Photos Of The Week #41
Published 20 October 2012
Nationalists in Kyiv commemorate the foundation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, fighting continues in Syria, Beirut is rocked by a bomb, and the last statue of Lenin is removed in Mongolia. (20 PHOTOS)
1 The Rolling Stones pose on a red carpet on London's Leicester Square on October 18 as they arrive for the premiere of "Crossfire Hurricane," a documentary about the rock group. (AFP/Carl Court)
2 Nationalist demonstrators take part in a rally held in in Kyiv to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on October 14. (RIA Novosti/Alexei Furman)
3 A deactivated missile is displayed at a site with Soviet-made Cold War relics at the La Cabana fortress in Havana, Cuba, on October 15. (REUTERS/Desmond Boylan)
4 Crowds help rescue a man who was trapped in the rubble of the Nur al-Shuhada mosque after it was shelled by governnment forces in Aleppo, Syria, on October 17. (AFP/Fabio Bucciarelli)
5 The last bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin in Mongolia is taken down in the capital, Ulan-Bator, on October 14. (AFP/Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir)
6 A young visitor looks at a Holocaust exhibition inside the newly opened Jewish Menorah Center in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
7 A shoe is seen glued to a statue of the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad at the museum of Maaret al-Numan in the northwestern Idlib province on October 17. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
8 Members of the rebel Free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb during clashes with pro-government soldiers in the city of Aleppo on October 15. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih)
9 A woman and child cross a footbridge in the historical part of Tbilisi on October 15. (REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili)
10 A Lebanese civil defence member helps a wounded man at the site of a deadly explosion in Ashrafieh, central Beirut, which killed eight people on October 19. (REUTERS/Hasan Shaaban)
11 A fresco is seen through autumn leaves in a park in St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 15. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)
12 A man rides his horse near the tomb of Nadir Khan in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 18. (AFP/Munir uz Zaman)
13 Wallachian Roma mourn their late king, Jan Lipa, before a holy mass in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on October 18. (REUTERS/Petr Josek)
14 Pakistani men walk with camels they hope to sell at a cattle market on the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan, on October 16. (REUTERS/Fayyaz Hussain)
15 A Belarusian woman woman gathers cabbage in the field of a private farm near the village of Radashkovichi on October 18. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)
16 Afghan boys play on a destroyed car on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 18. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail)
17 A cowboy pulls a bull by its tail during during the 16th International Coleo Festival in Villavicencio, Colombia, on October 15. (REUTERS/John Vizcaino)
18 Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumps out of a capsule during his record-breaking parachute jump from the edge of the Earth's atmosphere on October 14. (AFP/Jay Nemeth)
19 An Afghan beggar waits for alms on a dusty road on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 17.
20 A man in India walks by a sand sculpture of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban on October 16. The work was created by the sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik on a beach in Puri in the eastern state of Odisha. (REUTERS)