Photographs of The Week

(Janesville, California, US) A home burns on Jeters Road as the Dixie fire jumps Highway 395. Critical fire weather throughout the region threatens to spread multiple wildfires burning in Northern California (Photograph: Ethan Swope/AP)

(Kabul, Afghanistan) A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon on which the images of women have been defaced (Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images)

(Tatvan, Turkey) Afghan migrants sit in the countryside in Tatvan. Turkey is concerned about increased migration across the Turkish-Iranian border as Afghans flee the Taliban (Photograph: Emrah Gürel/AP)

(Les Cayes, Haiti) People displaced by the earthquake huddle in a shelter made of blankets after Tropical Storm Grace lashed the south of the country (Photograph: Joseph Odelyn/AP)

(Basra, Iraq) Shia Muslims take part in a mourning ritual for the martyr Imam Hussein in the run-up to Ashura (Photograph: Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images)