TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: May 17 – May 24, 2013

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Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
May 17, 2013. A Tibetan woman (bottom) prostrates near Labrang monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province, a flashpoint for many Tibetan protests against Chinese authorities.






Dar Yasin—AP
May 17, 2013. Bilquis, a nomadic Indian girl, stands outside her tent at a temporary base on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. The family makes their living by selling artificial flowers.






Jawed Basharat—AP
May 20, 2013. Afghan policemen evacuate a wounded person after a suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in Pul-i-Khumri, Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, killing the council chief and at least more than a dozen others, authorities said.






Eric Gaillard—Reuters
May 17, 2013. Spectators wrapped in blankets wait the start of a beach front cinema screening on the Croisette during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.






Carolyn Kaster—AP
May 19, 2013. Graduates listen under heavy rain to President Barack Obama as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony address in Atlanta.






Hendrik Schmidt—EPA
May 17, 2013. A woman poses prior to the start of the 22nd Wave-Gothic Festival (WGT) in Leipzig, Germany.





Tobin Jones—AU-UN IST/Reuters
May 21, 2013. Men sit blindfolded after being rounded up by the Somali Police Force, to be screened during an operation aimed at improving security in Mogadishu.






Patrick Smith—Getty Images
May 20, 2013. A hose sprays an Annapolis Naval Academy freshmen, Class of 2016, as he and other Plebes climb the Herndon Monument at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Each year the freshman class, known as 'Plebes,' climb the lard covered monument at the U.S. Naval Academy to retrieve the Plebe "dixie cup" hat and replace it with an upperclassmen's hat.






David Guttenfelder—AP
May 20, 2013. North Korean nurses sing and play the accordion while children dance during an event to start a campaign to give Vitamin A supplements and deworming pills to children at a nursery school in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Child Health Day.






Win McNamee—Getty Images
May 20, 2013. Four-year-old Sophia Phillips carries an American flag presented to her during a burial service for her father, Staff Sergeant Francis G. Phillips, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington Virginia. Phillips, from Meridian, New York was killed in combat in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by an improvised explosive device.

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Jim Hollander—EPA
May 17, 2013. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish young man standing on pipes used to hold flags watches people during prayers at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City.






Anja Niedringhaus—AP
May 17, 2013. An Afghan man jumps from a diving board into a swimming pool on a hill overlooking Kabul. The swimming pool, built by the Soviets more then 30 years ago, has rarely been used, caught instead in the middle of decades of war.






Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters
May 17, 2013. People from a Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp pass time in a mosque, where they were evacuated to shelter from cyclone Mahasen when it landed, outside of Sittwe.






Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters
May 17, 2013. People from a Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp pass time in a mosque, where they were evacuated to shelter from cyclone Mahasen when it landed, outside of Sittwe.






Hazir Reka—Reuters
May 17, 2013. Rinesa Koshi, 8, looks through the window of her house in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica. Koshi, who is an ethnic Albanian, lives in the the northern predominantly Serb part of the town but goes to school in the south, which is predominantly Albanian. The prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia will meet in Brussels on May 21, 2013 to hold negotiations on how to implement an agreement reached last month to integrate a small Serb pocket in the north into majority Albanian Kosovo.






Khaled Abdullah—Reuters
May 18, 2013. Policemen and people check the scene of a collision on a highway leading to a border crossing between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. At least 13 people were killed as two cars ran into each other and caught fire after the collision, burning some occupants to death, police officials at the scene said.






Soe Than Win—AFP/Getty Images
May 18, 2013. Myanmar-religion-unrest-rights, FOCUS by Shwe Yinn Mar Oo A Muslim Rohingya child wears traditional thanakha, is a yellowish-white cosmetic paste made from ground bark, at Bawdupah's Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe.






Khalil Ashawi—Reuters
May 18, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter is seen with his weapon in a damaged house in Deir al-Zor, Syria.






Khalil Ashawi—Reuters
May 18, 2013. People run down a street in Deir al-Zor, Syria.






Eraldo Peres—AP
May 19, 2013. Masked boys walk to the "Cavalhadas" festival in Pirenopolis, Brazil. The popular festival is a tradition that was introduced in the 1800's by a Portuguese priest to mark the the ascension of Christ. The 3-day festival reenacts the Christian knights' medieval defeat of the Moors.

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Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty Images
May 19, 2013. Young Catholics hold flags of Pope Francis during a pre-event of the World Youth Day at Icarai beach in Niteroi, Brazil.






Rebecca Blackwell—AP
May 19, 2013. Children play in front of a decorated house wall in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Saint-Louis, once the capital of colonial French West Africa, is hosting the 21st edition of its annual Jazz Festival from May 15 to 19.






Khaled Abdullah—Reuters
May 19, 2013. A woman looks from a window of her family's tent at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in al-Mazraq of the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja. Thousands of the IDPs who have fled fighting between Shi'ite rebels and government forces in northwestern Yemen have yet to return to their villages three years after the fighting ended.






David Guttenfelder—AP
May 19, 2013. Wearing gym-provided workout clothing, North Koreans rest near the gym at the Haedanghwa Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea. The newly opened complex houses a cooking school, multiple banquet rooms, swimming and wading pools, a billiards room and other recreational facilities.






Ezra Acayan—Zuma Press
May 19, 2013. Children blow cups filled with flour using a straw during the feast of St. Rita in Paranaque city, suburban Manila, Philippines. The feast of St. Rita of Cascia is celebrated every year with masses, processions, and parlor games for children.






STR—AFP/Getty Images
May 19, 2013. Explosives go off as Dunyang highway viaduct collapses during a controlled demolition in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. With 100,000 volt wiring running alongside the viaduct and 30 major gas pipelines underneath it, explosives experts were faced with a task requiring particular precision. The two mile long viaduct was the longest concrete bridge ever demolished in China, local media reported.






Joe Penney—Reuters
May 19, 2013. Coumba Faye, 19, fixes her headscarf in her house in the village of Ndande, Senegal. Every year, inhabitants of the village take part in a Sufi Muslim ceremony called Gamou-Ndande. The ceremony combines nights of praying and chanting as well as traditionally animist ceremonies.






Joe Penney—Reuters
May 19, 2013. People watch a man descend into a large former well during a traditional ceremony in the village of Ndande, Senegal.






Carolyn Kaster—AP
May 19, 2013. Morehouse College alumni listen to President Barack Obama not shown, deliver his address under heavy rain at the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony in Atlanta.






Jonathan Ernst—Reuters
May 19, 2013. U.S. Air Force Colonel Mike Minihan (R), Commander, 89th Airlift Wing, and fellow officers hold onto their hats in wind gusts from Air Force One as President Barack Obama departs in foggy conditions, for travel to Atlanta from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.

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Gene Blevins—Reuters
May 19, 2013. The funnel of a tornadic thunderstorm almost touches the ground near South Haven, in Kansas. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City.






Sue Ogrocki—AP
May 19, 2013. Seven-year-old Katrina Ash, right, holds a doll as she waits in the back of a truck with her grandfather, Michael Bowen, left, after a tornado ripped through their neighborhood near Dale, Okla. Residents are not being allowed back into the neighborhood as search and rescue efforts take place.







Sue Ogrocki—AP
May 20, 2013. A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.






Steve Gooch—AP
May 20, 2013. This aerial photo shows the remains of homes hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Okla.






Brett Deering—Getty Images
May 20, 2013. Dana Ulepich searches inside a room left standing at the back of her house destroyed after a powerful tornado ripped through the area in Moore, Okla.






Danny Wilcox Frazier—Redux for TIME
May 23, 2013. Near the Kirsch home. Cassie Kirsch survived the category 5 tornado with her husband, David, in a closet of their now flattened home in Moore, Okla. Family and friends helped them recover property early Tuesday morning.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
May 20, 2013. A Pakistani man, who fled his home with his family from Pakistan's tribal region of Mohmand Agency, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sleeps on the ground on a roadside, on the outskirts of Islamabad. As the temperatures rise, many Pakistanis are sleeping outdoors to escape the heat trapped in their homes.






Jorge Dan Lopez—Reuters
May 20, 2013. Visually impaired children enter the waiting room of an airline before boarding a plane in the international airport of La Aurora in Guatemala City. The Committee for the Blind and Deaf of Guatemala arranged for visually impaired children to board an airplane to experience the sounds and motion of taxiing around the runway of the airport.






Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty Images
May 20, 2013. Bahraini protesters hold pictures of Abdul Wahab Hussein, head of the Shiite Wafa Islamic Movement, during a rally marking his temporary release from prison in the village of Nuwaidrat, south of Manama. Hussein, who was released briefly for his mother's funeral, was to return to prison later, the main Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq said. He is serving a life sentence with six other opposition leaders and activists after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the monarchy.






Dmitry Lovetsky—AP
May 20, 2013. Russian riot police force (OMON) officers demonstrate their skills to schoolchildren during a lesson of patriotic education in a school in St. Petersburg.

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Cristina Quicler—AFP/Getty Images
May 20, 2013. A young girl cries as El Rocio's Virgin is carried through the streets of Almonte, near Huelva during the annual El Rocio's pilgrimage in the south of Spain.






Ramon Espinosa—AP
May 21, 2013. Jose Luis, 7, in his school uniform, falls asleep in a barber's chair, while waiting for his father's work shift to end, in Old Havana, Cuba.






Mohammad Ismail—Reuters
May 20, 2013. Afghan girls play in Kabul.






Luis Robayo—AFP/Getty Images
May 20, 2013. A Colombian Special Forces sniper guards the downtown of Cali, Valle del Cauca departament, Colombia, during the presentation to the press of the security measures for the VII Pacific Alliance presidential summit.






John Moore—Getty Images
May 20, 2013. A U.S. Border Patrol agent escorts a group of undocumented immigrants into custody with helicopter support from the U.S. Office of Air and Marine near the U.S.-Mexico border in Havana, Texas.






Bryan Anselm—Redux
May 21, 2013. Dead horses waiting to be buried after being killed by an F5 tornado in Moore, Okla. The horses were killed on two farms west of Briarwood Elementary. Dozens were killed in the storm and were taken away to be buried.






Joshua Lott—AFP/Getty Images
May 21, 2013. June Simson embraces her cat Sammi after she found him standing on the rubble of her destroyed home in Moore, Okla.






Ed Zurga—EPA
May 21, 2013. A woman cleans off some flowers as she sorts through debris the day after a killer tornado hit in Moore, Okla.






Abir Abdullah—EPA
May 21, 2013. Relatives of the victims cry as they come to pay tribute to the victims of a building collapse at the graveyard at Jurain in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Over 290 unclaimed bodies were burried after the DNA samples were taken while 1,127 workers died after the eight-story building Rana Plaza, which mostly housed garment factories, collapsed in Savar on April 24, 2012.






Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
May 21, 2013. Chakala Dangol, 75, holds a coconut on his hand before throwing it towards the devotees from the top of the chariot of Rato during the chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal. It is believed that whoever grabs the coconut and returns it to the chariot will be blessed with a son.

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Jose Cabezas—AFP/Getty Images
May 22, 2013. People participate in a simulated rain during the tenth anniversary celebration of the El Salvador Museum of Art in San Salvador.






Orlando Sierra—AFP/Getty Images
May 22, 2013. A doll lies on a hole in the dry soil of Los Laureles dam, southern Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The main two dams that supply water for the more than one million inhabitants of the Honduran capital reached a critical level after an eight-month-long drought.






Marko Djurica—Reuters
May 22, 2013. A house built on a rock on the river Drina is seen near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160km (99 miles) from the capital Belgrade. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter, according to the house's co-owner, who was among those involved in its construction.






Ariel Schalit—AP
May 22, 2013. Metal placards in the shape of Israeli soldiers stand on an old bunker during sunset at an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria. Syrian and Israeli forces briefly exchanged fire on the Golan Heights border Tuesday prompting Israel's military chief, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, to accuse the Syrian leader of encouraging and directing operations against Israel and warning he would "bear the consequences" of escalation.






Ahmad Jamshid—AP
May, 22, 2013. An Afghan policeman sits on a wall on a mountain overlooking Kabul.






Matt York—AP
May 22, 2013. Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, takes flight during the second leg of the 2013 Across America mission at dawn from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.






Ueslei Marcelino—Reuters
May 22, 2013. A Brazilian army soldier wearing a chemical suit participates in an anti-terror simulation exercise as part of the preparation for the upcoming 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brasilia.






Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
May 22, 2013. A worker carries noodles or mie lethek after the steaming process at mie lethek factory in Srandakan village, Bantul in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Yasir Feri Ismatrada took on the family business of mie lethek production founded by his late grandfather.






Ronen Zvulun—Reuters
May 21, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children stand on a balcony as they watch the wedding ceremony of Shalom Rokeach, the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, and his bride, Hannah Batya Penet, in Jerusalem. Some 25,000 people gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding of the eldest grandson of the current leader of the Belz Hasidic dynasty, which is one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world, according to local media.






Ali Ali—EPA
May 21, 2013. A Palestinian Hamas security guard loads a weapon inside a guard house on the border between Egypt and Gaza Strip in Rafah town, southern Gaza Strip.

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Javed Dar—Xinhua/Zuma Press
May 21, 2013. An Indian policeman peeps through a police vehicle outside the separatist party office in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.






Sergei Ilnitsky—EPA
May 22, 2013. A young woman in wheelchair performs at the beauty contest for disabled people in 'Miss Independence 2013' in Moscow.






Kenzo Tribouillard—AFP/Getty Images
May 22, 2013. A member of the FEMEN feminist activist group with writing on her chest reading "May fascists rest in hell" is arrested by police officers after she took part in a protest action inside the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, against the suicide of a far-right activist inside the cathedral the previous day.






Jason Reed—Reuters
May 22, 2013. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama reacts with school children from Willow Springs Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, as they participate in a play about the emancipation of slaves during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, at historic Decatur House in Washington.





Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
May 22, 2013. Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the Grandson of the Belz Rabbi to Hana Batya Pener, in Jerusalem.






Dan Levine—EPA
May 23, 2013. Search and rescue boats comb the water for victims after the collapse of the Skagit River Bridge which includes all lanes of US Interstate 5 Bridge in Mount Vernon, Washington.






Erik S. Lesser—EPA
May 24, 2013. A snow globe photo of Wade Jennings's grandfather Gladney Jennings among the ruins of his home in Moore, Okla.






Oliver Weiken—EPA
May 24, 2013. An Egyptian man walks past a camel which has one front leg tied up to prevent it from running away on a camel market in Birqash, 40 kilometers north of Cairo. Hundreds of camels are brought in from Sudan and Somalia to be sold on Egypt's largest camel market every Friday. Depending on the animal's age and health a camel can be sold for up to 1500 Euros.






Winning Andrew—PA Photos/Abaca Press
May 23, 2013. Britain's Queen Elizabeth sits in a bus as she arrives for a visit to Cambridge, UK.






Luke MacGregor—Reuters
May 24, 2013. People laying flowers stand near a pair of army boots and floral tributes for Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, which are lined at a security fence outside army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London. Police investigating the murder of the soldier on a busy London street are looking into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy.

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Olivier Douliery—Abaca USA
May 23 2013. Soldier in the Third U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) place a small American flag one foot in front and centered before each grave marker for more than 220,000 graves during the annual Flags-In ceremony in advance of Memorial Day to honor the nation's fallen members of the military in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia.






Adrees Latif—Reuters
May 22, 2013. A sign reads "God Bless Moore" as workers make repairs to the Warren theatre after the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Okla. which was left devastated by a tornado.