From divides over American military strikes on Syria and wildfires in Yosemite National Park to the world’s first 100 million Euro soccer player and a limbless motivational speaker swimming with sharks, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Sept. 1, 2013. Storks fly over the border between Turkey and Syria, as they prepare to migrate in Hatay.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 31, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a rest in a safe house beside the Canadian Hospital in Aleppo.Molhem Barakat—ReutersSept. 3, 2013. Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.Ammar Awad—ReutersAug. 30, 2013. The body of an alleged militant lies on the ground after an Afghan commando operation in Herat Province, Afghanistan. Hoshang Hashimi—APSept. 2, 2013. A boy stretches as he exercises at a fitness center in Sanaa, Yemen.Khaled Abdullah—ReutersAug. 30, 2013. Israeli soldiers take part in a drill in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syria.Bernat Armangue—APAug. 30, 2013. A young couple kiss as they stand in a shaft of intense sunlight reflected from the glass windows of the new "Walkie Talkie" tower in central London. Leon Neal—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 29, 2013. Six tattoo artists work together on one women volunteer during Manado CityFest in Manado, Indonesia.Ronny Adolof Buol—Demotix/CorbisSept. 1, 2013. A family walks through a cemetery in Kabul.Omar Sobhani—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. Smoke from the fires below Pilot Peak intermingles with clouds from an arriving weather front as firefighters begin to get the Rim Fire under control near Old Yosemite Road, Division S, as seen from Greeley Hill, Calif.Al Golub—Zuma PressAug. 30, 2013. Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a demonstration in Dalga Village, in northern Egypt.Roger Anis—APAug. 30, 2013. A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a placard on the top of a pile of debris during a protest following Friday Muslim prayers at Nasser City in Cairo.Manu Brabo—APAug. 30, 2013. Kashmiri villagers carry the body of a suspected rebel for burial during his funeral procession in Prang, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of Srinagar, India.Dar Yasin—APAug. 30, 2013. A Palestinian protester uses a metal rod at the controversial Israeli barrier during clashes with Israeli border policemen after a protest, which was against Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah.Mohamad Torokman—ReutersAug. 30, 2013. A Palestinian boy adjusts a flag used by the Syrian opposition in Al-Shaati refugee camp in Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAAug. 30, 2013. A Portuguese military soldier uses a hoe to fight against a wildfire in Caramulo, north Portugal.Francisco Seco—APAug. 30, 2013. Highland dancers perform the Real of Tulloch during competition at the Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon, Scotland.Jeff J. Mitchell—Getty ImagesAug. 30, 2013. A young Indian boy sits inside his house damaged during monsoon floods due to the overflowing of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh—APAug. 31, 2013. Johascara performs at the family-owned circus Clavito in Managua, Nicaragua.Oswaldo Rivas—ReutersAug. 31, 2013. Catholic clerics wearing scarves depicting Monsignor Vladimir Ghika attend his beatification religious service in Bucharest, Romania.Grigore Popescu—APAug. 31, 2013. A burned tree remains as smoke rises up, background, in a forest area devastated by a wildfire in Serra de Caramulo, Teixo, north Portugal.Francisco Seco—APAug. 31, 2013. A monument of soldiers holding rifles in Mount Bental near Kibutz Merom Golan in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Ilia Yefimovich—Getty ImagesAug, 31, 2013. An Israeli man rides his horse past the 'Iron Dome' missile defense system as it is deployed in Tel Aviv, Israel. Uriel Sinai—Getty ImagesSept. 1, 2013. People swim and dive in the Black Sea at the south Russian coastal resort of Sochi.Kazbek Basayev—ReutersSept. 1, 2013. A man competes during the 10000 Volt obstacle as he competes during the Tough Viking race in Stockholm.Jonathan Nickstrand—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 1, 2013. Horsemen ride in procession during the Agricultural Cavalcade in Tarifa, Spain.Pablo Blazquez Dominguez—Getty ImagesSept. 1, 2013. A Bahraini anti-government protester reacts to tear gas during clashes with riot police in Sehla, Bahrain. Hasan Jamali—APSept. 1, 2013. Masked anti-regime protesters march during the funeral of a martyr Sabt. in Sehla Village, Bahrain.Ahmed Alfardan—Zuma PressSept. 1, 2013. Palestinian spectators attend a horse race and show in the North of the Gaza Strip.Ali Ail—EPASept. 1, 2013. A horse stands near a water reservoir in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.Ronem Zvulun—ReutersSept. 1, 2013. Justo Marquez, 50, carries a cross during a peace march, as he walks along Winston Churchill Avenue after entering the British territory of Gibraltar, at its border with Spain in Gibraltar, south of Spain.Jon Nazca—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. An Afghan policeman stands guard near burning NATO supply trucks following an attack by militants on a U.S. base in the Torkham area near the Pakistan--Afghanistan border in Jalalabad province east of Kabul.Rahmat Gul—APSept. 2, 2013. Smoke rises from burning NATO supply trucks after a Taliban attack at Torkham district, in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan. ReutersSept. 1, 2013. Free Syrian Army fighters call out to forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad urging them to defect as another fighter stands guard in the old city of Aleppo. Molhem Barakat—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. A rebel fighter and a child cross a damaged bridge in Syria's eastern town of Deir Ezzor.Abo Shuja—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2013. A handout picture released by the Syrian presidency media office in Damascus shows Syrian president Bashar al-Assad answering questions by French journalist Georges MalbrunotAFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up a position on the stairs of a building as he monitors the movements of snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the old city of Aleppo.Molhem Barakat—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. A Congolese soldier guards suspected rebels arrested during an operation against M23 rebels in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.Thomas Mukoya—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. Shuttlecocks are scattered inside a damaged gymnasium at Hokuyo junior high school after what seemed to be a tornado in Koshigaya, north of Tokyo.Toru Hanai—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. Roger Federer, of Switzerland, walks off the court after losing to Tommy Robredo, of Spain, during the fourth round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Darron Cummings—APSept. 2, 2013. A man jumps over a water stream on a beach along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai.Danish Siddiqui—ReutersSept. 2, 2013. Diana Nyad is loaded into an awaiting ambulance and taken to Lower Keys Medical Center where she is receiving fluids and being held for observation in Key West, Fla.Rob O'Neal—Barcroft Media/LandovSept. 2, 2013. A man sells cotton candy as others sit by the fortress walls in the port city of Cartagena, Colombia.Joaquin Sarmiento—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2013. An Indian artist takes a rest as he prepares idols of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi festival at a workshop in Hyderabad, India.Mahesh Kumar A.—APSept. 2, 2013. Mourners visit a memorial for Antiq Hennis in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn where a day earlier, the 1-year-old boy was shot and killed in his stroller during a walk with his parents. John Minchillo—APSept. 2, 2013. Schoolchildren are pictured on the first day of the 2013-2014 academic year at their school in the province of Granma, Cuba.AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2013. Gareth Bale greets the audience during his presentation as a new Real Madrid player at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on in Madrid, Spain.Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno—Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2013. Palestinians compete during a horse race in Gaza City.Majdi Fathi—Zuma PressSept. 2, 2013. The remains removed from the cemetery at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys waits to be loaded for transportation in Marianna, Fla. ReutersSept. 3, 2013. An Indian man clears debris from the banks of the Ganga river as the flood level recedes in Allahabad.Sanjay Kanojia—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 3, 2013. Laborers work at a coal dump site outside Kabul.Mohammad Ismail—ReutersSept. 3, 2013. Fire, smoke and water damage covers an office inside the Greater Naples YMCA in Naples, Fla. David Albers—APSept. 3, 2013. A rebel fighter carries homemade mortar rounds in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.Mezar Matar—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 3, 2013. Lebanese young adults prepare to jump into the Mediterranean Sea off the Corniche, or waterfront promenade, in Beirut, Lebanon.Nariman El-Mofty—APSept. 3, 2013. International NGO Greenpeace members protest dressed as polar bears holding banners in Santiago, Chile.Mario Ruiz—EFE/Sipa USASept. 3, 2013. Dead fish float on the Fuhe River in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.Cheng Min—Xinhua Press/CorbisSept. 3, 2013. Female Jewish worshippers pray behind the men's section at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.Ammar Awad—ReutersSept. 3, 2013. Six-year-old boy, Guo Bin, known as Bin-Bin, blinded when his eyes were gouged out after he went missing while playing outside on August 24, kisses his mother in a hospital in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi province. AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 4, 2013. A Palestinian protester is detained by Israeli policemen outside the entrance to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's old city during disturbances that caused the temporary closure to the access of the Mosque.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 4, 2013. Afghan children climb onto a fence while playing as they sell tea in Kabul.Mohammad Ismail—ReutersSept. 4, 2013. An Indian Kathakali artist is reflected in a mirror as he dons make up prior to a performance in Chennai, India. Arun Sankar K.—APSept. 4, 2013. A soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo regular army (FARDC) stands guard in Kibati near Goma, with the Nyiragongo Volcano in the background.Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 4, 2013. Lawrence Payne practices backflips on his front lawn on in the Six Mile Gratiot neighborhood of Detroit, Mich.Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesSept. 4, 2013. Swedish police and army snipers are seen preparing on a roof at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden. Scanpix Sweden/Sipa USASept. 4, 2013. Workers inspect the bell during the annual maintenance at the Gloriosa bell in the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary) in Erfurt, central Germany.Jens Meyer—APSept. 4, 2013. A view of the new monument of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at the World War II Memorial in Telavi, some 100 km from Tbilisi, Georgia.Zurab Kurtsikidze—EPASept. 5, 2013. A worker sprays paint on the beak of the "Rubber Duck" inflatable floating sculpture by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman at a factory in New Taipei City, Taiwan.Pichi Chuang—ReutersSept. 5, 2013. A woman practices yoga on the beach on in Sheerness, England.Peter Macdiarmid—Getty ImagesSept. 5, 2013. A Palestinian child removes a migrant quail snared in a net on the beach of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPASept. 5, 2013. Orthodox Christian worshippers gather before the start of a procession outside Jerusalem's Old City.Ammar Awad—ReutersSept. 5, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during a reception at the Royal Palace in Stockholm.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 5, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport in Sweden en route to St. Petersburg to attend the G20 summit. Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 5, 2013. Nick Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker who was born without limbs, swims with sharks at the Marine Life Park in Singapore.Edgar Su—ReutersSept. 5, 2013. The early morning sun hits The Shard building as fog clears over London.Dylan Martinez—ReutersSept. 5, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) walks into Konstantin Palace after shaking hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during arrivals for the G20 summit in St. Petersburg.Pablo Martinez Monsivais—ReutersSept. 5, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during the start of the G20 Working Session at the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg.Pablo Martinez Monsivais—ReutersSept. 6, 2013. A police officer inspects the damaged windshield of a police bus after clashes between police and rubber farmers in Bangsaphan, Prachuap Khiri Khan.Athit Perawongmetha—ReutersSept. 6, 2013. A remote-controlled helicopter camera flies above an inflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floating on a lake at the 9th China International Garden Expo in Beijing.Petar Kujundzic—Reuters
