--- description: From the federal government shutdown and Capitol Hill shooting to an international feline beauty show and a seven-car pileup at Paris Fashion Week, TIME presents the best pictures of the week. title: Pictures of the Week: September 27 – October 4 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d5936700f2ea312/69868ce01eebf7c374370a40/182275422.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: September 27 - October 4 by [Phil Bicker](/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 4, 2013 2:40 PM CUT  Sept, 29, 2013\. Kenyans pray as they hold a church service for the victims of the Westgate Shopping Center attack in Nairobi, Kenya. Sept, 29, 2013\. Kenyans pray as they hold a church service for the victims of the Westgate Shopping Center attack in Nairobi, Kenya.Uriel Sinai—Getty Images by [Phil Bicker](/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 4, 2013 2:40 PM CUT From the federal government shutdown and Capitol Hill shooting to an international feline beauty show and a seven-car pileup at Paris Fashion Week, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.  Oct. 1, 2013\. People in their offices watch South Korean troops during a military parade during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of Armed Forces Day in central Seoul. Yonhap—Reuters  Sept. 27, 2013\. Kaden Bowden, son of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Bowden, looks at the casket for his father during burial services for Staff Sgt. Bowden at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Susan Walsh—AP  Sept. 27, 2013\. Young visitors wearing 3D glasses sit in their car and watch the Disney movie 'Planes' at the drive-in movie theater on the parking lot of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands. Robin Utrecht—EPA  Sept. 28, 2013\. Sphynx kittens reach for a referee's toy while being evaluated during an international feline beauty show in Bucharest, Romania. Vadim Ghirda—AP  Sept. 29, 2013\. Illustration View of the runway during Givenchy show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2014, held at 'la Halle Freyssinet' in Paris. Bertrand Rindoff Petroff—Getty Images  Oct. 1, 2013\. Chinese students wearing raincoats perform for a tribute ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Feng Li—Getty Images  Sept. 30, 2013\. Tampa Bay Rays' Sam Fuld, left, steals third base as Texas Rangers' Adrian Beltre dives for a wild throw by Tanner Scheppers during the ninth inning of an American League wild-card tiebreaker baseball game in Arlington, Texas. Tim Sharp—AP  Sept. 27, 2013\. A Palestinian militant jumps as other run through smoke during a graduation ceremony in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Suhaib Salem—Reuters  Sept. 27, 2013\. Barcelona F.C. soccer player Lionel Messi, center, arrives at a court to answer questions in a tax fraud case near Barcelona. Paco Serinelli—AP  Sept. 27, 2013\. Hindu priests look inside a temple at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters  Sept. 27, 2013\. A model wears a creation during a hair art show at the international beauty festival "Banks of the Neva River" in St Petersburg. Alexander Demianchu—Reuters  Sept. 27, 2013\. A man is tattooed by artist Brent McCown (L) during the ninth London Tattoo Convention in London. Stefan Wermuth—Reuters  Sept. 27, 2013\. Israeli undercover policemen detain a Palestinian protester during clashes in the Arab east Jerusalem's Shuafat district following Friday prayers. Jack Guez—AFP/Getty Images  Sept. 27, 2013\. A bird flies near the carcass of an elephant, which was killed after drinking from a poisoned water hole, in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, about 840 km (522 miles) east of Harare. Philimon Bulawayo—Reuters  Sept. 27, 2013\. A displaced Syrian girl makes her bed after waking up near Kafer Rouma, in ancient ruins used as temporary shelter by those families who have fled from the heavy fighting and shelling in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. AP  Sept. 27, 2013\. Satellite imagery captures a small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan on Sept. 25 in Baluchistan's remote Awaran district. AFP/Getty Images  Sept. 27, 2013\. President Barack Obama talks with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran during a phone call in the Oval Office. The White House/Sipa USA  Sept. 27, 2013\. A Japan Coast Guard helicopter flies above the capsized freighter Dai 18 Eifuku Maru off the coast of Izu Oshima Island in Tokyo, Japan. The Asahi Shimbun  Sept. 28, 2013\. A Sphynx cat stares from behind a protective mesh at an international feline beauty show Bucharest, Romania. Vadim Ghirda—AP  Sept. 28, 2013\. Lou Hamrani, 6, walks in the street after attending the Mini Miss model beauty contest, in Paris. Thibault Camus—AP  Sept. 29, 2013\. Visitors explore Swarm of interactive jellyfish created by the group of artists Aphidoidea during Glow 2013 at the beach in Santa Monica, Calif. Joe Klamar—AFP/Getty Images  Sept. 29, 2013\. Children play inside inflatable installations at the Casa Daros museum in Rio de Janeiro. Pilar Olivares—Reuters  Sept. 29, 2013\. Visitors explore the creation of artist Janet Echelman 'The Space Between Us' during Glow 2013 at the beach in Santa Monica, Calif. Joe Klamar—AFP/Getty Images  Sept. 29, 2013\. A fluorescent oil is sprayed on a 5.8 percent scale model of a futuristic hybrid wing body during tests in the 14 by 22 foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel in Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Preston Martin—NASA Langley/EPA  Sept. 29, 2013\. The unmanned U.S. commercial cargo ship Cygnus is seen approaching the International Space Station. NASA/SIPA  Sept, 29, 2013\. Kenyans pray as they hold a church service for the victims of the Westgate Shopping Center attack in Nairobi, Kenya. Uriel Sinai—Getty Images  Sept. 29, 2013\. A girl prays as Kenyans hold a church service for the victims of the Westgate Shopping Center attack in Nairobi, Kenya. Uriel Sinai—Getty Images  Sept. 29, 2013 Six-year-old twins Asley and Aslen Velazquez hold eight-month-old twins Tiffani and Stessany Valles as they pose for portraits in front a Cuban flag on their street in Havana, Cuba. Ramon Espinosa—AP  Sept. 30, 2013\. The new French air force military transport Airbus A 400M is welcomed by fire engines at the military airbase BA 123 in Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle near Orleans, France as part of an official presentation. Alain Jocard—AFP/Getty Images  Sept. 29, 2013\. A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad—AP  Sept. 29, 2013\. A man casts a fishing net on a flooded street in the Srimahaphot district in Prachin Buri, Thailand. Athit Perawongmetha—Reuters  Sept. 30, 2013\. Orthodox monk Father Ioakim, 74, looks at a street graffiti, which displays Siberian characters of the 19th century including an Russian Orthodox monk, in Divnogorsk town outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin—Reuters  Sept. 30, 2013\. Russian sailing ship 'Mir' participates in a parade for the Mediterranean Tall Ships regatta in Toulon, France. Jean-Paul Pelissier—Reuters  Sept. 30, 2013\. Greece Priestesses dance on a hill near the ancient stadium of Olympia during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Imago—ZUMA Press  Sept. 29, 2013\. A scene from the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame at the Temple of Hera in Greece for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Imago—ZUMA Press  Sept. 30, 2013\. Bodies of migrants who drowned lie on the beach in the Sicilian village of Sampieri. Reuters  Oct. 1, 2013\. A US Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Brendan Smailowski—AFP/Getty Images  Oct. 1, 2013\. Police tape blocks a closed Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington. Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images  Oct. 1, 2013\. An inmate looks out from his cell in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, Calif. Robert Galbraith—Reuters  Oct. 1, 2013\. Thai farmers carry their pigs to evacuate them from flooding in Phitsanulok province, northern Thailand. EPA  Oct. 1, 2013\. Goats sit on passenger seats as they are imported from various district at a goat market in Kathmandu, Nepal. Narendra Shrestha—EPA  Oct. 2, 2013\. Cho Mar, an 11-year-old who hid in the jungle with her mother during an attack by Buddhist gangs, inspects the Thanaka she had just put on her face at Thapyuchai village, outside of Thandwe in the Rakhine state, Myanmar. Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters  Oct. 2, 2013\. Rain drops on a car window reflecting a man walking past a stock index board in Tokyo. Toru Hanai—Reuters  Oct. 2, 2013\. A Bangladeshi idol-maker puts the finishing touches to a clay statue of the Hindu goddess Durga in a Temple in Dhaka. Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty Images  Oct. 2, 2013\. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (C) of the People of Freedom (PdL) party passes through deputy colleagues after the speech of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta at the Senate, Rome, Italy, Alessandro Di Meo—EPA  Oct. 2, 2013\. A models walk the runway at the end of the Louis Vuitton show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2014, held at Le Carre du Louvre in Paris, France. Petroff/Dufour—Getty Images  Oct. 2, 2013\. A models walk the runway at the end of the Louis Vuitton show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2014, held at Le Carre du Louvre in Paris, France. Bukajlo Frederic—SIPA  Oct. 2, 2013\. An Israeli soldier from the home front command wearing protective gear kneels next to a dummy during a drill simulating a chemical attack in the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem. Baz Ratner—Reuters  Oct. 2, 2013.Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi walk during a procession to mark Gandhi's birthday in Kolhapur, Maharashtra state, India. AP  Oct. 2, 2013\. Fans watch Spain's Rafael Nadal change his shirt after he defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in their match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing. Kim Kyung-Hoon—Reuters  Oct. 2, 2013\. U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) walks from a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Yuri Gripas—Reuters  Oct. 3, 2013\. President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to M. Luis Construction, in Rockville, Md. Charles Dharapak—AP  Oct. 3, 2013\. A dog urinates on a new work by British street artist Banksy that appeared on West 24th street in New York after Banksy announced a month-long "artist's residency" in the city. Mike Segar—Reuters  Oct.3, 2013\. Soldiers of Chinese People's Liberation Army "bowl" during China's seven-day National Day holiday in Jinan, Shandong province. China Daily/Reuters  Oct. 3, 2013\. Police close in on the U.S. Capitol as people run for cover after reports of a shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Alex Wong—Getty Images  Oct. 3, 2013\. People enjoy riding on the Teufelsrad (Devils wheel) merry-go-round at Theresienwiese at Oktoberfest, in Munich, Germany. Alexander Hassenstein—Getty Images  Oct. 3, 2013\. Judah Schiller, of Mill Valley, Calif., founder of BayCycle Project, bikes across the Hudson River from the Pier 13 Boating Club in Hoboken to New York River Sports at Pier 66 in Manhattan. Rose Sibayan—The Jersey Journal /Landov  Oct. 3, 2013\. A woman wears a headscarf in the Centrum mosque in Hamburg, northern Germany, during an open day for mosques. Axel Heimken—AFP/Getty Images  Oct. 3, 2013\. Women body builders prepare before going on stage during the Muscle Mania Fitness Korea Competition in Seoul. Truth Leem—AFP/Getty Images  Oct. 3, 2013 Israeli soldiers of the 33rd Caracal Battalion take part in a graduation march in the northern part of the southern Israeli Negev desert. Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images  Oct. 3, 2013\. Um Radwan, a female fighter in the Free Syrian Army, runs for cover from snipers loyal to the Syrian regime in Aleppo's Bustan al-Basha district. Muzaffar Salman—Reuters  Oct. 4, 2013\. A decorated elephant stands at the Nandankanan Zoological park on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India. Biswaranjan Rout—AP  Oct. 4, 2013\. A tourist poses for a picture on a bridge at the Ebrington Square area of Derry City. The state-of-the-art multi-purpose public space and venue has become a new cultural hub for the city and will host key events including the Turner Prize as part of its role as the United Kingdom's 2013 City of Culture. 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