Photos Of The Week - September 25-October 1

Passengers sit on the roof of a bus near oil tankers burning after "suspected militants" set fire to them on a highway near Shikarpur, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, on October 1. One day earlier, three Pakistani troops had been killed in a cross-border NATO air strike.

Photo by Athar Hussain for Reuters

North Korean soldiers attend festivities in central Pyongyang to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's reelection as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Official North Korean KCNA photo provided by Reuters

Pakistani flood victims on a boat pass by a doorway left standing after floods destroyed houses in the village of Chandan Mori Johi, in Sindh Province, on September 30.

Photo by Athar Hussain for Reuters

A U.S. soldier mans a machine gun at the rear of a U.S. military helicopter during a mission in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, on October 1.

Photo by Erik de Castro for Reuters

A man walks past a wall in central Sarajevo decorated with campaign posters ahead of Bosnia's October 3 parliamentary and presidential elections.

Photo by Danilo Krstanovic for Reuters

A man empties a bucket of freshly harvested grapes near the Georgian village of Kondoli on September 29. Georgia's wine exports rose a reported 25 percent on the previous year.

Photo by David Mdzinarishvili for Reuters

Russia's Irina Osipova is swarmed by Belarusian defenders during Belarus's surprise quarterfinal victory over Russia at the FIBA women's basketball world championships in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, on October 1.

Photo by Petr Josek for Reuters

Pakistan's former general-cum-president, Pervez Musharraf, launches the All Pakistan Muslim League political party from exile in London on October 1, one day after he warned that a coup might be brewing in his homeland.

Photo by Luke MacGregor for Reuters