Friday, 23 January 2015

22 Of The Most Powerful Photos From This Week


Jaiya Smith carries a sign down the aisle during a service honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached, Monday, Jan. 19, in Atlanta, Georgia.


David Goldman / AP



Protesters embrace outside the Ferguson Police Department, Monday, Jan. 19, in Ferguson, Missouri. Protesters marched several miles to the police department from the site where Michael Brown was killed last summer.


Jeff Roberson / AP



Members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews hold up signs reading "I am Charlie," "I am Jewish," and "I am Ahmed," referring to Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim policeman shot trying to defend the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, during an event in London, England, Jan. 18.


Stefan Wermuth / Reuters



Kids do their homework inside the courtyard of an apartment building in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 19.


Ramon Espinosa / AP



A Russian-backed separatist rebel takes cover in a shelter from shelling in the Kievsky district, 3 km from the airport, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 22.


Manu Brabo / AP



Vladimir Bovrichev, 30, cries next to the body of his son Artiam, 4, killed in a Ukrainian army artillery strike, during his funeral in Kuivisevsky district on the outskirts of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 20.


Manu Brabo / AP



Firefighters stand on a ladder while hosing water onto an apartment complex, Wednesday, Jan. 21, in Edgewater, New Jersey.


Julio Cortez / AP



A protester shouts at police guarding the government house after the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19.


Rodrigo Abd / AP



Indian soldiers march down Rajpath, a ceremonial boulevard, during full dress rehearsal ahead of the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 23.


Saurabh Das / AP



The sister of Hezbollah member Mohammad Issa who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria on Sunday, holds his son Ahmed as she mourns over his coffin during his funeral procession, in the southern village of Arab Salim, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 20.


Mohammed Zaatari / AP



A general view of clouds above Brazil's National Congress headquarters before heavy rains in Brasilia, Jan. 22.


Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters



Members of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic drive a tank on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, Jan. 22.


Stringer / Reuters



An injured riot policeman is seen during a protest by students of Langata Primary School and activists against a perimeter wall erected by a private developer around their school playground in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Jan. 19.


Thomas Mukoya / Reuters



Demonstrators destroy a police patrol vehicle during a protest by relatives of the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College outside the federal court in Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, Jan. 19.


Jorge Lopez / Reuters



Five-year-old Nasreen rests with her family's belongings as she plays under a flyover in Mumbai, India, Jan. 19.


Danish Siddiqui / Reuters



A model presents a makeup creation during a show by Maybelline New York at Berlin Fashion Week in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 19.


Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters



Devotees take a holy bath during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Jan. 20. During the month-long festival, devotees recite one chapter of a Hindu tale daily from the 31-chapter sacred Swasthani Brata Katha book that is dedicated to God Madhavnarayan and Goddess Swasthani, alongside various other gods and goddesses and the miraculous feats performed by them.


Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters



A constitution assembly member of an opposition party throws a chair during a meeting inside the Constitution Assembly building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Jan. 20.


Bikash Dware / Reuters



A member of the Libyan pro-government forces, backed by the locals, holds a weapon as he stands on debris from a building damaged during clashes in the streets with the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries, an alliance of former anti-Gaddafi rebels who have joined forces with Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, in Benghazi, Jan. 21.


Esam Al-Fetori / Reuters



Supporters gather to listen the speech of opposition leader and head of the radical left Syriza party Alexis Tsipras during a campaign rally in central Athens, Greece, Jan. 22.


Marko Djurica / Reuters



Black rights protesters gather near illuminated letters spelling "DREAM" outside a house which they identified as the residence of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, in Oakland, California, Jan. 19.


Noah Berger / Reuters



Tears stream down the face of a woman during a candlelight vigil at the site where Eric Garner died in July last year after being put in a chokehold, during a Martin Luther King Day service in the Staten Island borough of New York, Jan. 19.


Carlo Allegri / Reuters


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