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Pictures of the Week: September 20 – September 27

From the Westgate Shopping Center massacre and Yankee closer Mariano Rivera's final home game to a new island that emerged from the sea and a crib-full of baby pandas, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

From the Westgate Shopping Center massacre and Yankee closer Mariano Rivera’s final home game to a new island that emerged from the sea and a crib-full of baby pandas, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Breeders take care of giant panda cubs inside a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu Visitors take pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou APTOPIX North Korea Christian Moulec Miley Cyrus performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas China Apple New iPhones APTOPIX Mideast Israel Daily Life APTOPIX Mideast Syria Barack Obama TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-RELIGION-EVANGELICAL-CHRISTIAN-SUKKOT World News - Sept. 26, 2013 Laborers cut grass in the City of Knowledge in Panama City APTOPIX Philippines US Military TOPSHOTS-BRAZIL-MUSIC-ROCK IN RIO-NICKELBACK A police officer secures an area as civilians flee inside Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi Death toll hits 30 after Nairobi shopping mall attack A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi APTOPIX  Nicaragua Sweet 15 Party A model poses for photos backstage at the presentation of the Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week TOPSHOTS-CHINA-QINGDAO TOPSHOTS-GERMANY-LIFESTYLE-BEER-FESTIVAL-OKTOBERFEST A man dodges tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou Israeli soldiers carry the body of a fellow soldier who was killed near the West Bank town of Qalqilya onto a military helicopter TOPSHOTS-PHILIPPINES-US-MILITARY APTOPIX India Daily Life APTOPIX Mideast Syria Weekend of Violence Photo Gallery *** BESTPIX *** 2013 Sydney Running Festival Gerlinde Moser wearing a traditional Black Forest costume fills her ballot in the general election (Bundestagswahl) at a polling station in Hornberg Giant panda cubs lie in a crib at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu CHINA-CHENGDU-LONDON-DIRECT FLIGHT (CN) A stuffed teddy bear chair lies slumped over in the flooded Eastwood Village in Evans, Colorado A memorial to a cyclist who was killed in Prague's traffic called Bike to Heaven Funeral of Staff-Sgt. Gabriel Kobi TOPSHOTS-PAKISTAN-UNREST-ATTACKS-CHRISTIAN APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur - Capital One Cup Third Round APTOPIX Italy Ship Aground Typhoon Usagi Kills 25 In Southern China FRANCE-WINE-HARVEST-NIGHT-BEAUJOLAIS TOPSHOTS-FRANCE-HARVESTING-CHAMPAGNE Nairobi Westgate shopping mall shooting Wat Arun or Temple of Dawn closed for maintenance for three years Labourers set up scaffolding to clean a statue of China's late chairman Mao Zedong for the upcoming Chinese National Day at Tianfu Square in Chengdu, Sichuan province General Debate of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly President Obama at the UN General Assembly BESTPIX  Senate Republicans Speak To The Press After Weekly Policy Meetings Flood fishing TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-HEBRON Palestinian groom Ahmed Soboh and his bride Tala stand inside Tala's house which damaged during Israeli strike in 2009, during wedding party in Beit Lahiya APTOPIX Afghanistan Alexander Podrabinek APTOPIX Spain Financial Crisis Evictions Pakistan Daily Life APTOPIX Mideast Syria A mahout bathes as he stands atop his elephant in the waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi CORRECTION-PAKISTAN-QUAKE APTOPIX South Korea North Korea Nuclear SAILING-US-AMERICAS-CUP APTOPIX Mideast Yemen India Hindu Festival Kenya Begins Three Days Of National Morning Following The Westgate Shopping Mall Attack Death Toll in Kenyan Seige Expected To Rise GERMANY-DANCE-PERFORMANCE-WALTZ A Palestinian man pulls a donkey into the sea for a wash in Gaza Tampa Bay Rays v New York Yankees New York Yankees Rivera clutches dirt from the mound as he leaves his home field for the final time after their loss to Tampa Bay Rays during their MLB American League game in New York

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