Friday, 9 January 2015

19 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of The Week


Law enforcement officers stand, with some turning their backs, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks on a monitor outside the funeral of NYPD officer Wenjian Liu in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Jan. 4.


Shannon Stapleton / Reuters



Palestinians living in heavy weather conditions amid the ruins of houses destroyed in Israeli attacks get warm in Gaza's Shejaiya district, Jan. 4.


Anadolu Agency / Getty Images



Michael Hayboeck of Austria competes on day five of the Four Hills Tournament Ski Jumping event at Bergisel-Schanze, Jan. 3.


Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts / Getty Images



Schoolchildren attend a yoga session at a camp in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, Jan. 6.


Amit Dave / Reuters



Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armoured personnel carriers (APC) during a ceremony to hand over weapons, military equipment, and aircrafts to the army at a firing range outside Zhytomyr, Jan. 5.


Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters



Palestinian children look out through a hole covered with a blanket in their family house, which witnesses said was damaged by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in the east of Gaza City, Jan. 7.


Suhaib Salem / Reuters



A Syrian refugee girl sits with her brother at a makeshift settlement in Bar Elias in the Bekaa valley, Jan. 5.


Mohamed Azakir / Reuters



A man plays in front of a wave crashing into Beirut's Corniche, a seaside promenade, as high winds sweep through Lebanon ahead of an impending storm, Jan. 6.


Jamal Saidi / Reuters



Belarus soldiers take part in an Orthodox service in a military base in Minsk, Jan. 7.


MAXIM MALINOVSKY/AFP / Getty Images



Newlyweds Jeff Delmay and Todd Delmay kiss as Karla Arguello (left) and Catherina Pareto (second left), who also were married, look on during a marriage ceremony in the Miami-Dade court room of Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel, Jan. 5.


Joe Raedle / Getty Images



South Korean special warfare command soldiers cover themselves in snow during a winter military training exercise, Jan. 8.


Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images



Members of Cirque Du Soleil perform the contortion act during the dress rehearsal for "Kooza" by Cirque Du Soleil at Royal Albert Hall, Jan. 4.


Tristan Fewings / Getty Images



An Afghan man kicks a poster of Pakistani religious leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman during a demonstration against his visit in Kabul, Jan. 8.


Omar Sobhani / Reuters



Tea Tree Gully CFS volunteer Lukas Lane-Geldmacher rescues a dog from the Tea Tree Gully Boarding Kennel and Cattery, Jan. 3.


Newspix via Getty Images



Civilians and members of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent play with snow in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, Jan. 7.


Stringer . / Reuters



Indian Sikh devotees perform Gatka (traditional Sikh martial arts) during Nagar Kirtan, a religious procession held to mark the birth anniversary of the tenth Sikh Master Guru Gobind Singh in Jammu, Jan. 5.


STRDEL/AFP / Getty Images



Visitors walks in an ice mazeat at China Ice and Snow World, Jan. 4.


FRED DUFOUR/AFP / Getty Images



A salvage tug lights the hull of the stricken Hoegh Osaka cargo ship after it ran aground on a sand bank in the Solent, Jan. 4.


Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images


x



A woman holds a placard reading "I am Charlie" to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, in front of the French embassy in Rome, Jan. 8.


Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters


No comments:

Post a Comment