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Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Numerous tents are seen during the 2013 International I Camping Festival in Mount Wugongshan of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, September 15, 2013. The event which opened on September 14 attracted more than 15,000 campers from all over the world, according to Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken September 15, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Bahraini women write messages on boards as they take part in a rally in support of detained former Shiite opposition MP Khalil Marzuq in the village of al-Muqsha, west of Manama, on September 20, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Palestinian children play on the beach near the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on September 20, 2013. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
TOPSHOTS An old woman resident of a rural zone of Acapulco called Agua Caliente walks amid the rubble of of her home, in Guerrero state, Mexico on September 20, 2013. Mexico is reeling from the one-two punch of tropical storms Ingrid and Manuel, which have left a trail of destruction that damaged tens of thousands of homes, flooded towns and killed around 100 people. AFP PHOTO/ Claudio VARGAS
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils wait in line to cast their votes at a polling station during the northern provincial council election in Jaffna, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of the capital Colombo on September 21, 2013. Sri Lanka's minority Tamils began voting in an election they hope will give them a shot at self-rule after decades of ethnic bloodshed that claimed over 100,000 lives. AFP PHOTO/LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Visitors try to catch one of the first beers served during the opening of the traditional Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on September 21, 2013. The world's biggest beer festival Oktoberfest will run until October 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Brides to-be take the start in a charity event dubbed "Fuga de Novias" (the runaway brides) on September 21, 2013 in Granada. The winners will have their wedding ceremony paid for by event organisers. AFP PHOTO/ JORGE GUERRERO
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A Philippine marine blows off the dust on the muzzle of his rifle during a military exercise at the Crow Valley, Tarlac, north of Manila on September 21, 2013. The US and Philippines staged manoeuvres as part of annual military exercises the Philippines has deemed vital in building its defence capabilities. AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
US Jordan Robert Holm (red) and Finland's Rami Antero Hietaniemi (blue) fight during the men's Greco-Roman style 84 kg category qualification round of the FILA World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary on September 21, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A policeman carry's a baby to safety after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff, killing at least six on September 21, 2013 in Nairobi. The Gunmen have taken at least seven hostages, police and security guards told an AFP reporter at the scene. AFP PHOTO/SIMON MAINA
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A model presents a creation for fashion house Ermanno Scervino as part of the spring/summer 2014 ready-to-wear collections during the fashion week in Milan on September 21, 2013. AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Activists of the feminist movement FEMEN stage a barechested protest against an anti-abortion demonstration of christian group Pro Life in Berlin, Germany on September 21, 2013. AFP PHOTO / DPA/ FLORIAN SCHUH
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
An Israeli military helicopter flies off carrying the body of a soldier killed in the north of the occupied West Bank, near the town of Qalqilya, on September 21, 2013. Israel's internal security service Shin Bet said the suspect, a Palestinian from Beit Amin south of Qalqiliya, had confessed to abducting and killing the soldier in the hope of trading the body in exchange for the release of his brother, jailed by Israel in 2003 in connection with several attacks. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Russia's Albina Loginova competes during the Archery World Cup women's final match at the Trocadero gardens in Paris on September 21, 2013. Damsbo won the event ahead of Gellenthien and Pagni. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/FRANCK FIFE
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Picture taken with a long exposure time shows a giant wheel turning at the Oktoberfest beer festival on the Theresienwiese fair grounds in Munich, southern Germany, on September 21, 2013. The world's biggest beer festival Oktoberfest will run until October 6, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOF STACHE
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask rides a scooter during a protest near the Romanian Parliament building against the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), a Canadian gold mine project using cyanide, in Bucharest on September 21, 2013. People took to the streets to protest against plans by a Canadian company to open Europe's largest goldmine in a Transylvanian village. Canadian company Gabriel Resources hopes to extract 300 tons of gold using thousands of tons of cyanide in Rosia Montana, a picturesque village in the Carpathian mountains. The government recently adopted a bill clearing the way for the open cast mine. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/DANIEL MIHAILESCU
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Canada's Jessica Macdonald Bondy (R) fights against Ukraine's Yuliya Blahinya in the women's free style 51 kg category bronze medal match of the FILA World Wrestling Championships in Budapest on September 18, 2013. Macdonald Bondy won te bronze medal. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Potesters clash with police in the western Athens working class suburb of Keratsini on September 18, 2013, after a leftist musician was murdered by a suspected neo-Nazi. Pavlos Fyssas, a 34-year-old left-wing hip hop singer, was stabbed to death early today morning outside a Keratsini cafeteria.Police said a 45-year-old alleged member of the Golden Dawn neo-Nazi group arrested at the scene of the killing had confessed to stabbing Fyssas, who wrote music under the nickname Kilah P. Police fired tear gas at a small group of anti-fascism protesters who pelted them with wooden sticks and stones. AFP PHOTO / Louisa Gouliamaki
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd R) is briefed about tanks containing radioactive water by Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (4th L) in front of two tanks (back) which are being dismantled after leaking contaminated water, during his tour to the tsunami-crippled plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan on September 19, 2013. Abe told Fukushima's operator to fix radioactive water leaks as he toured the crippled nuclear plant on September 19, less than two weeks after assuring the world the situation was under control. AFP PHOTO / Japan Pool JAPAN OUT
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
An Egyptian armed policeman arrests two men on a road leading to the village of Kerdassah on the outskirts of Cairo, on September 19, 2013. A police general was killed when Egyptian security forces stormed Kerdassah in the latest crackdown on Islamist militants, security officials said. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A Syrian family leaves their home in Syria's eastern town of Deir Ezzor for safety reasons on September 19, 2013. Donor countries, among them France, Qatar and Russia, are failing to adequately fund the humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis, Oxfam said. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD ABOUD
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
President Francois Hollande of France (L) greets his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (R) on September 19, 2013, at the Bamako airport. Leaders from across Africa and France watched the inauguration of Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in front of thousands of his supporters today as the nation entered a new era of democracy after months of political chaos. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Nepalese mask dance locally known as Lakhe dance is performed during the 4th day of Indra Jatra festival at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on September 19, 2013. Nepal's week-long festival celebrates 'Indra', the king of gods and the god of rains. Every September, the living goddess is carried in a palanquin in a religious procession through parts of the Nepalese Capital. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Turkish police stand in front of fireworks thrown by demonstrators during a protest on September 19, 2013 outside the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. Since early September Turkish riot police is regularly confronting hundreds of university students in Ankara throwing stones and erecting barricades in protest against a project to build a road across part of their campus. AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Rubin Kazan's football team scores during the UEFA Europa League football match NK Maribor vs FC Rubin Kazan, in Maribor, on September 19, 2013. AFP PHOTO / RENE GOMOLJ
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Oracle Team USA crosses the finish line ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand during the 34th America's Cup September 19, 2013 in San Francisco. Team USA won the first race of the day; the second was postponed due to high winds. AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Fans react to the performance of American heavy metal band Metallica during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 20, 2013. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Pumpkin farmer Oliver Langheim - 'Pumpkin Olli' - shows off his 320 kilogram heavy Atlantic Giant pumpkin in his garden in Fuerstenwalde, Germany, on September 19, 2013. AFP PHOTO /DPA/ PATRICK PLEUL /GERMANY OUT
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Young Nepalese girls dressed in the outfit of a Kumari, the living goddess, pose during Kumari Puja rituals at Hanuman Dhoka in Durbar Square of Kathmandu on September 17, 2013. Some 504 girls under the age of nine from across the country have been brought to the temple for mass worship, protection from evil, and good luck in the future. Kumari, or Kumari Devi, is the tradition of worshiping young pre-pubescent girls as manifestations of the divine female energy or devi in Hindu religious traditions. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Indonesian farmers rush to harvest crops in the district of Karo as an ash cloud rises during a fresh eruption of the Mount Sinabung volcano on September 17, 2013. Thousands of villagers fled after Mount Sinabung's series of volcanic eruptions on Indonesia's Sumatra island, spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto surrounding villages, officials said. AFP PHOTO / SUTANTA ADITYA
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
This combination of handout photos obtained on September 17, 2013 from EADS shows a view taken by the Astrium satellite of the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in the harbour of Isola de Giglio (L) on September 12, 2013 and after it was turned upright (R) on September 17, 2013. Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck was turned upright on September 17, 2013 off the Italian island of Giglio in the biggest ever salvage operation of a passenger ship, officials said. AFP PHOTO / HO / CNES / Distribution Astrium Services
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Britain's Prince Harry warms his hands after a cold chamber training exercise with the Walking with the Wounded South Pole Allied Challenge 2013 British team at Nuneaton in central England, on September 17, 2013. The Prince and his four team-mates were subjected to ambient temperatures of minus 35C over a 20 hour period in the chamber. AFP PHOTO / DARREN STAPLES/POOL
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A Pakistani boy carries a sheep on his shoulders near a cattle market in Lahore on September 18, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Indian Hindu devotees dance as they take part in a procession for the immersion of a huge idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha into the Arabian Sea, on the streets of Mumbai on September 18, 2013. During the ten-day Ganesh Festival Hindu devotees bring home idols of Lord Ganesha and offer prayers in temporary temples in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity, culminating with the immersion of the idols in bodies of water, including the ocean on the tenth day. AFP PHOTO/ PUNIT PARANJPE
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Pakistani passengers travel on a decorated mini passenger bus in Karachi on September 18, 2013. Bus art has been very much in vogue in this port city and the owners of buses spend hundreds of thousand of rupees to beautify the exterior and interior of the buses with glittering and colorful metallic and plastic sheets. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh hugs get son Nima at her home in Tehran on September 18, 2013, after being freed after three years in prison. Sotoudeh told AFP she was in "good" physical and psychological condition, and pledged to continue her human rights work. Her release came a week before Iran’s new moderate President Hassan Rowhani, who has promised more freedoms at home and constructive engagement with the world, travels to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
esser 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, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. The "Coupe Icare" dedicated to free flight, orchestrates all the various types of flying such as hang gliding, paragliding and acrobatic sailplaneing. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
A Muslim woman holds a poster bearing a defaced image of Miss World 2012 Yu Wenxia of China during a rally demanding the cancellation of Miss World pageant in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. The 63rd edition of the Miss World pageant is currently underway as protests by Muslim hard-liners has confined the event to Indonesia's predominantly Hindu resort island of Bali. Writings on the poster read "Reject Miss World!!!". (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Contestant of the Muslimah World 2013 Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola of Nigeria gestures to a judge panel during the Muslimah World competition in Jakarta on September 18, 2013. A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital on September 18, a riposte to the Miss World contest in Bali that has drawn fierce opposition from Islamic radicals. AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Dog owners and their animals play in a pool during the Dog Bathing Day at the Stadionbad public swimming pool in Bamberg, southern Germany, on September 21, 2013. The public swimmingpool opened exclusively for animals for a day after the end of the outdoor swimming pool season. AFP PHOTO / DPA / DAVID EBENER / GERMANY OUT
Week in pictures Sept. 16 -Sept. 22
Supporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hold umbrellas in front of a giant portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in front of the party's headquarter in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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