The Week in Pictures

A woman and her son walk through the Marikina City section of Manila, where more than a month’s worth of rain fell in 12 hours as Tropical Storm Ketsana slammed ashore.  (Pat Roque / Associated Press)

Sunderland’s Kenwyne Jones, right, goes head over heels as he celebrates with Paulo Da Silva after scoring a goal against Wolverhampton in an English Premier League soccer match at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, England.  (Scott Heppell / Associated Press)

Gerlinde Moser, left, and Manuela Haas, both wearing the traditional Black Forest costumes, vote in Germany’s general elections in Hornberg-Reichenbach.  (Winfried Rothermel / Associated Press)

NASCAR drivers Joey Logano (20) , Reed Sorenson (43), Robby Gordon (7) and Martin Truex Jr. (1) are tangled in a wreck during Sunday’s Chase for the Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway. Jimmie Johnson ended up capturing the event, accelerating his bid for an unprecedented fourth straight Sprint Cup title.  (Nick Wass / Associated Press)

A a water main sprung a leak on Crescent Drive in Hollywood Hills. No property was damaged. Since Sept. 1, however, more than 30 major blowouts in Los Angeles’ water system have flooded streets and buckled pavement.  (Alex Koester / For The Times)

Kansas wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe, right, and Southern Mississippi defensive back Andre Watson battle for the ball during the first half of their NCAA football game Saturday. The pass was ruled incomplete. The host Jayhawks defeated the Golden Eagles, 35-28.  (Orlin Wagner / Associated Press)

Boston catcher Victor Martinez, left, beats New York’s Derek Jeter to the plate on a fielder’s choice during the fifth inning of Saturday’s game at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees shut out the Red Sox, 3-0.  (Bill Kostroun / Associated Press)

Fischer Nielsen, right, and Christinna Pedersen celebrate their 21-18, 21-12 mixed doubles semifinal victory over Indonesia’s Nova Widianto and Lilyana Natsir in the Japan Open badminton tournament in Tokyo.  (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP/ Getty Images)

Relatives of Islamic Jihad militant Kamel Al-Dahdoh mourn during his funeral in Gaza City on Saturday. Al-Dahdoh was killed along with two other militants from Islamic Jihad in an Israeli airstrike.  (Ali Ali / EPA)

Filipinos look out onto a flooded residential area south of Manila on Saturday. Tropical storm Ketsana hit the eastern side of the northern Philippines before noon, bringing rains that caused widespread flooding in many parts of Luzon, including Manila.  (Rolex Dela Pena / EPA)

Jackson, a 3-month-old jaguar, plays at a zoo near Spata, Greece, east of Athens. The cub was born the day after pop icon Michael Jackson died, and so was named after him.  (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)

A fisherman off the coast of Cannes, France, watches yachts in competition in the Royal Regatta.  (Lionel Cironneau / Associated Press)

Women watch people riding a merry-go-round in Kabul, Afghanistan.  (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)

Police officers salute during a promotion ceremony in Sibate, Colombia. More than 3,700 officers were promoted nationwide.  (Fernando Vergara / Associated Press)

A contestant performs in a bull-leaping competition in Barcelona, Spain.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

Gwen Stefani of No Doubt performs on the second day of the three-day F1 Rocks Singapore concert at Fort Canning Park on Friday.  (Alphonso Chan / Getty Images)

Japanese farmers and fishermen carrying portable shrines sing themselves into a trance while a village member sticks out an arm to slow them down during the annual Choja Autumn Festival Chiba province on Friday. Traditionally, local men from 13 neighboring fishing and farming hamlets carry portable shrines from their respective local Shinto shrines through the neighboring village streets. At dusk they assemble at a local common ground where participants race and battle with the shrines in an often trance-like frenzy.  (Everett Kennedy Brown / EPA)

Italian designers Roberto Raimondi, left, and Tommaso Aquilano acknowledge the applause after the Gianfranco Ferre Spring/Summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection show on Friday during the women’s fashion week in Milan.  (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Getty Images)

A tattoo artist works at the fifth international London Tattoo Convention at the Tobacco Dock in east London on Friday. Tattoo artists from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as piercing specialists, fashion designers and fans of skin art gathered for the convention on Friday.  (Tal Cohen / AFP / Getty Images)

A model goes through makeup at the Gianfranco Ferre Spring/Summer 2010 fashion collection presented on Friday.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after making a statement on Iran’s nuclear facility at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh on Friday.  (Jacques Witt / AFP/Getty Images)

Crystal Hoffman of Johnstown, Penn., speaks to a crowd of students gathered behind riot police lines in Pittsburgh, where the G-20 summit will be convening. Full story  (Jeff Swensen / Getty Images)

Police react to tear gas blown back in their faces after they tried to disperse a crowd of students gathered in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, where world leaders will meet to discuss promoting global economic growth during the two-day G-20 summit at the convention center. Full story  (Jeff Swensen / Getty Images)

Actor Brad Pitt laughs as he sits on a Building a Better Future panel during the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York. Pitt, who founded the Make It Right foundation, gave a progress report on the efforts in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.  (Stephen Chernin / Associated Press)

Kansas City Royals center fielder Mitch Maier dives but cannot catch a ball hit by the Boston Red Sox‘s Victor Martinez in the first inning Thursday in Kansas City, Mo. Martinez picked up a single on the play.  (Ed Zurga / Associated Press)

Tiger Woods, left, and Steve Stricker embrace after finishing the first round of the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Woods shot a three-under par 67 and is in second place, one stroke behind leader Sean O’Hair.  (John Bazemore / Associated Press)

British singer Tom Jones performs at the Guinness brewery’s 250th anniversary celebration at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland.  (Joel Ryan / Associated Press)

Milk cans hang from a passing train at a railway station. A large portion of the Indian capital’s milk supply comes from the dairies situated in neighboring states such as Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.  (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP/ Getty Images)

Dairy farmers dump milk onto a field in northeastern Germany as part of a protest across Europe in which producers demanded higher prices for their products.  (Axel Schmidt / AFP / Getty Images)

Getting into the spirit of the occasion, Italian fashion journalist Anna Piaggi attends a show of the Moschino Cheap and Chic women’s Spring/Summer 2010 fashion collection.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

Fireworks mark the opening ceremony of the FIFA U-20 World Cup.  (Ali Haider / EPA)

Alan Khazei, co-founder of City Year and founder of Be the Change Inc., is hugged by his wife, Vanessa Kirsch, and daughter Mirabelle, after declaring himself a Democratic candidate in Massachusetts’ special election to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.  (Bizuayehu Tesfaye / Associated Press)

Supporters of Iran’s opposition movement make their way across the Brooklyn Bridge. The protesters, whose signs included a mile-long banner signed by thousands of people from around the world, are in town for the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Dancers of the French company Dernière Minute (Last Minute) rehearse “Asphalte” ahead of their forthcoming performance at Bulgaria’s Sofia Dance Week.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

In Bnei Brak, Israel, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth performs the Kaparot ritual before the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. In the ancient form of the ritual, an individual holds a chicken over his head and swings it in a circle three times, reciting a prayer seeking atonement. Sins are symbolically transferred to the chicken, which is then intended to be slaughtered and donated to the poor.  (Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)

Oxfam International activists in the guise of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, center, and President Obama stage a mock football game in Pittsburgh, wearing Steelers colors, to draw attention to global poverty issues. World leaders are expected in PIttsburgh for the start of the two-day G20 summit.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

Boys cycle past effigies of the 10-headed demon god Ravana, being prepared for the upcoming Dussehra festival in New Delhi. Effigies of Ravana are burned on the last day of Dussehra, symbolizing the triumph of good over evil.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

A golfer dressed in 1930s period costume carries his clubs at the World Hickory Open in Gulland, Scotland. The tournament features pro golf champions from the Tartan Tour and leading British and overseas amateurs in traditional golf attire with hickory-shaft clubs in pencil golf bags.  (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)

Volunteers and rescue workers remove the body of a victim from beneath fallen debris at a power plant under construction in Korba, nearly 600 miles southeast of New Delhi, India. Hundreds of rescuers searched frantically for at least 20 people still trapped under the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed on workers at the plant in central India, killing at least 22.  (Gurinder Osan / Associated Press)

An Israeli soldier helps an elderly woman who was among Druze pilgrims from Israeli-occupied Golan Heights crossing into Syria for an annual religious event. The annual pilgrimage is one of the few events for which the Quneitra border crossing is opened. In a rare move, 43 women joined nearly 500 men, all religious elders, who planned to spend several days attending the annual event, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in an AFP report.  (Atef Safadi / EPA)

Passersby are reflected on an electronic stock indicator board in Tokyo.  (Shizuo Kambayashi / Associated Press)

Kyle Coburn and his sister Nicole get a close look at actors impersonating Tina Turner and Michael Jackson in Sydney, Australia.  (Tracey Neamy / EPA)

An elderly Iranian woman holds a flag during a silent demonstration in Vienna against Iran’s government.  (Joe Klamar / AFP/Getty Images)

Amy Taggart follows the coffin of her boyfriend, Fusilier Shaun Bush, as it leaves Coventry Cathedral after his funeral service in Coventry, England. Bush, 24, died of wounds sustained August 15 in the Sangin district of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. He died ten days later in Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital from his wounds. Bush had been attempting to rescue a mortally injured colleague when a second blast detonated causing his fatal injuries.  (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

A protester is hit by a rubber bullet shot by police during clashes near the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya, holed up in the embassy and seeking reinstatement, urged the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday not to abandon the people of the troubled Central American nation.  (Jose Cabezas / AFP / Getty Images)

Police in Pittsburgh prepare to patrol the Allegheny River outside the city’s convention center, where the Group of 20 economic summit is being held Thursday and Friday.  (John Moore / Getty Images)

A mechanic for McLaren Mercedes racing works on tires in preparation for the Singapore Grand Pix Formula One race to be held Sunday night.  (How Hwee Young / EPA)

Exiled Tibetans and their supporters light candles during a vigil at which they demanded the release of Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen. Wangchen was arrested in March 2008 after completing filming of “Leaving Fear Behind,” a documentary film on the life of Tibetans under Chinese rule.  (Ashwini Bhatia / Associated Press)

A model has makeup applied backstage before the Luciano Soprani Spring/Summer 2010 fashion collection.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

A city contractor cleans graffiti from a building near the David Lawrence Convention Center in preparation for the Group of 20 summit.  (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

A protester demonstrates against Moammar Kadafi outside the United Nations, where the Libyan leader addressed the United Nations.  (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

Surfer Jason Kirk, 13, of Huntington Beach, exits the surf through a blanket of fog covering the coastline this at the Huntington Beach pier.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Spectators watch as Indian wrestler Hitesh Kumar Singh, right, fights with Pakistani wrestler Mohmad Bashir during the fifth India-Pakistan friendship wrestling championship in Katra, India, about 30 miles north of Jammu.  (Channi Anand / Associated Press)

Soldiers take cover during clashes with supporters of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in the El Pedregal neigborhood of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. Honduran soldiers surrounded the Brazilian Embassy, where Zelaya is holed up seeking reinstatement, driving off protesters who had massed there overnight.  (Yuri Cortez / AFP/Getty Images)

Boys are seen in the archways at the top of the Jama Masjid as they gather for the Eid al-Fitr prayer at the largest mosque in New Delhi, India. Muslims around the world have been celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a three-day feast that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

Druids celebrate the autumn equinox on Primrose Hill on Tuesday. The ceremony is one of three events staged by the order, the other two being the spring equinox ceremony at Tower Hill and the summer solstice held at Stonehenge.  (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

President Obama addresses a speech during the Summit on Climate Change at the United Nations Tuesday.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images)

Dairy farmers pour milk onto the street in front of Schleswig-Holstein’s ministry of agriculture Tuesday. Some 100 farmers demanded higher producer prices for milk.  (Kay Nietfeld / EPA)

Rescuers work at the scene of a bus crash Tuesday in Dahlerau near Radevormwald, Germany. Several people were killed after the bus crashed from into a river.  (Christof Koepsel / Getty Images)

French police remove migrants and protesters from the makeshift migrant camp known as “The Jungle” next to a terminal to ferries to the United Kingdom on Tuesday. The camp, which was largely populated by Afghan migrants attempting to make their way to Great Britain, was home to more than 1,000 migrants. French police have removed around 300 migrants, who have been taken to centers in Calais where they will be able to apply for voluntary assisted repatriation or asylum.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

A woman’s reflection is seen as she poses for photographs in front of a piece entitled “Turning World Upside Down (Gold) 2009” during a press viewing for the Anish Kapoor solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts on Tuesday. The exhibition opens Saturday and surveys the career of the Turner Prize-winning sculptor, showcasing a number of new and previously unseen works.  (Matt Dunham / Associated Press)

Thousands of supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya listen to his speech outside the Brazilian Embassy on Tuesday. Zelaya made a surprise return to the country almost three months after he was expelled in a coup.  (Orlando Sierra / AFP / Getty Images)

Riot police face supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in an effort to drive them away from the Brazilian Embassy on Tuesday. The army and police have launched an operation to capture Zelaya, who was overthrown from power June 28 but made a surprise return to the country Monday and is currently holing up in the Brazilian Embassy.  (Jose Cabezas / AFP/Getty Images)

The 7-year-old son of Lt. Antonio Fortunato touches his father’s coffin in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. A state funeral was held Monday for six Italian soldiers killed by a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, last Thursday. The service was officiated by the military ordinary for Italy, Msgr Vincenzo Pelvi.  (Alessandro Di Meo / EPA)

The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge peeks out from a blanket of fog.  (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

President Obama talks to David Letterman during a taping of the “Late Show with David Letterman” in New York.  (Jim Watson / AFP-Getty Images)

Bruce Lisker, left, hugs his defense attorney William Genego at the Criminal Courts building in Los Angeles after his case was dismissed Monday. Lisker had been sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of his mother’s 1983 slaying, but a federal judge overturned that conviction last month and L.A. County prosecutors announced Monday that they won’t seek a retrial. Full story  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

An Indian paramilitary soldier beats a private school teacher with a bamboo cane during a protest in Gauhati, in northeastern India. The teachers, mostly Muslims were holding a protest to demand government recognition of their schools.  (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

A pilgrim prays in the presence of a casket containing relics of St. Therese of Lisieux at the Sacred Heart and St. Teresa Church in Coleshill, England. Hundreds of pilgrims attended Mass and viewed a casket containing remains of the French nun on its first visit to Britain. Therese Martin was born in Alencon, France in 1873. She became a nun and died at age 24 and was made a saint in 1925.  (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

A boy swims in a sphere at a lake in Sofia, enjoying the autumn weather at a park in the Bulgarian capital.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

Tourists play with a baby elephant as they enjoy a swim with the elephants at the Kuala Gandah Elephant Center near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The center was set up in 1974 to help relocate elephants from areas where human development has encroached on the animals’ habitat.  (Mark Baker / Associated Press)

Police officers stand next to damaged train cars near Craiova, Romania, after a derailment injured as many as 15 people. Officials said a preliminary inquiry points to a “criminal act” as several bolts were unscrewed from the rails, causing the train to leave the track.  (Darius Mitrache / Associated Press)

Protesters take part in a rally in Manila to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The protesters accused President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s government of employing “martial law tactics” such as human rights violations, economic plunder, abductions and the slaying of activists. The signs read: “Marcos and Gloria are Corrupt!”  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)

Activists from 11 environmental and human rights organizations display alarm clocks in front of Paris’ Sacre Coeur Basilica during a “Wake-Up Call” event aimed at French President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of a climate summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen.  (Thibault Camus / Associated Press)

Two boys dance around a man wearing a caricature head of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd while standing on a bed on a beach near Melbourne. Activists used the stunt to highlight the need for world leaders, including Rudd, to “wake up to climate change” in advance of global warming talks in Copenhagen in December.  (William West / AFP / Getty Images)

Rays of sunlight pierce storm clouds over a Greek Orthodox monastery outside of Nicosia, Cyprus. Weather officials say heavy rainfall over the last few days has made this September among the wettest in a century.  (Petros Karadjias / Associated Press)