TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: August 23 – August 30, 2013

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Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2013. Storks fly over the border between Turkey and Syria, as they prepare to migrate in Hatay.





Molhem Barakat—Reuters
Aug. 31, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a rest in a safe house beside the Canadian Hospital in Aleppo.





Ammar Awad—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Hoshang Hashimi—AP
Aug. 30, 2013. The body of an alleged militant lies on the ground after an Afghan commando operation in Herat Province, Afghanistan.





Khaled Abdullah—Reuters
Sept. 2, 2013. A boy stretches as he exercises at a fitness center in Sanaa, Yemen.





Bernat Armangue—AP
Aug. 30, 2013. Israeli soldiers take part in a drill in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syria.





Leon Neal—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 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.





Ronny Adolof Buol—Demotix/Corbis
Aug. 29, 2013. Six tattoo artists work together on one women volunteer during Manado CityFest in Manado, Indonesia.





Omar Sobhani—Reuters
Sept. 1, 2013. A family walks through a cemetery in Kabul.





Al Golub—Zuma Press
Sept. 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.

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Roger Anis—AP
Aug. 30, 2013. Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a demonstration in Dalga Village, in northern Egypt.





Manu Brabo—AP
Aug. 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.





Dar Yasin—AP
Aug. 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.





Mohamad Torokman—Reuters
Aug. 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.





Ali Ali—EPA
Aug. 30, 2013. A Palestinian boy adjusts a flag used by the Syrian opposition in Al-Shaati refugee camp in Gaza Strip.





Francisco Seco—AP
Aug. 30, 2013. A Portuguese military soldier uses a hoe to fight against a wildfire in Caramulo, north Portugal.





Jeff J. Mitchell—Getty Images
Aug. 30, 2013. Highland dancers perform the Real of Tulloch during competition at the Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon, Scotland.





Rajesh Kumar Singh—AP
Aug. 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.





Oswaldo Rivas—Reuters
Aug. 31, 2013. Johascara performs at the family-owned circus Clavito in Managua, Nicaragua.





Grigore Popescu—AP
Aug. 31, 2013. Catholic clerics wearing scarves depicting Monsignor Vladimir Ghika attend his beatification religious service in Bucharest, Romania.

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Francisco Seco—AP
Aug. 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.





Ilia Yefimovich—Getty Images
Aug. 31, 2013. A monument of soldiers holding rifles in Mount Bental near Kibutz Merom Golan in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.





Uriel Sinai—Getty Images
Aug, 31, 2013. An Israeli man rides his horse past the 'Iron Dome' missile defense system as it is deployed in Tel Aviv, Israel.





Kazbek Basayev—Reuters
Sept. 1, 2013. People swim and dive in the Black Sea at the south Russian coastal resort of Sochi.





Jonathan Nickstrand—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2013. A man competes during the 10000 Volt obstacle as he competes during the Tough Viking race in Stockholm.





Pablo Blazquez Dominguez—Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2013. Horsemen ride in procession during the Agricultural Cavalcade in Tarifa, Spain.





Hasan Jamali—AP
Sept. 1, 2013. A Bahraini anti-government protester reacts to tear gas during clashes with riot police in Sehla, Bahrain.





Ahmed Alfardan—Zuma Press
Sept. 1, 2013. Masked anti-regime protesters march during the funeral of a martyr Sabt. in Sehla Village, Bahrain.





Ali Ail—EPA
Sept. 1, 2013. Palestinian spectators attend a horse race and show in the North of the Gaza Strip.





Ronem Zvulun—Reuters
Sept. 1, 2013. A horse stands near a water reservoir in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

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Jon Nazca—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Rahmat Gul—AP
Sept. 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.





Reuters
Sept. 2, 2013. Smoke rises from burning NATO supply trucks after a Taliban attack at Torkham district, in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan.





Molhem Barakat—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Abo Shuja—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 2, 2013. A rebel fighter and a child cross a damaged bridge in Syria's eastern town of Deir Ezzor.





AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 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 Malbrunot





Molhem Barakat—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Thomas Mukoya—Reuters
Sept. 2, 2013. A Congolese soldier guards suspected rebels arrested during an operation against M23 rebels in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.





Toru Hanai—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Darron Cummings—AP
Sept. 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.

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Danish Siddiqui—Reuters
Sept. 2, 2013. A man jumps over a water stream on a beach along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai.





Rob O'Neal—Barcroft Media/Landov
Sept. 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.





Joaquin Sarmiento—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 2, 2013. A man sells cotton candy as others sit by the fortress walls in the port city of Cartagena, Colombia.





Mahesh Kumar A.—AP
Sept. 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.





John Minchillo—AP
Sept. 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.





AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 2, 2013. Schoolchildren are pictured on the first day of the 2013-2014 academic year at their school in the province of Granma, Cuba.





Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno—Getty Images
Sept. 2, 2013. Gareth Bale greets the audience during his presentation as a new Real Madrid player at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on in Madrid, Spain.





Majdi Fathi—Zuma Press
Sept. 2, 2013. Palestinians compete during a horse race in Gaza City.





Reuters
Sept. 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.





Sanjay Kanojia—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 3, 2013. An Indian man clears debris from the banks of the Ganga river as the flood level recedes in Allahabad.

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Mohammad Ismail—Reuters
Sept. 3, 2013. Laborers work at a coal dump site outside Kabul.





David Albers—AP
Sept. 3, 2013. Fire, smoke and water damage covers an office inside the Greater Naples YMCA in Naples, Fla.





Mezar Matar—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 3, 2013. A rebel fighter carries homemade mortar rounds in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.





Nariman El-Mofty—AP
Sept. 3, 2013. Lebanese young adults prepare to jump into the Mediterranean Sea off the Corniche, or waterfront promenade, in Beirut, Lebanon.





Mario Ruiz—EFE/Sipa USA
Sept. 3, 2013. International NGO Greenpeace members protest dressed as polar bears holding banners in Santiago, Chile.





Cheng Min—Xinhua Press/Corbis
Sept. 3, 2013. Dead fish float on the Fuhe River in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.





Ammar Awad—Reuters
Sept. 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.





AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 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.





Marco Longari—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 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.





Mohammad Ismail—Reuters
Sept. 4, 2013. Afghan children climb onto a fence while playing as they sell tea in Kabul.

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Arun Sankar K.—AP
Sept. 4, 2013. An Indian Kathakali artist is reflected in a mirror as he dons make up prior to a performance in Chennai, India.





Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 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.





Andrew Burton—Getty Images
Sept. 4, 2013. Lawrence Payne practices backflips on his front lawn on in the Six Mile Gratiot neighborhood of Detroit, Mich.





Scanpix Sweden/Sipa USA
Sept. 4, 2013. Swedish police and army snipers are seen preparing on a roof at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden.





Jens Meyer—AP
Sept. 4, 2013. Workers inspect the bell during the annual maintenance at the Gloriosa bell in the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary) in Erfurt, central Germany.





Zurab Kurtsikidze—EPA
Sept. 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.





Pichi Chuang—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Peter Macdiarmid—Getty Images
Sept. 5, 2013. A woman practices yoga on the beach on in Sheerness, England.





Ali Ali—EPA
Sept. 5, 2013. A Palestinian child removes a migrant quail snared in a net on the beach of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip.





Ammar Awad—Reuters
Sept. 5, 2013. Orthodox Christian worshippers gather before the start of a procession outside Jerusalem's Old City.

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Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 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 Images
Sept. 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.





Edgar Su—Reuters
Sept. 5, 2013. Nick Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker who was born without limbs, swims with sharks at the Marine Life Park in Singapore.





Dylan Martinez—Reuters
Sept. 5, 2013. The early morning sun hits The Shard building as fog clears over London.





Pablo Martinez Monsivais—Reuters
Sept. 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—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Athit Perawongmetha—Reuters
Sept. 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.





Petar Kujundzic—Reuters
Sept. 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.