Photos Of The Week #6
An Afghan war widow stands alongside pictures of war victims at the opening ceremony of the first national exhibition "Memories of War and Peace" at the National Archives in Kabul on February 9. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
Jamie Anderson of the United States performs a jump during the women's snowboard slopestyle finals event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Rosa Khutor on February 9. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
Palestinians walk past the wreckage of a motorbike whose driver was injured in an Israeli air strike on February 9 in Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Said Khatib)
People hold umbrellas as they walk on a snow-covered street in Tokyo. (AFP/Toru Yamanaka)
Dancers perform during the Sochi Olympics opening ceremony on February 7. (epa/Barbara Walton)
A family with their cat watch a live television broadcast of the Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on February 7. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
An Afghan child warms herself near a traditional "sandali" stove at her family's home in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
A woman and a child are seen through an art installation in the shape of the horse at a snow-covered park in Beijing. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-hoon)
Protesters wearing "V for Vendetta" masks walk past graffiti reading "Down with the gang!" after an antigovernment protest in the center of Kyiv on February 6. (AFP/Aleksandr Chekmenev)
Protesters angered at Bosnia-Herzegovina's economic woes throw stones at police in front of a local government building in the northern town of Tuzla on February 6. (AFP)
Members of the women's rights group Femen protest against Russia's antigay laws in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin on February 7. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Student protesters clash with policemen during a demonstration in front of the local education authority in Pristina, Kosovo, over the questionable validity of some university professors' qualifications. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester pulls the tail of a horse used by policemen to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Jerusalem over an Israeli government decision to cut funds to seminary students who avoid military service on February 6. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)
A police officer brandishes his baton at an ultra-Orthodox young man during the February 6 protests in Jerusalem. (EPA/Jim Hollander)
A volunteer walks past a construction site with an unfinished building under a cover decorated with drawings of windows in Sochi, Russia, on February 6. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)
An athlete competes in the Men's Snowboard Slopestyle 1st heat qualification at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 6. (AFP/Franck Fife)
Construction workers are pictured through the window of an unfinished apartment building in the mountain media village on top of the village of Esto Sadok at the Rosa Khutor alpine resort near Sochi, Russia on February 6. (Reuters/Michael Dalder)
An Afghan man walks by a cemetery during a snowy day in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
Participants take part in a donkey derby, organized under the sponsorship of the Sindh Festival in Karachi, Pakistan, on February 4. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
A man walks next to ice-covered road signs in Postojna, Slovenia, on February 3. (Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic)
Ukrainian antigovernment protesters Bogdan (second left), 21, and Yulia, 25, hold their wedding ceremony in a city municipality building occupied by protesters in Kyiv on February 5. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
A general view of the Olympic Cauldron, in the Olympic Park at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, Sochi, Russia on February 5. (epa/Hannibal Hanschke)
Russian firefighters try to extinguish burning compressed-gas tanks that ignited after a train derailed in the city of Kirov on February 5. (epa)
A young Palestinian wearing a traditional Keffiyeh head scarf carries a bouquet of flowers ahead of a mass wedding ceremony in Gaza City. (AFPMahmud Hams)
People gather at the site of a bomb blast in the business district of Sinak in central Baghdad on February 5. (Reuters/Thaier al-Sudani)
An employee hydroseeds yellowing grass in front of the Bolshoi Ice Dome at the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, on February 4. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)
A ribbon with the colours of the Ukrainian flag is placed at a road block on Kyiv's Independence Square. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)
An elderly Ukrainian woman holding a piccture of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko shouts slogans while watching a parliament session on a video wall on Kyiv's Independence Square. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)
A man pulls a trolley containing belongings as a woman walks behind him in Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)
Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, perform prayers while sitting inside circles of burning "upale" (dried cow-dung cakes) on the banks of the River Ganges during the Magh Mela festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on February 4. (Reuters/Jitendra Prakash)
A young cancer patient enjoys the annual art festival organized by the Tata Memorial hospital on the occasion of World Cancer Day in Mumbai, India, on February 4. (epa/Divyakant Solanki)
Ukrainian antigovernment demonstrators take part in a training session to learn how to resist riot police during ongoing protests in Kyiv. (epa/Maksim Shipenkov)
A golden toilet bowl is seen on the pedestal for a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, which was toppled by antigovernment protesters in Kyiv in December. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
A woman breaks off a small piece of ice from giant icicles on a rock in central Tbilisi, Georgia, which was besieged by freezing weather on February 3. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)
Canadian snowboarder Jenna Blasman trains on the snowboard slopestyle course during practice for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
Men throw wood from a pile of logs into a supply truck at a timber warehouse in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
A street vendor sells Ukrainian and EU flags on Independence Square in Kyiv. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)