TIME World Pictures of the Week

Pictures of the Week: Aug. 29 – Sept. 5

From the eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano and the first day of school around the world, to a debutante ball in Rio de Janeiro and a giant hippo in London’s river Thames, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

 

 

Crisis in Ukraine A sculpture of a giant hippopotamus built by artist Florentjin Hofman is towed up the Thames past the Houses of Parliament in central London North Korea Daily Life APTOPIX Ukraine APTOPIX Mexico Fuel Spill APTOPIX Nicaragua Miners Trapped APTOPIX Brazil Favela Debutante Ball President Putin visits Chelyabinsk Wu, holds her daughter Yuanyuan, who is suffering from an unknown disease, as she looks out of the window on a taxi in Shenzhen ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST LEADS INTO DEADLY CHAOS IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN Fires at park Floresta Nacional in Brasilia Participants dance during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York APTOPIX Iceland Volcano Children who were transferred from orphanages in Donetsk and Makeyevka stand in their cribs in an orphanage in Kramatorsk TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-MILITARY Sri Lanka's cricket fans watch the match from a tree during the final ODI cricket match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Dambulla A competitor runs through a foam tunnel during the Brutal Run extreme obstacle course race in Budapest APTOPIX Ukraine TOPSHOTS-SLOVAKIA-AIRSHOW-FEATURE Mother says goodbye to her son, a volunteer in the Kurdish peshmerga forces, as he prepares to leave home for the front line near Tuz Khurmatu JAPAN-DISASTER-QUAKE-DRILL NEW SCHOOL YEAR STARTS IN RUSSIA Cuba Back to School TOPSHOTS-EGYPT-POLITICS-TRIAL The Colombian team performs during the Squad Compulsory Vaulting competition at the World Equestrian Games at the Zenith in Caen Claude Bares Edmonton Eskimos v Calgary Stampeders ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCY IS DECLARED IN MEXICO DUE THE DEATH OF FISH IN MEXICAN LAKE APTOPIX North Korea Daily Life Estonia: President of the United States of America Barack Obama Visits Tallinn APTOPIX India Daily Life Ultra Orthodox Jewish protest in Jerusalem against army conscription APTOPIX Peru Daily Life Melvic Choo, 13, takes the ashes of his father MH17 co-pilot Eugene Choo at his wake in Seremban TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-SYRIA-UN-CONFLICT-GOLAN Report: Syria militants holding Fiji peacekeepers issue demands Pope Francis General Audience - Sept 3 2014 Children play on the hills in Kathmandu Taiwan White Rabbit APTOPIX North Korea Daily Life TOPSHOTS-PAKISTAN-WEATHER-RAIN *** BESTPIX *** Sultan Tuanku Alhaj Abdul Halim Mu'Adzam Shah of Malaysia Visits China A man climbs down after partially chipping out the cross from the entrance of his house in Uttar Pradesh Fifth Latin American Conference on Drugs Policies in San Jose The Peacock - China Yang Liping's dance performance California Chrome Horse Racing 'Brightness Action' free eye surgical treatment campaign in Myanmar TOPSHOTS-SLOVAKIA-LANDSCAPE-SCIENCE-FEATURE DAILY LIFE AFTER THE WAR IN GAZA Misha goes to dentist in Zoo in Poznan

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