TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: Aug. 15 – Aug. 22, 2014

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Aug. 20, 2014. In this photo taken with a long exposure, protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson, Mo.





Aug. 17, 2014. Hanah Siafa lies with her daughter Josephine, 10, while hoping to enter the new Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia.





Aug. 17, 2014. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and boys cover their bodies with mineral-rich mud, during their vacation, at a Men's only beach on the shores of the northern part of the Dead Sea in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.





Aug. 19, 2014. A team of technical specialist clean and inspect one of the four faces of the Great Clock, otherwise known as Big Ben, at the Houses of Parliament, in central London.





Aug. 15, 2014. Switzerland's synchronized swimming team performs their Women's Free Combination Synchronised Swimming Routine at Europa-Sportpark in Berlin, Germany.





Aug. 18, 2014. Kang Mi Jin (R), a former North Korean citizen who escaped to South Korea four years ago, attends a mass for peace and reconciliation led by Pope Francis at the Myeong-dong Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea.





Aug. 17, 2014. Aerobatic group 'FireBirds' from Poland performs during an airshow in Nowy Targ, Tatra Region, Poland.





Aug. 20, 2014. A man is doused with milk and sprayed with mist after being hit by an eye irritant from security forces trying to disperse demonstrators protesting against the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.





Aug. 20, 2014. Men sleep covered with a mosquito net on a bridge above a train station outside Yangon.





Aug. 18, 2014. Ukrainian soldiers load a wounded man aboard a helicopter, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Shchastya, Lugansk region.

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Aug. 19, 2014. A slipper lies near bloodstains on a street after recent shelling in the settlement of Makiivka, on the outskirts of Donetsk.





Aug. 20, 2014. Athletes compete in a women's 200m freestyle heat at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.





Aug. 20, 2014. Members of Ground Self-Defense continue the search for missing people among the debris of houses destroyed by a landslide caused by torrential rain at the site of a landslide in a residential area on in Hiroshima, Japan.





Aug. 16, 2014. People gather in front of the hill where two years ago miners where gunned down by the South African police during a violent wave of strikes.





Aug. 16, 2014. Pope Francis arrives to celebrate the "Beatification of 124 Korean Martyrs" at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, South Korea.





Aug. 17, 2014. A supporter of anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, sleeps on the ground under a truck, during a protest, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Qadri led massive rallies Saturday in Pakistanís capital, demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif step down over alleged fraud in last yearís election in front of thousands of protesters.





Aug. 18, 2014. Demonstrators march down West Florissant during a peaceful march in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown, near Ferguson, Missouri.





Aug. 18, 2014. Children look out from a bus before leaving for the train station, ahead of a train journey to the Russian Siberian city of Irkutsk where they are being relocated, at a refugee camp set up by the Russian Emergencies Ministry about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Russia-Ukrainian border, near Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia.





Aug. 18, 2014. A supporter of Mohammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Sufi cleric and leader of political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), sits on a tree while listening to his speech with others during the Revolution March in Islamabad.





Aug. 16, 2014. Children pick up melons and bring them to their home after tens of thousand of Yazidis escaped from their ancient homeland of Sinjar and other villages after the attacks and mass executions of Islamic State (ISIS) militants who regard the ethnic minority as devil worshippers who must embrace their radical version of Islam or die.