TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: August 23 – August 30, 2013

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Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 26, 2013. A captured wild male black rhino named Sero looks out from its crate at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.





Niranjan Shrestha—AP
Aug. 26, 2013. A former Maoist rebel smiles after being smeared with vermillion by family members during a ceremony at Nepalese Military Academy in Kharipati, Nepal.





Ahmed Saad—Reuters
Aug. 26, 2013. A bloodstain is seen on the ground after a bomb attack at a cafe in Baghdad's al-Shaab district.





Heino Kalis—Reuters
Aug. 26, 2013. Revelers play with fireworks in an enclosed area on the main street of the village of Paterna near Valencia during the annual "Corda" festival in Spain.





Kevin C. Cox—Getty Images
Aug. 24, 2013. Confetti falls after Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Dollar General Toyota, won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 53rd Annual IRWIN Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn.





Whitehotpix/Zuma Press
Aug. 27, 2013. Villagers fly 73 lanterns in Xiapo, Qionghai, Hainan Provinceo, China.





Jae C. Hong—AP
Aug. 26, 2013. A firefighter stands on top of a fire truck at a campground destroyed by the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif.





Gabriel Bouys—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 25, 2013. An eagle, mascot of the Lazio, flies over the stadium prior the Italian Series, a football match between Lazio Rome and Udinese at the Olympic stadium in Rome.





David Gray—Reuters
Aug. 26, 2013. A fish jumps near where a pelican is swimming on Narrabeen Lake in Sydney, Australia.





Ali Ali—EPA
Aug. 27, 2013. A Palestinian girl plays outside her family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in southern Gaza Strip.

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Matthias Oesterle—/Demotix/Corbis
Aug. 24, 2013. The traditional display of fireworks at the San Bartolom church during the Festa Major de Sitges in Spain.





Mareike Gunsche—Reuters
Aug. 23, 2013. Members of Shonkhoodoi Circus practice in a gymnasium in Darkhan, Mongolia.





Filmtier Park Eschede—EPA
Aug. 23, 2013. A handout photo made available from the Film Animal Park near Hanover, Germany shows surgeons of the University of Veterinary Medicine operating on the white tiger Elvis who fell while playing and broke his rear fibula.





Kyodo/Landov
Aug. 23, 2013. A ski resort construction site on the Masik Pass in the southeastern Gangwon Province, North Korea.





Bernard-Salinier—ABACA
Aug. 24, 2013. Ninety-five-year-old Alfred Muller during his maiden tandem jump with his instructor Joan at the Adrenaline Para-club in Soulac, southwestern France.




Reuters
Aug. 24, 2013. Visitors run away as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou Zhejiang province, China.





Justin Sullivan—Getty Images
Aug. 24, 2013. Fire from the Rim Fire consumes trees near Groveland, Calif.





Stefan Wermuth—Reuters
Aug. 25, 2013. A performer participates in the children's day parade at the Notting Hill Carnival in London.





Patrick Pleul—DPA/Corbis
Aug. 25, 2013. A dragonfly sits on a leaf in Frankfurt Oder, Germany.





Matthew Lloyd—Getty Images
Aug. 25, 2013. Revelers in costume take part in the Notting Hill Carnival in London.

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Ahmed Deeb—NurPhoto/Corbis
Aug. 25, 2013. Mohammed, 9, a Palestinian refugee boy swims in the Gaza seaport on a hot day in Gaza Strip.





Darrin Zammit Lupi—Reuters
Aug. 25, 2013. A man runs up the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta.





Mohamed Mahmoud—NurPhoto/Corbis
Aug. 25, 2013. Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on charges of inciting the murder of protesters during the 2011 Egypt uprising, days after he was released from prison and placed under house arrest.





Fernando Vergara—AP
Aug. 26, 2013. A riot police officer detains a bleeding protester in Ubate, north of Bogota, Colombia.





INM/AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 27, 2013. A migration staffer looks on as a coffin with the corpse of an Honduran migrant — dead in the derailment of the train known as "La Bestia" (The Beast) — is loaded to a Mexican Federal Police plane for its repatriation in the airport of Villahermosa, Tabasco State, Mexico.





Sebastian Scheiner—AP
Aug. 27, 2013. Palestinian Khaled Zir sits with his children inside a cave in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.





REX USA/APAimages
Aug. 27, 2013. A Palestinian tunnel worker is seen here through a scrim near a smuggling tunnel on the border between Egypt and Gaza Strip.





Jonathan Hayward—AP
Aug. 28, 2013. Newly weds Cam Auge and Caylee Wasilenko share a kiss as they water ski in Bedwell Bay in North Vancouver, British Columbia.





Steve Parsons—PA Photos/Landov
Aug. 27, 2013. A ring-tailed Lemur sits on a photographers shoulder before they are weighed at Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable as part of their annual weigh-in.





Kirill Kudryavtsev—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 27, 2013. A mixed flight group of Strizhi and Russkie Vityazi (Russian knights) perform during the MAKS-2013, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.

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Daniel Ochoa de Olza—AP
Aug. 28, 2013. Spanish bullfighter David Mora, left, and Juan Jose Padilla wait to do the paseillo or ritual entrance to the arena before a bullfight, in Toro, Spain.





Zakir Hossain Chowdhury—Demotix/Corbis
Aug. 29, 2013. Rocky, 7, working in a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.





Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 30, 2013. A Chinese man views at a space exhibit in the Science and Technology Museum in Beijing.





Babu—Reuters
Aug. 30, 2013. A fisherman arranges fishes kept for drying at a fishing harbor in the southern Indian city of Chennai.





Jochen Lüebke—DPA/Corbis
Aug. 30, 2013. The British contestant in the European Championship of Eventing, Tom Mcewen Diesel, riding on his horse through the Baltic Sea in Malm, Sweden.