Julia WeeksAugust 28, 2017Comment

Pictures of the week

Julia WeeksAugust 28, 2017Comment

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

This week's gallery includes Hindu women encircled by birds during the Teej festival in Nepal, a pro-deomoracy protest in Hong Kong, and girls dancing during Transgender Children Day in Chile.

This gallery contains photos from the week of Aug. 19 - Aug. 25, 2017

In this image made available by NASA, the International Space Station is silhouetted against the sun during a solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, as seen from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park in Washington state. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Transgender girls Josefa, 13, left, and Selenna, 8, pose for a picture as they twirl in traditional Chilean dance costumes before an event marking Transgender Children Day in Santiago, Chile on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

An Afghan refugee mother who fled her country due to war and famine waits with her child, to get registered in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday. Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A dancer applies lip color makeup as she prepares for the salon category competition at the World Tango Championship final in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

People participate in a march organized by the group "Take Em Down NOLA" in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, to show opposition to white-supremacist rallies and deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Protesters attend a rally to support young activists Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow in downtown Hong Kong Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

People inspect the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Law enforcement officers use water cannons to disperse migrants in downtown Rome, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Protests erupted as police continued an operation to evict some 800 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees from a building they have occupied since 2013, despite protests from the U.N. refugee agency, UNICEF, and humanitarian organizations. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)

A soldier takes position next to a wall spray-painted with the Portuguese message: "Police will die" in the Jacarezinho slum during a security operation, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. Thousands of soldiers and police are occupying a series of slum communities in northern part of the city as part of efforts to combat a spike in violence. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

National Police remove protesting high school students who chained themselves to the Ministry of Education building in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The students are demanding education reform, including free access to school for all ages. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Nepalese Hindu women stand in a line to enter the Pashupatinath temple to offer prayers during celebrations for the festival of Teej in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

People stand next to candles and flowers placed on the ground for the victims of the fatal terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A man takes a selfie photo near the upturned coaches of the Kalinga-Utkal Express after an accident near Khatauli, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)