Photos Of The Week (December 12-18)
A Ferris wheel and decorative Christmas lights, taken with a low shutter speed and zoomed out, are seen at the Christmas market in downtown Bucharest.
An Afghan boy holds balloons as he walks along a path in the Barmal district of Paktika Province on December 15.
Young women sing carols as they hold candles to celebrate St. Lucia's Day at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg, Russia, on December 13.
Members of the Beryozka Folk Dance Ensemble, founded by Russian choreographer Nadezhda Nadezhdina, perform during a concert titled Russian Choreographic Miracle marking the 75th anniversary of the ensemble's founding at the State Kremlin Palace on December 12.
The governor of Pakistan's Sindh Province, Kamran Tessori, presents a piece of cake to a female elephant named Sonia on the occasion of her 16th birthday at a safari park in Karachi.
A woman walks past the Gucci fashion house shop window, which is covered with chipboard to protect against shelling fragments, with a sign reading, "Gucci is open," in the center of Kyiv on December 12.
People cross the street amid snowfall in central Kyiv on December 12.
People who were injured in clashes that erupted in Chaman, at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, are transferred to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, on December 11.
Demonstrators in Belgrade light flares during a rally in support of ethnic Serbs who are protesting against the Pristina government's actions in northern Kosovo on December 12.
A man holds a flashlight during a blackout in the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa on December 12.
Protesters light flares and gesture next to riot police during a rally against a controversial law on presidential powers in Podgorica on December 12.
A Pakistani laborer works at a factory that produces handicrafts made of salt stones in Karachi, Pakistan.
A man walks his dog following a snowfall in a park in Sofia on December 13.
Members of the Pakistani Christian minority take part in a parade ahead of Christmas, in Karachi, Pakistan, on December 11.
Residents watch as a bombed-out building is demolished in Borodyanka, Ukraine, on December 13.
A hole from a shell explosion in the dome of a church is seen after what Russian officials in Donetsk said was shelling by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk, the capital of the Russian-controlled Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, on December 15.
Georgian national Christmas trees are displayed for sale at a street market in Tbilisi on December 16.
The Town Hall in the old part of the city of Sarajevo is illuminated on December 16.
Hungarian border police officers patrol the border with Serbia on December 15.
A local government official burns expired food items removed from shops on the outskirts of Kandahar.