Pictures of the week

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 nursing home residents in Texas waiting for rescue in a flooded common room; Rohingya refugees crossing into Bangladesh; and Athens’ Acropolis hill illuminated at twilight.

This gallery contains photos from the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 2017.

Evacuees wade down a flooded section of Interstate 610 as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

A Rohingya ethnic minority refugee from Myanmar carries a child in a sack and walks through rice fields after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Myanmar's military says almost 400 people have died in recent violence in the western state of Rakhine triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Young cadets and schoolgirls attend a ceremony on the occasion of the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Ukraine marks Sept. 1 as Knowledge Day, as a traditional launch of the academic year. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A boy offers Eid al-Adha prayers at the sport center in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) display PAC-3 surface-to-air interceptors at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in Fussa, on the outskirts of Tokyo Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

In this photo provided by Trudy Lampson, residents of the La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, sit in waist-deep flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Authorities said all the residents were safely evacuated from the facility. (Trudy Lampson via AP)

African migrants stand on the deck of the Aquarius vessel of the "SOS Mediterranee" and MSF (Doctors Without Borders) NGOs, in the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Malta, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

People in period costumes talk outside the Friedenstein Castle at the Baroque Festival in Gotha, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Genice Gipson comforts her lifelong friend, Loretta Capistran, outside of Capistran's apartment complex in Refugio, Texas, on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Opposition leader Raila Odinga arrives at the Supreme Court in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. On Friday, the Supreme Court nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta's August election win and called for new elections within 60 days, shocking a country that had been braced for further protests by opposition supporters. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround homes in Port Arthur, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Clouds cover the Athenian sky as the ancient Acropolis hill and the ruins of the fifth century B.C. Parthenon temple are illuminated on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York

Text from the AP news story, AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week. 

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