TIMES's Best Pictures of the Week: August 2 – August 9, 2013

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Pete Muller—The New York Times/Redux
Aug. 2, 2013. People at a quarry in Epworth, a suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe.






Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 7, 2013. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man blows a whistle during a protest against members of the liberal Jewish religious group Women of the Wall wearing phylacteries and the "Tallit" shawl, traditional Jewish prayer apparel for men, as they pray at the plaza near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, marking the first day of the Jewish month of Elul.






Narciso Contreras—The New York Times/Redux
Aug. 2, 2013. Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during a sit-in near Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in the Nasr City neighborhood of Cairo.






Loubna Mrie—Reuters
Aug. 4, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up a shooting position at the Seif El Dawla front in Aleppo.






Sergei Karpov—Zuma Press
Aug. 8, 2013. Soldiers stand next to a Cross during commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the 2008 Georgia - South Ossetia war.






Mark Kolbe—Getty Images
Aug. 5, 2013. A guard is seen walking in Red Square ahead of the IAAF World Championships on in Moscow.






Frank Rumpenhorst—DPA/Landov
Aug. 7, 2013. A young woman climbs and jumps along the Eschbacher cliffs in front of a grey sky near Usingen, Germany.






Banaras Khan—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2013. Pakistani men cross a flooded street during heavy monsoon rain in Quetta.






Ahmed Al-Fardan—Zuma Press
Aug. 2, 2013. Anti-government protesters and riot police clashes during a protest in Abu Saiba, Bahrain.






Brian Snyder—Reuters
Aug. 6, 2013. A horse and rider perform during a "sneak peek" performance of Cavalia's show "Odysseo" in Somerville, Mass.

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Majdi Fathi—NurPhoto/Sipa USA
Aug. 6, 2013. A Palestinian man driving a camel on the shore of the Sea of Gaza City at sunset.






David McNew—Reuters
Aug. 7, 2013. A smoldering mountainside is seen under the stars at the Silver Fire near Banning, Calif.






Ina Fassbender—Reuters
Aug. 6, 2013. A worker controlling the tapping of a blast furnace at Europe's largest steel factory operated by Germany's industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in the western German city of Duisburg.






David McNew—Reuters
Aug. 7, 2013. Wind-blown embers fly from an ancient oak tree that burned in the Silver Fire near Banning, Calif.






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Aug. 5, 2013. A performer blows fire from his mouth as he performs in front of the historical monument Charminar during the annual Hindu religious festival of Bonalu in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.






Altaf Qadri—AP
Aug. 7, 2013. An Indian woman adjusts her sari after she got wet in the monsoon rains in New Delhi.






Jianan Yu—Reuters
Aug. 2, 2013. A woman wearing a dress and a headgear inspired by traditional Chinese costume poses for pictures in Lijiang, Yunnan province.






M. Andika—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 7, 2013. An Indonesian man with his son pray after offering flowers on the dried volcanic mud for family members who died during a volcano eruption in Sidoarjo in eastern Java island, as Indonesians mark Eid al-Fitr with pilgrimages to cemeteries to remember their dead.






Yorgos Karahalis—Reuters
Aug. 2, 2013. A firefighting airplane drops water over a forest fire at Markopoulo region a few miles southwest of Athens.






John Schults—Reuters
August 4, 2013. The shadow of a semi-rigid and helium-filled airship, the Zeppelin NT, is cast on a harvested wheat field as it approaches an airport outside Cergy-Pointoise, near Paris.

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Sanjay Kanojia—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2013. An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad.






Wang Fei—Xinhua Press/Corbis
Aug. 7, 2013. Master Liu Yiming presents martial arts during a martial arts festival at the Tianshan Mountain scenic area in Fukang City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.






Ozan Kose—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 5, 2013. A protestor throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with police and gendarmes blocking the access to a courthouse in Silivri, near Istanbul after a court decision to sentence a former army chief and other top brass to life in prison in a high-profile trial of 275 people accused of plotting to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government.






Thomas Lohnes—Getty Images
Aug. 3, 2013. Kevin Grossstueck performs in the 2013 German Pole Dancing Championships in Frankfurt, Germany.






Francois Xavier—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 2, 2013. In a picture taken with an underwater camera, Britain's Jazmin Carlin competes in the heats of the women's 800-metre freestyle swimming event in the FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.






Mark Bridger—HotSpot/Landov
Aug. 6, 2013. A British kingfisher cools off in the waters in Kent before taking off with his dinner.






Brian Snyder—Reuters
Aug. 6, 2013. Horses and rider Elise Verdoncq perform during a "sneak peek" performance of Cavalia's show "Odysseo" in Somerville, Mass.






Uriel Sinai—Getty Images
Aug. 5, 2013. A Yellow scorpion glows in the dark near Sde Boker in the Negev Desert, Israel.






Aly Song—Reuters
Aug. 6, 2013. A child enjoys the water in a public swimming pool at a suburban area of Shanghai.






Matt Cardy—Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2013. A balloon is inflated at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta at the Ashton Court estate in Bristol, England.

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Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Aug. 9, 2013. Nepalese Muslims leaves after a mass prayer during Eid al-Fitr celebrations at the Kashmiri Takiya Jame mosque in Kathmandu.






Rajesh Kumar Singh—AP
Aug. 3, 2013. A Hindu devotee known as kanwaria offers prayers in Allahabad, India.






AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 7, 2013. The body of an elephant is covered with flowers offered by villagers on the Kelidan Tea estate in Nagaon, east of Gawahuti, India.






Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2013. A toy seller rides on 'sea of sands' as Indonesian Muslim people perform Eid Al-Fitr prayer at Parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.






Jan Woitas—DPA/Landov
Aug. 2, 2013. Visitors walk through the panorama "Leipzig 1813" about the Battle of Nations in the Panometer in Leipzig, Germany.






Rebecca Blackwell—AP
Aug. 5, 2013. A man washes off after bathing in the ocean, while in the background, a boat that ran aground by the Madeleine Islands lists to one side, just off the coast of Dakar, Senegal.






Andrew Burton—Getty Images
Aug. 2, 2013. A man cools off with a hose in the Willet's Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.






Carl Court—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2013. A member of staff poses next to a Triceratops skull at Christies auction house in central London.






Francois Xavier Marit—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 3, 2013. Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli reacts after competing in the heats of the men's 1500-metre freestyle swimming event in the FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.






Karl-Josef Hildenbrand—DPA/Corbis
Aug. 8, 2013. The Pilgrimage Church is visible behind a field of red cabbage near Bergtheim, Germany.

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Carlos Barria—Reuters
Aug. 6, 2013. A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun as she crosses a busy street in downtown Shanghai.






Joe Penny—Reuters
Aug. 8, 2013. A Malian national guardsman takes up a post along a street outside the Grand Mosque before Eid al-Fitr prayers in Bamako.






Steven Chen—Reuters
Aug. 3, 2013. People, holding placards of a bleeding eye, take part in a demonstration in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan.






Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Aug. 9, 2013. Tears roll from the eyes of a Muslim boy after he applied kohl to his eyelid before Eid al-Fitr mass prayers at the Kashmiri Takiya Jame mosque in Kathmandu, Napal.