--- description: From centennial celebrations of the birth of Kim Il-Sung in North Korea and attacks in Afghanistan to the moving of the space shuttle Discovery and Nepalese New Year, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. title: TIME's Best Pictures of the Week image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb7c35d25f2a6990f/698687fdd0b6f26071303830/008-afghanistan.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: April 13 – April 20 by [TIME Photo Department](/author/time-photo-department/) ## TIME Photo Department Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 20, 2012 2:30 PM CUT  April 16, 2012\. Afghan special forces are seen on top of a building that was occupied by militants in Kabul. April 16, 2012\. Afghan special forces are seen on top of a building that was occupied by militants in Kabul.Musadeq Sadeq—AP by [TIME Photo Department](/author/time-photo-department/) ## TIME Photo Department Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 20, 2012 2:30 PM CUT From centennial celebrations of the birth of Kim Il-Sung in North Korea and attacks in Afghanistan to the moving of the space shuttle Discovery and Nepalese New Year, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.  April 13, 2012\. A giant American flag is unfurled on the field during ceremonies for the New York Yankees home opener against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y. Justin Lane—EPA  April 13, 2012\. Algerian firefighters lay the body of Algeria's first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, to rest during funeral processions in Algiers, Algeria. Mohamed Messara—EPA  April 15, 2012\. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un, top right, waves at the end of a major military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder and his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang. Pedro Ugarte—AFP / Getty Images  April 15, 2012\. North Korean residents watch a fireworks display over the 170-metre-high Tower of the Juche Idea, named after the principle of Juche, developed by North Korea founder Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang. Bobby Yip—Reuters  April 14, 2012\. North Korean soldiers, left, share seats with civilians during an official ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong-Un at a stadium in Pyongyang. Pedro Ugarte—AFP / Getty Images  April 13, 2012\. Pictures of inmates are kept by prison guards at the Izalco Penitentiary in the city of Izalco, 70 km west of San Salvador. Jose Cabezas—AFP / Getty Images  April 13, 2012\. Members of the Mara 18 gang attend a mass at the Izalco Penitentiary in the city of Izalco, 70 km west of San Salvador. Jose Cabezas—AFP / Getty Images  April 16, 2012\. Children dressed in traditional Bavarian costumes dance for Pope Benedict XVI, center, for his 85th birthday celebrations in the Clementine hall in Vatican City. Gregorio Borgia—EPA  April 16, 2012\. Afghan special forces are seen on top of a building that was occupied by militants in Kabul. Musadeq Sadeq—AP  April 16, 2012\. Afghan police officers use mobile phones to photograph the dead body of an insurgent in Kabul. Bay Ismoyo—AFP / Getty Images  April 16, 2012\. The feet of dead Taliban insurgents are seen after they were killed inside a building in Kabul. Mohammad Ismail—Reuters  April 14, 2012\. Burqa-clad Afghan women walk on a road in Herat, Afghanistan. Jalil Rezayee—EPA  April 14, 2012\. A Pakistani girl enters her home in a slum in Islamabad. Muhammed Muheisen—AP  April 13, 2012\. A Syrian refugee runs with a Syrian opposition flag during a demonstration against President Assad, outside the Syrian embassy in Amman. Ali Jarekji—Reuters  April 18, 2012\. Greek parliament employees raise a mast after they replaced a torn-off Greek flag with a new one atop the parliament in Athens Syntagma (Constitution) square. Yannis Behrakis—Reuters  April 13, 2012\. A protester waves the Egyptian flag as others walk on a wall near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Asmaa Waguih—Reuters  April 19, 2012\. Used cartridges are ejected from a gun during the men's skeet qualifying at the ISSF World Cup London shooting competition, part of the London Prepares series of test events, at the Royal Artillery Barracks in London. Ben Stansall—AFP / Getty Images  April 13, 2012\. A Palestinian protester runs as Israeli soldiers fire tear gas during clashes at a demonstration in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus. Jaafar Ashtiyeh—AFP / Getty Images  April 16, 2012\. An explosive is detonated at an A and G Coal Corporation surface mining operation in the Appalachian Mountains in Wise County, Va. Mario Tama—Getty Images  April 13, 2012\. Actors reenact the route Jesus took along the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Orthodox Church's Good Friday celebrations in Bucharest, Romania. Radu Sigheti—Reuters  April 13, 2012\. Bahraini Shiite Muslims bury Ahmad Ismail Hassan in the town of Isa, Bahrain. AFP / Getty Images  April 14, 2012\. An anti-government protester holds a picture of jailed opposition human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja during a demonstration outside the British Embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Hasan Jamali—AP  April 13, 2012\. A woman looks on from a window of her home as people prepare to pull the chariot of god Bhairab through the ancient city of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters  April 20, 2012\. A giant dog puppet, part of a street theatre production entitled "Sea Odyssey," takes a walk through Stanley Park in Liverpool in northwest England. Andrew Yates—AFP/Getty Images)  April 14, 2012\. A boy is seen painting his face with fake blood to look like a zombie before he takes part in the annual zombie walk parade in Panama City. Carlos Jasso—Reuters  April 15, 2012\. Performers walk on stilts during a performance before the Chinese F1 Grand Prix at Shanghai International Circuit. Carlos Barria—Reuters  April 13, 2012\. A child looks on as she observes the Bisket festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters  April 17, 2012\. The NASA space shuttle Discovery is seen from the White House's North Lawn as it is flown over Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski—AFP / Getty Images  April 19, 2012\. Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose during the a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Space Shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA's shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. Bill Ingalls—NASA/EPA  April 14, 2012\. The video-light installation Dime drifts by Philipp Geis is displayed on the campus of Bockenheim in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. Arne Dedert—EPA  April 19, 2012\. Campaign posters are shown for the French Green Party "Europe Ecologie Les Verts" (EELV) candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, Eva Joly, in a wood near Belford, France. Sebastien Bozon—AFP / Getty Images  April 18, 2012\. A cat looks at Lipizzaner horse "Alea" as it stands under a solarium at the stables of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Lisi Niesner—Reuters  April 20, 2012\. An Afghan man, wearing a pakol, drinks tea during a cock fight event in the old city of Kabul. Johannes Eisele—AFP/Getty Images  April 13, 2012\. An Indian Hindu devotee kneels down after piercing his face with a metal trident as he shows devotion to the Hindu god Shiva during the festival of Shiva Gajan in the village of Bainan, west of Kolkata. Kevin Frayer—AP  April 15, 2012\. A worshiper touches her head to a bible inside a flower-decorated bier at a church during a Good Friday processions, in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Nikolas Giakoumidis—AP  April 14, 2012\. A Hindu devotee crawls and whirls her head in a trance on a road during Sitala Puja, dedicated to the worship of Goddess Sitala, in Kolkata. Bikas Das—AP  April 17, 2012\. Kuwaiti firemen from the national guard, the army and the oil sector joined efforts to contain a massive fire in a dump of more than five million used tires in Kuwait City. Yasser al-Zayyat—AFP / Getty Images  April 19, 2012\. Young men, wrapped in Israeli flags, stand in front of a wire fence at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, as they take part in the annual "March of the Living" in Oswiecim, Poland. Janek Skarzynski—AFP / Getty Images  April 19, 2012\. Holocaust survivor Meir Friedman waits to tell his personal testimony to Israeli border police officers during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day in the Martyr's forest near Moshav Kesalon, in central Israel. Oded Balilty—AP  April 13, 2012\. Palestinian boys attend a rally calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in Jabalya, Gaza. Mohammed Salem—Reuters  April 18, 2012\. Ash and smoke are spewed from Popocatepetl Volcano as seen from the city of Puebla, Mexico. Jose Castanares—AFP / Getty Images  April 18, 2012\. Bees cover 32-year-old beekeeper She Ping in Chongqing, China. ChinaFotoPress / ZUMA Press  April 13, 2012\. Bao Bao, the oldest living Panda in a zoo, sits in his enclosure in Berlin. Joerg Carstensen—EPA  April 19, 2012 Members of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery ride during an inspection in Hyde Park in preparation for 2012 State Ceremonial in London. Oli Scarff—Getty Images  April 17, 2012\. Seasonal asparagus harvesters work on their vegetable crops near Elsholz, southwest of Berlin. Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert—AP  April 18, 2012\. Halime Ali, 13 months old, lies in the plastic bucket of a weighing scale to have her weight checked for signs of malnutrition at a walk-in feeding center in Dibinindji, a desert village in the Sahel belt of Chad. Ben Curtis—AP  April 15, 2012\. Due to the lack of rainfall, a severe drought hit China this spring, exposing the shoal of the Hanjiang River in Shiyan City. Cheng Fuhua—Xinhua / SIPA USA  April 17, 2012\. The lights are on at Fenway Park for the MLB American League baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox in Boston. The Boston Red Sox will celebrate Fenway Park's 100th anniversary on April 20. Brian Snyder—Reuters  April 16, 2012\. A coconut tree is seen against the backdrop of a sunset at Lamno beach, in Aceh Besar, Indonesia. 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