From Hurricane Isaac in the Caribbean and colorful Holi celebrations in Germany to the Paralympics in London and a tree full of goats in Morocco, TIME presents the best images of the week.
Aug. 26, 2012. Visitors to Holi Open Air throw colored powder in Dresden, Germany. Arno Burgi—DPA / LandovAug. 26, 2012. A destroyed car is seen among debris as smoke rises from fuel storage tanks on fire, a day after an explosion at Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo in the Peninsula of Paraguana, Venezuela.Gil Montano—ReutersAug. 24, 2012. Ahmed, 12, waits with his uncle, right, near the body of his father who was killed by a shell in the Sha'ar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. Ahmed, who saw his father die, was also injured in his back by shrapnel.Nicole TungAug. 29, 2012. Britain's wheelchair basketball players, Sarah Grady, Judith Hamer, Helen Turner and Louise Sugden practice shooting baskets under the dome in St Paul's Cathedral in London.Adrian Dennis—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. Michigan delegate Linda Lee Tarver shows off her ring at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.Jae C. Hong—APAug. 25, 2012. A man pushes through a guide rope to prostrate himself in grief on the steps in front of the coffin of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, at the prime minister's official residence, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Rebecca Blackwell—APAug. 26, 2012. Goats climb up an Argan tree to its fruit, near Essaouira, Morocco.Fadel Senna—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 25, 2012. Panama player Daniel Fernandez (R) flies into home plate as Japan's catcher Tatsuya Irie (L) handles the throw during the second inning of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.Tim Shaffer—ReutersAug. 24, 2012. A billboard of "Jesus in the Wheat" stands alongside Interestate 70 on in Colby, Kans.John Moore—Getty ImagesAug. 24, 2012. A Syrian boy who was injured when a shell, released by regime forces, hit his house waits to be treated at a hospital in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 24, 2012. Self confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, appears on television screens inside an electronics superstore outside Oslo.Daniel Sannum Lauten—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 24, 2012. A girl takes photos of Malta's former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff lying in state at the Presidential Palace in Valletta.Darrin Zammit Lupi—ReutersAug. 24, 2012. Children look out at the beach as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches in Barahona, Dominican Republic.Ricardo Arduengo—APAug. 25, 2012. A man walks through an area affected by the passage of a wildfire in the village of Drosopigi, Greece.Louisa Gouliamaki—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 25, 2012. A child gets a haircut at a roadside hair salon in Kathmandu.Narendra Shrestha—EPAAug. 25, 2012. Relatives of 52 victims, killed by gunfire from the Zetas organized crime group, put up memorial crosses in Monterrey, Mexico.Fidel Aguilar Castilla—DPA/ZUMAPRESS.comAug. 26, 2012. Tea Party members stand with Obama Pinocchio signs outside The River at Tampa Bay Church in Tampa, Florida. Eve Edelheit—MCT/ABACAUSA.COMAug. 27, 2012. Signs at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.Eric Thayer—ReutersAug. 26, 2012. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) greets supporters after speaking at a rally at the University of South Florida Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla.Damon Winter—The New York Times/ReduxAug. 26, 2012. An Indonesian boy poses for photographs as he wears a costume resembling an Indonesian independence hero in Jakarta.Mast Ihram—EPAAug. 26, 2012. A cat sits on a bed of a flooded house after the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Dieu Nalio Chery—APAug. 26 , 2012. Visitors of Holi Open Air throw colored powder in Dresden, Germany.Arno Burgi—DPA/LandovAug. 28, 2012. A shoebill is displayed at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.Itsuo Inouye—APAug. 27, 2012. Children leaving a grocery store pass a wall covered with posters denouncing British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama as criminals in Sitra, Bahrain.Hasan Jamali—APAug. 27, 2012. A Jewish settler is seen inside her house at the illegal West Bank settlement called Migron, north of Jerusalem.Abir Sultan—EPAAug. 27, 2012. Members of the Paraiso School of Samba prepare to perform at the Notting Hill Carnival on in London.Oli Scarff—Getty ImagesAug. 27, 2012. Senior officials sit under huge portraits of North Korea's late leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, during a meeting at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang.Jon Chol Jin—APAug. 28, 2012. Ann Romney arrives on stage to speak at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida on the first full day the Republican National Convention. Brian Cassella—MCT/ABACAUSA.COMAug. 28, 2012. Mitt Romney joins his wife, Ann Romney on stage during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on in Tampa, Florida. Justin Sullivan—Getty ImagesAug. 27, 2012. An anti-GOP protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask, symbol of the occupy movement, during a protest rally in downtown Tampa , Florida.Mladen Antonov—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 27, 2012. A woman enjoys the heavy rain in Tampa area, Fla. Mladen Antonov—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. A flooded basketball court caused by Tropical Storm Isaac in Loxahatchee, Fla.Gary Coronado—The Palm Beach Post/ZUMAPRESS.comAug. 28, 2012. A dog sits on a buffalo who is cooling off in the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan.Mohsin Raza—ReutersAug. 28, 2012. A Syrian child, whose family fled their home due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, lies in a child safety seat at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near the Syrian town of Azaz.Muhammed Muheisen—APAug. 28, 2012. A red-coloured pigeon takes flight at St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. Swiss artist Julian Charriere airbrushed pigeons in different colors as part of a performance for the architecture Biennale.Tony Gentile—ReutersAug. 28, 2012. A group of Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews are seen behind a curtain during the wedding ceremony of the granddaughter of the Rabbi of the Tholdot Avraham Yizhak Hasidic group, in Jerusalem.Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. A Palestinian woman looks at a destroyed Hamas training camp after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.Hatem Moussa—APAug. 28, 2012. Palestinian men wash a horse in the sea in Gaza City.Mohammed Abed—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. The South Korean coast guard attempts to rescue Chinese fishermen from a Chinese ship after it slammed into rocks off the southern coast in Jeju, south of Seoul.South Korea Coast Guard/APAug. 28, 2012. View of the devastation caused by a blaze in the Venezuelan Amuay oil refinery, part of the Paraguana Oil Refining Complex, in Paranagua, Venezuela. Juan Barreto—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. An Albanian boy uses a branch in an effort to put out a blaze raging near the city of Memaliaj.Gent Shkullaku—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. Pakistani firefighters extinguish a burning vehicle after it was set on fire by angry protesters over killings in their district in Karachi.Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2012. A Syrian tombstone sculptor works at his workshop in Damascus. Joseph Eid—AFP/GettyImagesAug. 28, 2012. A dog rests at the APCA (Protection Association for Abandoned Dogs) centre in Sintra, Portugal.Rafael Marchante—ReutersAug. 29, 2012. A swimmer warms up in the Aquatic Center during a swimming training session before the 2012 Paralympics in London. Lefteris Pitarakis—APAug. 29, 2012. A close up of a performer during the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Paralympics in London.Matt Dunham—APAug. 29, 2012. Visitors walk through the "infinity room" before a public memorial service for U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong at the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio.Matt Sullivan—ReutersAug. 30, 2012. Mourners hold candles during a candle lit vigil in Meskel square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tens of thousands of mourners gathered at the square to pay their respects to the former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.Carl De Souza—AFP/GettyImagesAug. 30, 2012. China's Wei Yanpeng competes in the men's 100m Butterfly S8 category at the 2012 Paralympics Olympics in London. Emilio Morenatti—APAug. 30, 2012. A horseman leads one of the bulls of 'Hermanos Revesado Pernas-Torrealba' ranch during the fifth and last bull run of Cuellar, Spain. Juan Martin—EPAAug. 29, 2012. Volunteer Doris Fair waits for supporters of President Obama to arrive for an event in Charlottesville, Va.Pete Marovich—UPI/LandovAug. 30, 2012. A statue of the Virgin Mary stands in the yard of a house flooded by Hurricane Isaac in La Place, La.Lee Celano—ReutersAugust 31, 2012. Lonmin mineworkers pay their respects at the coffin containing the body of Mpuzeni Ngxande, one of the 34 striking miners that were killed by police on August 16, Rodger Bosch—AFP/GettyImages)
