Photos Of The Week #7
Ukrainian servicemen play football on a road near Debaltseve on February 15 shortly after a cease-fire began to be cautiously observed by both pro-Russian rebels and Kyiv forces in the country's months-long conflict. (AFP/Volodomyr Shuvayev)
An Afghan woman carries a water canister past the ruins of a building destroyed during the Afghan-Soviet war on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga (left) bowls to New Zealand's Grant Elliott during a Cricket World Cup match in Christchurch on February 14. (AFP/Marty Melville)
A child sits in a bus during an evacuation to Russia from Donetsk on February 13. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)
A girl jumps as she plays hopscotch on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
A man rests in a shelter for homeless people in Moscow. (TASS/Valery Sharifulin)
An Iraqi woman walks past a shop displaying teddy bears in preparation for Valentine's Day in Baghdad's Karrada district. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
An aerial view of an international balloon festival in Bhopal, India (epa/Sanjeev Gupta)
An Afghan child pushes a wheelbarrow as he transports firewood on the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
Graduates of the National Central Police Academy attend their graduation ceremony at the school in Chungju, South Korea. (epa/Yonhap)
A toxic cloud is seen over the town of Igualada, near Barcelona, following an explosion at a chemical plant. Three people were injured in the blast. Authorities advised nearby residents to stay indoors. (Reuters/Alba Aribau)
A woman bakes bread in Nassiriyah, southeast of Baghdad. (Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani)
Pope Francis gestures as he speaks with a cardinal during the arrival of cardinals and bishops to participate in the papal consistory before the nominations of new cardinals at the Vatican. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)
An Afghan girl sits on a grave at a cemetery in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
Misha Ge of Uzbekistan performs during the men's short program at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul in this time-lapse photograph. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)
A Pakistani policewoman fires a heavy machine gun during a special training course in Nowshera, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, on February 11. (AFP/A Majeed)
Iranian students wave their national flag during the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) on February 11. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
Syrian refugees brave the cold and snow as they walk to a metro station in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 11. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
A teddy bear lies near a puddle of blood at the site of recent shelling in a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk on February 10. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
Jailed Ukrainian army pilot Nadia Savchenko holds a sign inside a defendants' cage as she attends a hearing at a court in Moscow on February 10. Savchenko has been on hunger strike, protesting her incarceration, for eight weeks. The sign she is holding says: "I was born Ukrainian; I will die Ukrainian." (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)
Afghan men clean raisins in a factory in Mazar-e Sharif. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)
A topless Femen activist jumps on the car carrying former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (not seen) as he arrives for his "aggravated pimping" trial in Lille on February 10. (AFP/Denis Charlet)
People look at the remains of a rocket shell on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 10. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
A local woman is seen through a shell hole in a fence araound a damaged home following an artillery barrage in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 9. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (left) receives a Kalashnikov rifle as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right) in Cairo on February 9. (epa)
An elderly woman reacts after the residential block in which she lives in was damaged by recent shelling, according to locals, on the outskirts of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on February 9. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
Iranian Air Force officers salute Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a ceremony in Tehran. (epa)
People watch as Mount Sinabung ejects ash into the air during an eruption in Karo Regency in Indonesia's North Sumatra Province on February 9. (Reuters/Antara Foto/Endro Lewa)
An Afghan boy carries bread on his head to sell in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
A worker poses for a picture with a banner of Vladimir Putin before hanging it along a bridge in central Cairo ahead of the Russian president's visit on February 9. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)