WSJ Photos of the Week

A demonstrator grabbed the foot of a policeman during a protest calling for more public sector jobs, in Rabat, Morocco, on Wednesday. (Rafael Marchante/Reuters)

Filipino policemen serenaded their colleagues using an improvised drum set during a retrieval operation in the village of Little Kibungan in the northern Philippines on Tuesday. (Dennis Sabangan/EPA)

Bridget Sloan of the U.S. competed on the uneven bars in the qualification round of the Gymnastics World Championships in London Wednesday. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

MSNBC Photos of the Week

Explosive labor – A worker’s hands are covered with gunpowder as she fills cardboard cylinders at a firecracker factory on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Siliguri on Oct. 9. Firecrackers are in great demand ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which is celebrated across the country on Oct. 17. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

Charred remains – Residents carry belongings from the remains of their scorched homes at Diogo Pires shantytown in western Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct. 12. More than half of the 600 families living in the shantytown lost all their belongings in a blaze. A cause had not been determined. Mauricio Lima / AFP – Getty Images

Dusty touchdown – The Soyuz TMA-14 capsule lands near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 11. Aboard the craft were Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt and Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil. Padalka and Barratt were returning from six months at the International Space Station, along with Laliberte, who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 after paying millions for the voyage. Yuri Kochetkov / EPA

Boston.com – The Big Picture

A police boat makes its way past the “Big Giant” of the French theatre company Royal de Luxe, who is lifted out of the water in Berlin on October 3, 2009. Part of an open-air theatre spectacle with two marionettes named Little Giantess and Big Giant seeking each other out, visiting various historical sites in the Berlin, as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin wall. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

A “Gaza-made zebra”, (a donkey painted with stripes), stands in a cage at the “Happy Land Zoo” just outside Gaza City on October 3, 2009. Faced with an Israeli blockade, the Palestinian zookeepers were unable to bring in real zebras. Their solution was to paint a couple of donkeys at the zoo, which have become symbols of life under the Israeli blockade, a local attraction and a bit of a joke. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

A Mastin Napolitano rests during the World Dog Show in Bratislava, October 10, 2009. The dog show saw more than 30,000 dogs from 59 countries registered for the event. (REUTERS/Petr Josek)