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DON'T MISS: Top images from the week gone by

January 19, 2015 11:26 IST

We bring you a collection of some of the best photographs taken this week by Reuters photographers.

 

Image: Members of the Swiss aerobatic team Patrouille Swiss fly in formation with a Swiss Airbus A 320 over the men's Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill in Wengen. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Image: Visitors look at exhibits of stamps and postal related material at a philatelic exhibition in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. Photograph: Abhishek N Chinnappa/Reuters

Image: Pope Francis waves from the popemobile after leading a Mass at Rizal Park in Manila. Photograph: Erik De Castro/Reuters

Image: A wounded demonstrator is carried by fellow demonstrators during a protest against Haiti's President Michel Martelly in Port-au-Prince. Photograph: Jeanty Junior Augustin/Reuter

Image: Rescue team members walk as they carry the wreckage of a seat of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 airliner at Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun. Photograph: Beawiharta/Reuters

Image:A man removes debris inside his house, which according to locals was recently damaged by shelling, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

Image: A man looks on as he collects recyclable materials in an area where old residential buildings are being demolished to make room for new ones in Jinan, Shandong province, China. Photograph: Reuters

Image: A man lights a firecracker celebrating the day of San Anton after a priest blessed animals outside of San Anton church in Churriana, near Malaga, southern Spain. Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters

Image: People from the minority Yazidi sect, wait inside a truck along a road on the outskirts of Kirkuk. Photograph: Ako Rasheed/Reuters

Image: A Belgian paratrooper guards outside a Jewish school in the central city of Antwerp. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Image:A Free Syrian Army fighter prepares a locally made shell before launching it towards forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Old Aleppo. Photograph: Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters

Image: A wrestling camel is pictured before the start of the Camel Beauty Contest ahead of the annual Selcuk-Efes Camel Wrestling Festival in the town of Selcuk, near the western Turkish coastal city of Izmir. Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters

Image: Terra-cotta statues of child slaves are inside of a church at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. Photograph: Edmund Fountain/Reuters

Image: A woman holds her dogs as they are blessed by a priest outside San Anton church in Churriana, near Malaga, southern Spain. Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters

Image: A man holds a copy of the Koran during a protest against Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou's attendance last week at a Paris rally in support of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which featured a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad as the cover of its first edition since an attack by Islamist gunmen, in Niamey. Photograph: Tagaza Djibo/Reuters

Image: Schoolchildren dressed as Swiss Guards rest as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis outside the Manila Cathedral in Manila. Photograph: Erik De Castro/Reuters

Image: Students clash with national guards during a protest against the government in San Cristobal January 14, 2015. Masked youths are once again blocking streets and burning tires in the Venezuelan city of San Cristobal, epicenter of last year's massive anti-government protests. Photograph: Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters