TIFF, Paralympics and eagle rehab round out the week in pictures

TIFF wraps up this weekend.

Justin Timberlakewas among the stylish stars at TIFF this year, as wasArmenian actress AngelaSarafyan, whoappearsalongside Christian Bale in the love storyPromiseatale set during the Armenian genocide. Sheturned heads on the film's red carpet premiere in thisdiaphanousgown. TheToronto International Film Festival wraps up on Sunday.

Swimmer Benoit Huot won his 20thParalympicmedal.

The 32-year-old Quebec swimmer won a bronze medal in the 400-metre freestyle S10 event on Friday his 20thParalympics medal to date. The 2016 RioParalympic Gamesare on until Sunday. Below the photo of HuotisJapan's Chiaki Takada competing in the T11 long jump final on Friday. Brazilians SilvaniaCosta and LorenaSalvatiniwon the gold and bronze medals in the event respectively.

A wildlife centre in B.C. is rehabilitating injured raptors.

TheOrphaned Wildliferescuecentre in Delta, B.C., known as OWL, is receivingan unprecedented number of injured birds of prey at its door most of them hurt by human activity.There were 626 falcons, hawks, eagles and ospreys, among others,last year and this year some50 more than that number are expectedby the end of 2016.

Typhoon Merantiswept into southeastern Chinaon Thursday.

The typhoon toppled these shipping containers aAfter sweeping acrossTaiwan, leaving at least two people dead and dozens more injured, the most powerful storm of its kind this year made landfall in China.

The CBC'sSasa Petricicsaid thestorm "hit with a fury" and turned streets into rivers in Beijing, wheretrees were downed in winds that reached more than 200 km/h.

Pictures of prosperity contrast with hardshipin North Korea.

On Tuesday, North Korea's state media outletreleased photos of Supreme LeaderKim Jong-unhappilyinspecting a farm. The photos of prosperity contrast starkly withthe picture painted by a UN report released this week in the wake of deadly flooding that will worsen food shortages reportedon the Korean Peninsula.

The UN report comes outa week after North Korea's fifthandlargestnuclear test, which was celebrated enmasse inKim Il-sung Square, in Pyongyang.

The U.S. pledged to lift sanctions on Myanmar this week.

AungSan Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar(also known as Burma),was in Washington where she met with U.S. President Barack Obamaon Wednesday. During their meeting, Obamapledged to lift the remaining American sanctions on the Southeast Asian country as a reward for moving away from its brutal military past. This is Suu Kyi chatting with a park ranger at the Washington Monument.

Electioneeringis underway in rural Russia.

The challenges of reaching voters in remote camps is met by helicopters such as this one,carrying members of a local electoral commission in theNenets region,on the northern Barents Sea,as parliamentary elections get underway in Russia.

Meanwhile, on the Tube

The efforts of a grassroots group of some 700 commuters went up in underground stations around London this week. TheCitizens Advertising Takeover Service (CATS) raised money to buy up advertising space and, for a period of two weeks, is running artworks like these ones, inClapham Common station, instead of ads.