A pictorial week-in-review posted every Sunday.
1) Medical and hospital staff bring an injured man on a stretcher for treatment after two blasts outside the airport in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2021. Photo: AFP
2) Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a U.S. Air Force C-17 moments after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 21, 2021. Photo: U.S. Air Force
3) A U.S. Air Force aircrew assists qualified evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan. Photo: U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Taylor Crul
4) A girl listens to a military interpreter as she and other people arrive at a processing center for refugees evacuated from Afghanistan at the Dulles Expo Center near Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
5) A U.S. Marine comforts an infant while they wait for the mother during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Nicholas Guevara
6) A U.S. soldier plays guitar for recently evacuated Afghan children at the Ramstein U.S. Air Base, Germany. Photo: AP
7) U.S. President Joe Biden listens to a question from a member of the media as he delivers remarks about Afghanistan, from the East Room of the White House in Washington. Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
8) Martin Adler, center, a 97-year-old retired American soldier, receives a kiss by Mafalda, right, and Giuliana Naldi — siblings he saved during World War II — at Bologna’s airport, Italy. Photo: AP
9) A person dressed as Uncle Sam poses during a protest against mandated coronavirus vaccines and vaccine passports at City Hall in New York City. Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
10) Police officers stand next to an activist who glued herself to the window of the Selfridges department store during an Extinction Rebellion climate activists’ protest, at Oxford Street, in London. Photo: REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
11) An officer from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife gets ready to tranquillize a bear in Pasadena, California. Photo: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
12) Zookeeper Charli Ellis measures the shell of Polly, a Galapagos tortoise, during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo in London. Photo: REUTERS/John Sibley
13) A zoo keeper measures a Postman Butterfly at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo 2021 weigh-in and measurement, in Dunstable, Britain. Photo: Reuters
14) A wild stag is seen lying on the lawn of a holiday rental home as holidaymakers look on in surprise in Villetta Barrea, Italy. Photo: REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
15) An employee of RS No. 9 Carnaby, a Rolling Stones branded shop, places a tribute to Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts on the window of the store following the death of the drummer, in London, Britain. Photo: REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
16) Fireworks illuminate over National Stadium viewed from Shibuya Sky observation deck during the Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. Photo: AP
AND FINALLY…
It’s ‘The Oscars’ for iPhone Photography