TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: September 13 – September 20, 2013

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Andy Cross—The Denver Post
Sept. 14, 2013. A large section of Colorado U.S. 34 completely washed out from recent flooding of the Big Thompson River in the Big Thompson Canyon in Larimer County, Co.





Reuters
Sept. 15, 2013. Numerous tents are seen during the 2013 International Camping Festival on Mount Wugongshan in Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, China.





Sylvia Hui—AP
Sept. 17 2013. Models wear designs by Stella McCartney at her show during London Fashion Week.




Agieszka Sadowska—Agencja Gazeta/Reuters
Sept. 15, 2013. The spire of Saint Wojciech church collapses as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the church in Bialystok, eastern Poland.






Mike Groll—AP
Sept. 14, 2013. A cadet dressed in an alligator mascot outfit joins fellow cadets in a salute during the national anthem before an NCAA college football game between Army and Stanford in West Point, N.Y.





Krishnendu Halder—Reuters
Sept. 17, 2013. A man holds the hand of an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during idol immersion ceremony in Hussain Sagar Lake during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.





J. Scott Applewhite—AP
Sept. 17, 2013. The flags surrounding the Washington Monument fly at half-staff as ordered by President Barack Obama following the deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.





Michael Sohn—AP
Sept. 16, 2013. Supporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hold umbrellas in front of a giant portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in front of the party's headquarter in Berlin.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Sept. 16, 2013. An Afghan refugee washes her laundry in a polluted stream in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.





Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
Sept. 13, 2013. Free Syrian Army fighters play football in the Aleppo district of Salaheddine.

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Philippe Huguen—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2013. A view of the "Eurotunnel," which links France to Britain by rail, during the "Journees Europeennes du Patrimoine" ("European Heritage Days") in Coquelles, northern France.





John Wark—AP
Sept. 14, 2013. A section of highway is washed out by flooding along the South Platte River in Weld County, Co.





Baz Ratner—Reuters
Sept. 15, 2013. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish teen uses a magnifying glass to check a palm frond for blemishes at a market in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood.





Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 15, 2013. An amateur 'body fitness' competitor from China waits backstage during a bodybuilding contest in Zhengzhou, Henan province.





Headlinephoto/Splash News/Corbis
Sept. 15, 2013. Justin Bieber with Floyd Mayweather after he defeated Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas, Nevada.





Reuters
Sept. 15, 2013. Mount Sinabung spews ash and hot lava as it erupts near a mosque in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province.





Arif Ali—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 15, 2013. Pakistani people walk through a storm near the Ravi river in Lahore.





Tony Gentile—Reuters
Sept. 15, 2013. A lightning storm is pictured over the sea near the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia, outside Giglio harbor.






Alfredo Estrella—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 16, 2013. Helicopters fly over Zocalo Square in Mexico City during the celebration of the anniversary of Mexico's independence.





Xinhua/Landov
Sept. 16, 2013. Afghan schoolgirls look outside of their classroom at a school in Ghazni province in east Afghanistan.

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Koen Van Weel—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 16, 2013. Dutch cavalry horses and their riders are exposed to smoke as they undergo a stress test on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands.





Jorge Luis Plata—Reuters
Sept. 16, 2013. Pictures hang on a wall stained with watermarks showing the level floodwaters rose to, inside a house in San Cristobal Sola de Vega in Oaxaca state, Mexico.





Marco Ugarte—AP
Sept. 16, 2013. A soldier holds a sign reading in Spanish "I Love You," as the military participates in a celebration marking Independence Day in the capital's main Zocalo Plaze in Mexico City.





Athit Perawongmetha—Reuters
Sept. 16, 2013. Buddhist monks who are supporters of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), react during a protest as party leader Sam Rainsy announces the result of a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh.





J. Scott Applewhite—AP
Sept. 16, 2013. A statue at the U.S. Capitol is seen at sunset following the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.





Ahmed El-Malky—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2013. Egyptian toppled president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons Alaa (R) and Gamal stand behind bars during their trial at the Police Academy in Cairo.





Niranjan Shrestha—AP
Sept 17, 2013. A Nepalese mother applies last minute make up to her daughter, at the start of Kumari puja at Hanuman Dhoka, Basantapur Durbar Square, Katmandu, Nepal.





Andrew Cowie—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2013. Models present creations by Fashion East designer Ryan Lo during the 2014 Spring/Summer London Fashion Week in London.





Luay Sababa—Xinhua/Corbis
Sept. 17, 2013. A woman cries inside the Church of the Nativity, which is considered to be the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.





Pablo Blazquez Dominguez—Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2013. A bull charges over a photographer during the 'Toro de la Vega,' or 'Bull of the Plains' festival in Tordesillas, Spain.

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Joshua Lott—Reuters
Sept. 17, 2013. A Bank of India worker watches from a window as Occupy Wall Street protesters march along 47th Street in New York.





David de la Paz—Xinhua/Corbis
Sept. 16, 2013. Photographers take pictures of Mexican Air Force aircraft during the Military Parade for the 203rd anniversary of Mexico's Independence, in Mexico City.





Taipei Zoo/EPA
Sept 17, 2013. The panda cub born to Yuan Yuan, one of the two giant pandas donated by China, huddled in a basket at Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan.





Narciso Contreras—AP
Sept. 17, 2013. A Syrian opposition fighter rests inside a cave at a rebel camp in the Idlib Provence countryside, Syria.





Eugene Hoshiko—AP
Sept. 17, 2013. A manta ray swims in the Black Current sea tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu, on the southern island of Okinawa, Japan.





Suzanne Plunkett—Reuters
Sept. 17, 2013. Synchronized swimmers present creations from the Adidas by Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2014 collection during London Fashion Week.





Justin K. Aller—Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2013. Nick Hundley #4 of the San Diego Padres tags out Marlon Byrd #2 of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third inning during the game at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pa.





Andreas Solaro—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2013. A view of the wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship after emerging from water near the harbor of Giglio Porto, Italy.





Sept. 18, 2013. A Bangladeshi homeless woman sleeps at a bus stop in Dhaka.





Alexander Koerner—Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2013. The Dalai Lama unties his shoes during a speech on 'Strength Through Compassion and Tolerance' at the Swiss Life Hall in Hanover, Germany.

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Adek Berry—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2013. Contestants of the Muslimah World pageant take part in a rehearsal for the grand final of the contest in Jakarta.





J. David Ake—AP
Sept. 18, 2013. A photographer captures a moment in the reflecting pool near the Lincoln Memorial as the sun rises in Washington.





AP
Sept. 18, 2013. A Syrian opposition fighter sits at the top of a mountain in the vicinity of a rebel camp in the Idlib province countryside, Syria .





YT Haryono—Reuters
Sept. 18, 2013. Lightning strikes as Mount Sinabung spews ash and hot lava, at Simpang Empat village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province, Indonesia.





Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
Sept. 18, 2013. A Kurdish Free Syrian Army fighter holds out a doll while his fellow fighter takes shooting position in Ashrafieh, Aleppo.





Mohammed Salem—Reuters
Sept. 19, 2013. Palestinian boys stand with their bicycles on top of a sandhill, lit by streetlamps behind, near the beach in the northern Gaza Strip.





Arif Ali—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2013. A Pakistani boy carries a sheep on his shoulders near a cattle market in Lahore.





Divyakant Solanki—EPA
Sept. 18, 2013. Indian devotees carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha for immersion into the Arabian Sea as part of a ritual, in Mumbai, India





Tomas Bravo— Reuters
Sept. 18, 2013. A car lies partially submerged in floodwater at the golf course of a hotel in the flooded Mexican beach resort of Acapulco.





Sue Ogrocki—AP
Sept. 18, 2013. Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies examine the two cars pulled from Foss Lake, in Foss, Okla., authorities said they were working to identify six skeletons found in cars pulled from a lake in the remote southwestern corner of the state to determine if they are linked to decades-old missing persons cases.

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Ahmed Ramadan—AP
Sept. 19, 2013. Egyptian security forces help the lifeless body of Giza Police Chief Gen. Nabil Farag, center, who was killed after unidentified militants opened fire on security forces deployed early morning in the town of Kerdasa, near Giza Pyramids, Egypt,.





Beawiharta—Reuters
Sept. 19, 2013. A worker tightens a rope to raise a four-metre-high (13 ft) statue of horses at a new housing complex at Parung village in Bogor, Indonesia's West Java province.





Arun Sankar K.—AP
Sept. 19, 2013. Artists, with painted bodies, wait to perform during the annual 'Pulikali' or Tiger Dance in Thrissur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala.





Eloy Alonso—Reuters
Sept. 19, 2013. Children watch Bolivian dancers perform during a parade to mark the traditional "Day of America" festival, in central Oviedo, northern Spain.





Sergey Dolzhenko—EPA
Sept. 19, 2013. A Ukrainian National Circus artist performs with a raccoon during the presentation of the new show program 'The Caravan of Wonders' at the Ukrainian National Circus in Kiev.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Sept. 19, 2013. A Pakistani gestures to his friends, not pictured, while cooling off in a waterfall in Islamabad, Pakistan.





Alaa Badarneh—EPA
Sept. 20, 2013. A donkey is tied to a tree amid tear gas fired by Israeli troops after clashes broke out with Palestinians during the weekly protest against the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, near Nablus, West Bank.





Prakash Singh—AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 20, 2013. Religious offerings from devotees and leftover wooden frames of Lord Ganesh idols pile up in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India.