From ceremonies marking the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and continued unrest in Turkey to the recovery of a rare World War II German bomber from the sea and the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Center in South Africa, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
June 11, 2013. A protestor hit by pressurized water sprayed from a riot police water cannon during clashes in Taksim Square, Istanbul.Kerim Okten—EPAJune 7, 2013. Smoke from brush fires set off by stray mortar bombs fired during fighting between forces loyal to the Syrian regime and rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near the Quneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.Ammar Awad—ReutersJune 11, 2013. French Army soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of Dragons help a fellow soldier who fainted during a tribute ceremony to late former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in the courtyard of the Hotel des Invalides in Paris.Charles Platiau—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 12, 2013. A gust of wind blows Pope Francis' mantle during the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.Tony Gentile—ReutersJune 11, 2013. An Afghan refugee man, center, covers his face as he and others get caught in a sand storm in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad. Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 11, 2013. Cosmo Sarson's mural of Jesus break-dancing that he has painted on the wall beside The Canteen in Stokes Croft is reflected in a window in Bristol, England.Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesJune 11, 2013. A young girl looks out at the island of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesJune 11, 2013. China's astronauts from left, Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng wave as they leave the Jiuquan satellite launch center for the launch site near Jiuquan in western China's Gansu province. Andy Wong—APJune 11, 2013. The remains of a World War II Dornier 17 aircraft are transported on a barge to harbor near Ramsgate, England. Peter Macdiarmid—Getty ImagesJune 7, 2013. US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping head for their bilateral meeting at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Ca.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 7, 2013. Israelis participate in the annual Gay Pride parade on the beach of Tel Aviv, Israel.Oded Balilty—APJune 7, 2013. A young boy runs behind a man performing a Friday prayer near Taksim Square in Istanbul.Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 7, 2013. Protestors lie together the Gezi Park in Taksim Square in Istanbul.Uriel Sinai—Getty ImagesJune 7, 2013. Fans of Colombia cheer their team up before the start of their 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Argentina in Buenos Aires.Enrique Marcarian—ReutersJune 7, 2013. Fishermen cast their nets on the shallow end of Manila Bay in Manila, Philippines.Veejay Villafranca—Getty ImagesJune 7, 2013. A horse is seen waiting to enter the track from the paddock area before morning workouts at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY.Shannon Stapleton—ReutersJune 7, 2013. Rusting remains of World War II ships are seen on the coast of Iwo Jima, now known officially as Ioto, Japan.Greg Baker—APJune 7, 2013. A Pakistani girl looks through a window of a food distribution center hoping to receive a ration of rice at a shrine in Islamabad. Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 8, 2013. A protester uses her mobile phone during a demonstration at Taksim Square in Istanbul.Stoyan Nenov—ReutersJune 7, 2013. Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as an unseen custodian displays a holy relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Muhammad's beard, at Kashmir's main Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar during celebrations for Miraj-Ul-Alam (Ascension to Heaven).Tauseef Mustafa—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 8, 2013. Police chief Jacqueline Seabrooks talks to reporters next to a police evidence photo of a suspected gunman entering the Santa Monica College library during his mass shooting spree in Santa Monica, Ca.David McNew—Getty ImagesJune 8, 2013. A worshipper offers weekend prayers as various church groups offered weekend prayers for former president Nelson Mandela on a hill overlooking the city in Johannesburg.Denis Farrell—APJune 8, 2013. A dead deer hangs on a fence along the flooded A3 motorway near Deggendorf, Germany.Wolfgang Rattay—ReutersJune 9, 2013. Employees try to push a scaled replica of the rubber duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman away from lakeside at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province.ReutersJune 9, 2013. A tornado above Marina Baie des Anges in Nice, France.Valery Hache—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 9, 2013. Indian children wade through a flooded area after a rain shower in Allahabad. Sanjay Kanojia—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 9, 2013. A fish vendor carries his basket on his head covered with plastic as he walks through a street during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India. Rafiq Maqbool—APJune 9, 2013. A man makes a heart shaped sign to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine to show support after his arrival in Ankara, Turkey.Vadim Ghirda—APJune 9, 2013. Spain's Rafael Nadal wins his height French Tennis Open against Spain's David Ferrer, at Roland-Garros arena in Paris, France. Dubreuil Corinne—Abaca PressJune 9, 2013. A protester runs onto court with a lit flare before the start of a game in the Men's Singles final match between Rafael Nadal of Spain and David Ferrer of Spain during day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris.Matthew Stockman—Getty ImagesJune 10, 2013. A female supporter of the Iranian Presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, Iran's former nuclear negotiator, shown in the poster, attends a campaign rally in the western city of Sanandaj, Iran. Vahid Salemi—APJune 10, 2013. A horse for rent stands next to his owner as he sleeps on a bed on a sidewalk in a street in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 10, 2013. Palestinian girls watch participants in summer physical training camp run by Hamas during their summer vacation in Gaza City.Mohammed Abed—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 10, 2013. Hand crafted bones are laid out on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The "One Million Bones" project collected one million handcafted bones to be laid out for three-days on the National Mall to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and mass atrocities in places Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Mark Wilson—Getty ImagesJune 10, 2013. Afghan security officials remove the bodies of suspected Taliban militants from the scene after a gun battle with Taliban militants who had targeted Kabul International Airport adjacent to a NATO compound in Kabul. S. Sabawoon—EPAJune 10, 2013. The body of a Taliban militant lies on the ground after a battle with Afghan security forces near the Kabul military airport in Kabul.Ahmad Massoud—Xinhua Press/CorbisJune 11, 2013. A display dummy floats in a flooded car dealership in Fischerdorf, a suburb of the eastern Bavarian city of Deggendorf, Germany, after the floods of the nearby Danube river subsided.Wolfgang Rattay—ReutersJune 11, 2013. A photograph of U.S. President Barack Obama meeting former South African president Nelson Mandela is seen at Mandela's office at the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton, Johannesburg.Siphiwe Sibeko—ReutersJune 11, 2013. Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attends a see-off ceremony for Chinese astronauts of an upcoming manned space mission at the astronauts' apartment building in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. Li Xueren—Xinhua Press/CorbisJune 11, 2013. Clouds reflect in the floods by river Elbe near Tangermuende, central Germany.Jens Meyer—APJune 12, 2013. An Afghan child takes a rest on a cart at a brick factory in Kabul.Ahmad Massoud—Xinhua Press/CorbisJune 11,2013. Young Indian Hindu girls of Durga Vahini, the 'saffron brigade women's' wing of Hindu hardline organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad, take part in a self defense training camp in Bhopal, India.Sanjeev Gupta—EPAJune 11, 2013.
A Little girl takes a picture with a cop, in Istanbul.
Jodi Hilton—NurPhoto/Sipa USAJune 11, 2013. People escape as riot police fire tear gas to disperse the crowd during a demonstration near Taksim Square in Istanbul.Lam Yik Fei—Getty ImagesJune 11, 2013. A protester throws tear gas at police as a bulldozer is on fire during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul. Thanassis Stavrakis—APJune 11, 2013. A protester whose clothes are on fire runs away from riot police during clashes in Taksim square in Istanbul.Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 11, 2013. Police riot shields in Taksim Square in Istanbul.Michael Bunel—NurPhoto/Zuma PressJune 11, 2013. The Black Forest Fire burns northeast of Colorado Springs, Co.Bryan Oller—APJune 11, 2013. A bird perches as the Black Forest Fire burns northeast of Colorado Springs, Co.Bryan Oller—APJune 12, 2013. Colorado Springs resident Yolette Baca takes a photo of the wildfire in the Black Forest area north of Colorado Springs, Co.Brennan Linsley—APJune 12, 2013. Indonesian students wear masks with angry expressions during a protest outside the presidential palace in Jakarta to denounce impending fuel price increases as the government plans to reduce a fuel subsidy.Romeo Gacad—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 11, 2013. Afghans rush a wounded man to receive treatment, after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul.Ahmad Jamshid—APJune 12, 2013. The casket of Aquilla LaRhonda Al-Nisa Flood is seen placed in a hearse after her funeral at the Christian Pentecostal Church in Irvington, N.J. Shannon Stapleton—ReutersJune 12, 2013. A protester, face stained by tear gas antidote, sleeps in Gezi Park in Istanbul.Vadim Ghirda—APJune 12, 2013. Armed policemen observe the area of Gezi Park in Istanbul's Taksim Square.Yannis Behrakis—ReutersJune 12, 2013. The Netherlands' King Willem-Alexander (in the background C) and Queen Maxima visit the city of Roosendaal, in the Brabant region of The Netherlands. Robin Utrecht—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 12, 2013. Palestinian boys perform exercises at a summer camp run by Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas near the border between Gaza and Egypt.Ali Ali—EPAJune 12, 2013. Palestinian boys perform exercises at a summer camp run by Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas near the border between Gaza and Egypt.Ali Ali—EPAJune 12, 2013. Palestinian boys, pictured through a canvas which provides shade to Hamas camp instructors, perform exercises at a summer camp run by Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas, near the border between Gaza and Egypt.Ali Ali—EPAJune 12, 2013. Fleeing from the flood, two deer swim in the water of the Danube river to look for shelter at the Gemenc Forest, south of Budapest.Peter Kohalmi—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 13, 2013. An Afghan family travels in the trunk of a car on the outskirts of Kabul.Ahmad Jamshid—APJune 13, 2013. Local villagers fall onto the ground from a cart pulled by oxen as they take part in a ceremony to exorcize evil spirits and pray for rain amid the rice planting season at Pring Ka-ek village, about 12.5 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Heng Sinith—APJune 13, 2013. An aerial view of a destroyed house and vehicles in the aftermath of the Black Forest Fire in Black Forest, Co.Rick Wilking—ReutersJune 13, 2013. Riot police look for Bahraini anti-government protesters near a row of burning tires on a street in Jidhafs, Bahrain, just outside the capital of Manama.Hasan Jamali—APJune 13, 2013. Jillian Soto (L) and Carlee Soto, sisters of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Victoria Soto, wear green and white in honor of the massacre victims at a news conference about gun violence legislation on the 6-month anniversary of the Connecticut shootings, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.Jonathan Ernst—ReutersJune 13, 2013. Nepalese children peep out from a police van after they were rescued from embroidery factories in Katmandu.Niranjan Shrestha—APJune 13, 2013. Migrant boys who work in a sari factory cry after they were rescued by police in Thankot, on the outskirts of capital Kathmandu.Narendra Shrestha—EPAJune 13, 2013. Filipino children hang onto the back of a delivery van going through a flooded street following heavy rains in Manila.Rolex Dela Pena—EPAJune 13, 2013. Crew members of the oil recovery vessel 'Baltic' empty boxes of popcorn into the water to simulate an oil spill along the coast of Warnemuende, Germany.Stefan Sauer—EPAJune 13, 2013. A cow is photographed in a studio setup during a cow show in Oldenburg, Germany.Friso Gentsch—EPAJune 13, 2013. Tiger Woods reacts after a shot on the second hole during the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pa.Darron Cummings—AP
