The 20 photographs of the week

Photographer Adrees Latif was covering the protests against the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Here, security forces charge at the demonstrators after being hit by water bottles Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

And here, in another photograph by Adrees Latif, a man is doused with milk and sprayed with mist after being hit by an eye irritant from security forces trying to disperse the demonstrators Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

Again in Ferguson, protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance Photograph: Jeff Roberson/AP

Tracer bullets ricochet off their targets as Japanese ground self-defence force tanks fire during an annual training exercise near Mount Fuji, Japan, in a display of the equipment the military could use to defend or retake islands in the East China Sea Photograph: Yuya Shino/Reuters

A Palestinian boy makes his way through the rubble of the destroyed and deserted terminal of Gaza's former international airport in Rafah in a photograph by Thomas Coex Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP

In a second photograph by Coex, a displaced Palestinian girl sits at school desk in front of a painted wall at the entrance of a UN school in Jabalia where families had sought refuge to escape the fighting that broke out between Israel and Hamas Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP

Adel and Mohammed spend an afternoon in the only room of their home that was not totally destroyed in an apartment building that was hit by an Israeli missile in the Gaza Strip. Their families live in an UN-run school where they sought refuge but the men sleep overnight in the shell of the building to watch over what little is left Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP

People look at the installation entitled 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' by artist Paul Cummins in the dry moat of the Tower of London. The finished installation will comprise of 888,246 ceramic poppies, with the final poppy being placed on 11 November, Armistice Day. Each poppy represents a British and Commonwealth military fatality from the first world war Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

At London zoo, a mossy frog is measured at the annual weigh-in Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony for the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in China Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty

In a photograph by Dimitar Dilkoff, a regular contributor to the 20 photographs of the week, a man holds a piece of rocket shrapnel found in his garden in the village of Olenivka, Ukraine. Shelling destroyed and damaged some 30 houses in Olenivka, killed a woman and injured two. Pro-Russian rebels and government troops accused each other of being responsible for the shelling Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

People stand inside a makeshift bomb shelter in Makiyivka, Ukraine, in another photograph by Dimitar Dilkoff Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Children who fled the fighting in Ukraine look out of the window of a bus on their arrival at a railway station, before leaving for Stavropol in Russia Photograph: Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters

Again from the unrest in Ukraine, a bloodstained shoe lies on a street after recent shelling in Makiivka, on the outskirts of Donetsk Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

A supporter of anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri sleeps after a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan. Qadri held large rallies there demanding prime minister Nawaz Sharif step down over alleged fraud in last year's election Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

A man lies under a car after being put there by the Liberian army during an Ebola quarantine of the West Point neighbourhood in Monrovia. An army officer said that the man was showing symptoms of Ebola and was caught trying to escape the area. Click here to see more images by John Moore in Liberia Photograph: John Moore/Getty

People gather for a tribute to the miners who were gunned down by the South African police during a wave of strikes two years ago Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP

A displaced Syrian child eats food which her mother has taken from a rubbish bin in Istanbul. Turkey's relief agency said that it was time for the world to start 'sharing the burden' of the 1.2 million Syrian refugees in the country, after tensions between Turks and the refugees again turned violent Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Cyclists ride during the 165km fourth and final stage of the Arctic Race of Norway Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP

And in this final image this week, another photograph from Ferguson, demonstrators walk down West Florissant during a peaceful march in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters