Pictures of the Week: August 27 – September 2, 2005

Moment of Silence
A little girl stands in the destroyed sports hall of the school in Beslan, Russia that was the scene of a hostage crisis last year. On September 1, 2004, the first day of the academic year, militants demanding independence for Chechnya seized more than 1,100 hostages in a primary school. It ended three days later in a chaotic bloodbath with 318 hostages, including 186 children, dead