From the royal christening and the World Series to the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy and a 75 million-year-old baby dinosaur, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Oct. 21, 2013. A pier damaged by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012 in Long Branch, N.J.Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesOct. 18, 2013. An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of an attack in Kabul.Mohammad Ismail—ReutersOct. 18, 2013. Soldiers guard a platform to prevent it from falling apart while newlyweds have their group photo taken, during a military mass wedding ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan.Pichi Chuang—ReutersOct. 21, 2013. Friends and family of victims of the Westgate Mall attack during a memorial service and tree planting for the victims at the Karura Forest in Nairobi, Kenya.Tyler Hicks—The New York Times/ReduxOct. 18, 2013. Adili Wuxor (back, in red), who is known as "Prince of the Tightrope," and his apprentice balance on a tightrope above the Great Wall in Tianjin, China.China Daily/ReutersOct. 22, 2013. A model presents a creation by Muslim clothing designer Feny Mustafa during a Fashion Week show in Jakarta, Indonesia.Beawiharta—ReutersOct. 21, 2013. Alexander Padilla and Anthony Arenas hug each other after being married by Newark Mayor and newly-elected U.S. Senator Cory Booker at City Hall in the early morning hours in Newark, N.J.Kena Betancur—Getty ImagesOct. 19, 2013. Participants fight during fire war ceremony at Dalem Temple in Tuban, Kuta, Indonesia.Putu Sayoga—Getty ImagesOct. 20, 2013. Mae Berenice Meite of France performs during the Smucker's Skating Spectacular at Skate America 2013 in Detroit, Mich.Geoff Robins—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 18, 2013. A lion rests against a stone wall at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore.Wong Maye-E—APOct. 18, 2013. Ground Self-Defense Force troops search for missing people after a landslide on Oshima Island.Kazuhiro Nogi—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 20, 2013. Investigators survey the site of a train derailment near the hamlet of Gainford, west of Edmonton, Canada.Dan Riedlhuber—ReutersOct. 18, 2013. Exhausted firefighters take a rest while fire burns close by, on Crangan Bay Road in Nords Wharf, Australia.Fairfax Media/Getty ImagesOct. 18, 2013. A four-year-old girl, found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, is seen in a handout photo distributed by the Greek police.ReutersOct. 19, 2013. A Balinese man walks among the blazing coconut husks during a sacred ritual called 'Mesabatan Api' or fire fight at a temple in Tuban, Bali, Indonesia.Made Nagi—EPAOct. 19, 2013. People dressed as zombies take part in the Zombie Walk in Belgrade, Serbia. Marko Drobnjakovic—APOct. 20, 2013. Jan Fisher, of Bloomington dressed as a bear, kept dry with her umbrella as she walked through the Como Zoo's ZooBoo in St. Paul, Minn.Renee Jones Schneider—The Star Tribune/APOct. 20, 2013. Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, signs a copy of her book before an event launching her memoir, "I Am Malala," at the Southbank Center in central London. Olivia Harris—ReutersOct. 21, 2013. Team of Shrine Parishioners attempt to take down lanterns during the Usuki Lantern Festival at Usuki Hachiman Shrine in Himeji, Japan.Buddhika Weerasinghe—Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. Relatives of four victims killed in an attack at a wedding attend their funerals at Virgin Church in Cairo.Mohamed Abd El Ghany—ReutersOct. 21, 2013. A boy walks past military police standing guard outside the seafront Windsor Barra hotel before the start of an auction of one of the world's biggest offshore oil finds in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Mario Tama—Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. An actor performing as the one of the title characters, Ciung, half man, half monkey is seen during the production of Ciung Wanara, one of the many Indonesian soap operas based on traditional Indonesian legends in Cileungsi, Indonesia.Ed Wray—Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. A Russian Orthodox pilgrim enters the water on the West Bank side of the Jordan River for the baptismal ceremony at the site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the the Jordan River near the city of Jericho, Israel.Abir Sultan—EPAOct. 21, 2013. Burnt houses can be seen from inside a burnt-out car after they were destroyed by a bushfire in the Blue Mountains suburb of Winmalee, located around 70 km west of Sydney.David Gray—ReutersOct. 21, 2013. Melissa White assists her sister Christie Daschke at her home destroyed by bushfire in Winmalee, Australia.Lisa Maree Williams—Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (2ndL) reaches out to help Affordable Care Act beneficiary Karmel Allison (C), who began to faint during the president's speech about healthcare from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.Jason Reed—ReutersOct. 22, 2013. A man exercises in a park in Fuzhou, the capital of China's south-eastern Fujian province. Ed Jones—;AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. Local residents dance on a square under heavy smog in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province. AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. A trailer loaded with trucks hangs on the edge of a bridge on in Kaili, Guizhou Province of China. Whitehotpix—Zuma PressOct. 22, 2013. A youth stands on a a whale shark towed by fishermen along the coast of Surabaya in eastern Java Island to be sold to prospective buyers after getting entangled in a fishing net.Juni Kriswanto—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to disembark at Ciampino military airport, on the outskirts of Rome.Riccardo De Luca—APOct. 22, 2013. People stand on a beach near the remains of the Rockaway boardwalk, damaged in Hurricane Sandy in the in Rockaway neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2013. KPH Notonegoro and Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hayu pose for a photograph during their wedding ceremony in Bangsal Kesatriyan at Kraton Palace in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Ulet Ifansasti—Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2013. Palestinian girls look through a wooden door at al-Shati refugee camp, the third largest in the Palestinian Territories, in Gaza City.Ashraf Amra—APA/LandovOct. 22, 2013. Pakistani women and children, collect water from a well on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen—APOct. 23, 2013. A Palestinian boy hangs from a tree overlooking Gaza City. Mohammed Abed—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2013. Israeli soldiers load the body of slain Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant Mohamed Aatzi into an army vehicle in the village of Bilin near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Nasser Nasser—APOct. 23, 2013. A Palestinian woman mourns during the funeral of Mohammed Assi in the West Bank village of Beit Liqiya, near Ramallah.Mohamad Torokman—ReutersOct. 23, 2013, Palestinian schoolchildren sit in a bus after throwing flowers into the Seaport of Gaza City to remember the Palestinian migrants who died after their boat sank while fleeing Syria for Italy.Suhaib Salem—ReutersOct. 23, 2013. Pakistani boys, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, pose for a photograph, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Anjum Naveed—APOct. 23, 2013. The skeleton of the baby Parasaurolophus nicknamed ''Joe,'' the most complete skeleton of a baby dinosaur ever unearthed in North America.National News/Zuma PressOct. 23, 2013. Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge holds his son, Prince George of Cambridge, as he arrives at Chapel Royal in St James's Palace in central London for the christening of the three month-old baby.AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 23, 2013. The official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in The Morning Room at Clarence House in London.Jason Bell—Camera PressOct. 23, 2013. An Afghan refugee child looks behind her while walking back to her home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APOct. 23, 2013. U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) leaves a Republican leadership press conference in Washington.Win McNamee—Getty ImagesOct. 23, 2013. Statues are seen outside Fenway Park before Game One of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals in Boston, Mass. Jamie Squire—Getty ImagesOct. 23, 2013. Boston Red Sox's David Ortiz jumps after scoring on a double by Mike Napoli during the first inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series in Boston. Matt Slocum—APOct. 23, 2013. Fake windows are painted on the north side wall of a Economical Housing by developer in Qingdao, Shandong province of China.ChinaFotoPress/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2013. In this image provided by Red Bull, Blake Aldridge (R) of the UK dives from a 25 metre rock at Viking Caves in the Andaman Sea as Michal Navratil (C) of the Czech Republic makes his way up the ladders during competition on the fifth day of the final stop of the 2013 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Phi Phi Island, Thailand.Dean Treml—Red Bull/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2013. Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Parliament buildings on the Stormont estate in Belfast. Cathal McNaughton—ReutersOct. 24, 2013. A sculpture by artist David McCracken titled "Diminish and Ascend,"' can be seen as part of the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition at Sydney's Bondi Beach.David Gray—ReutersOct. 24, 2013.
Rebel fighters hold a position on the front line in the Syrian northeastern city of Deir Ezzor.Ahmad Aboud—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2013. An Ultra-orthodox Jewish teacher shows a little community belonging to a Torah school in Mea Shearim how to slaughter a goat according to the Kosher rules, in Jerusalem, Israel. Marco Bottelli—Demotix/CorbisOct. 24, 2013. The children of Roma woman Sasha Ruseva, 38, (not pictured) rest inside their home in Nikolaevo, southern Bulgaria.ReutersOct. 24, 2013. Embers are blown from a tree as a fire threatens to cross the Bells Line of Road near Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia.Dan Himbrechts—EPAOct. 24, 2013. Think smoke from a bush fire fills the sky near Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains, Australia.Saeed Khan—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2013. A Pakistani woman, looks after her daughter suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, while laying in bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APOct. 24, 2013. John Daly of the US (back orange) is watched by his fans at the 7th hole during day one the BMW Shanghai Masters golf tournament at the Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai.Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 24, 2013. Lady Gaga leaves her hotel in Berlin.Splash News/CorbisOct. 25, 2013. Traditional sumo wrestling club members at Saitama Sakae junior and senior high school prepare for a photo session with cyclists including Tour de France winner Christopher Froome of Britain in Saitama, north of Tokyo.Issei Kato—ReutersOct. 25, 2013. A member of the Austrian special forces is suspended in the air after jumping from one of the highest bungee jump cranes in the world, in front of historical Hofburg palace in Vienna.Leonhard Foeger—ReutersOct. 25, 2013. Thai women hold a portrait of Thai Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, Thailand's top Buddhist leader who died at the age of 100, outside the Chulalongkorn hospital, in Bangkok. Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 25, 2013. Pope Francis is silhouetted against window light at the end of a meeting with Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the Vatican.Max Rossi—Reuters
