TIME World Pictures of the Week

Pictures of the Week: Aug. 22 – Aug.29

From Michael Brown’s funeral and a cease fire in Gaza, to swarms of locusts in Madagascar and the US Open Tennis Championships, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Michael Brown Sr. yells out as his son's casket is lowered into the ground at St. Peter's Cemetery in St. Louis ACTIVITY OF ECUADORIAN VOLCANO TUNGURAHUA Patients and relatives gather at a hospital basement after an early-morning shelling that hit the hospital compound in central Donetsk, Ukraine APTOPIX Mideast Israel UN Syria Peacekeepers Friends and relatives of four-year-old Israeli boy Daniel Tregerman mourn during his funeral near the border with the Gaza Strip APTOPIX Mexico Child Migrant Overload India Daily Life 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games - Day 10 Sailors man the rails of the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, as it departs its home port in San Diego, California TOPSHOTS-AUTO-RALLY-WRC-GER Japan Copes With First Dengue Fever Case In Nearly 70 Years Ferguson mourns shooting of Michael Brown TOPSHOTS-SPAIN-FESTIVAL-TOMATINA Crisis in Ukraine US Open Tennis Championships 2014 Day Four Flushing Meadows, New York, United States - 28 Aug 2014 CHILE-SANTIAGO-EARTHQUAKE Michael Brown laid to rest TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA Ryan Stark A dying bird covered in spilled oil lies on a rock on the banks of the San Juan river in Cadereyta AFGHANISTAN-RELIGION-WOMEN Crisis in Ukraine European Swimming Championships 2014 in Berlin Exhibition 'Ilya y Emilia Kabakov. Angelology: Utopia and Angels' APTOPIX Pakistan TOPSHOTS-PHILIPPINES-ACCIDENT-FIRE INDIA-WEATHER-MONSOON A cloth covered idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh is pictured at a roadside workshop in New Delhi TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades' press statement in Shujaya TOPSHOTS-MADAGASCAR-LOCUST-ENVIRONMENT TOPSHOTS-SKOREA-CHINA-TOURISM-ECONOMY PNG-VOLCANO Bangladeshi aluminum workers APTOPIX India Hindu Festival *** BESTPIX *** Fontwell Races Gareth Bale ISRAEL-CEASEFIRE PROPOSAL-ACCEPTED Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican Jill Vardy TOPSHOTS-AFGHANISTAN-PRISON-WOMEN Malaysia's 57th Independence Day celebration AFGHANISTAN-UNREST-SECURITY A burial team in protective clothing removes the body an Ebola victim from an isolation ward in Monrovia, Liberia. A makeshift memorial for Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by a police officer on Aug. 9, on the spot where he was killed in Ferguson, Mo.

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