Sept. 23, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men watch Israeli surfers during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod.Oded Balilty—AP
From the Westgate Shopping Center massacre and Yankee closer Mariano Rivera’s final home game to a new island that emerged from the sea and a crib-full of baby pandas, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Sept. 23, 2013. Breeders take care of giant panda cubs inside a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.China Daily/ReutersSept. 22, 2013. Visitors take pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.Chance Chan—ReutersSept. 22, 2013. North Koreans ride on an amusement park ride while watching a 3D movie at the Rungna People's Pleasure Park in Pyongyang.David Guttenfelder—APSept. 21, 2013. Lesser White-fronted Geese prepare to land next to French pilot and migratory bird protector Christian Moulec (unseen) on a ultra light flight during the 40th Icare Cup paragliding festival in Saint Hilaire du Touvet, French Alps.Francois Mori—APSept. 21, 2013. Miley Cyrus performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nev.Steve Marcus—ReutersSept. 20, 2013. Chinese employees cheer a customer after he bought a new iPhone at an Apple store in the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing. Andy Wong—APSept. 20, 2013. A model walks with a dog presenting a creation by designers Karen Reichardt and Mariela Schiavo during the so-called "2013 Spring-Summer Caribbean Colour Paws" show in Buenos Aires.Enrique Marcarian—ReutersSept. 23, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men watch Israeli surfers during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod.Oded Balilty—APSept. 20, 2013. Free Syrian Army fighters take cover moments after shelling a rocket on government forces in Kafr Nboudah village, Idlib province, northern Syria.APSept. 22, 2013. President Barack Obama leaves the stage after he spoke at a memorial service for the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting at Marine Barracks in Washington. Charles Dharapak—APSept. 20, 2013. A woman dances during a prayer of thousands of evangelical Christian pilgrims on the Dead Sea shore in Ein Gedi in the Judean Desert, during their the annual visit to Israel to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles) and to express solidarity with Israel. Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 26, 2013. Prisoners participate during the celebration of the Virgin of Mercy, in El Buen Pastor jail, in Bogota, Colombia.E]Jhonpaz—Xinhua/Zuma PressSept. 20, 2013. Laborers cut grass in the City of Knowledge in Panama City.Carlos Jasso—ReutersSept. 20, 2013. Filipino Marines and US Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit BOXER Amphibious Ready Group based in Okinawa, Japan drop off from a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter during a joint military exercise called Philippines-U.S. Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) in Ternate, Cavite province, southern Philippines.Aaron Favila—APSept. 20, 2013. Fans react as Canadian rock band Nickelback performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 21, 2013. A police officer (C) secures an area as civilians flee inside Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya.Siegfried Modola—ReutersSept. 21, 2013. Rescuers carry an injured woman away from the Westgate Shopping Center after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya. Kabir Dhanji—EPASept. 21, 2013. A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Goran Tomasevic—ReutersSept. 21, 2013. Nicaraguan girls suffering from cancer prepare for a "quinceañera" party in Managua, Nicaragua. Esteban Felix—APSept. 21, 2013. A model poses for photos backstage at the presentation of the Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week.Max Rossi—ReutersSept. 21, 2013. A Chinese weightlifter flexes his muscles at an outdoor gym on a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province.Ed Jones—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 21, 2013. Picture taken with a long exposure time shows a fun ride turning at the Oktoberfest beer festival on the Theresienwiese fair grounds in Munich, southern Germany.Christof Stache—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 21, 2013. A man dodges tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Chance Chan—ReutersSept. 21, 2013. Israeli soldiers carry the body of a fellow soldier who was killed near the West Bank town of Qalqilya onto a military helicopter.Ammar Awad—ReutersSept. 21, 2013. A Philippine marine walks among grass stalks during a military exercise at the Crow Valley, Tarlac, north of Manila.Noel Celis—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 21, 2013. A villager throws his fishing net into giant rainwater puddles on the banks of the Kuakhai River on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India.Biswaranjan Rout—APSept. 22, 2013. A Syrian man with more than half his body burnt from an air strike leaves a field hospital to go back home at a village turned into a battlefield with government forces in Idlib province, northern Syria.APSept. 22, 2013. Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APSept. 22, 2013. Competitors run under the Sydney Harbor Bridge during the 2013 Sydney Running Festival in Sydney, Australia.Cameron Spencer—Getty ImagesSept. 22, 2013. Gerlinde Moser wearing a traditional Black Forest costume fills her ballot in the general election (Bundestagswahl) at a polling station in Hornberg in the Black Forest, Germany.Vincent Kessler—ReutersSept. 23, 2013. Giant panda cubs lie in a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.China Daily/ReutersSept. 23, 2013. Flight BA89 of British Airways is washed at the Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.Li Qiaoqiao—Xinhua/LandovSept. 23, 2013. A stuffed teddy bear chair lies slumped over in the flooded Eastwood Village in Evans, Colorado. Rick Wilking—ReutersSept. 23, 2013. A view of a silver-covered bicycle mounted in a public city lamp post, called Bike to Heaven is seen in Prague, Czech Republic.Filip Singer—EPASept. 23, 2013. The brother of Staff-Sgt. Gabriel Kobi is comforted by another family member during his funeral in Haifa, northern Israel.Oliver Weiken—EPASept. 23, 2013. Pakistani Christians hold a burning tire as they stage a protest in Lahore against the suicide bombing of a church in Peshawar.Arif Ali—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 23, 2013. Palestinians throw stones toward Israeli soldiers, not pictured, in the West Bank city of Hebron.Bernat Armangue—APSept. 24, 2013. Jan Verttonghen of Tottenham Hotspur hangs on to the shorts of Nicklas Helenius of Aston Villa during the Capital One Cup third round match between Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.Laurence Griffiths—Getty ImagesSept. 23, 2013. Captain Francesco Schettino adjusts his trousers as he walks in the court room of the converted Teatro Moderno theater for his trial, in Grosseto, Italy.Andrew Medichini—APSept. 23, 2013. A hippopotamus from Shantou Zoo swims in a nearby river after the zoo became submerged by flood waters, allowing the hippopotamus to swim across the zoo's boundary fence in Shantou, China.ChinaFotoPress/Getty ImagesSept. 24, 2013. A picker working overnight cuts grapes at dawn on the first day of the Beaujolais' harvest in the "Moulin a Vent" vineyard, near Chenas, Beaujolais, eastern France.Philippe Desmazes—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 24, 2013. People take part in the grape harvest for the Champagne house Koza-Janot in Buxeuil, France. Francois Nascimbeni—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 24, 2013. Kenyans arrive at Uhuru Park to donate blood for victims of the Westgate Shopping Center terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.Kabir Dhanji—EPASept. 24, 2013. A Thai Buddhist novice walks up to the top of the ancient pagoda at Wat Arun or the 'Temple of Dawn' in Bangkok, Thailand. Narong Sangnak—EPASept. 24, 2013. Laborers set up scaffolding to clean a statue of China's late chairman Mao Zedong for the upcoming Chinese National Day at Tianfu Square in Chengdu, Sichuan province.ReutersSept, 24, 2013. Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, is seen on screens as he speaks during the general debate of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA.Justin Lane—EPASept. 24, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations.Allan Tannenbaum—PolarisSept. 24, 2013. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leaves after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Committee luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington.Alex Wong—Getty ImagesSept. 24, 2013. Filipino riflemen shoot fish at a flood control facility in Taguig city, south of Manila, Philippines.Francis R. Malasig—EPASept. 24, 2013. A Palestinian woman looks at Israeli security forces standing outside her door as they monitor the streets during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, near the Jewish settlements of Beit Hadassa and Tal Romeda.Hazem Bader—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 24, 2013. Young Palestinian groom Ahmed Soboh, 15, and his bride Tala, 14, stand inside Tala's house which was damaged during an Israeli strike in 2009, during their wedding party in the town of Beit Lahiya, near the border between Israeli and northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem—ReutersSept. 25, 2013. Afghan female police officers share a joke during a training session at the Police Academy in Kabul. Ahmad Jamshid—APSept. 25, 2013. Russian journalist Alexander Podrabinek holds a portrait of jailed Pussy Riot punk group member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, with shadows of reporters in front, during a protest outside of the Federal Prison Administration headquarter in Moscow.Ivan Sekretarev—APSept. 25, 2013. Police remove the door and push away a refrigerator as they break into Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero's apartment to evict her and her family in Madrid.Andres Kudacki—APSept. 25, 2013. A Pakistani child lies in a bed outside his family's makeshift home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen—APSept. 25, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his son outside their home in Habit village, the Syrian central province of Hama.APSept. 25, 2013. A mahout bathes as he stands atop his elephant in the waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi. Anindito Mukherjee—ReutersSept. 25, 2013. An island that rose from the sea following an earthquake as seen from Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea. AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 25, 2013. A South Korean soldier stands at the Military Armistice Committee meeting room at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. Lee Jin-man—APSept. 25, 2013. A fireboat sprays water as Oracle Team USA celebrates its victory over Emirates Team New Zealand in the 34th America's Cup.Noah Berger—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 25, 2013. Yemeni boy scouts hold fireworks during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of North Yemen's Sept. 26, 1962 revolution in Sanaa, Yemen.Hani Mohammed—APSept. 25, 2013. An artist prepares an idol at a workshop ahead of Durga Puja festival in New Delhi. Tsering Topgyal—APSept. 25, 2013 A cemetery worker looks on as friends and relatives mourn during a funeral service for Selima Merali (41) and her daughter Nuriana Merali (15), who were killed in the attack by gunmen at the Westgate Shopping Centre, in Nairobi, Kenya.Uriel Sinai—Getty ImagesSept. 26, 2013. The remains of cars and other debris can be seen in a general view photographed from the rooftop, of the parking lot outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Getty ImagesSept. 26, 2013. A dancer perfoms the play "Wolke" (Cloud, 2002) by German choreographer Sasha Waltz as part of the exhibition 'Sasha Waltz - Installations Objects Performances' at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZMK) in Karlsruhe, western Germany.Uli Deck—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 26, 2013. A Palestinian man pulls a donkey into the sea for a wash in Gaza.Mohammed Salem—ReutersSept. 26, 2013. Mariano Rivera #42 of the New York Yankees waves to the crowd after leaving the game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth inning during their game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. Al Bello—Getty ImagesSept. 26, 2013. New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera clutches dirt from the mound as he leaves his home field for the final time after their loss to the Tampa Bay Rays during their MLB American League game at Yankee Stadium in New York. Rivera will retire after the end of the season. Ray Stubblebine—Reuters
