The week in photos
Members of a Royal Canadian Air Force honour guard come to the assistance of a fallen comrade who had fainted as they awaited the arrival of dignitaries for the official acceptance of the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter, at a news conference at 12 Wing Shearwater in Shearwater, N.S.Tim Krochak/The Canadian Press
Ash from Mount Sinabung volcano fills the sky over an abandoned church during another eruption in Karo, in Indonesia's North Sumatra province. Sinabung rumbled back to life in 2013 after a period of inactivity, since when around 10,000 people have had to evacuate their homes.Sutanta Aditya/AFP / Getty Images
Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of a shooting in Charleston, S.C. where a gunman opened fire on Wednesday night killing nine people.David Goldman/The Associated Press
Historical re-enactors take part in a practice drill in the Allied Bivouac camp in Waterloo, Belgium.Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
A rainbow forms over the Harbour Bridge on a wet day in Sydney, Australia.Rick Rycroft/The Associated Press
A Fouga Magister CM170 performs during the International Paris Air Show.Miguel Medina/AFP / Getty Images
A suspect is escorted by police during a crime reconstruction in Hong Kong a day after suspected explosives were seized at an abandoned television studio.Philippe Lopez/AFP / Getty Images
Rescue workers try to remove a trapped car from a flooded river in Chongqing, China.China Network/Reuters
Bono of U2 signs an autograph for a fan as he arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. He is meeting political leaders to press for aid for maternal and child care.Dave Chan
A guard sits on the rubble of the house of Brigadier Fouad al-Emad, an army commander loyal to the Houthis, after air strikes destroyed it in Sanaa, Yemen.Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
A group of migrants protect themselves from the weather with emergency blankets as they huddle on the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimille, Italy and Menton, France.Jean-Pierre Amet/Reuters
People assist a hippopotamus that has been shot with a tranquilizer dart after it escaped from a flooded zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals have escaped from the zoo in Georgia’s capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures.Tinatin Kiguradze/The Associated Press