Pictures of the Week

• Demonstrators tie red ribbons to the fence of a ministry during a protest for freedom of speech and against the measures taken by the government of President Hugo Chavez against private television channel Globovision, in Caracas June 25, 2009.
  
  
  

  Juan Barreto, AFP / Getty Images

• Children play football in the Erasmia township at Erasima on June 23, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africa is currently hosting the FIFA Confederations Cup tournament.
  
  
  

  Jamie McDonald, Getty Images

• District of Columbia Fire and Emergency workers assess the situation at the site of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington, D.C. on June 22, 2009.
  
  
  

  Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

• A burqa-clad Afghan women walks on a hilltop overlooking Kabul on June 25, 2009. Afghans go to the polls on August 20 to elect a president for the second time in the history of their turbulent country.
  
  
  

  Shah Marai, AFP / Getty Images

• Armenian young women dressed with their national costumes perform during the annual three-day international folklore festival in the town of Varna east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, June 21, 2009.
  
  
  

  Petko Momchilov, AP

• Iranian police sit on motorcycles as they face protesters during a demonstration in Tehran on June 20, 2009. Thousands of Iranians clashed with police as they defied an ultimatum from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for an end to protests over last week's disputed presidential election.
  
  
  

  AFP, Getty Images

• A couple kiss in front of a Russian military ship during the International Maritime Defence Show in St. Petersburg on June 24, 2009.
  
  
  

  Alexander Demianchuk, Reuters

• A South Korean army soldier stands guard as lights from barbed wire fence are bright at the southern end of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Yanggu, northeast of Seoul, June 23, 2009, during a photo opportunity for the media. The two Koreas are technically still at war and station about 1 million troops near their respective sides of the Demilitarised Zone that has divided the peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a ceasefire, but not a peace treaty.
  
  
  

  Lee Sang-Hak, Yonhap / Reuters

• A man holds his children as they get drenched in a wave that hit the shore during high tide in the Arabian sea at the Worli promenade in Mumbai, India, June 23, 2009.
  
  
  

  Rajanish Kakade, AP

• Children take part in the Rath Yatra, also known as the "Chariot Festival," in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on June 24, 2009. The annual religious procession commemorates the legendary journey of Lord Jagannath to his birthplace in the northern Indian city of Mathura.
  
  
  

  Krishnendu Halder, Reuters