June 24, 2013. Children walk past souvenir flags picturing former South African President Nelson Mandela being sold across from the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto Township in Johannesburg, South Africa.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images
From a landmark victory for gay rights and Obama’s visit to Africa to a string of Wimbledon upsets and a radio controlled Superman plane, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
June 24, 2013. A window seat scheduled to be occupied by U.S. fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden sits empty on a flight from Moscow to Havana. Snowden did not board, but dozens of journalists did. Kirill Kudryavtsev—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 22, 2013. Musicians perform on the beach at the 2013 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in the Brooklyn, NY.Mario Tama—Getty ImagesJune 23, 2013. Bangladeshi garment worker Aroti, 16, who worked on the 5th floor of Rana Plaza, which collapsed killing at lease 381 people, shows her artificial leg at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A.M. Ahad—APJune 24, 2013. Abu al-Taib, the leader of Ahbab Al-Mustafa Battalion, demonstrates to female members as he holds a gun during a military training in a mosque in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria.Muzaffar Salman—ReutersJune 25, 2013. Indian people protect themselves with umbrellas during high tide in Mumbai, India.Rajanish Kakade—APJune 25, 2013. An Afghan security force stands guard as an ambulance arrives near the entrance gate of the Presidential palace in Kabul.Shah Marai—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 21, 2013. Two women sunbathe on the shore of the Vistula River in Warsaw as temperatures soar to over 86 degrees Fahrenheit.Peter Andrews—Reuters June 22, 2013. South Korean soldiers take part in a re-enactment of the battle of Chuncheon at the beginning of the 1950-53 Korean War, to mark its 63rd anniversary in Chuncheon, South Korea.Jung Yeon-Je—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 25, 2013. A poster of Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hung from barbed wire near the site where hundreds of thousands of people attended a massive rally on June 16, 2013 in Istanbul. Jodi Hilton—Nurphoto/Sipa USAJune 24, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter dives into a swimming pool inside a house in the old city of Aleppo.Muzaffar Salman—ReutersJune 21, 2013. People take part in a group yoga practice on the morning of the summer solstice in New York's Times Square. Lucas Jackson—ReutersJune 21, 2013. President Barack Obama and outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller are seen in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, where the president announced he would nominate James Comey, a senior Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, to replace Mueller, as FBI director.Pablo Martinez Monsivais—APJune 21, 2013. Colombian tango dancers Valentina Valencia and Cristian Montoya perform during the Third World Tango Championships as part of the "VII International Tango Festival" in MedellÌn, Colombia.Raul Arboleda—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 21, 2013. Worshipers sing and pray on top of an unfinished building on a hill overlooking downtown in the Yeoville neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesJune 21, 2013. A displaced girl sleeps outside her makeshift tent at a camp by the roadside after a rise in the waters of the river Yamuna after heavy rains in New Delhi.Anindito Mukherjee—ReutersJuly 21, 2013. Shipping vessels moored at Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. Dale de la Rey—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 21, 2013. A woman arranges flowers in front of a painting depicting the late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il at the lobby of a hotel in Haeju city, South Hwanghae Province, North Korea. Alexander F. Yuan—APJune 21, 2013. An employee works on the sculpture 'Settlement' by Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck as part of the international art exhibition 'Emscherkunst' in Dinslaken, Germany.Bernd Thissen—EPAJune 22, 2013. Algae is pictured on the shoulders of a swimmer along the seaside in Qingdao, Shandong province.Reuters/China DailyJune 22, 2013. Athletes swim in the Mediterranean Sea at the beginning of the Tel Aviv Triathlon in Tel Aviv, Israel.Oded Balilty—APJune 22, 2013. Young Indian commuters sit inside a crowded train compartment at Allahabad junction in Allahabad.Sanjay Kanojia—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 23, 2013. A Hungarian boy swims with long-tailed mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) at Tisza river near Tiszainoka 84 miles southeast of Budapest. Laszlo Balogh—ReutersJune 23, 2013. A participant warms-up backstage before the start of 'Mr. Srinagar' bodybuilding competition in Srinagar, Kashmir. Danish Ismail—ReutersJune 23, 2013. Indonesian villagers wearing mask evacuate as a forest fire engulfs their village in Rokan Hulu regency in Riau province, Sumatra Island.Ulet Ifansasti—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 23, 2013. Laborers work on a mine believed to contain gold in Minna, Niger.Afolabi Sotunde—ReutersJune 23, 2013. A horse rears in a crowd during a horse parade of the traditional San Juan's (Saint John) festival in the town of Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, on the eve of Saint John's day.Jaime Reina—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 23, 2013. A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece.Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 23, 2013. An Indian man crosses over a swollen river with the help of a rope in Govindghat, India. Rafiq Maqbool—APJune 23, 2013. North Korean men stand at a roofed entrance of a restaurant as a woman runs with an umbrella in a downpour in Pyongyang, North Korea.Alexander F. Yuan—APJune 24, 2013. An Indian army soldier takes position at the scene of a deadly attack by armed rebels on the outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir.Rouf Bhat—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. Actors of the Wintershall Players perform a rehearsal of the 'Life of Christ' at the Wintershall estate in Bramley, England.Oli Scarff—Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. Actor James Burke-Dunsmore (C), playing Jesus, waits off stage for his cue during a rehearsal of the 'Life of Christ' at tje Wintershall Estate in Bramley, England.Oli Scarff—Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. Shahida Begum losses consciousness during a protest to demand compensation for the dead and missing workers of a garment factory building collapse, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.A.M. Ahad—APJune 24, 2013. A Pakistani man and his two sons, wash their goat by a polluted stream on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 24, 2013. Syrian girls walk with their mother as she turns to look at smoke billowing from three mortar shells dropped on the town of Al-Bara in the northwestern province of Idlib.Daniel Leal Olivas—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. Afghan demonstrators throw stones and shout slogans after burning a truck, believed to be owned by foreigners, during anti-government riots in Kabul.Massoud Hossaini—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. A North Korean soldier stands in front of a window along the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.Jacky Chen—ReutersJune 24, 2013. Children walk past souvenir flags picturing former South African President Nelson Mandela being sold across from the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto Township in Johannesburg, South Africa. Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. The father of Trayvon Martin, Tracy Martin, cries as he listens to the description of his son's death, with Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother, at left, and Daryl Parks, a family attorney, at right, during the 11th day of the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla.Joe Burbank—Getty ImagesJune 25, 2013. Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall take a short ride on a bus during their visit to the Wrightbus factory in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Peter Muhly—ReutersJune 25, 2013. A security guard tackles to the ground a Femen activist as she tried along with two other feminist activists to stop the car of Tunisian Prime Minister from leaving the EU commission building after his working session with European Commission President at the EU headquarters in Brussels.Georges Gobet—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 25, 2013. Two Tengananese men fight each other using thorny pandanus leaves as part of a religious ritual in Tenganan, Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia.Putu Sayoga—Getty ImagesJune 25, 2013. Jessica Pickens, 19, of Chicago, Il. stands with fellow voting rights activists outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washingto, DC the day the court ruled on the Voting Rights Act striking down portions of the law.Pete Marovich—MCT /LandovJune 25, 2013. A boy flies a kite at Nova Holanda shantytown, in the violence-plagued Mare complex, a day after gun battles erupted in the slum complex in Rio de Janeiro. Yuri Cortez—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 25, 2013. A Muslim Shiite woman carries a candle near the shrine of Imam Abbas, one of Shiite Islam's most revered figures, during the Shaabaniya ceremony commemorating the birth of Imam al-Mahdi, the 12th holiest figure for Shiite Muslims, in the central Iraqi city of Karbala.Ahmad Al-Rubaye—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 25, 2013. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, stands on a near empty senate floor as she filibusters in an effort to kill an abortion bill in Austin, Texas.Eric Gay—APJune 25, 2013. People wait for Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf (not pictured) in front of his family house at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAJune 26, 2013. Switzerland's Roger Federer walks off center court after being beaten by Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky during their second round men's singles match on day three of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.Carl Court—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 26, 2013. Bahraini men mourn during the funeral of Hussein Abdullah in the village of Saar, west of Manama.Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 26, 2013. Demonstrators wearing orange jumpsuits sit up against the north fence of the White House in Washington as they protest the Guantanamo Bay military detention facility. Charles Dharapak—APJune 26, 2013. A student is hit by a jet of water sprayed by riot police during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education system, in Santiago.Carlos Vera—ReutersJune 26, 2013. A demonstrator is detained by the police during a protest on the streets of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.Ueslei Marcelino—ReutersJune 26, 2013. A Palestinian child plays with a chick outside the family tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAJune 26, 2013. Palestinian children play outside their family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Ali Ali—EPAJune 26, 2013. Jason Howe, 48, and Adrian Perez (L), 48, who were married in Spain, and again in California, hold their one-year-old twin daughters Clara (R) and Olivia at a playground in West Hollywood, California after the United States Supreme court ruled on California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.Lucy Nicholson—ReutersJune 26, 2013. Competitors warm up in the main pool ahead of the preliminaries on day 2 of the 2013 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships and World Trials at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.Streeter Lecka—Getty ImagesJune 26, 2013. Phaphama Nxumalo (L), 12, and Natasha Mbatha, 9, members of the Alexandra Trampoline Club, practices in an alleyway between apartment blocks in Johannesburg, South Africa.Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesJune 26, 2013. A man covered with a Brazilian flag sits amidst the Congress garden where hundred of soccer balls have been set down in protest in Brasilia, Brazil.Wilson Dias—ABr/EPAJune 26, 2013. Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade gather during training in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria.Ariel Schalit—APJune 26, 2013. A worker pours water to extinguish a fire that is burning through his pineapple plantation in the haze-affected district of Tanah Putih in Rokan Hilir, Indonesia's Riau province. Beawiharta—ReutersJune 26, 2013. A man casts his vote at a polling station during Mongolia's presidential elections in Bayanchandmani, north east of Ulan Bator.Carlos Barria—ReutersJune 26, 2013. Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping waves after she gets out from the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft returning to earth at its main landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ReutersJune 27, 2013. Well wishers hold 95 white balloons, one for each year of age, in honor of Nelson Mandela outside the Medi Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 26, 2013. A student chants a prayer as his class visits Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital to pay respect where ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria.Dylan Martinez—ReutersJune 27, 2013. Medical personnel wrap aluminum foil around an HIV patient to keep warm in Batangafo, Central African Republic. Ton Koene—DPA/Zuma PressJune 27, 2013. An Israeli soldier of the paratrooper brigade covers his face with a kippah, or skullcap, as he takes a break during a march near Jerusalem, marking the completion of their advanced training, at the end of which they receive a red paratrooper beret. Amir Cohen—ReutersJune 27, 2013. Georgian soldiers attend a farewell ceremony before leaving for Afghanistan in Tbilisi, Georgia.David Mdzinarishvili—EPAJune 27, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are greeted by Senegal President Macky Sall and his wife Mariame at the Presidential Palace in Dakar.Gary Cameron—ReutersJune 27, 2013. A boy pushes a rickshaw used to carry garbage at the dumping site along the banks of Bishnumati River in Kathmandu.Navesh Chitrakar—ReutersJune 27, 2013. Insects and birds fly in a dump yard as a rag picker collects scraps in New Delhi. Anindito Mukherjee—ReutersJune 27, 2013. A radio-controlled Superman plane, flown by designer Otto Dieffenbach, passes the moon during a test flight in San Diego, California.Mike Blake—Reuters
