WSJ Pictures of the Week: Oct. 24-30 – 670th Edition


President Barack Obama greeted officers and sailors after speaking at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., on Monday. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)


Rescuers searched for survivors involved in a train accident at al-Ayyat in Girzah district, south of Cairo, on Saturday. Two Egyptian passenger trains collided Saturday south of Cairo, killing 18 and leaving passengers trapped in the wreckage after a carriage overturned. (See related article.) (Reuters)


A masked Palestinian youth set a tire on fire during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem’s old city Sunday. Dozens of people were wounded in confrontations between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a site holy to Muslims and Jews alike. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)


An Iraqi man wept as he walked away from the offices of the justice and labor ministries after a suicide bombing in Baghdad Sunday. A pair of suicide car bombs blasted the Justice Ministry and the provincial offices, killing at least 147 people and injuring more than 500. (See related article.) (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)


PAR-TAY! Bolivian President Morales bit into a cake during a rally in Batallas, Bolivia, on Monday. Mr. Morales, who celebrated his 50th birthday Monday, is campaigning for a re-election ahead of a December vote. (David Mercado/Reuters)


Boys played soccer in the Morro dos Macacos slum in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Criminals there drew international attention last week when bloody shootouts left more than 40 people dead, just days after Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Olympic Games. (Felipe Dana/Associated Press)


A police officer beat a man who was fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan for jumping a queue while waiting with hundreds of others at a food distribution point for internally displaced persons in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Tuesday. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)


Fire and smoke spewed from the bow of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama in Kammon Straits, Japan, Tuesday. The Japanese destroyer collided with a South Korean container ship, leaving a crew member injured. (Mainichi Shimbum/Reuters)


In a refugee center in Bosnia on Tuesday, a Bosnian Muslim woman listened to a radio news report on the trial of Radovan Karadzic. U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide case against Mr. Karadzic, despite his continued boycott of the case, calling him the “undisputed leader” and “supreme commander” of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia’s brutal four-year war. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)


A German man with a broken foot was carried away from the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday. Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in the early morning assault raising serious issues about security before the presidential runoff election in less than two weeks. (See related article.) (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)


A protester was carried off by police after he was arrested during a sit-in inside of One Liberty Plaza in New York Wednesday. Advocates for “Medicare for All” in New York engaged in an act of civil disobedience at WellPoint. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)


Philippine Coast Guard personnel retrieved a dead 17-foot whale shark found by fishermen at the Manila Bay breakwater Wednesday. Coast guard members who arrived on the scene said they did not find injuries in their inspection except for a wound on the tail. The whale shark’s cause of death is still unknown. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)


A Indian child performer walked on a rope as she entertained festival-goers at the Pushkar Mela in Pushkar, India, on Wednesday. The festival attracted thousands of livestock dealers and tens of thousands of camels, horses and cattle. The Pushkar Mela has been an annual event for hundreds of years. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)


The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip, and the president of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, inspected the Irish guards during Ms. Patil’s visit to Windsor, England, on Tuesday. Ms. Patil was the first Indian woman elected to the ceremonial role of president of India. (Steve Parsons/Getty Images)


Cuban school children threw flowers into the sea at the Malecon seafront in Havana on Wednesday on the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos, who disappeared at sea in 1959 while flying on his small plane during a mission for Fidel Castro. (Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images)


A statue of Saint Jude, the saint of lost causes, sat in the metro in Mexico City on Wednesday. Thousands flocked to the church of St. Jude Thaddeus on Wednesday as part of an annual pilgrimage in his honor. (Gregory Bull/Associated Press)


Sri Lankan asylum seekers protested on board a wooden boat at Merak seaport, Indonesia, Wednesday. The protesters demanded that the U.N. High Commission for Refugees provide help to a group of 255 refugees who have remained on their boat after they were stopped by Indonesia authorities on their way to Australia. Seventy-eight asylum seekers rescued by Australian customs will be taken to immigration detention centers. (See related article.) (Mast Irham/EPA)


A man pushed an improvised float in the flood-stricken town of Binan, Philippines, Wednesday. The Philippines’ national disaster administrator has urged Filipinos in the country’s northern regions not to visit farflung cemeteries during the weekend’s All Saints’ Day commemorations because the fourth storm to threaten the country in less than two months could trap them there. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)


A Pakistani soldier crouched down as a Pakistani army helicopter took off on top of Kund mountain, Pakistan, Thursday. The Pakistani army is zeroing in on two major Taliban sanctuaries in the South Waziristan bastion. (Nicolas Asfouri/Reuters)


U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner spoke about a health-care reform bill during a conference on Capital Hill on Thursday. Mr. Boehner was joined by other members who voiced concern over a health-care reform bill being pushed by House Democrats. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)


U.S. President Barack Obama saluted during the dignified transfer of Sergeant Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday. Mr. Obama traveled to the base to meet the plane carrying the bodies of 18 U.S. personnel killed in Afghanistan on Monday. (See related article.) (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)


The British Museum showed off its “Day of the Dead” altar, by Mexican artist Adriana Amaya, Friday in London. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)


A model got her makeup done backstage at the DFashion show in Mexico City Thursday. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)


A bodybuilder posed for judges during the Mr. Universe competition in Southport, England, Oct. 24. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)


Children watched as a cemetery caretaker used a saw to cut a mummified corpse into three pieces so it could be transferred to a smaller tomb in Navotas, Philippines, Friday. Millions of Christians will flock to cemeteries to visit departed relatives as part of All Saints’ Day Sunday. (Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)


A huge fire that has killed at least six workers and injured 150 people at an oil depot in Jaipur, India, will be allowed to burn out, officials said Friday. Huge explosions were heard before the fire broke out; on Friday, onlookers watched the flames, which had been burning for nearly 24 hours. (Mustafa Quraishi/Associated Press)


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