Tony Karumba–AFP/Getty ImagesSept 10, 2012. Newly graduated Afghan national police officers demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony at a National Police training center in Laghman province, east of Kabul.Rahmat Gul–APSept. 10, 2012. A Syrian rebel fighter, right, eats while others chat as they wait for transportation to go and fight government forces in Aleppo.Muhammed Muheisen—APSept. 10, 2012. Israeli soldiers ready their weapons as they go out on patrol at first light in the divided West Bank city of Hebron. Abed Hashlamoun–EPASept. 10, 2012. A girl waits for her food after ordering it along the streets of Kathmandu.Navesh Chitrakar–ReutersSept. 10, 2012. A woman rolls a cigar at the Cohiba cigar factory 'El Laguito' in Havana. Desmond Boylan—ReutersSept. 10, 2012. Chicago teachers walk a picket line outside Benjamin Banneker Elementary School in Chicago.M. Spencer Green—APSept. 10, 2012. Deng Shuai, 14, holds a portrait of his father, who died in an earthquake, after a burial ceremony after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province, China.Jason Lee–ReutersSept. 11, 2012. A protester is attended after she fell on the ground during an eviction process from the HSBC bank headquarters area in Hong Kong.Phillipe Loez—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2012. Egyptian protesters climb the walls of the U.S. embassy while others chant anti U.S. slogans during a protest in Cairo.Nasser Nasser—APSept. 11, 2012. Protesters chant slogans amid orange smoke outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo. Egyptian protesters, largely ultra conservative Islamists, climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy, went into the courtyard and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with Islamic inscription, in protest of a film deemed offensive of Islam. Mohammed Abu Zaid–APSept. 11, 2012. A man holds the Koran during a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Halim Elshaarani–Demotix/CorbisSept. 11, 2012. Miners protest the release of injured colleagues into police custody from Andrew Saffy Memorial Hospital near Rustenburg, South Africa.Themba Hadebe–APSept. 11, 2012. Pakistani rescuers carry a shoe-making factory worker after a sudden fire trapped dozens of workers in the factory in Lahore, Pakistan.
Asif Hassan–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2012. A school girl fills out her ballot for the 'Children Elections', held in many Dutch schools, in a voting booth used in tomorrows Dutch parliamentary elections in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Jasper Juinen–Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2012. A man makes coffins at a workshop in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.Dinuka Liyanawatte–ReutersSept. 11, 2012. A relative of Josias Searles, 16, puts flowers on the coffin containing his remains, next to the casket containing the remains of Victor Hugo Costa, 17, during a burial ceremony in Olinda, Rio de Janeiro.Victor R. Caivano–APSept. 11, 2012. Memphis firefighter David Schlauch helps refold a giant American flag after the annual Sept. 11th Fire Services Memorial at the Fire Museum, New York.Jim Weber–The Commercial Appeal/ZUMAPRESS.comSept. 10, 2012. Visitors lay roses over the names of the first responders at the South Pool of the 9/11 Memorial, before the 11-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at "ground zero" in New York.Adrees Latif–ReutersSept. 11, 2012. Dry sunflowers pictured in Toulouse, southwestern France.Remy Gabalda–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 20112. Participants hold spears during the 'Toro de la Vega' festival, in Tordesillas, Spain.Pedro Armestre–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 11, 2012. A vehicle and the surrounding area are engulfed in flames after it was set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya.AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 12, 2012. An interior view of the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three embassy staff were killed.Esam Al-Fetori–ReutersSept. 12, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a statement on the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three staff members at the U.S. Consulate building in Benghazi, Libya.Paul J. Richards–AFPSept. 12, 2012. Pakistani rescuers move the body of a garment factory worker after fire erupted in a factory in Karachi. More than 240 people have perished in devastating fires that gutted factories in Pakistan's two largest cities.Asif Hassan–AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 12, 2012. A dead cow with bullet wounds and cut by a machete lies in front of burnt out huts in Kilelengwani village in the Tana river Delta, Kenya. The Red Cross said that eight children were slaughtered by members of the Pokomo tribe during an attack by 300 tribesmen on the village, which left 38 people dead, 167 houses burnt to the ground and scores of slaughtered cattle. Carl de Souza–Getty ImagesSept. 12, 2012. A street tailor works under a bridge in a slum area in Jakarta.Agung Kuncahya B. –Xinhua/LandovSept. 12, 2012. Audience members watch a model during the J. Mendel Spring/Summer 2013 show at New York Fashion Week.Andrew Burton—ReutersSept. 12, 2012. The hand of a dead Pakistani garment factory worker is seen at a hospital following a fire in a garment factory in which at least 280 people died in Karachi.Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 12, 2012.The oddly shaped Pencil Nebula is pictured in this image from La Silla Observatory in Chile. This nebula is a small part of a huge remnant leftover after a supernova explosion that took place about 11,000 years ago. European Southern Observatory/EPASept. 12, 2012. A young South Sudanese girl prepares breakfast for her other brother and sisters in the returnee camp in Juba, South Sudan.Camille Lepage—AFP/Getty ImagesSept.12, 2012. People view an exhibition in Ankara on featuring images of leftist Turkish victims of the Sept. 12, 1980 military takeover.Adem Altan—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 13, 2012. A man comforts a member of the Free Syrian Army mourning the death of his fellow comrade during his funeral in Azaz's cemetery.Zain Karam—ReutersSept. 12, 2012. Syrian girls, who fled their home in Aleppo, due to government shelling, lay on the ground as they take refuge at Bab Al-Salameh border crossing. Muhammed Muheisen—APSept. 13, 2012. Mateo Saquij Chiquin mourns over the coffin of his 8-year-old daughter, Evelyn Yanisa Saquij Bin, in Tactic, Guatemala. She was reportedly murdered in a classroom, along with 13-year-old Juan Armando Coy Cal, by a man who was detained and reportedly lynched by neighbours later on. Saul Martinez—EPASept. 13, 2012. Cuba dissident Martha Beatriz Roque lies in bed during her hunger strike in Havana. Ramon Espinosa—APSept. 13, 2012. Female Iranian protestors perform their noon prayer, during a demonstration against a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.Vahid Salemi—APSept. 13, 2012. Yemeni protesters storm the U.S. embassy during a protest against a film deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, Sana'a, Yemen.Yahya Arhab—EPASept. 13, 2012. Demonstrators hold up a Quran during a protest outside the Swiss embassy in Tehran.Ahmad Halabisaz—Xinhua/LandovSept. 13, 2012. Afghan military officers stand attention during their graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul.Musadeq Sadeq—APSept. 13, 2012. Polish Air Force jets present aerobatics skills during an aviation trade show in Schoenefeld, Germany.Wolfgang Kumm—EPASept. 13, 2012. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at Lions Park in Golden, Colo. Carolyn Kaster—APSept. 13, 2012. North Korean children lift toy barbells during play time at a school for the performing arts in Pyongyang.David Guttenfelder—APSept.14, 2012. Carol Armstrong, (2nd L) wife of Neil Armstrong, commits the remains of Armstrong to sea during a burial at sea service held onboard the USS Philippine Sea in the Atlantic Ocean.NASASept. 13, 2012, Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge pay their respects to war dead of both WWI and WWII at the Kranji Commonwealth War Memorial in Singapore. Bryan van der Beek—AP
