TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: Sept. 12 – Sept. 19, 2014

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Sept. 13, 2014. The Bardarbunga volcano, beneath Iceland's Vatnajokull glacier is seen erupting.





Sept. 14, 2014. Palestinian students inspect their destroyed classroom on the first day of classes in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.





Sept. 15, 2014. Piglets are carried over floodwaters in suburban San Mateo, Philippines.





Sept. 14, 2014. Qatar's Nasser al-Attiyah powers through a water crossing in a Ford on the final day of the Rally of Australia, near Lowanna, Australia.





Sept. 14, 2014. A fire approaches the shore of Bass Lake, Calif.,





September 2014. A casket team of the Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment folds the national flag over the casket during a burial service for U.S. Army Private First Class Bernard Gavrin, at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.





Sept. 16, 2014. A man takes shelter amid strong rainfall in Zhanjiang, China,





Sept. 14, 2014. Ellie Goulding performs during the closing ceremony for the Invictus Games at Olympic Park in London.





Sept. 17, 2014. Scottish flags fly from fence posts near Portree on the Isle of Skye.





Sept. 18, 2014. Law enforcement officers gather before a funeral service for Pennsylvania State Trooper Cpl. Bryon Dickson in Scranton, Pa.

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Sept. 12, 2014. Wrestlers seen practicing in the mud at a traditional wrestling rink in Uttar Pradesh, India.





Sept. 16, 2014. Mountain guides used lamps to illuminate the Matterhorn, in preparation for the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of the mountain, Switzerland.





Sept. 16, 2014. A member of the Air Force carrying a predatory bird looks toward the President as they march past the National Palace during an annual Independence Day parade by Mexico's Armed Forces in central Mexico City.





Sept. 14, 2014. An aerial picture shows lava flowing out of the Bardarbunga volcano in southeast Iceland.





Sept. 16, 2014. A mannequin floats in the floodwaters along a street in Srinagar, India.





Sept. 13, 2014. Debutantes check their seating allocation before the start of the Queen Charlotte's Ball at Highclere Castle near Newbury, England.





Sept. 16, 2014. A cat is seen walking on top of a fence near Sehnde, Germany.





Sept. 13, 2014. Members of the President's Own Marine Band stand during a fireworks display commemorating the bicentennial of the writing of The Star-Spangled Banner at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.





Sept. 17, 2014. A firefighter monitors a backfire as he battles the King Fire in Fresh Pond, California.





Sept. 14, 2014. Pope Francis celebrates the wedding of 20 couples in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

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Sept. 12, 2014. A Ukrainian fighter wearing a non-official uniform stands next to tank in a military camp based on a front line near Pervomaysk city of Lugansk region, Ukraine.





Sept. 14, 2014. Kashmiri flood victims wade through receding flood waters as they walk back after collecting relief material in village Teing near Srinagar, India.





Sept. 13, 2014. Health workers burn used protection gear at a Medecins Sans Frontieres center in Conakry, Guinea.





Sept. 16, 2014. A Palestinian Bedouin from the Jahalin tribe stands in the doorway of his home in the Judea desert, east of Jerusalem, West Bank.





Sept. 12, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton at the White House in , Washington, D.C.





Sept. 18, 2014. Chinese workers set up giant decoration flowers in preparations for National Day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.





Sept. 18, 2014. A rebel fighter holds a position in a rebel-held area of of Aleppo, Syria.





Sept. 17, 2014. A Syrian woman with her four children begs on the street in Istanbul.





Sept. 15, 2014. The horizon is seen through a telescopic rifle belonging to a Kurdish Peshmerga sniper on the front line in the Gwer district, Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq.





Sep. 13, 2014. A flood victim asks for relief material from Indian police personnel in Srinagar, India.

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Sept. 15, 2014. Members of Ukrainian police special task force "Sich" take part in a drill at their base in Slaviansk, Ukraine.





Sept. 17, 2014. Firefighters take pictures with their cell phones as they monitor a backfire while battling the King Fire in Fresh Pond, California.





Sept. 13, 2014. Shadows cast by Lithuania's Adas Juskevicius and Antoine Diot of France are seen during a game for the third place of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2014 in Madrid.





Sept. 12, 2014. Players walk in the mist at the 13th hole during Day 2 of the KLM Open held at De Kennemer Golf and Country Club on in Zandvoort, Netherlands.





Sept. 14, 2014. A man takes a bath in a stream on the outskirts of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region,.





Sept. 18, 2014. Palestinian students in a school in Gaza City.





Sept. 13, 2014. Pope Francis prays by the gravestones in an Austro-Hungarian cemetery in Fogliano di Redipuglia, northern Italy.





Sept. 16, 2014. A boy makes an offering of food at a pagoda during the Pchum Ben festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.





Sept. 15, 2014. A test version of NASA's Orion capsule floats in the rear of the USS Anchorage during a recovery drill off the coast of California.





Sept. 17, 2014. A Liberian Red Cross burial team remove the body of a suspected Ebola victim from a home in Monrovia, Liberia.

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Sept. 19, 2014. Citizens of Incheon, wearing costumes of traditional styl perform during the opening ceremony for the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.       





Sept. 19, 2014. A doll lies in the mud inside a flood-damaged house in central Srinagar, India.       





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Sept. 17, 2014. First grade students assemble in the morning for a training schedule at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) High Technical School on in Yokosuka, Japan.





Sept. 19, 2014. The sun begins to shine through morning fog next to the Shard in central London.





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Sept. 19, 2014. A dejected "Yes" supporter in Edinburgh makes his way home in the early hours after Scotland voted to reject independence and remain part of the United Kingdom.





Sept. 19, 2014. A student sits on a mock throne at Madame Tussauds Museum in Beijing.