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Friday, September 23, 2011 | By TIME Photo Department | 2

The Best Pictures of the Week, September 16 – September 23

Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Muhammed Muheisen—AP
September 22, 2011. A displaced Pakistani child looks on while being held by her mother as they and others take refuge in a college in Tando Muhammad Khan near Hyderabad, Pakistan, after fleeing their flood-hit homes. Many people are still stranded by floods that first hit Pakistan in August following unusually heavy monsoon rains and have affected at least 5.4 million people.
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This week in photos: from floods in Pakistan and an Indian earthquake to a Reno air show plane crash to nude Israelis in the Dead Sea.

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