The best photos from around the world this week
The Miss France 2015 beauty pageant in Orleans, skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa in the USA, Afghan Bruce Lee in Kabul, the smallest Bible in the world and the deepest pool from Italy - see these and many other photos in our selection of the best photos for last week.
(Total 20 photos)
1. The representative of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, Camille Cerf, became the winner of the Miss France 2015 beauty pageant in Orleans. (© AFP / Getty Images)
2. A surfer is hit by a huge wave in Praia do Norte, Portugal. (© Reuters)
3. Fans of the football club "River Plate" celebrate the victory in the final match of the South American Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (© Reuters)
4. Skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa took part in a charity downhill run at the Sunday River ski resort in Newry, Maine. (© Reuters / Brian Snyder)
5. 21-year-old farmer Agustin Gomez Perez set himself on fire near the Legislative Assembly of the state of Chiapas (Mexico), demanding the release of his father, who was arrested last year. Perez was taken to the hospital. According to relatives, his condition is serious, but stable. (© Reuters / Rene Arauxo)
6. Kindergarten in the Chinese city of Xi'an. According to a representative of local authorities, the kindergarten operates without a license and will soon be closed. (© Reuters/Stringer)
7. The Grand Canyon in Arizona fills up with clouds during a rare weather event known as an "inversion cloud". (© AP Photo / National Park Service)
8. People celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Managua, Nicaragua. In the photo, a man is running with a bull-shaped wooden structure with exploding fireworks. (© Reuters)
9. Abbas Alizade, who calls himself the Afghan Bruce Lee, poses for the media in a ruined palace in Kabul. (© Reuters)
10. The Israeli company Jerusalem nano Bible has created a nano-Bible, which has every chance of getting into the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest Bible in the world. The tiny square chip, measuring 4.76 by 4.76 mm, contains the original Greek version of the New Testament. (© Reuters)
11. An undercover police officer fights off demonstrators protesting police brutality. (© Reuters)
12. The first open eyelash extension championship of Belarus was held in Minsk. (© Sergey Gapon / AFP Photo)
13. Real winter has come to Scotland. In the photo, people are pushing a stuck car on the A93 Braemar-Glenshee highway. (© Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)
14. A man fell from the roof of a residential building, slipping on the edge, retreating from people who tried to dissuade him from jumping, in Liuzhou, China. (© Reuters)
15. A man from the Pokot tribe holds a girl who tried to escape, as she is being married without her consent to a member of her community, in Baringo district, Kenya. (© Reuters)
16. Demonstrators protesting against police brutality blocked one of the local highways in Berkeley, USA. (© AP Photo / Noah Berger)
17. A young couple sits on a park bench in downtown Tokyo, Japan. (© Reuters)
18. Frost adorned the balaclava and earflap hat of a Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier who stands guard near China's border with Russia in Heihe city, Heilongjiang province. (© Reuters)
19. A man in the Y-40 The Deep Joy swimming pool, 42 meters deep, which is officially included in the Guinness Book of Records as the deepest pool in the world for free swimming and diving. (© Olivier Morin / AFP)
20. A woman dances in front of Turkish police during a demonstration against the eviction of settlers from an abandoned building in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul. The building served as a meeting center during protests against the demolition of Gezi Park in 2013. (© Ozan Kose / AFP / Getty Images)
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