Pictures of the Week: September 14 - 21

Sept. 15, 2012. A reenactor portraying a Union soldier helps to light more then 3,600 candles to commemorate the deaths of Antietam, during the 150th Anniversary Reenactment of the Civil War battle, at Legacy Manor Farm in Boonsboro, Md.

Sept. 16, 2012. A paramilitary policeman guards an entrance of the Japanese Embassy, eggs and paint splattered on its wall, in Beijing.

Sept. 18, 2012. Syrian rebels help a wounded comrade who survived a Syrian army strike outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo.

Sept. 16, 2012. A firefighting helicopter fills a bucket of water in heavy smoke as the North Merna wildfire burns in the Bridger National Forest west of the town of Pinedale in Sublette County, Wyo.

Sept. 17, 2012. Britain's Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, smiles to locals through the car window as she departs the cultural village in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

Sept. 16, 2012. A dancer waits to go on stage at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria.

Sept. 16, 2012. Di Sierra, an Occupy Wall Street protestor, participates in a demonstration in Foley Square in New York City.

Sept. 18, 2012. A Myanmar Buddhist monk is pictured through a hole in a wall at a monastery where people gathered in the first ever rally to mark the "Saffron Revolution" in Yangon.

Sept. 14, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boards a plane at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Ohio.

Sept. 14, 2012. Egyptian protesters clash with security forces, not shown, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo. The protests are part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Mohammed.

Sept. 14, 2012. Protesters help an injured man, who was hurt during clashes, along a road leading to the U.S. embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Sept. 14, 2012. Hardee's and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants are seen on fire after protesters destroyed and burnt them in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.

Sept. 14, 2012. A Bishop takes pictures as Pope Benedict XVI (not pictured) leads a ceremony at the Saint Paul cathedral in Harissa village, east Beirut, Lebanon.

Sept. 14, 2012. A boy sits on wooden scaffolding which is used as a temporary watch tower as people stroll along Juhu beach in Mumbai.

Sept. 14, 2012. A Syrian man carrying grocery bags tries to dodge sniper fire as he runs through an alley near a checkpoint manned by the Free Syria Army in the northern city of Aleppo.

Sept. 15, 2012. An activist associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement wears a vendetta mask in Washington Square Park in New York.

Sept. 15, 2012. Private licensed taxis are driven under heavy rain during a tropical thunderstorm in Havana.

Sept. 15, 2012. A contestant runs with her shoes in her hand during the 4th annual Maharashtra State Open Dance Sport Championship in Mumbai.

Sept. 15, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI watches actors during his visit to the Lebanese Maronite patriarch in Bkerke, Lebanon.

Sept. 15, 2012. Han Hak-ja, widow of Evangelist Reverend Sun-Myung Moon, sits beside the coffin of Moon during a funeral service in Gapyeong, South Korea.

Sept. 16, 2012. Afghan villagers look at the bodies of women killed by NATO air strikes in Laghman province.

Sept. 16, 2012. Pakistani activists of Jamiat Ulma e Islam shout slogans during a rally against an anti-Islam movie in Islamabad.

Sept. 16, 2012. Workers wait for a boat to arrive at a small port outside Yangon, Myanmar. Every morning hundreds of workers unload boats that bring gravel to Yangon making three U.S. cents per basket.

Sept. 16, 2012. Lebanese Catholic priests walk under umbrellas as they head towards the crowd to give the Eucharist during a mass led by Pope Benedict XVI at Beirut's waterfront.

Sept. 16, 2012. The new cruise ship 'Celebrity Reflection' is transferred from the fitting pier of the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, Germany via the Ems River to the North Sea.

Sept. 17, 2012. Britain's Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, talks to traditional dancers at a cultural village in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

Sept.16, 2012. A woman breastfeeds her child while attending a parade during the celebration of the 202nd anniversary of Mexico's independence at Juarez Avenue in Mexico City.

Sept. 17, 2012. Children walk with a cartoon school bus during a protest against the Spanish government's cuts on school transport, in Pobla de Vallbona, eastern Spain.

Sept. 17, 2012. Boys from the Mandari tribe wait by the Nile river for boats with the day's catch to arrive in Terekeka, a fishing community 75km north of Juba in South Sudan.

Sept. 17, 2012. A man walks along Atocha station in Madrid during a partial national rail strike.

Sept. 17, 2012. A Libyan woman carries a wreath with a photo of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens on it as she and other Libyan and American women gather to pay their respect to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate, in Benghazi, Libya.

Sept. 17, 2012. Civilians and Islamist fighters pray over the body of Tareq Naser, an Islamist fighter who died during clashes, during his funeral near the village of Fafeen near Aleppo, Syria.

Sept. 18, 2012. A Syrian man carries his wounded daughter outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo.

Sept. 18, 2012. An Afghan health worker administers a polio vaccination to a child on the third day of a vaccination campaign in Herat.

Sept. 18, 2012. An Afghan National Army soldier stands at the gates of a compound in Helmand province, Afghanistan. International forces in Afghanistan were ordered to stop all joint patrols with Afghan security forces due to the increased threat from "insider" attacks.

Sept. 18, 2012. Pakistani Sunni Muslims protesters beat an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Sept. 18, 2012. Decorative toy birds are pictured as a vendor takes cover from the rains in New Delhi.

Sept. 18, 2012. A Pyrrhocorax graculus (Bergdohle) flies above Wildhaus in the Grisons, Switzerland.

Sept. 18, 2012. Chinese protestors stage an anti-Japan rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.

Sept. 18, 2012. Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli border police (not seen) in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem.

Sept. 18, 2012. A police officer guards the scene where two female police officers were killed in Hattersley near Manchester, northern England.

Sept. 18, 2012. A woman casts a ballot at a polling station during parliamentary elections in the Belarussian village of Kurkovo.

Sept. 18, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.

Sept. 18, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is seen through a television camera's viewfinder as he speaks at a campaign fundraising event at The Grand America in Salt Lake City.

Sept. 19, 2012. Children walk above destroyed houses after a pre-dawn fire engulfed a slum area in Manila.

Sept. 19, 2012. Indian devotees raise their hands as they pray in front of an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha in Ahmadabad, India.

Sept. 19, 2012. A statue of Jesus Christ lays on its side on top of the St. John's School building following high winds in Orange, N.J.

Sept. 19, 2012. A Pakistani child cries to his injured father at a hospital following a bomb explosion in Peshawar.

Sept. 19, 2012. A Bedouin man stands near a house where three children were found stabbed in the town of Rahat, southern Israel.

Sept. 19, 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour makes its departure atop a modified jumbo jet from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Sept. 20, 2012. Bangladeshi firefighters and residents try to control a fire in the Begunbari slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Sept. 21, 2012. A Pakistani protester, wounded in clashes with riot police, is helped by colleagues as they tried to approach the U.S. embassy, during a demonstrations against an anti-Islam film in Islamabad.

Sept. 20, 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar prays prior to speaking at American University in Washington, D.C.

Sept. 20, 2012. A Nepalese devotee takes a holy dip with the help of a friend in the Bagmati River during Rishi Panchami, a purifying and atonement day for women, in Katmandu.

Sept. 20, 2012. The body of a 7-year-old boy killed by a Syrian Army sniper lies in Dar Al Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. Dozens of Syrian civilians were killed on Thursday, four children among them, in artillery shelling by government forces in the northern Syrian town of Aleppo.

Sep. 20, 2012. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman swings a chicken over her family during a Kaparot ceremony in Bnei Brak, Israel. The Jewish ritual is supposed to transfer the sins of the past year to the chicken, and is performed before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which this year will start on sunset on Sept. 25.

Sept. 21, 2012. An Afghan protester steps on a U.S. flag during a demonstration in Kabul. Hundreds of Afghans protested against a U.S.-made film they say insults the Prophet Mohammed.