Pictures of the Week: May 10 – May 17
From tornadoes in Texas and the demolition of Hurricane Sandy’s iconic rollercoaster to President Obama’s rain check and a dancing lion, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
From tornadoes in Texas and the demolition of Hurricane Sandy’s iconic rollercoaster to President Obama’s rain check and a dancing lion, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
From the safe return of three kidnap victims in Ohio and the rescue of a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory in Bangladesh to Israeli air strikes in Syria and a teddy bear hospital in Germany, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Many powerful photographs have been made in the aftermath of the devastating collapse of a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. But one photo, by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter, has emerged as the most heart wrenching, capturing an entire country’s grief in a single image.
From funerals and prayer vigils in Boston and a deadly garment factory collapse in Bangladesh to the legalization of gay marriage in France and a giant inflatable pig in China, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
From the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and Eid al-Adha celebrations around the world to the final week of campaigning for the 2012 U.S. presidential election and a suspected smuggler’s jeep perched atop the U.S.–Mexico border fence, TIME presents the best images of the week.
From the conflict in Afghanistan and a tragic bus accident in Switzerland to Purim celebrations in Israel and the one-year anniversary of the Japanese tsunami, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
Animal sacrifice is older than history. The rituals continue to this day, as the photographs in this collection show.