Photos Of The Week #1

Bosnian Serb women, seen through flames, attend the ceremonial burning of dried oak branches during an Orthodox Christmas Eve religious service at a church in Sarajevo on January 6. (AP/Amel Emric)

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I kisses Metropolitan Epifaniy, the head of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, as he presents him with a "tomos," a decree granting independence to the Ukrainian church after mass in Istanbul's Saint George's Cathedral. (Reuters/Murad Sezer) 

Rohingya children sit inside a classroom at the Kutupalong refugee camp, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)

People feed seagulls flying behind a ferry on the Bosphorus as the sun shines in Istanbul. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

A man keeps a puppy warm inside his jacket while watching a parade of New Year's traditions in Comanesti, northern Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Afghan women take a walk after the first snowfall of the year on top of a hill on the outskirts of Kabul. (epa-EFE/Ayatullah Amid)

People attend a farewell ceremony for a family who died when an apartment building collapsed in Magnitogorsk, Russia. (AFP)

Visitors sit in a horse-drawn carriage in front of ice sculptures in Harbin in China's Heilongjiang Province. (epa-EFE/Roman Pilipey)

An Afghan man helps to prevent the spread of a big fire at a commercial market in Jalalabad. (Reuters/Parwiz)

A Pakistani vendor sells peanuts on a roadside in Peshawar. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)

Switzerland's Killian Peier soars through the air during a trial jump at the third stage of the 67th Four Hills ski-jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Men work at a poultry farm in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Kandahar has 470 poultry farms that produce around 30 tons of meat, 130,000 eggs per day, and jobs to around 3,000 people. (epa-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)

A vendor carries plastic boxes full of cake to sell on the streets on a smoggy morning in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

A man with a pony walks on a pedestrian crossing in central Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

A girl holds a balloon as she walks among tents inside an empty warehouse used as a shelter set up for migrants in downtown Tijuana, Mexico. (AP/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Fireworks explode over the Harbour Bridge and Opera House during a traditional early family fireworks show held before the main midnight event in Sydney, Australia, on December 31. (AFP/Peter Parks)​

A man carrying straw is silhouetted against the last sunset of 2018 in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)

A boy watches his pigeons fly at an informal refugee camp in Zahle city in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

A man dressed as Ded Moroz, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, helps a member of the Cryophile amateur winter swimmers club walk into the icy waters of the Yenisei River with the air temperature at about minus 26 degrees Celsius, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

A person looks at an illuminated railway bridge across the Yamuna River ahead of the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. Kumbh Mela is a 45-day festival attended by millions of Hindu devotees. They believe that taking a dip in the waters of the holy river will cleanse them of their sins. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh)