TIME World Pictures of the Week

Pictures of the Week: Oct. 17 – 24

From the sentencing of Oscar Pistorius and a fatal shooting at the Canadian War Memorial, to a pair of white lion cubs in Serbia and Darth Vader on the campaign trail, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

TOPSHOTS-TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-KURDS South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Pistorius is seen in a police van after his sentencing at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria Campaigning for parliamentary elections in Ukraine APTOPIX Vatican Pope Police officers take cover near Parliament Hilll following a shooting incident in Ottawa Mexico Protest TOPSHOTS-INDIA-FESTIVAL-RELIGION-WOMEN Police officials examine the scene of an accident at a shopping district in Seongnam TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-KURDS *** BESTPIX *** The President Of The Republic Of Singapore Makes A State Visit To The UK TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-KURDS TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-ATTACK-FUNERAL TOPSHOTS-SAFRICA-KRUGER-RHINO-RELOCATION TOPSHOTS-FBL-EUR-C1-LIVERPOOL-REALMADRID World Series Giants Royals Baseball A man does his morning exercise on a polluted day by the side of a lake at Nanhu Park in Changchun APTOPIX Cuba Young Wrestlers Photo Gallery APTOPIX North Korea Daily Life BESTPIX Pakistan v Australia - 1st Test Day Two Dog worship day in Nepal TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT Kurdish refugee children from the Syrian town of Kobani play on improvised swings in the southeastern town of Suruc India Fire Northern Light in Norway Children, whose family moved to Islamabad from Sargodha in Punjab Province to look for work, stand outside their school at a slum in Islamabad eTree solar energy tree with USB connections and WiFi in Zichron Yacov John Kerry in Berlin A golfer hits a tee shot as African migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla APTOPIX Peru Lord of Miracles San Francisco 49ers v Denver Broncos Peyton Manning A woman watches television inside her makeshift home at the Nova Tuffy slum in an abandoned factory in Rio de Janeiro Palestinian children look out of the rear windscreen of a car as they pass damaged houses in the east of Gaza City HEALTH-EBOLA-MANUFACTURING-CHINA President Obama Meets With Dallas Nurse Nina Pham After Her Release From NIH Ottawa On Alert After Shootings At Nation's Capitol Ottawa On Alert After Shootings At Nation's Capitol Cirillo Memorial Hamilton Serbia White Lions Barack Obama Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops Arrive A turkish soldier walks near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border TURKEY-FEATURE

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