Photos of the week

Evacuees pitch their temporary shelters at an evacuation center after fleeing their homes following the flooding at in Bulcan province, Philippines, Aug. 22, 2013.

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Thousands of people flee from Syria across the Peshkhabour border crossing into Iraq's Dohuk Governorate on August 15, 2013.

Finishers take part in a mass color throw after completing the Singapore Color Run, Aug. 17, 2013.

A screen shows the trial of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai (Center) before a press conference in the Jihua Hotel in Jinan, China, Aug. 22, 2013.

Fire consumes trees along U.S. highway 120 as the Rim Fire burns out of control in Buck Meadows, Calif., Aug. 21, 2013.

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A warbler is weighed at a ringing hut on a private reserve in East Sussex in Rye, United Kingdom, Aug. 21, 2013.

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Pedicabs and makeshift rafts ferry office workers and pedestrians through floodwaters that submerged parts of the financial district of Makati, Philippines, Aug. 20, 2013.

Israelis fly kites during a festival in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2013.

Javanese dancers performs the Dandang Gula dance during an opening ceremony at Ratu Boko Temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 22, 2013.

A Syrian youth waits for customers in a shop selling head scarves at the popular Hamidiyeh old market, in Damascus, Syria, Aug. 22, 2013.

Children affected by flooding due to heavy rains exarcebated by Tropical storm Trami rest inside a basketball gym serving as an evacuation center in the town of Calumpit, Philippines, Aug. 22, 2013.

A villager smokes tobacco as he joins other protesters during a rally demanding pensions for elderly poor citizens in New Delhi, India, Aug. 22, 2013.

Egyptian medics escort former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 85, into an ambulance after he was flown by a helicopter ambulance to the Maadi Military Hospital from Torah prison in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 22, 2013.

Nayembi, a baby gorilla born in November, is seen at Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo, Aug. 21, 2013.

The Patch Springs Fire burns in the Stansbury Mountains of Utah, Aug. 16, 2013.

The faces of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left, and his Democratic challenger, State Sen. Barbara Buono, are carved into the Stony Hill Farm Market's cornfield in Chester, N.J., Aug. 16, 2013.

Egyptians lay on the ground after being injured during clashes between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Ramses Square, near the Al-Fath mosque, in Cairo, Aug. 16, 2013.

Sparkle Potts, left, cries upon seeing her nephew Cameron Bell pull up in a school bus from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy while waiting with his grandmother Arvis Potts, right, in a Wal-Mart parking lot after students were evacuated when a gunman entered the school in Decatur, Ga., Aug. 20, 2013.

People explore the "Colourscape" exhibit on the front lawn of the Holburne Museum in Bath, England, Aug. 23, 2013.

Rodrigo Borda (R) and Sergio Miranda are congratulated by relatives and friends after getting married at the civil registry in Montevideo, Uruguay, Aug. 22, 2013.