Photos Of The Week #50

A pro-EU protester at a camp on Kyiv's Independence Square. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

Snow in Ardabil, a city in northwestern Iran. (IRNA)

Antigovernment protesters attend a rally on Independence Squire in Kyiv on December 13. (epa/Zurab Kurtsikidze)

Helium-filled balloons suspend a Santa Claus figure riding a horse-drawn chariot made of balsa wood, created by artist Nasser Volant, near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (Reuters/Charles Platiau)

A woman walks near a barricade on Khreschatyk Street in central Kyiv, where pro-European integration protesters were barricaded in. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

A tailor stichtes traditional Chitrali caps as winter season begins in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa/Bilawal Arbab)

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reacts during a visit to the Kremlin to listen to President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address in Moscow. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Members holding EU and Ukrainian flags vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. (AFP/Frederick Florin)

Pro-European integration protesters wave flags on Independence Square in Kyiv. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)

A child eats during an event organized by the British Embassy to Romania, Bucharest town hall, and various nongovernmental groups in Bucharest. (Reuters/Bogdan Cristel)

An usher holds programs with the image of Nelson Mandela on the cover before a memorial service for the late South African antiapartheid icon at the Riverside Church in New York. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Mourners queue to view the body of former South African President Nelson Mandela as he lies in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. (Reuters/GCIS/Handout via Reuters)

Egyptian riot police are seen during clashes with students who support the Muslim Brotherhood outside the University of Cairo campus. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)

The Canary Wharf business district of east London seen during a foggy morning in a photograph received via the Metropolitan Police in London. (Reuters/Metropolitan Police@MPSintheSky/Handout via Reuters)

A giant Ferris wheel lights up the night sky for the Christmas holiday season near the fountain on the Place de la Concorde square in Paris. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen)

A boy rests in a wheelbarrow near the home of the late South African President Nelson Mandela in his ancestral village of Qunu. (epa/Nic Bothma)

Afghan internally displaced children look on outside their temporary house on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)

A man crosses himself as pro-European integration protesters gather in Independence Square in central Kyiv on December 12. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)

A Ukrainian antigovernment protester walks between a riot police line in Kyiv on December 11. (Reuters/Maksim Zveyev)

A Pakistani man and a woman carry tree branches, used as fuel for cooking, on the outskirts of Islamabad, on December 11. (Reuters/Mian Khursheed)

Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood shoot fireworks at a policemen (foreground) during clashes outside the University of Cairo campus on December 11. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)

Ukrainian antigovernment protesters spray riot police with a water hose to prevent them from entering the City Hall, which they have occupied in Kyiv, on December 11. (Reuters/Valentin Ogirenko)

An Afghan soldier walks past photographs of victims of war on display to mark Human Rights day at the ruined Darlaman Palace in Kabul on December 10. (AFP/Aref Karimi)

A Syrian child peers over a fence at a refugee camp in Harmanli, 280 kilometers east of Sofia, Bulgaria. (Reuters/Pierre Marsaut)

A man carries a wounded girl who survived what activists say was an air strike by government forces in Aleppo's Al-Ansari al-Sharqi neighborhood on December 9. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)

Pro-European protestors stand on a barricade that was erected to block the way to the Independence Square in Kyiv. (epa/Zurab Kurtsikidze)

Antigovernment protesters with Thai national flags ride their motorbikes as they rally on a main road in Bangkok on December 9. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)

An Iranian honor guard checks his boots as awaits the arrival of Afghan President Hamid Karzai at Tehran's Saadabad Palace on December 8. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

Afghan children look on as they wait for customers while selling food on a street in Kabul on December 8. (AFP/Aref Karimi)