Weekly Impressive Images: August 15, 2011

Barack Obama respected Afghanistan Helicopter crash victims, powerful image of riots in London, the pitiful scene of a hungry child in Africa and Chilean’s education reform are some of the most outstanding events reflected through impressive images during the previous seven days.

On Tuesday August 9, U.S. President Barack Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base with the aim of attending the return of the 30 bodies of U.S. servicemen killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. It was the deadliest day in the history of the decade-long war. On that day, Obama’s motorcade left the White House at 11:32 a.m., and arrived at Ft. McNair at 11:45 a.m. After five minutes, four helicopters carrying the president, staff and reporters left and landed at Dover Air Force Base at 12:30 p.m. Obama met with families along with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Admiral William McRaven, who oversees the U.S. Special Operations forces.

 Barack Obama visited Dover Air Force Base and had a private meeting with relatives of 30 U.S. soldiers who died in helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 9

 3-year-old Lokor Logitel was crying due to famine in Naduat center, northwest of Kenya's Nairobi

 Masked demonstrators standing near a burning barricade during a protest for demanding education reform in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday, August 9, 2011

 This is the scene of a burning building as rioters gathered in Croydon, south London on August 8, 2011

On 11 August, a family  is trying to comfort a young man mourning his brother, a police who was killed in Pakistan bombings in which four policemen and a child killed, and 14 wounded

American swimming athlete Diana Nyad, 61, plunged into the Florida Straits in Havana, marking the beginning of the 168-kilometer journey from Cuba to the U.S.

The scene of China's highest chimney stack standing at 210m (689ft) tall demolished at Jia Ling Power Plant in Sichuan Province

Weekly Impressive Images: August 1 – 7, 2011

Norwegian people paying tribute to victims of the Friday’s bombing and shooting, Afghan police fighting against suicide attackers, and the four-meter mermaid sculpture by Oliver Voss being displayed on Alster lake in Hamburg, are among the most memorable pictures of the week from August 1 to 7, 2011.

People stand on a memorial on the shore of Tyrifjorden lake overlooking Utoeya island, where anti-Islam extremist Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 68 young victims on July 22, 2011. He also caused the Oslo’s bomb blast, killing six others. The Friday’s bombing and shooting Anders Behring Breivik carried out are claimed Norway’s worst violation since World War II.

                  People pay tribute to the victims of the Friday’s massacre on August 1, 2011

 Mother of a malnourished Somali refugee boy Fariyo Yusuf, 2, touches her son’s leg at Ifo camp’s hospital in Kenya on August 2, 2011

 Thai Muslim women pray at the Central Mosque in the restive province of Pattani, southern Thailand on August 4, 2011 during a mass prayer within the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan

 A young girl walks the inside of Miracoco, an air-filled sculpture by British artist Alan Parkinson, on display in downtown Lisbon on August 1, 2011

 A worker lays batik cloth out on the grass to dry in Solo, central Java province, on August 2, 2011. Indonesia will host the World Batik Global Summit next month in Jakarta

 A four-meter-high “mermaid” sculpture by Oliver Voss is seen in the late evening hours on Alster lake in Hamburg on August 3, 2011. It has been on display until August 12

 Police fight against suicide attackers, who took over a guesthouse in Kunduz province, on August 2, 2011. Three suicide bombers raided a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, killing four Afghan security guards

 Cristina Alfaro Mejia, whose husband and daughter were killed by soldiers during a massacre in the community of Dos Erres in Guatemala in 1982, holds a rose at the court that judged three former special forces soldiers for the massa

A faithfull covering his body in motor oil takes a rest in the celebrations honoring the patron saint of Managua, Santo Domingo de Guzman, in Managua, Nicaragua on August 1, 2011