The 20 photographs of the week

A man walks amid the wreckage of the Malaysian Airlines jet which was carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. The president of Ukraine accused pro-Russia rebels of shooting the jet down with a ground-to-air missile. Photograph: Alexander Khudoteply/AFP

A Ukrainian police officer searches for human remains in a field in Grabovka. The airliner exploded and rained down in fiery pieces over a rural Ukrainian village. Photograph: Brendan Hoffman/Getty

Flowers lie on debris from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane. The Ukrainian government has accused pro-Russian rebels of trying to destroy evidence at the site. Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

A member of the Ukrainian police special task force patrols in Semenovka. Earlier in the week, Ukraine accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the border. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Israeli security personnel look at a window damaged by shrapnel after a short-range rocket landed near the Erez crossing. The Israeli military stated that an Israeli civilian was killed by the rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, the first Israeli fatality in more than a week of fighting with Palestinian militants. Photograph: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

Israeli tanks manoeuvre outside the northern Gaza Strip. Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats and warned it could 'significantly widen' its assault. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

A Palestinian family who fled their home seek shelter in a UN school in Khan Younis as Israel expanded its offensive with ground troops. The overall death toll climbed to more than 260, with 2,000 injured, many of them civilians, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

A Palestinian man burns a tyre during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the Israeli offensive. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza to destroy rocket-launching sites and tunnels, firing volleys of tank shells and clashing with Palestinian fighters in the ground offensive meant to weaken Hamas. Photograph: Majdi Mohammed/AP

Fans watch Dirk Kuyt of the Netherlands and Brazil's Oscar challenge for the ball during their 2014 World Cup third-place playoff in Brasilia, which Holland won 3-0. 'Losing 7-1 was the worst result in history but I have to see the positive side of things,' Scolari said. 'In 2006 we didn’t finish in the final four and neither did we in 2010.' Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

The German players celebrate defeating Argentina 1-0 in the World Cup final. Germany became the first European side to win the World Cup on South American soil with a dramatic late Mario Götze goal. 'Whether we have the best individual players or whatever does not matter, you have to have the best team,' said captain Philipp Lahm, 'and at the end you stand there as world champions, an unbelievable feeling'. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Getty

Central American migrants climb on a train during their journey toward the US-Mexico border, in Ixtepec. The number of unaccompanied minors detained on the border has more than tripled since 2011. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

A Romanian Roma child sits among his family belongings at a container settlement outside the Black Sea coAstal town of Eforie, eastern Romania. Local authorities relocated eight Roma families to a settlement outside the city boundaries prompting protests by human rights organisations because the location is close to the city's garbage dump and there is lack of running water or electricity. Photograph: Bogdan Chesaru/AP

An Indian girl rides a horse cart as monsoon clouds hover in Jammu, India. Photograph: Channi Anand/AP

Clouds are pictured above farmland in Tasmania. Once a dumping ground for the British Empire's convicts, Tasmania's isolation, wilderness and low population of just over half a million people has meant that it is one of the cleanest places on earth. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

A fisherman's house in the middle of a fish pen is pounded by Typhoon Rammasun as it hit the coastal town of Bacoor, Philippines. Photograph: Erik De Castro/Reuters

Carriers of the Great God Power brotherhood unload the Virgen del Carmen statue at Puerto de la Cruz dock in Tenerife, Spain. Photograph: Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty

David Beckham with sons Cruz and Romeo are slimed onstage during the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports Awards 2014. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty

Festivalgoers wrestle in the mud during the annual Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach, South Korea. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty

In a photograph by Dan Kitwood, a regular contributor to this gallery, Imperial War Museum employees look out of a window into the main atrium. The new world war one galleries at the Imperial War Museum opened this week in London. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty

A US helicopter flies over clashes between Taliban fighters and Afghan government forces in Kabul. Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AP