Pictures of the Week.

Fighter
A Pakistani girl, displaced by fighting between the Taliban and her government, carries her ration of food at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.

Powers that Be

Iranian security personnel, among the thousands deployed to keep the peace after a week of election-related protests, ride past a woman sitting on the ground in Tehran.. Collision

A rush-hour accident between two Metro transit trains in Washington, D.C. claimed nine lives and injured dozens more

Fire in the Sky

U.S Marines dismount their vehicles during a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

Collision

A rush-hour accident between two Metro transit trains in Washington, D.C. claimed nine lives and injured dozens more Multitudes

The tents of a few of the 140,000 music fans attending the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England dot the festival grounds.

Big Scaredy Giant

A man on stilts hides from the rain before the start of the 2009 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, which pays homage to the former tradition of the Coney Island Mardi Gras. Little Sports Shooter

A hand-reared meerkat named Bob investigates a camera at Predator World in Rustenburg, South Africa, host city of soccer's 2009 Confederations Cup.