Photos of the Week

Photos of the Week

A man walks across the Galata bridge as heavy snowfalls hit Istanbul, forcing the city's airport to close.

Relatives of Chinese passengers from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 protest outside the Malaysian prime minister's office against the declaration that all on board the plane are presumed dead.

A wounded Ukrainian soldier looks through a window as he arrives at a hospital on the day Ukrainian forces pulled back from the embattled town of Debaltseve.

Pope Francis kisses a baby during his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square.

One of largest-ever troves of gold coins found by scuba divers on the seabed of Israel's Mediterranean coast.

Guards outside the presidential palace in Athens as Greece prepares a proposal for its creditors to save the bailout talks from collapse.

A sculpture by US artist Frank Stella on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

A military boot on a road near Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine where fighting between government forces and rebels continued despite a ceasefire.

Pope Tawadros II, the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, leads mass prayers for the Egyptians beheaded in Libya.

A rescuer carries a child off a ship in southern Sicily following an operation to save migrants in difficulty between Lampedusa and the coast of Libya.

French President Francois Hollande visits a Jewish cemetery in eastern France where 300 graves were desecrated.

Two retired Iraqi men sit and drink tea on a street in the capital, Baghdad.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena prays in front of a Buddha statue in India, during his first foreign trip since taking office.

A sea lion at an oceanarium in Vladivostok, Russia, where an investigation is underway into the death of at least six animals.

The red carpet at the presidential palace in Delhi gets a last-minute dusting before the arrival of Sri Lanka's President Mithripala Sirisena on a state visit to India.

Filipinos survey the ruins of a burned out slum in Pasay, south of Manila. The fire killed at least four people and destroyed some 300 houses.

An elderly woman sits on a table at a food stall in a market in Bangkok, Thailand.

Samba dancers on a brightly coloured float perform at the annual carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A Bulgarian Muslim man inspects his bride, dressed for a traditional wedding ceremony in the Rhodope mountains.

A cyclist is silhouetted on a bridge above the skyline of the German city of Dresden, at dawn.

A Sudanese man catches up on the latest news at a roadside kiosk in the capital Khartoum.

A woman at a Taipei market shops for ornaments that are meant to bring good luck, as Taiwan prepares to celebrate the new year.

A Pakistani girl collects rice, distributed during a religious ceremony at a shrine in Islamabad.

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