Nov. 25, 2013. Pope Francis receives in audience the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a private audience in the private library of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.Servizio Fotografico OR/CPP/Polaris
From the Pope meeting Putin and the Central African Republic nearing the brink of civil war to Cyber Monday preparations and passing the Olympic Flame under water, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Nov. 22, 2013. A worker gathers items for delivery from the warehouse floor at Amazon's distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona.Ralph D. Freso—ReutersNov. 23, 2013. Tribesmen lead their camels through the sand dunes of the Liwa desert, 220 kms west of Abu Dhabi.Karim Sahib—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 22, 2013. Supporters of Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), a political and religious group, raise their hands during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan.Athar Hussain—ReutersNov. 24, 2013. An aerial view at night of the downtown Chicago skyline.Kiichiro Sato—APNov. 25, 2013. Pope Francis receives in audience the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a private audience in the private library of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Servizio Fotografico OR/CPP/PolarisNov. 23, 2013. A woman touches a Spider Monkey at the Rehabilitation Center and Primate Rescue, in Peoaflor, 36 km southwest from Santiago, Chile.Hector Retamal—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 24, 2013. Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash into the air as seen from Tiga Pancur, North Sumatra, Indonesia.Binsar Bakkara—APNov. 22, 2013. In this image released by the U.S. Navy, Tacloban residents displaced by Typhoon Haiyan fill the cargo hold of a C-17 Globemaster military cargo plane.Peter D. Blair—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 25, 2013. A Libyan man stands in a building used by Ansar al-Sharia militia after it was torched by residents in Benghazi. Abdullah Doma—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 24, 2013. Musician Lady Gaga arrives atop a horse puppet at the 41st American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. Mario Amzuoni—ReutersNov. 22, 2013. The news media arrived early Friday morning to cover the 50th-anniversary commemoration of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. David Woo—Dallas Morning News/CorbisNov. 22, 2013. The marker of John F. Kennedy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.Christopher Connell—Demotix/CorbisNov. 22, 2013. Villagers carry religious statues during a procession before taking part in a Latin mass ceremony at a local Chapel in Santa Rita township in Eastern Samar, Philippines.Dan Kitwood—Getty ImagesNov. 22, 2013. Supporters of Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), a political and religious group attend a protest in Islamabad.Zohra Bensemra—ReutersNov. 22, 2013. Shi'ite fighters, fighting along forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, take up position on the front line near the Sayyede Zinab area in Damascus.ReutersNov. 23, 2013. Children peek through a curtain into a mass gathering of Satmar Hasidic Jews in New York.Andrew Kelly—ReutersNov. 23, 2013. Palestinian schoolboys play on the rubble of a steel plant that was bombed by the Israeli air-force in Gaza city.Moemen Faiz—NurPhoto/Sipa USANov. 23, 2013. Protesters march during a protest against government's austerity measures, in Madrid, Spain.Andres Kudacki—APNov. 23, 2013. An elephant grazes near an electric fence marking the boundary of a wildlife sanctuary in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.Ishara S. Kodikara—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 23, 2013. Australia's David Warner (R) celebrates his century next to England's Joe Root during the third day's play of the first Ashes cricket test match in Brisbane.David Gray—ReutersNov. 24, 2013. Protesters use tear gas and throw stones during clashes with riot police in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine during a rally in Kiev.Genya Savilov—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 23, 2013. A torchbearer dives with the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games torch in Lake Baikal in this handout from the Organizing Committee Sochi 2014.Organizing Committee Sochi 2014/ReutersNov. 24, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (3rd R) hugs European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton after she delivered a statement during a ceremony next to British Foreign Secretary William Hague (L), Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (R) and French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius at the United Nations in Geneva.Denis Balibouse—ReutersNov. 24, 2013. Miley Cyrus reacts after performing "Wrecking Ball," at the 41st American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. Lucy Nicholson—ReutersNov. 24, 2013. A boy stands between supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party of former cricket star Imran Khan, as they perform evening prayers during a protest against NATO supply lines in Karachi.Athar Hussain—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. An anti-deportation protester (R) in the audience shouts against U.S. President Barack Obama (L), stopping him temporarily from delivering remarks during an event on immigration reform in San Francisco, Calif. Jason Reed—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. Top, Johnathan Glisson, and bottom, Ben Davidson, workers for Clark Sales Display, Inc., Tavares, erect the frame of a forty-eight foot Christmas tree in North Straub Park, St. Petersburg, Fla.Scott Keeler—Zuma PressNov. 25, 2013. Employee Julia Thomas poses with a diplodocus skeleton named "Misty," at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, southern England.Luke MacGregor—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. A murmuration of starlings above the the small village of Rigg, near Gretna, in the Scottish Borders, Gretna, U.K.Humphreys Owen—PA Photos/ABACANov. 25, 2013. A Philippine Air Forces helicopter drops relief supplies for Typhoon Haiyan survivors in Barangay San Antonio, Basey Samar.Athit Perawongmetha—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. Boys play on docking ropes near a dockyard on Hlaing river in Yangon, Myanmar.Lynn Bo Bo—EPANov. 25, 2013. Workers clean up leaked oil after an oil pipeline explosion last week in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. ReutersNov. 25, 2013. A man sweeps burning charcoal as he participates in the traditional ritual called "Lianhuo", or "fire walking," in Pan'an county, Zhejiang province, China.ReutersNov. 25, 2013. Militia fighters known as anti-balaka stand guard in Mbakate village, Central African Republic.Joe Penney—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. A car drives past as a woman standing amidst thick steam after hot water leaked from a heating pipeline onto a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China. ReutersNov. 25, 2013. Actress Fernanda Montenegro poses for photographers backstage with her Best Actress award during the 41st International Emmy Awards in New York.Carlo Allegri—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. Afghan refugee children play in a field as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APNov. 26, 2013. Villagers are seen in a temporary evacuation shelter at Tiga Binanga village in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.Ulet Ifansasti—Getty ImagesNov. 25, 2013. Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan rush to grab relief supplies as they are dropped by Philippine Air Forces helicopter at Barangay San Antonio, Basey Samar.Athit Perawongmetha—ReutersNov. 25, 2013. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, center, kicks off Thanksgiving week in Minnesota by ordering a brief stay of execution for a turkey at the state Capitol in Minneapolis.Glen Stubbe—APNov. 25, 2013. Turkeys to be judged in the poultry show are displayed at the South West Winter Fair at Sedgemoor Auction Center in Bridgwater, England.Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesNov. 26, 2013. Police carry away a protester in front of the Willy-Brandt-Haus prior to coalition talks between CDU/CSU and SPD in Berlin.Kay Nietfeld—DPA/CorbisNov. 26, 2013. Resident Shardae Carr stands on her balcony at the newly transformed East Village near the Olympic Stadium in London.Peter MacDiarmid—Getty ImagesNov. 26, 2013. Mist lingers around trees on the Somerset Levels as the early morning sun rises in Glastonbury, England.Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesNov. 26, 2013. Afghan Army soldiers exercise under a picture of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at a training facility in the outskirts of Kabul.Anja Niedringhaus—APNov. 26, 2013. Russian alpinist Vladimir Gunko stands at the top of the rock named "The First Stolb" (the First Pillar) at the Stolby national nature reserve during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk.Ilya Naymushin—ReutersNov. 26, 2013. A mourner wears a poster of late Yemeni parliament member Abdul Karim Jedban on his back during his funeral in Sanaa.Khaled Abdullah—ReutersNov. 26, 2013. A Bangladeshi man sleeps in a train, seen through a window of the train, during a 48-hours nationwide strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh.A. M. Ahad—APNov. 26, 2013. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands opens the Queen Maxima military base at Schiphol.Robin Utrecht—Zuma PressNov. 25, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at Cheviot Hills baseball park in Los Angeles.Jason Reed—ReutersNov. 26, 2013. Salam, 5, an African lion, stands on the branches of a tree at the Ramt Gan safari near Tel Aviv, Israel.Ariel Schalit—APNov. 26, 2013. A horse makes its way up the gallop at Seven Barrows Stables in Lambourn, England. Alan Crowhurst—Getty ImagesNov. 26, 2013. Two-year-old giant panda twins play inside a zoo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.ReutersNov. 26, 2013. Anti-narcotics police officers guard on top of a hill near an oven during a drug incineration in Lima, Peru.Enrique Casstro-Mendivil—ReutersNov 27, 2013. An Indian body builder flexes his muscles, before going to stage during a body building competition in Mumbai, India.Rafiq Maqbool—APNov. 27, 2013. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi delivers a speech from the stage in downtown Rome The Italian Senate on Wednesday expelled Silvio Berlusconi from parliament following his conviction for tax fraud, in what the centre-right leader called a day of mourning for Italian democracy. Alessandro Bianchi—ReutersNov. 27, 2013. Workers stand near a crane that collapsed, killing two people, on the site of the "Itaquerao" stadium, which will host the opening soccer match of the 2014 World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nacho Doce—ReutersNov. 27, 2013. Oleh Tyahnybok, left, leader of the of nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party tries to open the door to Cabinet of Ministers as lawmaker and chairman of the Ukrainian opposition party Udar (Punch), WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, right, raises his arm to indicate that the door is closed during a rally in front of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev, Ukraine.Andrew Kravchenko—APNov. 27, 2013. A female Israeli border guard reacts after a petrol bomb thrown by Palestinian demonstrators, landed next to her during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron.Hazem Bader—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 27, 2013. Pope Francis tries to keep himself warm as he attends his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.Alessandra Tarantino—APNov. 27, 2013. A dismantled Airbus A300 is seen through a window of a Boeing 747 in the recycling yard of Air Salvage International (ASI) in Kemble, central England.Stefan Wermuth—ReutersNov. 27, 2013. The chains around the ankle of eleven-year-old He Zili is seen in his home in Zhejiang province, China.William Hong—ReutersNov. 28, 2013. The Elf on the Shelf balloon floats down Sixth Avenue during the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.Eric Thayer—ReutersNov. 28, 2013. Workers clean and maintain the glass canopy of the Ocean Financial Center office building at the central business district of Singapore.Edgar Su—ReutersNov. 28, 2013. Afghan refugee girls attend their class at a makeshift school set up in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan,Muhammed Muheisen—APNov. 28, 2013. Anti-government protesters give roses, through razor wire, to the security personnel guarding the Defense Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand. Damir Sagolj—ReutersNov. 28, 2013. Smoke rises after what activists said was a government jet dropped barrel bombs at Qadi Askar district, in Aleppo, Syria.Mahmoud Hebbo—Reuters
