TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: October 18 – October 25, 2013

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Andrew Burton—Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. A pier damaged by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012 in Long Branch, N.J.





Mohammad Ismail—Reuters
Oct. 18, 2013. An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of an attack in Kabul.





Pichi Chuang—Reuters
Oct. 18, 2013. Soldiers guard a platform to prevent it from falling apart while newlyweds have their group photo taken, during a military mass wedding ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan.





Tyler Hicks—The New York Times/Redux
Oct. 21, 2013. Friends and family of victims of the Westgate Mall attack during a memorial service and tree planting for the victims at the Karura Forest in Nairobi, Kenya.





China Daily/Reuters
Oct. 18, 2013. Adili Wuxor (back, in red), who is known as "Prince of the Tightrope," and his apprentice balance on a tightrope above the Great Wall in Tianjin, China.





Beawiharta—Reuters
Oct. 22, 2013. A model presents a creation by Muslim clothing designer Feny Mustafa during a Fashion Week show in Jakarta, Indonesia.





Kena Betancur—Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. Alexander Padilla and Anthony Arenas hug each other after being married by Newark Mayor and newly-elected U.S. Senator Cory Booker at City Hall in the early morning hours in Newark, N.J.





Putu Sayoga—Getty Images
Oct. 19, 2013. Participants fight during fire war ceremony at Dalem Temple in Tuban, Kuta, Indonesia.





Geoff Robins—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 20, 2013. Mae Berenice Meite of France performs during the Smucker's Skating Spectacular at Skate America 2013 in Detroit, Mich.





Wong Maye-E—AP
Oct. 18, 2013. A lion rests against a stone wall at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore.

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Kazuhiro Nogi—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 18, 2013. Ground Self-Defense Force troops search for missing people after a landslide on Oshima Island.





Dan Riedlhuber—Reuters
Oct. 20, 2013. Investigators survey the site of a train derailment near the hamlet of Gainford, west of Edmonton, Canada.





Fairfax Media/Getty Images
Oct. 18, 2013. Exhausted firefighters take a rest while fire burns close by, on Crangan Bay Road in Nords Wharf, Australia.





Reuters
Oct. 18, 2013. A four-year-old girl, found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, is seen in a handout photo distributed by the Greek police.





Made Nagi—EPA
Oct. 19, 2013. A Balinese man walks among the blazing coconut husks during a sacred ritual called 'Mesabatan Api' or fire fight at a temple in Tuban, Bali, Indonesia.





Marko Drobnjakovic—AP
Oct. 19, 2013. People dressed as zombies take part in the Zombie Walk in Belgrade, Serbia.





Renee Jones Schneider—The Star Tribune/AP
Oct. 20, 2013. Jan Fisher, of Bloomington dressed as a bear, kept dry with her umbrella as she walked through the Como Zoo's ZooBoo in St. Paul, Minn.





Olivia Harris—Reuters
Oct. 20, 2013. Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, signs a copy of her book before an event launching her memoir, "I Am Malala," at the Southbank Center in central London.





Buddhika Weerasinghe—Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. Team of Shrine Parishioners attempt to take down lanterns during the Usuki Lantern Festival at Usuki Hachiman Shrine in Himeji, Japan.





Mohamed Abd El Ghany—Reuters
Oct. 21, 2013. Relatives of four victims killed in an attack at a wedding attend their funerals at Virgin Church in Cairo.

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Mario Tama—Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. A boy walks past military police standing guard outside the seafront Windsor Barra hotel before the start of an auction of one of the world's biggest offshore oil finds in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.





Ed Wray—Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. An actor performing as the one of the title characters, Ciung, half man, half monkey is seen during the production of Ciung Wanara, one of the many Indonesian soap operas based on traditional Indonesian legends in Cileungsi, Indonesia.





Abir Sultan—EPA
Oct. 21, 2013. A Russian Orthodox pilgrim enters the water on the West Bank side of the Jordan River for the baptismal ceremony at the site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the the Jordan River near the city of Jericho, Israel.





David Gray—Reuters
Oct. 21, 2013. Burnt houses can be seen from inside a burnt-out car after they were destroyed by a bushfire in the Blue Mountains suburb of Winmalee, located around 70 km west of Sydney.





David Gray—Reuters
Oct. 21, 2013. Burnt houses can be seen from inside a burnt-out car after they were destroyed by a bushfire in the Blue Mountains suburb of Winmalee, located around 70 km west of Sydney.





Lisa Maree Williams—Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. Melissa White assists her sister Christie Daschke at her home destroyed by bushfire in Winmalee, Australia.





Jason Reed—Reuters
Oct. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (2ndL) reaches out to help Affordable Care Act beneficiary Karmel Allison (C), who began to faint during the president's speech about healthcare from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.





Ed Jones—;AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 22, 2013. A man exercises in a park in Fuzhou, the capital of China's south-eastern Fujian province.





AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2013. Local residents dance on a square under heavy smog in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province.





Whitehotpix—Zuma Press
Oct. 21, 2013. A trailer loaded with trucks hangs on the edge of a bridge on in Kaili, Guizhou Province of China.





Juni Kriswanto—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 22, 2013. A youth stands on a a whale shark towed by fishermen along the coast of Surabaya in eastern Java Island to be sold to prospective buyers after getting entangled in a fishing net.

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Riccardo De Luca—AP
Oct. 22, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to disembark at Ciampino military airport, on the outskirts of Rome.





Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Oct. 22, 2013. People stand on a beach near the remains of the Rockaway boardwalk, damaged in Hurricane Sandy in the in Rockaway neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.





Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Oct. 22, 2013. KPH Notonegoro and Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hayu pose for a photograph during their wedding ceremony in Bangsal Kesatriyan at Kraton Palace in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.





Ashraf Amra—APA/Landov
Oct. 22, 2013. Palestinian girls look through a wooden door at al-Shati refugee camp, the third largest in the Palestinian Territories, in Gaza City.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Oct. 22, 2013. Pakistani women and children, collect water from a well on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.





Mohammed Abed—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 23, 2013. A Palestinian boy hangs from a tree overlooking Gaza City.





Nasser Nasser—AP
Oct. 22, 2013. Israeli soldiers load the body of slain Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant Mohamed Aatzi into an army vehicle in the village of Bilin near the West Bank city of Ramallah.





Mohamad Torokman—Reuters
Oct. 23, 2013. A Palestinian woman mourns during the funeral of Mohammed Assi in the West Bank village of Beit Liqiya, near Ramallah.





Suhaib Salem—Reuters
Oct. 23, 2013, Palestinian schoolchildren sit in a bus after throwing flowers into the Seaport of Gaza City to remember the Palestinian migrants who died after their boat sank while fleeing Syria for Italy.





Anjum Naveed—AP
Oct. 23, 2013. Pakistani boys, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, pose for a photograph, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

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National News/Zuma Press
Oct. 23, 2013. The skeleton of the baby Parasaurolophus nicknamed ''Joe,'' the most complete skeleton of a baby dinosaur ever unearthed in North America.





AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 23, 2013. Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge holds his son, Prince George of Cambridge, as he arrives at Chapel Royal in St James's Palace in central London for the christening of the three month-old baby.





Jason Bell—Camera Press
Oct. 23, 2013. The official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in The Morning Room at Clarence House in London.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Oct. 23, 2013. An Afghan refugee child looks behind her while walking back to her home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.





Win McNamee—Getty Images
Oct. 23, 2013. U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) leaves a Republican leadership press conference in Washington.





Jamie Squire—Getty Images
Oct. 23, 2013. Statues are seen outside Fenway Park before Game One of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals in Boston, Mass.





Matt Slocum—AP
Oct. 23, 2013. Boston Red Sox's David Ortiz jumps after scoring on a double by Mike Napoli during the first inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series in Boston.





ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
Oct. 23, 2013. Fake windows are painted on the north side wall of a Economical Housing by developer in Qingdao, Shandong province of China.





Dean Treml—Red Bull/Getty Images
Oct. 24, 2013. In this image provided by Red Bull, Blake Aldridge (R) of the UK dives from a 25 metre rock at Viking Caves in the Andaman Sea as Michal Navratil (C) of the Czech Republic makes his way up the ladders during competition on the fifth day of the final stop of the 2013 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Phi Phi Island, Thailand.





Cathal McNaughton—Reuters
Oct. 24, 2013. Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Parliament buildings on the Stormont estate in Belfast.

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David Gray—Reuters
Oct. 24, 2013. A sculpture by artist David McCracken titled "Diminish and Ascend,"' can be seen as part of the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition at Sydney's Bondi Beach.





Ahmad Aboud—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 24, 2013. Rebel fighters hold a position on the front line in the Syrian northeastern city of Deir Ezzor.





Marco Bottelli—Demotix/Corbis
Oct. 24, 2013. An Ultra-orthodox Jewish teacher shows a little community belonging to a Torah school in Mea Shearim how to slaughter a goat according to the Kosher rules, in Jerusalem, Israel.





Reuters
Oct. 24, 2013. The children of Roma woman Sasha Ruseva, 38, (not pictured) rest inside their home in Nikolaevo, southern Bulgaria.





Dan Himbrechts—EPA
Oct. 24, 2013. Embers are blown from a tree as a fire threatens to cross the Bells Line of Road near Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia.





Saeed Khan—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 24, 2013. Think smoke from a bush fire fills the sky near Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains, Australia.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Oct. 24, 2013. A Pakistani woman, looks after her daughter suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, while laying in bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.





Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 24, 2013. John Daly of the US (back orange) is watched by his fans at the 7th hole during day one the BMW Shanghai Masters golf tournament at the Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai.





Splash News/Corbis
Oct. 24, 2013. Lady Gaga leaves her hotel in Berlin.





Issei Kato—Reuters
Oct. 25, 2013. Traditional sumo wrestling club members at Saitama Sakae junior and senior high school prepare for a photo session with cyclists including Tour de France winner Christopher Froome of Britain in Saitama, north of Tokyo.





Leonhard Foeger—Reuters
Oct. 25, 2013. A member of the Austrian special forces is suspended in the air after jumping from one of the highest bungee jump cranes in the world, in front of historical Hofburg palace in Vienna.





Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 25, 2013. Thai women hold a portrait of Thai Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, Thailand's top Buddhist leader who died at the age of 100, outside the Chulalongkorn hospital, in Bangkok.





Max Rossi—Reuters
Oct. 25, 2013. Pope Francis is silhouetted against window light at the end of a meeting with Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the Vatican.