TIME'S Best Pictures of the Week: July 19 – July 26, 2013

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Wong Maye-E—AP
July 22, 2013. Performers participate in the Arirang mass games in Pyongyang, North Korea.






Jay Allen—AFP/Getty Images/Ministry of Defense/LA(PHOT)
July 23, 2013. Crew members of the British warship HMS Lancaster celebrating the birth of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge's baby whilst on patrol in the Caribbean.






Francois Xavier Marit—AFP/Getty Images
July 21, 2013. Competitors in the men's 10-meter synchro platform preliminary diving event in the FINA World Championships at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuic in Barcelona.






Owen Humphreys—PA Photos/Landov
July 19, 2013. Golf fans watch the action from the stands on the first hole during day two of the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield Golf Club, East Lothian, UK.






Adnan Abidi—Reuters
July 19, 2013. School children eat their free mid-day meal, distributed by a government-run primary school in Brahimpur, a village in the Chapra district of the eastern Indian state of Bihar.






Lynne Sladky—AP
July 23, 2013. Jerseys are lined up on the field during an NFL football practice in Davie, Fla.






Ari Versiani—AFP/Getty Images
July 22, 2013. Pope Francis waves from the popemobile on his way to the Guanabara Palace after his arrival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






Mohammad Ismail—Reuters
July 23, 2013. Women walk on a windy day outside of Kabul.






Darek Delmanowicz—EPA
July 20, 2013. A historical reenactment of the events of the massacres of Poles in Volyn and Eastern Galicia in Radymno, Poland.






Ammar Awad—Reuters
June 22, 2013. Palestinian laborers from the West Bank illegally cross Israel's controversial barrier in the southern West Bank.

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Jeff Pachoud—AFP/Getty Images
July 19, 2013. Supporters wait for riders on the top of a mountain during the 19th stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Bourg-d'Oisans and Le Grand-Bornand, French Alps.






Vanderlei Almeida—AFP/Getty Images
July 19, 2013. A statue of John Paul II is seen in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Pope Francis celebrated a mass during the World Youth Day (WYD).






Felipe Dana—AP
July 20, 2013. A boy rides his horse alongside a polluted river in the Varginha area of the Manguinhos slum complex where Pope Francis will visit next week during his trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
July 20, 2013. Pakistani Muslims attend Taraweeh prayers during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad.






Brian Snyder—Reuters
July 20, 2013. Fans watch play as they stand on the 14th hole during the third round of the British Open golf championship at Muirfield in Scotland.






Gabriele Putzu—EPA
July 20, 2013. Germany's Anna Bader in action during the Cliff Diving European championships in Ponte Brella, Switzerland.






Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
July 20, 2013. Turkish police disperse anti-government protestors with water cannons during a protest at the entrance of Taksim Square in Istanbul.






Mauricio Duenas Castaneda—EPA
July 20, 2013. Handicapped Colombian soldiers participate at the traditional military parade to commemorate the 203rd Colombian Independence Anniversary held in the city of Bogota, Colombia.






Gerald Herbert—AP
July 20, 2013. Alvin Duplessis, 10, left, and Thomas McGriff, 5, foreground, hold signs with others from the Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Church of New Orleans, at a rally held in reaction to the recent George Zimmerman acquittal in New Orleans.






Brendon Thorne—Getty Images
July 21, 2013. Falun Gong Practitioners meditate on the 14th anniversary of the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in China in Sydney, Australia.

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Zheng Huansong—Zuma Press
July 21, 2013. A woman whose daughter was killed in a mass food poisoning sits with her other child in a village in the Saran District of the eastern Indian state of Bihar.






Michael Dwyer—AP
July 21, 2013. A member of the Fenway Park grounds crew walks on the tarp during a brief rain shower before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees in Boston, Sunday.






Aref Karimi—AFP/Getty Images
July 22, 2013. Afghan girls leave a religious school during the month of Ramadan in Herat.






Richard Baker—In Pictures/Corbis
July 22, 2013. Media photographers stand on tall stepladders as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending birth to a baby boy.






Ezra Acayan—Barcroft Media/Landov
July 22, 2013. Riot police hold their ground as protesters attempt to get closer to the House of Representatives where Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is set to deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Quezon city, Philippines.






Hussein Malla—AP
July 22, 2013. An man fires his weapon during clashes between opponents and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo.






Pilar Olivares—Reuters
July 22, 2013. Riot police fire rubber bullets at demonstrators during clashes near Guanabara Palace where Pope Francis met with President Dilma Rousseff in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






Cao Zhengping—Xinhua/Landov
July 22, 2013. Soldiers carry out a rescue mission after a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted Lalu Village, Hetuo Township, Minxian County, northwest China's Gansu Province.






Louafi Larbi—Reuters
July 22, 2013. A member of Algeria's special police force takes part in a ceremony to commemorate Algeria's 51st national police day in Algiers.






Ricardo Moraes—Reuters
July 22, 2013. Pope Francis waves as he leaves Guanabara Palace where he attended a welcoming ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Fred Dufour—AFP/Getty Images
July 22, 2013. A nurse sprays water to cool off an old woman at the geriatric hospital of Argenteuil as France swelters under a summer heatwave.






Uriel Sinai—Getty Images
July 22, 2013. A Jewish settler walks outside a house at the Jewish settlement outpost of Havat Gilad in the West Bank.






Uriel Sinai—Getty Images
July 22, 2013. Jewish settler children play outside their home on at the Jewish settlement outpost of Havat Gilad in the West Bank.






STR—AFP/Getty Images
July 22, 2013. Earthquake survivors building a tent for temporary housing on a clearing in the township of Majiagou in Minxian county in Dingxi, in northwest China's Gansu province.






Bogdan Maran—EPA
July 22, 2013. An easel is seen in the Forecourt of Buckingham Palace to announce the birth of a baby boy, at 4:24 p.m. to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at St Mary's Hospital, in London.






John Normile—Getty Images
July 22, 2013. Visitors to Niagara Falls receive notice of the sex of the royal baby indicated by the blue light illuminating the falls in Niagara Falls, New York.






David Guttenfelder—AP
July 22, 2013. North Korean women jump through hula hoops during the opening night of the "Arirang" mass games performance at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium.






Matt Dunham—AP
July 23, 2013. An impromptu picnic is had by children as supporters await the departure of Britain's Prince William, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince of Cambridge, outside the entrance of the private Lindo Wing at St. Mary's Hospital in London.






Cathal McNaughton—Reuters
July 23, 2013. Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, in central London.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
July 22, 2013. Pakistani students of a madrassa, or Islamic school, gather around their teacher during a test in reciting verses of the Quran, on the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in a Mosque in Islamabad.

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Mario Tama—Getty Images
July 23, 2013. A young pilgrim bows his head in prayer while wearing rain gear and attending Mass at opening ceremonies for World Youth Day on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






Joe Penney—Reuters
July 23, 2013. A woman holding a baby searches for her name on a list of eligible voters at an election center in Bamako, Mali.






Liu Xiao—Zuma Press
July 23, 2013. Villagers take part in the funeral held for their relative killed in deadly earthquake in Yongguang Village, Meichuan Township, Minxian County, northwest China's Gansu Province.






Mark Wilson—Getty Images
July 24, 2013. People stand in the marsh as a storm approaches, while waiting for the wild ponies in their annual swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague in Chincoteague, Virginia.






Mark Wilson—Getty Images
July 24, 2013. Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel during a rain storm for their annual swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague in Chincoteague, Virginia.






Torkil Adsersen—Scanpix Denmark/Sipa USA
July 22, 2013. Santas from all over the world parade in the streets of Copenhagen during the annual Santa Claus World Congress in Denmark.






Gary Wiepert—AP
July 23, 2013. The Canadian side of Horseshoe Falls is lit with lights in Niagara Falls, Canada.






The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images
July 23, 2013. In this long exposure image, 'Pearl Fuji,' the phenomenon the full moon sits on the summit of Mt. Fuji in Yamanakako, Yamanashi, Japan.






Andrew Biraj—Reuters
July 23, 2013. A student of a madrasa, or religious school, performs a prayer inside a mosque as he waits for iftar during the holy month of Ramadan in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Ali Ali—EPA
July 23, 2013. A Palestinian woman looks out from her family house in the Jabaliya refugee camp before breakfast during the holy month of Ramadan in North Gaza Strip.

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Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
July 23, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up a position as he aims his weapon inside a house in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighborhood.






Abir Sultan—EPA
July 24, 2013. An ultra-orthodox rabbi arrives to cast his vote for a new Chief Rabbi of Israel at Leonardo Hotel in east Jerusalem.






Caisii Mao—Zuma Press
July 24, 2013. A Man feeding a baby Parrot at a private residence in Dimapur, in India's north eastern state of Nagaland.






Camille Lepage—AFP/Getty Images
July 24, 2013. A member of the Lou Nuer tribe comes back home in the Yuai village, Uror county, Jonglei state in South Sudan after fighting against the rebel group of Yau Yau in Pibor county.






Mohamed Abdiwahab—AFP/Getty Images
July 24, 2013. Injured Somalis are given medical care after a bomb blast targeted at a Somali MP took place at Hamarweyne Market in Mogadishu.






Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
July 24, 2013. Doni, holds a chicken thrown by Hindu practitioners at the foot of Mount Bromo during the Yadnya Kasada Festival at Crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia.






Fully Handoko—EPA
July 24, 2013. Indonesian villagers use sarongs to catch offerings thrown by Hindu worshippers into the crater of Mount Bromo during the Kasada festival in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia.






Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images
July 24, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.






Stephen Crowley—The New York Times/Redux
July 24, 2013. A reflection of President Barack Obama captured as he boards Air Force One en route to Galesburg, Ill., at Andrews Air Force Base.






Noel Celis—AFP/Getty Images
July 24, 2013. Residents wade through water searching for salvageable materials after a fire razed a slum area in Manila, Philippines.

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Susana Vera—Reuters
July 24, 2013. Spanish riot police drag an anti-eviction activist down a staircase during the eviction of Susana Santiago Montoya and her family in Madrid.






Susana Vera—Reuters
July 24, 2013. Anti-eviction activist checks her phone as she camps outside the home of Susana Santiago Montoya and her family to try to prevent her eviction in Madrid.






Carlos Barria—Reuters
July 25, 2013. A man stands at the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong, in downtown Shanghai.






Shaam News Network/AFP/Getty Images
July 25, 2013. A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network allegedly shows the Khaled bin Walid mosque whose mausoleum has been partially destroyed in the al-Khalidiyah neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs.






Jason Lee—Reuters
July 25, 2013. A North Korean woman Kim Bu-ok cries as she mourns her father, who died during the 1950-1953 Korean War, after the opening ceremony of the Cemetery of Fallen Fighters of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Pyongyang, as part of celebrations ahead of the 60th anniversary of the signing of a truce in the war.






Wong Maye-E—AP
July 25, 2013. North Koreans walk among tombstones of soldiers who died from the war to pay their respects, at the cemeteries of fallen fighters of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Pyongyang.






Wong Maye-E—AP
July 25, 2013. North Korean schoolchildren sing in the park surrounding Kumsusan Palce of the Sun, the mausoleum where bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed in Pyongyang.






Jason Lee—Reuters
July 26, 2013. A painting featuring late North Korean leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung (L) at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia exhibition hall, during an event to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of a truce in the Korean War, in Pyongyang.






Silvia Izquierdo—AP
July 25, 2013. Pope Francis waves from his popemobile as arrives for a World Youth Day celebration at the Copacabana beachfront in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






Bazuki Muhammad—Reuters
July 26, 2013. Supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi hold his picture during a demonstration outside the Egyptian embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Altaf Qadri—AP
July 25, 2013. Indian Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran at a local Madrasa, or Muslim religious school, during Ramadan in New Delhi, India.






Jalil Rezayee—EPA
July 25, 2013. Locals are seen at a public Hammam (a kind of steam bath) in Herat, Afghanistan.






Joe Penny—Reuters
July 26, 2013. People search for their names on lists that indicate where to vote, in Timbuktu, Mali.






Sergei Karpukhin—Reuters
July 26, 2013. Member of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (C) is escorted before a court hearing to appeal for parole at the Supreme Court of Mordovia in Saransk, Russia.






Divyakant Solanki—EPA
July 25, 2013. A local child holds a colorful summer umbrella as a high wave hits the shoreline during high tide in the Arabian Sea along the promenade in Mumbai, India.