Photos Of The Week #35

The Phillippines' Eumir Felix Marcial (left) and Uzbekistan's Israil Madrimov fight in their men's middleweight boxing semifinal at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Marcial lost in a split decision. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

Well-wishers leave notes outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit for singing great Aretha Franklin. Franklin died on August 16 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Girls sit inside a classroom during the first day of a new school year in Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are starting their school year in the Gaza Strip amid a major budget crunch for the United Nations agency that funds many schools. (AP/Felipe Dana)​

People watch chefs preparing a giant burger, known as pljeskavica, weighing 6.1 kilos at a grill festival in Leskovac, Serbia. (AFP/Oliver Bunic)

A volunteer member of the advance team for U.S. President Donald Trump blocks a camera with his hand as a photojournalist attempts to take a photo of a protester during a campaign rally in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Demonstrators burn an effigy depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a rally to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the bloody battle in the eastern city of Ilovaisk, in front of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. (Reuters/Serhii Nuzhnenko)

A woman cries as people hold the names of missing persons as they marked the International Day of the Disappeared, in Pristina, Kosovo, on August 30. (Reuters/Laura Hasani)

A woman carrying her child is reflected in a wall as she walks in a subway in Moscow. (AP/Aleksandr Zemlianichenko)

People cross rail tracks as a train arrives in Karachi, Pakistan. Every year, hundreds of people are killed or injured after being hit by trains in Pakistan. (EPA-EFE/Rehan Khan)

Indian fishermen load their boat with fish to sell at a market at the banks of the Brahmaputra River at Ujanbazar Ghat in Guwahati. (AFP/Biju BORO)

People take photos under the "Umbrellas" sculpture by Greek sculptor George Zongolopoulos on the new waterfront in Thessaloniki. (AFP/Sakis Mitrolidis)

Cindy McCain, wife of longtime U.S. Senator John McCain, touches his casket during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. McCain, a Vietnam War hero and former presidential candidate, died on August 25 in his home state from brain cancer at age 81. ((Reuters/Ross D. Franklin/Pool)

People walk along a pedestrian bridge in downtown Moscow at sunset. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

An Indian youth leaps into the flooded Ganges River in the Jushi area of Allahabad. (AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)

Revelers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual Tomatina festival in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain. The annual battle has become a major tourist attraction. Trucks dumped 160 tons of tomatoes for some 20,000 participants, many from abroad, to throw during the hourlong festivities. (AP/Alberto Saiz)

Palestinian children head to school on the first day of the new school year in the village of Sosia near Yatta, south of Hebron on the West Bank, on August 29. (EPA-EFE/Abed Al Hashlamoun)

Hundreds of crosses are placed in front of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv on August 29 to symbolize the Ukrainian soldiers killed in the ongoing war in the country's east and to mark the fourth anniversary of the bloody Ilovaisk battle. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Macedonian Orthodox believers light candles during Orthodox celebrations of the Assumption of Mary in the St. Mother of God church in Skopje, Macedonia. (EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski)

An elderly man watches Russian President Vladimir Putin's televised address on pension reform, in Ivanovo on August 29. Putin proposed softening the planned pension changes, which triggered angry protests across the country. (TASS/Vladimir Smirnov)

Two sunbathers in Yalta in the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula. (RFE/RL)

Right-wing protesters gesture toward police in riot gear as they gather at the place where a man was stabbed in the night of August 25 in eastern German city of Chemnitz. A 35-year-old man was reportedly stabbed and killed after what police described as a "scuffle between members of different nationalities" at a city festival. (EPA-EFE/Filip Singer)

A demonstrator attends a protest demanding the release of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who was jailed on terrorism charges and is currently on hunger strike in a Russian jail, in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)

A general view of the ancient town of Hasankeyf by the Tigris River, which will be significantly submerged by the Ilisu dam being constructed in southeastern Turkey. (Reuters/Sertac Kayar)

A musician plays a piano during a Free Piano event on the bank of a lake on the outskirts of Minsk. The event invites anyone to play music outdoors. (EPA-EFE/Tatyana Zenkovich)

Turkmenistan's Hojamuhammet Toychyyev attempts a lift during the men's +105-kg snatch weightlifting Group A event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. (AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)

An aerial view shows combines harvesting barley in a field outside the Siberian village of Talniki in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

Couples attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)