The Week in Pictures

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims perform the early morning Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Masjed Haram grand mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca.  (Hassan Batel / AFP/Getty Images)

Sadaf Anwar of Irvine, center, is among hundreds of Muslims who gathered Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center to pray and celebrate Eid Al Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting that is observed by more than a billion Muslims around the world.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Alyson Hannigan clutches her handbag on the red carpet at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Carolina Panthers tight end Dante Rosario makes a catch for a touchdown as the Atlanta Falcons’’ Erik Coleman defends in the fourth quarter of an NFL game on Sunday at Atlanta. Atlanta won, 28-20.  (John Bazemore / Associated Press)

Amanda Bella Sol tosses bread crumbs into the surf at Venice Beach during the Jewish High Holy Days. The tradition of Tashlich, which means “you will cast away,” involves tossing bread into the ocean and praying for the forgiveness of sins.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Glenn Close enters on the red carpet at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

California tailback Jahvid Best (4) scores on a 33-yard run in the first half Saturday despite Minnesota cornerback Traye Simmons’ attempt to keep him out of the end zone. Cal went on to defeat the Golden Gophers, 35-21.  (Paul Battaglia / Associated Press)

A model shows off a hat by British designer Kinder Aggugini during Fashion Week in London.  (Joel Ryan / Associated Press)

An artist puts finishing touches on a portrait of Hindu Goddess of valor Durga on the first day of the Navratri festival in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar.  (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)

Soldiers in Kabul carry the coffins of two of six fellow Italians to a plane to be flown home. The men were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on their convoy two days earlier.  (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)

A girl prays at a mosque during the last Friday of the Muslim’s holy fasting month of Ramadan in Silver Spring, Md.  (Jewel Sama / AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian women in the West Bank city of Nablus prepare sweets ahead of Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.  (Majdi Mohammed / Associated Press)

A model wears a creation by Indian designer Mehak Jain on the second day of Lakme Fashion Week, Spring-Summer 2010, in Mumbai.  (Sajjad Hussain / AFP/Getty Images)

Burnley defender Andre Bikey, right, heads the ball away from Sunderland forward Darren Bent during an English Premier League soccer match won by host Burnley, 3-1, on Saturday.  (Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images)

Cambodian villagers ride water buffaloes during a race at the Pchum Ben festival, or Ancestors’ Day, at Vihear Sour village in Kandal province northeast of Phnom Penh.  (Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP/Getty Images)

A model showcases a creation by designer Anita Dongre on the first day of Lakme Fashion Week, Spring-Summer 2010, in Mumbai, the commercial capital of India.  (Dhiraj Singh / Associated Press)

Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, and Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico face off during the official weigh-in for their non-title welterweight fight in Las Vegas. The fight will be held on Saturday.  (Isaac Brekken / Associated Press)

At Senen station in Jakarta, a woman tries to climb through a window to get onto a packed train heading for East Java. Millions of people are pouring out of the major cities to return to their home villages to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  (Dita Alangkara / Associated Press)

Children peek out of school window near a small village in the western part of the Mau forest escarpment in Kenya’s Rift Valley. The country’s biggest closed-canopy forest and a vital water catchment area, it has lost 264,400 acres, about a quarter, of its trees over the last two decades due to illegal settlement, logging and charcoal burning encouraged by corrupt officials.  (Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty Images)

U.S. troops in a CH-53 helicopter releases flares after being shot at from the ground over Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan.  (David Furst / AFP / Getty Images)

Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Romania and Belarus begin the qualifying round of the women’s quadruple sculls at the European Rowing Championships in Brest, Belarus.  (Anatoly Maltsev / EPA)

Palestinians stand near the Kalandiya checkpoint as they attempt to get into Jerusalem to attend the last Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan starts Sunday, and coincides this year with the Jewish New Year.  (Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press)

A Palestinian woman wears a mask to protect from the flu as she attends prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City. Muslims worldwide are preparing for the Eid ul-Fitr festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.  (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty Images)

A Chinese military tank heads towards Tiananmen Square in Beijing where a rehearsal for China’s 60th anniversary celebrations was being held. Authorities shut down a major part of central Beijing to rehearse for the parade planned on Oct. 1.  (Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated Press)

A man with multiple facial piercings attends London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 in Britain. The event began at its new home Somerset House and runs until 23 September.  (Andy Rain / EPA)

A lone surfer emerges from the water at the Lower Trestles surf break, where the Hurley Pro surf competition is on hold until more favorable conditions prevail.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The Singapore Grand Prix Formula One night race route is lit up and seen from above. The race will be held Sept. 25-27.  (How Hwee Young / EPA)

An Indian craftsman works on statues of the Hindu goddess Durga for the upcoming festival of Durga Puja. Durga is both a warrior and a protector, an avenger and a nurturer.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

Members of the Gulabi Gang (Pink Gang) take part in a joint protest in New Delhi for better implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Gulabi Gang, a group of women in rural India who strive for social justice, dons pink saris and fights for women’s rights, against corruption and for the poor. Leader Sampat Devi began the vigilante group in 2006, and chose the color pink for her gang’s uniform because most other colors are used to represent political parties.  (Manpreet Romana / AFP/Getty Images)

Anish Ramakrishnan, 9, tries to move pieces on a giant chess set in Trafalgar Square. A centerpiece of this year’s London Design Festival, the chess set was designed and created by Spanish artist Jaime Hayon.  (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)

Actor Brad Pitt is enthusiastically received by fans in Spain as he arrives for the presentation of Quentin Tarantino‘s film “ Inglourious Basterds” during the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival.  (Rafa Rivas / AFP / Getty Images)

A Palestinian in a wheelchair begs for money from worshipers going to the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city to attend the last Friday prayers of of Ramadan. This year, the end of the Muslim holy month coincides with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Muslims gather at the Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi, India, for the last Friday afternoon prayers of the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims all over the world are preparing for Eid al-Fitr, the celebration that marks Ramadan’s end.  (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)

Leona Lewis performs during the VH1 Divas concert in New York City.  (Jason DeCrow / Associated Press)

President Obama shakes hands with members of the audience after delivering remarks on healthcare reform at the University of Maryland in College Park. Thousands of people turned out Thursday, some waiting for hours from before sunrise, to hear him speak.  (Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images)

Mathieu Berson, right, of Toulouse FC is challenged by FK Partizan’s Almani Moreira in their Uefa Europa League Group J soccer match in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday.  (Srdjan Ilic / Associated Press)

Lightning slices through the air during a storm.  (Guillermo Arias / Associated Press)

Fans celebrate the goal of CSKA against Fulham during their UEFA Europa League group E football match at Vassil Levski stadium on Thursday.  (Nikolay Doychinov / AFP/Getty Images)

French soldiers attend a change-of-command ceremony of the NATO-led peacekeeping Kosovo Force, or KFOR, in North Kosovo on Thursday. The French KFOR command was handed over from outgoing Gen. Patrick Ribayrol to new commander Arnaud Sainte-Claire Deville.  (Armend Nimani / AFP/Getty Images)

A model wears a creation by designer Ralph Lauren during the Spring/Summer 2010 collections Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Wednesday in New York.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)

A army officer checks an honor guard before a review by new Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (not pictured) at the ministry’s headquarters Wednesday, a day after he was appointed by the country’s new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama. Kitazawa is a senior party official who once opposed sending troops to Iraq for reconstruction work and accused the U.S. of “enforcing democracy by military might.”  (Toru Yamanaka / AFP/Getty Images)

A surfer wipes out in the barrel of a wave at Kalk Bay on Wednesday. Cape Town is starting to experience the first signs of spring after weeks of rain and winter cold fronts.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

A mother kisses her baby on a train heading for East Java at Senen train station in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of people started pouring out of the country’s major cities to return to their home villages to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  (Irwin Fedriansyah / Associated Press)

An Indian Muslim woman in New Delhi kisses his son after breaking their daylong fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Muslims the world over are fasting from dawn to dusk during Ramadan.  (Pedro Ugarte / AFP/Getty Images)

Canadian space tourist and founder of Cirque du Soleil Guy Laliberte, right, and U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams in a bus outside Moscow in Star City. The crew of Laliberte, Williams, and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev is set to travel in a Russian Soyuz TMA-16 rocket to the international space station Wednesday.  (Dmitry Kostyukov / AFP/Getty Images)

A German military patrol in the mountainous region of Feyzabad in northern Afghanistan  (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

Palestinian Hamas police officers peer through a prison door window during a prisoner release in Gaza City. Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip released about 120 prisoners as a pre-Eid-holiday gesture.  (Hatem Moussa / Associated Press)

Friends and family of British soldier Jason Dunn-Bridgeman, 20, who died in a firefight in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, react as his hearse and one carrying the coffin of Cpl. John Harrison, 29, who was killed in a predawn operation Sept. 9 to rescue Stephen Farrell, a reporter with the New York Times, pass mourners lining High Street in Wootton Bassett, England.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

Pakistani girls in Multan, Pakistan, display their hands decorated with Mehndi or henna in preparation for Eid, the holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan.  (Khalid Tanveer / Associated Press)

Orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidism, in the town of Uman, Ukraine. Thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world gathered in Uman to mark the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, at Nachman’s tomb.  (Efrem Lukatsky / Associated Press)

The Spirit of Dana Point and the American Pride sail near the entrance to Dana Point Harbor as part of the 25th annual Toshiba Tall Ships Festival.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Jack Williams, 3, and Eli Avalos, 8, of Long Beach stand next to a 1940 Ford pickup, one of hundreds of classic cars on display during the 20th annual Belmont Shore Car Show.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Flowers and candles adorn Patrick Swayze‘s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Swayze died Monday at age 57 of pancreatic cancer.  (Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images)

Muntather Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush, hugs his sister following his release after a nine-month stint in prison.  (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP / Getty Images)

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, right, goes airborne for the ball against Inter Milan defender Walter Samuel during their Champions League, Group F soccer match at San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

Angels Manager Mike Scioscia argues a call with second base umpire Tim Timmons after shortstop Erick Aybar mishandled a throw for an error in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston.  (Elise Amendola / Associated Press)

Soldiers march during an Independence Day celebration in the Zocalo, the main plaza in downtown Mexico City.  (Eduardo Verdugo / Associated Press)

Cyclists race through the Spanish countryside between Ciudad Real and Talavera de la Reina during the 17th stage of the Spanish Vuelta competition.  (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press)

Muslim pilgrims by the thousands crowd inside and outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as the last days of Ramadan wind down.  (Issa Mohammad / Associated Press)

An Indian army soldier performs a motorcycle stunt as part of the events associated with the start of polo season in Hyderabad, India.  (Mahesh Kumar A. / Associated Press)

Farmers discharge milk into a field in the southern Belgian town of Ciney to protest plummeting milk prices.  (John Thys / AFP / Getty Images)

Workers carry a sculpture during preparations for the exhibition “Art for Millions -- 100 Sculptures from the Mao Era” at the Schirm gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.  (Thomas Lohnes / AFP / Getty Images)

Gunners from The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery ride into the surf near Blackpool, England, while on a break from the regiment’s usual duties in London.  (Paul Ellis / AFP / Getty Images)

Palestinian youths wave their national flag during a demonstration against Israel and call for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails near Nahal Oz crossing, east of Gaza City, on Wednesday. The Hamas rulers of Gaza called for Israeli leaders to be put on trial after a U.N. report accused both the Jewish state and Palestinian militant groups of war crimes.  (Mahmud Hams / AFP/Getty Images)

A resident of Nairobi’s Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, carries his belongings Wednesday before moving into a modern, low-income residential estate with schools, markets, playgrounds and other facilities as part of the government plan to clear the slum. The project is expected to take from two to five years, with the first people moving to be rehoused nearby in 300 newly built apartments. They’ll each pay about $10 a month in rent. People in Kibera have had to cope with overcrowding, soaring crime rates and poor sanitation in recent years.  (Simon Maina / AFP/Getty Images)

An Israeli worker has seemingly trapped himself among flowers as he helps assemble a carpet composed of 500,000 blossoms at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, a tribute from the city of Brussels as part of Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary celebrations.  (Yehuda Raizner / AFP/Getty Images)

Thousands of farmers with 400 tractors dump around 4 million liters of milk into a field Wednesday as anger mounted over falling prices. The latest action throughout Europe comes after European Union farm ministers failed to agree on an aid package for the sector during a meeting in Brussels.  (Oliver Hoslet / EPA)

Models pose outside Selfridges for lingerie brand Agent Provocateur on Wednesday.  (Chris Jackson / Getty Images)

PETA members dressed as a bloody seals are arrested by Secret Service police officers after blocking traffic in front of the Canadian Embassy in Washington on Wednesday, where they asked Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to stop the killing of seals.  (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press)

An artist’s impression, released Wednesday by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, shows in the foreground the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, orbiting the star CoRoT-7, located toward the constellation of Monoceros about 500 light-years away. A spectrograph at a Chilean observatory called HARPS, or High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, firmly established the nature of CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth’s. Combined with CoRoT-7b’s known radius, which is less than twice that of the Earth, this tells that the exoplanet’s density is quite similar to the Earth’s, suggesting a solid, rocky world. The extensive data also reveal the presence of another so-called super-Earth in this alien solar system.  (AFP / Getty Images)

Eight French Air Force Alphajet aircraft fly in arrow formation over Juan Domingo Peron Stadium in Avellaneda, near Buenos Aires, as part of the French contribution to celebrations for the bicentenary of the Argentine revolution.  (Vanessa Imber / AFP/Getty Images)

An investor yawns as he looks at a stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai. Chinese shares rose for a third successive day Tuesday on the country’s economic revival hopes, led by metals. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index edged up 6.99 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 3,033.73.  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

A cyclist passes giant columns in Beijing representing China’s diverse ethnic groups and constructed for the upcoming 60th National Day parade on Tiananmen Square.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche, left, and McLaren Mercedes’ British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton introduce the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG as part of the 63rd International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday. Nearly 800 auto and auto parts manufacturers from 30 countries will unveil 100 models during the show, which runs Sept. 17 to 27.  (Sascha Schuermann / AFP/Getty Images)

A charioteer and horses perform at a press preview ahead of the world premiere of “Ben Hur Live” at the O2 arena in London. The production is an epic developed over fifteen years, and it includes the famous chariot race. It coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Charlton Heston film and features 400 performers and 100 animals, including, besides horses, camels, donkeys, chickens, falcons and eagles.  (Leon Neal / AFP/Getty Images)

New police officers take an oath during a graduation ceremony for 635 of them in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico.  (Guillermo Arias / Associated Press)

A man looks down on heavy traffic at a marketplace in Kabul, the Afghan capital.  (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)

Army soldiers guard the area of events commemorating Honduras’ 188 years of independence in Tegucigalpa. Honduras became independent of Spain on Sept. 15, 1921.  (Esteban Felix / Associated Press)

A young passenger squeezes into an overcrowded economy train cabin at the Jakarta station. Indonesians living in the capital were beginning their exodus to their home provinces to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan holidays, in the world’s most populous Muslim country.  (Romeo Gacad / AFP / Getty Images)

Afghan girls line up to have their nails colored by a U.S. soldier who was traveling with German troops during a long-term patrol in Yaftal e Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan.  (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

A Fokker 100 makes a forced landing at Stuttgart airport. One of the passengers was Franz Muentefering, chairman of the Social Democrats, who was flying from Berlin to Stuttgart. One of the passengers and a stewardess were lightly injured.  (Klaus Bilaniuk / EPA)

Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina reacts in his match against Roger Federer of Switzerland in the U.S. Open men’s final at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Monday.   (Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images)

Yale students, faculty, and friends gather in memory of graduate student Annie Le, whose body was discovered hidden in a wall of a campus research lab where she was last seen days ago. Sunday was to have been her wedding day.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Kosovo Albanians wave the Albanian flag during a protest in Pristina. About 1,000 Kosovo Albanians demonstrated in Pristina to protest a new crime-fighting accord between the European Union‘s mission in the breakaway Serbian province and the Belgrade government.  (Armend Nimani / AFP/Getty Images)

Representatives gather at the United Nations’ offices beneath a ceiling painted by Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo. They are gathered for the 12th United Nations Human Rights Council session, which will run until October 2, 2009. The situation in the Palestinian territories is high on the agenda.  (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the Honorary Escort Cavalry train on a beach in Scheveningen in preparation for Budget Day, when the Dutch Minister of Finance presents the national budget and the Budget Memorandum, on the North Beach.  (Valeria Kuypers / AFP/Getty Images)

A fisherman pulls in his net as a warm sun rises over the Chesapeake Bay near Mathews, Va.  (Ron Edmonds / Associated Press)

As part of efforts to curb the spread of swine flu, a Malaysian health worker checks the temperature of a woman on a bus in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian government has launched a public campaign that includes advising passengers to carry “H1N1 kits” with face masks and hand sanitizer, especially in the busy travel days leading up to next weekend’s Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.  (Saeed Khan / AFP/Getty Images)

A polar bear neamed Knut swims in common duckweed at the Berlin Zoo. Fans of Knut are eagerly awaiting his introduction to a 3-year-old female named Gianna, with whom he is expected to eventually mate.  (Rainer Jensen / EPA)

Carl-Peter Forster, president of General Motors Europe, poses for a bevy of photographers in front of a new Opel Astra during a gathering of Opel enthusiasts in Frankfurt, Germany. The car will be presented to the public at the 63rd Frankfurt Motor Show on Tuesday.  (Frank Rumpenhorst / EPA)