Photos of the week
Workers prepare the new Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center near Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 17, 2014.
The facility initially has 120 beds, making it the largest such center for Ebola treatment and isolation in history, and the group plans to expand it to a 350-bed capacity. Tents, beds and much of the medical supplies at the center were provided by UNICEF.
South Korea
Korean Catholics attend a Mass for peace and reconciliation outside Myeong-dong cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 18, 2014.
The pope, who was on a five-day trip to South Korea, was wrapping up his inaugural trip to Asia.
Liberia
A man covers a very sick Saah Exco, 10, in a back alley of the West Point slum of Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 19, 2014.
The boy was one of the patients that was pulled out of a holding center for suspected Ebola patients when the facility was breached by protesters.
A local clinic refused to treat the boy, according to residents, because of the danger of infection. Saah's mother died of suspected but untested Ebola in West Point, and his brother, Tamba, 6, died in the holding center.
Poland
The former radio station tower that became famous through the "Gleiwitz Incident" stands illuminated Aug. 19, 2014, in Gliwice, Poland.
On Aug. 31, 1939, German soldiers speaking Polish and pretending to be Silesian separatists stormed the Sender Gleiwitz radio broadcast facility in Gleiwitz, which was at the time part of Germany and close to the border with Poland, in the most famous of a series of incidents contrived by the Nazis in order to win public support for their invasion of Poland. Germany launched its invasion of Poland a day later, propelling Europe and the world into World War II. Germany and Poland will mark the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the war with a series of commemorative events. Today the former radio tower, which at 111 meters is the tallest wooden structure in Europe, stands in a public park and the radio station building is a small museum.
Japan
Local residents visit a landslide site to check if their houses were damaged by a landslide caused by torrential rain in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 21, 2014.
Rescue work continues with at least 39 people confirmed dead and seven people missing one day after the torrential rain caused flooding and landslides in Hiroshima Aug. 20, 2014.
Indonesia
A model wears a wild deer's costume in the kids carnival during The 13th Jember Fashion Carnival 2014 in Jember, Indonesia, Aug. 21, 2014.
This street carnival is claimed to be one of the biggest in the world and comprises more than 850 performers parading along 3.6 kilometers of road used as the catwalk.
Missouri
Security forces charge demonstrators after being hit by water bottles during a protest against the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 20, 2014.
Police in riot gear ordered dozens of lingering demonstrators to disperse and charged into the crowd to make arrests as relative calm dissolved amid protests over the police shooting death of Brown in the St. Louis suburb.
Missouri
In this photo taken with a long exposure, protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 20, 2014.
Protesters rallied after a police officer shot unarmed Michael Brown Aug. 9, 2014, in the St. Louis suburb.
Missouri
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, Mo., Aug. 20, 2014.
Missouri
A law enforcement officer on a tactical vehicle watches after a device was fired to disperse a crowd, Aug. 17, 2014, during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
As night fell in Ferguson, another peaceful protest quickly deteriorated after marchers pushed toward one end of a street. Police attempted to push them back by firing tear gas and shouting over a bullhorn that the protest was no longer peaceful.
Missouri
Police officers detain a demonstrator for protesting against the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 18, 2014.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon lifted the curfew for the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson and began deploying National Guard troops to help quell days of rioting and protests spurred by the fatal shooting of the black unarmed teenager by a white police officer.
Philippines
Japanese Koi carp swim as ducks paddle above them in a new attraction at the Malabon Zoo at Malabon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Aug. 22, 2014.
Zoo owner Manny Tangco said he added in his collection the Japanese Koi carp to pay tribute to the thousands of overseas Filipino workers for their perseverance and sacrifice in working abroad. Tangco claimed the Koi carp symbolize perseverance.
Italy
A tornado is seen approaching the coastal city of Genoa, in Northern Italy, Aug. 19, 2014.
At right, in background, the profile of the Costa Concordia cruise liner wreck, which was towed to Genoa for scrapping, is seen.
Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit Genoa and the Liguria region coast, causing damages to seaside cabins and floods, but there were no fatalities.
Illinois
Chicago Cub backup catcher John Baker, center, plays his guitar during a rain delay at Wrigley Field during the fifth inning of a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Cubs in Chicago Aug. 19, 2014.
Utah
Dea Millerberg, convicted of helping her husband dump their teenage babysitter's body in the woods after a night of sex and drugs, makes a statement during her sentencing hearing in Ogden, Utah, Aug. 21, 2014.
Millerberg, who pleaded guilty in June to three felonies, including desecration of a human body, was sentenced to prison for up to five years. Attorney Michael D. Bouwhuis stands at left.
Japan
A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force launches a hand-held anti-tank rocket during an annual live firing exercise at Higashi Fuji range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Aug. 19, 2014.
Massachusetts
President Obama maneuvers his golf cart while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard Aug. 21, 2014. Mr. Obama is vacationing on the island.
Texas
This image provided by the Austin Police Department shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry while being booked at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas, for two felony indictments of abuse of power Aug. 19, 2014.
Philippines
Grade-school pupils walk between rice paddy fields on their way home after attending classes in Mogpog, Marinduque, Philippines, Aug. 19, 2014.
The students said they walk for more than 2 kilometers, including walking between rice paddy fields, from Monday to Friday to go to school and back home.
India
Devotees try to form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai, Aug. 18, 2014.
Janmashtami, which marks the birthday of Hindu god Krishna, is celebrated across the country on this day.
Gaza
A Palestinian fighter from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, gestures inside an underground tunnel in Gaza, Aug. 18, 2014.
A rare tour that Hamas granted to a Reuters reporter, photographer and cameraman appeared to be an attempt to dispute Israel's claim that it had demolished all of the Islamist group's border infiltration tunnels in the Gaza war.
Pakistan
Former international cricketer Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party, gestures to his supporters during a Freedom March to the parliament house in Islamabad Aug.19, 2014.
Tens of thousands of protesters used a crane and bolt cutters to force their way past a barricade of shipping containers in the Pakistani capital as they marched on parliament to try press the prime minister to resign.
Thousands of Pakistani riot police and paramilitaries had used the containers and barbed wire to seal the diplomatic and political zone of the capital before the march began.
Russia
A man takes a "selfie" as he stands with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint so it resembles the yellow-and-blue national colors of Ukraine atop the spire of a building in Moscow, Aug. 20, 2014.
Russian police said they had charged four young people with vandalism after they climbed to the top of a Moscow skyscraper and briefly attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire.
Iraq
A Kurdish fighter keeps guard while overlooking positions of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, near Mosul in northern Iraq, Aug.19, 2014.
Sunni Muslim fighters led by ISIS swept through much of northern and western Iraq in June, capturing the Sunni cities of Tikrit and Mosul as well as the Mosul dam, which controls water and power supplies to millions of people down the Tigris river valley.
Russia
Zoya Lipnyagova's adopted daughter Tanya, 17, shepherds goats on a pasture near their house farm in the village of Kluchi, in Krasnoyarsk region, Siberia, Aug. 17, 2014.
Eight years ago former flight attendant Zoya Lipnyagova, her husband Gennady and their two children left Krasnoyarsk for the village to live in a 19th century wooden house and adopted seven more orphaned children some years later. In 2010, Zoya received a license of a businesswoman and 300,000 roubles ($8,251) from the state as a start-up capital to open her own business, which started with three goats at that time. The family now runs a farm with about 120 goats and gradually buys equipment for manufacturing goat cheese to sell it to grocery stores in Krasnoyarsk.
Syria/Iraq
In a video released Aug. 19, 2014, an ISIS militant stands behind American photojournalist James Foley before murdering him.
Foley had been kidnapped in Syria in November 2012. The militant also threatened to kill American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Gaza
A Palestinian inspects the wreckage of a car, which witnesses said was hit by a nearby Israeli airstrike that killed three senior Hamas military commanders in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 21, 2014.
Gaza
A wounded Palestinian is evacuated at the scene of what witnesses said was an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City Aug. 19, 2014.
A 2-year-old Gaza girl and a woman were killed in an Israeli airstrike, making them the first Palestinian deaths in the conflict since the breakdown of a truce earlier in the day, Palestinian health officials said.
Israel said it ordered retaliatory raids when militants violated a truce by firing rockets at Israel.
Great Britain
Cleaners abseil down one of the faces of Big Ben to clean and polish the clock face above the Houses of Parliament in central London Aug. 19, 2014.
A week has been set aside for the cleaning of what is officially known as the Great Clock, which is set in the Elizabeth Tower.
Georgia
Dr. Kent Brantly, an Ebola patient at Emory University Hospital, stands with his wife, Amber Brantly, during a press conference announcing his discharge from the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Aug. 21, 2014.
Kent Brantly and another patient, Nancy Writebol, were released from the hospital after receiving treatment for Ebola that they both contracted while working as medical missionaries in Liberia.