TIME World Pictures of the Week

Pictures of the Week: Aug. 15 – Aug. 22

From ongoing unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and the killing of Hamas leaders in Gaza to Pope Francis’ visit to South Korea and the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

APTOPIX Police Shooting Missouri Liberia Battles Spreading Ebola Epidemic TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-ULTRA-ORTHODOX-VACATION-DEAD SEA London Big Ben cleaning BESTPIX - 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships 2014 - Day 3 Pope Francis celebrates a mass for peace and reconciliation Aerobatic A man is doused with milk and sprayed with mist after being hit by an eye irritant from security forces trying to disperse demonstrators protesting against the shooting of Brown in Ferguson Men sleep covered with a mosquito net on a bridge above a train station outside Yangon TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-POLITICS-MILITARY A slipper lies near bloodstains on street after recent shelling in settlement of Makiivka, on outskirts of Donetsk Athletes compete in women's 200m freestyle heat at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing At Least 18 Killed In Hiroshima Landslides SAFRICA-MINING-MARIKANA-ANNIVERSARY POPE FRANCIS BEATIFICATION OF 124 KOREAN MARTYRS IN SOUTH KOREA APTOPIX Pakistan Demonstrators march down West Florissant during a peaceful march in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown, near Ferguson, Missouri APTOPIX Russia Ukraine Supporter of Mohammad Tahir ul-Qadri sits on a tree while listening to his speech with others during the Revolution March in Islamabad Camps for Yazidis in Turkey Demonstraters during clashes with police that erupted folwoing a mostly peacful protest at 12:30 AM on Wednesday, Aug 20, 2014 in Furguson, MO. Liberia Battles Spreading Ebola Epidemic A PALESTINIAN BRIDE, WHO LOST HER HOME DURING FIGHTING BETWEEN HAMAS AND ISRAEL, POSES DURING HER WEDDING CEREMONY, ALONG WITH TWO OTHER COUPLES, AT A UN SCHOOL *** BESTPIX *** Iraqis fleeing from IS assaults take shelter in Iraq's Dohuk city JSDF soldier searches for survivors at dusk at a site where a landslide swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-UNREST-FUNERAL On patrol with St. Louis Police Tacital Team Outrage In Missouri Town After Police Shooting Of 18-Yr-Old Man On patrol with St. Louis Police Tacital Team Liberia Battles Spreading Ebola Epidemic TOPSHOTS-CYCLING-NOR-ARCTIC-RACE EXPRESS-TIMES Statewide Drought Takes Toll On California's Lake Oroville Water Level TOPSHOTS-FRANCE-EQUESTRIAN-EVENTING ISRAEL KILLS THREE TOP HAMAS COMMANDERS Protests over Michael Brown shooting

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