--- description: From bombings in Baghdad and wildfires in California to a new ski resort in North Korea and child laborers at a balloon factory in Bangladesh, TIME presents the best pictures of the week. title: Pictures of the Week: August 23 – August 30 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b4c94ee9f9beddd/6987a6ea35ba6fa41cc09e20/par7641725.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) ## LightBox Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Pictures of the Week: August 23 - August 30 by [TIME Photo Department](/author/time-photo-department/) ## TIME Photo Department Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 30, 2013 2:31 PM CUT  Aug. 26, 2013\. A captured wild male black rhino named Sero looks out from its crate at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. Aug. 26, 2013\. A captured wild male black rhino named Sero looks out from its crate at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Photo Department](/author/time-photo-department/) ## TIME Photo Department Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 30, 2013 2:31 PM CUT From bombings in Baghdad and wildfires in California to a new ski resort in North Korea and child laborers at a balloon factory in Bangladesh, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.  Aug. 26, 2013\. A captured wild male black rhino named Sero looks out from its crate at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty Images  Aug. 26, 2013\. A former Maoist rebel smiles after being smeared with vermillion by family members during a ceremony at Nepalese Military Academy in Kharipati, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha—AP  Aug. 26, 2013\. A bloodstain is seen on the ground after a bomb attack at a cafe in Baghdad's al-Shaab district. Ahmed Saad—Reuters  Aug. 26, 2013\. Revelers play with fireworks in an enclosed area on the main street of the village of Paterna near Valencia during the annual "Corda" festival in Spain. Heino Kalis—Reuters  Aug. 24, 2013\. Confetti falls after Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Dollar General Toyota, won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 53rd Annual IRWIN Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. Kevin C. Cox—Getty Images  Aug. 27, 2013\. Villagers fly 73 lanterns in Xiapo, Qionghai, Hainan Provinceo, China. Whitehotpix/Zuma Press  Aug. 26, 2013\. A firefighter stands on top of a fire truck at a campground destroyed by the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. Jae C. Hong—AP  Aug. 25, 2013\. An eagle, mascot of the Lazio, flies over the stadium prior the Italian Series, a football match between Lazio Rome and Udinese at the Olympic stadium in Rome. Gabriel Bouys—AFP/Getty Images  Aug. 26, 2013\. A fish jumps near where a pelican is swimming on Narrabeen Lake in Sydney, Australia. David Gray—Reuters  Aug. 27, 2013\. A Palestinian girl plays outside her family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in southern Gaza Strip. Ali Ali—EPA  Aug. 24, 2013\. The traditional display of fireworks at the San Bartolom church during the Festa Major de Sitges in Spain. Matthias Oesterle—/Demotix/Corbis  Aug. 23, 2013\. Members of Shonkhoodoi Circus practice in a gymnasium in Darkhan, Mongolia. Mareike Gunsche—Reuters  Aug. 23, 2013\. A handout photo made available from the Film Animal Park near Hanover, Germany shows surgeons of the University of Veterinary Medicine operating on the white tiger Elvis who fell while playing and broke his rear fibula. Filmtier Park Eschede—EPA  Aug. 23, 2013\. A ski resort construction site on the Masik Pass in the southeastern Gangwon Province, North Korea. Kyodo/Landov  Aug. 24, 2013\. Ninety-five-year-old Alfred Muller during his maiden tandem jump with his instructor Joan at the Adrenaline Para-club in Soulac, southwestern France. Bernard-Salinier—ABACA  Aug. 24, 2013\. Visitors run away as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou Zhejiang province, China. Reuters  Aug. 24, 2013\. Fire from the Rim Fire consumes trees near Groveland, Calif. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  Aug. 25, 2013\. A performer participates in the children's day parade at the Notting Hill Carnival in London. Stefan Wermuth—Reuters  Aug. 25, 2013\. A dragonfly sits on a leaf in Frankfurt Oder, Germany. Patrick Pleul—DPA/Corbis  Aug. 25, 2013\. Revelers in costume take part in the Notting Hill Carnival in London. Matthew Lloyd—Getty Images  Aug. 25, 2013\. Mohammed, 9, a Palestinian refugee boy swims in the Gaza seaport on a hot day in Gaza Strip. Ahmed Deeb—NurPhoto/Corbis  Aug. 25, 2013\. A man runs up the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta. Darrin Zammit Lupi—Reuters  Aug. 25, 2013\. Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on charges of inciting the murder of protesters during the 2011 Egypt uprising, days after he was released from prison and placed under house arrest. Mohamed Mahmoud—NurPhoto/Corbis  Aug. 26, 2013\. A riot police officer detains a bleeding protester in Ubate, north of Bogota, Colombia. Fernando Vergara—AP  Aug. 27, 2013\. A migration staffer looks on as a coffin with the corpse of an Honduran migrant — dead in the derailment of the train known as "La Bestia" (The Beast) — is loaded to a Mexican Federal Police plane for its repatriation in the airport of Villahermosa, Tabasco State, Mexico. INM/AFP/Getty Images  Aug. 27, 2013\. Palestinian Khaled Zir sits with his children inside a cave in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Sebastian Scheiner—AP  Aug. 27, 2013\. A Palestinian tunnel worker is seen here through a scrim near a smuggling tunnel on the border between Egypt and Gaza Strip. REX USA/APAimages  Aug. 28, 2013\. Newly weds Cam Auge and Caylee Wasilenko share a kiss as they water ski in Bedwell Bay in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Jonathan Hayward—AP  Aug. 27, 2013\. A ring-tailed Lemur sits on a photographers shoulder before they are weighed at Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable as part of their annual weigh-in. Steve Parsons—PA Photos/Landov  Aug. 27, 2013\. A mixed flight group of Strizhi and Russkie Vityazi (Russian knights) perform during the MAKS-2013, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. Kirill Kudryavtsev—AFP/Getty Images  Aug. 28, 2013\. Spanish bullfighter David Mora, left, and Juan Jose Padilla wait to do the paseillo or ritual entrance to the arena before a bullfight, in Toro, Spain. Daniel Ochoa de Olza—AP  Aug. 29, 2013\. Rocky, 7, working in a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Zakir Hossain Chowdhury—Demotix/Corbis  Aug. 30, 2013\. A Chinese man views at a space exhibit in the Science and Technology Museum in Beijing. Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty Images  Aug. 30, 2013\. A fisherman arranges fishes kept for drying at a fishing harbor in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Babu—Reuters  Aug. 30, 2013\. The British contestant in the European Championship of Eventing, Tom Mcewen Diesel, riding on his horse through the Baltic Sea in Malm, Sweden. 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