TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: September 20 – September 27, 2013

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China Daily/Reuters
Sept. 23, 2013. Breeders take care of giant panda cubs inside a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.





Chance Chan—Reuters
Sept. 22, 2013. Visitors take pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.





David Guttenfelder—AP
Sept. 22, 2013. North Koreans ride on an amusement park ride while watching a 3D movie at the Rungna People's Pleasure Park in Pyongyang.





Francois Mori—AP
Sept. 21, 2013. Lesser White-fronted Geese prepare to land next to French pilot and migratory bird protector Christian Moulec (unseen) on a ultra light flight during the 40th Icare Cup paragliding festival in Saint Hilaire du Touvet, French Alps.





Steve Marcus—Reuters
Sept. 21, 2013. Miley Cyrus performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nev.





Andy Wong—AP
Sept. 20, 2013. Chinese employees cheer a customer after he bought a new iPhone at an Apple store in the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing.





Enrique Marcarian—Reuters
Sept. 20, 2013. A model walks with a dog presenting a creation by designers Karen Reichardt and Mariela Schiavo during the so-called "2013 Spring-Summer Caribbean Colour Paws" show in Buenos Aires.





Oded Balilty—AP
Sept. 23, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men watch Israeli surfers during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod.





AP
Sept. 20, 2013. Free Syrian Army fighters take cover moments after shelling a rocket on government forces in Kafr Nboudah village, Idlib province, northern Syria.





Charles Dharapak—AP
Sept. 22, 2013. President Barack Obama leaves the stage after he spoke at a memorial service for the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting at Marine Barracks in Washington.

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Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 20, 2013. A woman dances during a prayer of thousands of evangelical Christian pilgrims on the Dead Sea shore in Ein Gedi in the Judean Desert, during their the annual visit to Israel to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles) and to express solidarity with Israel.





E]Jhonpaz—Xinhua/Zuma Press
Sept. 26, 2013. Prisoners participate during the celebration of the Virgin of Mercy, in El Buen Pastor jail, in Bogota, Colombia.





Carlos Jasso—Reuters
Sept. 20, 2013. Laborers cut grass in the City of Knowledge in Panama City.





Aaron Favila—AP
Sept. 20, 2013. Filipino Marines and US Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit BOXER Amphibious Ready Group based in Okinawa, Japan drop off from a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter during a joint military exercise called Philippines-U.S. Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) in Ternate, Cavite province, southern Philippines.





Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 20, 2013. Fans react as Canadian rock band Nickelback performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.





Siegfried Modola—Reuters
Sept. 21, 2013. A police officer (C) secures an area as civilians flee inside Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya.





Kabir Dhanji—EPA
Sept. 21, 2013. Rescuers carry an injured woman away from the Westgate Shopping Center after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya.





Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
Sept. 21, 2013. A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya.





Esteban Felix—AP
Sept. 21, 2013. Nicaraguan girls suffering from cancer prepare for a "quinceañera" party in Managua, Nicaragua.





Max Rossi—Reuters
Sept. 21, 2013. A model poses for photos backstage at the presentation of the Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week.

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Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 21, 2013. A Chinese weightlifter flexes his muscles at an outdoor gym on a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province.





Christof Stache—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 21, 2013. Picture taken with a long exposure time shows a fun ride turning at the Oktoberfest beer festival on the Theresienwiese fair grounds in Munich, southern Germany.





Chance Chan—Reuters
Sept. 21, 2013. A man dodges tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.





Ammar Awad—Reuters
Sept. 21, 2013. Israeli soldiers carry the body of a fellow soldier who was killed near the West Bank town of Qalqilya onto a military helicopter.





Noel Celis—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 21, 2013. A Philippine marine walks among grass stalks during a military exercise at the Crow Valley, Tarlac, north of Manila.





Biswaranjan Rout—AP
Sept. 21, 2013. A villager throws his fishing net into giant rainwater puddles on the banks of the Kuakhai River on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India.





AP
Sept. 22, 2013. A Syrian man with more than half his body burnt from an air strike leaves a field hospital to go back home at a village turned into a battlefield with government forces in Idlib province, northern Syria.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Sept. 22, 2013. Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.





Cameron Spencer—Getty Images
Sept. 22, 2013. Competitors run under the Sydney Harbor Bridge during the 2013 Sydney Running Festival in Sydney, Australia.





Vincent Kessler—Reuters
Sept. 22, 2013. Gerlinde Moser wearing a traditional Black Forest costume fills her ballot in the general election (Bundestagswahl) at a polling station in Hornberg in the Black Forest, Germany.

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China Daily/Reuters
Sept. 23, 2013. Giant panda cubs lie in a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.





Li Qiaoqiao—Xinhua/Landov
Sept. 23, 2013. Flight BA89 of British Airways is washed at the Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.





Rick Wilking—Reuters
Sept. 23, 2013. A stuffed teddy bear chair lies slumped over in the flooded Eastwood Village in Evans, Colorado.





Filip Singer—EPA
Sept. 23, 2013. A view of a silver-covered bicycle mounted in a public city lamp post, called Bike to Heaven is seen in Prague, Czech Republic.





Oliver Weiken—EPA
Sept. 23, 2013. The brother of Staff-Sgt. Gabriel Kobi is comforted by another family member during his funeral in Haifa, northern Israel.





Arif Ali—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 23, 2013. Pakistani Christians hold a burning tire as they stage a protest in Lahore against the suicide bombing of a church in Peshawar.





Bernat Armangue—AP
Sept. 23, 2013. Palestinians throw stones toward Israeli soldiers, not pictured, in the West Bank city of Hebron.





Laurence Griffiths—Getty Images
Sept. 24, 2013. Jan Verttonghen of Tottenham Hotspur hangs on to the shorts of Nicklas Helenius of Aston Villa during the Capital One Cup third round match between Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.





Andrew Medichini—AP
Sept. 23, 2013. Captain Francesco Schettino adjusts his trousers as he walks in the court room of the converted Teatro Moderno theater for his trial, in Grosseto, Italy.





ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
Sept. 23, 2013. A hippopotamus from Shantou Zoo swims in a nearby river after the zoo became submerged by flood waters, allowing the hippopotamus to swim across the zoo's boundary fence in Shantou, China.

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Philippe Desmazes—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 24, 2013. A picker working overnight cuts grapes at dawn on the first day of the Beaujolais' harvest in the "Moulin a Vent" vineyard, near Chenas, Beaujolais, eastern France.





Francois Nascimbeni—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 24, 2013. People take part in the grape harvest for the Champagne house Koza-Janot in Buxeuil, France.





Kabir Dhanji—EPA
Sept. 24, 2013. Kenyans arrive at Uhuru Park to donate blood for victims of the Westgate Shopping Center terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.





Narong Sangnak—EPA
Sept. 24, 2013. A Thai Buddhist novice walks up to the top of the ancient pagoda at Wat Arun or the 'Temple of Dawn' in Bangkok, Thailand.





Reuters
Sept. 24, 2013. Laborers set up scaffolding to clean a statue of China's late chairman Mao Zedong for the upcoming Chinese National Day at Tianfu Square in Chengdu, Sichuan province.





Justin Lane—EPA
Sept, 24, 2013. Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, is seen on screens as he speaks during the general debate of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA.





Allan Tannenbaum—Polaris
Sept. 24, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations.





Alex Wong—Getty Images
Sept. 24, 2013. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leaves after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Committee luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington.





Francis R. Malasig—EPA
Sept. 24, 2013. Filipino riflemen shoot fish at a flood control facility in Taguig city, south of Manila, Philippines.





Hazem Bader—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 24, 2013. A Palestinian woman looks at Israeli security forces standing outside her door as they monitor the streets during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, near the Jewish settlements of Beit Hadassa and Tal Romeda.

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Mohammed Salem—Reuters
Sept. 24, 2013. Young Palestinian groom Ahmed Soboh, 15, and his bride Tala, 14, stand inside Tala's house which was damaged during an Israeli strike in 2009, during their wedding party in the town of Beit Lahiya, near the border between Israeli and northern Gaza Strip.





Ahmad Jamshid—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. Afghan female police officers share a joke during a training session at the Police Academy in Kabul.





Ivan Sekretarev—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. Russian journalist Alexander Podrabinek holds a portrait of jailed Pussy Riot punk group member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, with shadows of reporters in front, during a protest outside of the Federal Prison Administration headquarter in Moscow.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. Police remove the door and push away a refrigerator as they break into Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero's apartment to evict her and her family in Madrid.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. A Pakistani child lies in a bed outside his family's makeshift home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan.





AP
Sept. 25, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his son outside their home in Habit village, the Syrian central province of Hama.





Anindito Mukherjee—Reuters
Sept. 25, 2013. A mahout bathes as he stands atop his elephant in the waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi.





AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 25, 2013. An island that rose from the sea following an earthquake as seen from Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.





Lee Jin-man—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. A South Korean soldier stands at the Military Armistice Committee meeting room at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea.





Noah Berger—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 25, 2013. A fireboat sprays water as Oracle Team USA celebrates its victory over Emirates Team New Zealand in the 34th America's Cup.

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Hani Mohammed—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. Yemeni boy scouts hold fireworks during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of North Yemen's Sept. 26, 1962 revolution in Sanaa, Yemen.





Tsering Topgyal—AP
Sept. 25, 2013. An artist prepares an idol at a workshop ahead of Durga Puja festival in New Delhi.





Uriel Sinai—Getty Images
Sept. 25, 2013 A cemetery worker looks on as friends and relatives mourn during a funeral service for Selima Merali (41) and her daughter Nuriana Merali (15), who were killed in the attack by gunmen at the Westgate Shopping Centre, in Nairobi, Kenya.





Getty Images
Sept. 26, 2013. The remains of cars and other debris can be seen in a general view photographed from the rooftop, of the parking lot outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.





Uli Deck—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 26, 2013. A dancer perfoms the play "Wolke" (Cloud, 2002) by German choreographer Sasha Waltz as part of the exhibition 'Sasha Waltz - Installations Objects Performances' at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZMK) in Karlsruhe, western Germany.





Mohammed Salem—Reuters
Sept. 26, 2013. A Palestinian man pulls a donkey into the sea for a wash in Gaza.





Al Bello—Getty Images
Sept. 26, 2013. Mariano Rivera #42 of the New York Yankees waves to the crowd after leaving the game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth inning during their game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City.





Ray Stubblebine—Reuters
Sept. 26, 2013. New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera clutches dirt from the mound as he leaves his home field for the final time after their loss to the Tampa Bay Rays during their MLB American League game at Yankee Stadium in New York. Rivera will retire after the end of the season.

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