Photos of the week
A Shi'ite Muslim is sprayed with rose water as he flagellates himself during a Muharram procession to mark Ashura in Mumbai, Nov. 15, 2013.
Washington, D.C.
India
Scotland
Gaza
Indonesia
A Balinese woman in a state of trance during a sacred ritual of Ngerebong at Petilan Temple, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 10, 2013.
England
Philippines
Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan are evacuated by C-130 military planes at the airport, in Tacloban city, central Philippines, Nov. 14, 2013.
Spain
A fire bull chases a reveler during the "Toro de Jubilo" Fire Bull Festival in Medinaceli, Spain, Nov. 10, 2013.
Philippines
A rainbow forms over the airport in Tacloban, central Philippines where survivors of Typhoon Haiyan wait to be evacuated, Nov. 15, 2013.
Kazakhstan
Brazil
West Bank
A masked Palestinian protestor hurls a tear gas canister at Israeli troops during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Nov. 15, 2013.
India
Camel traders wait to take their meals at the Pushkar Fair in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan, Nov. 8, 2013.
Indonesia
School children walk on a road between fields covered with volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Kebayaken, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Nov. 9, 2013.
China
Girls juggle with straw hats at an acrobatics school in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, Nov. 14, 2013.
Japan
Canada
Kenya
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens prepare to load a tranquilized male white rhinoceros into a cage for translocation at the Lake Nakuru National park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 99 miles west of the capital Nairobi, Nov. 8, 2013.
Afghanistan
Afghan Shiites beat themselves with chains and blades in a ritual ahead of the Ashura holiday outside the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 10, 2013.
South Africa
Jordan
Abu Abdullah Hourani, 27, covers up his face at the Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, Nov. 5, 2013.
India
People walk past the hanging carcass of an elephant on a railway bridge in West Bengal, India, Nov. 14, 2013.
At least seven elephants were killed after a passenger train hit a herd while they were crossing a railway track near a bridge.
Gaza
A Palestinian boy and his militant father take part in a military parade marking the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel, in Gaza City, Nov. 14, 2013.
Philippines
Gerardo Alvarez, 53, an evacuee from Tacloban, grimaces with grief while strapped to a wheelchair at Brigadier General Benito N. Ebuen Airbase in Cebu, Nov. 15, 2013.
Alvarez survived Typhoon Haiyan but his mother and sister died and his niece said he became delusional five days later and has been medicated.
Space
A pair of Russian cosmonauts took the Olympic torch into open space for the first time in history as part of the torch relay of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
UAE
Lebanon
A Syrian child rests in a makeshift refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, close to the border with Syria in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon, Nov. 11, 2013.