The best photos from around the world this week

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A snowstorm in the USA, ghost statues in the Church of St. George, a crater of unknown origin in Yamal, a sinkhole in the Perm region, protests in Indonesia - see these and many other photos in our selection of the best photos from the last week.

(Total 20 photos)

The best photos from around the world this week
The best photos from around the world this week

1. Blizzard approaching the city, over Lake Erie in Buffalo, USA. (© Reuters)

The best photos from around the world this week

2. Statues of ghosts in the church of St. George. Artist Jakub Hadrava created plaster figures symbolizing the Sudeten Germans who lived in the border regions of the Czech Republic until 1945. (© Matej Divizna / Getty Images)

The best photos from around the world this week

3. An Indonesian student accidentally set himself on fire while throwing Molotov cocktails at police during a protest in Makassar, South Sulawesi province. Activists oppose the new president's decision to drastically raise fuel prices this week. (© Reuters / Yusuf Ahmad)

The best photos from around the world this week

4. A member of an expeditionary group on the edge of a crater of unknown origin, discovered in the summer using aerial photography on the Yamal Peninsula. (© Reuters / Vladimir Pushkarev / Russian Center for Arctic Exploration)

The best photos from around the world this week

5. Bodybuilding competition during the Asian Beach Games - 2014 in Phuket, Thailand. (© Quinn Rooney / Getty Images)

The best photos from around the world this week

6. A motorcycle is on fire after protesters threw Molotov cocktails at police near the airport in Mexico City. (© AP Photo / Marco Ugarte)

The best photos from around the world this week

7. Demonstrators burn an effigy of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto during a rally in Mexico City, organized because of the disappearance of 43 students who disappeared in September this year after clashes with police in the city of Iguala. (© AP Photo / Moises Castillo)

The best photos from around the world this week

8. The wreckage of a small cargo plane that fell on a residential building in Chicago, USA. The residents of the house were not injured. The fate of the pilot is not reported. (© AP Photo / M. Spencer Green)

The best photos from around the world this week

9. A paraglider soars next to the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. (© AP Photo / Felipe Dana)

The best photos from around the world this week

10. The US coalition launched a series of airstrikes on the Syrian city of Kobani on the border between Turkey and Syria. (© AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda)

The best photos from around the world this week

11. Little wrestlers during training in the center of Havana, Cuba. (© Reuters / Alexandre Meneghini)

The best photos from around the world this week

12. Newlyweds in gas masks pose for a photographer next to the tents of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. (© Kevin Fryer/Getty Images)

The best photos from around the world this week

13. Immigrants in front of the White House listening to the speech of the President of the United States on their tablets and phones. Obama allowed millions of illegal immigrants to stay in the US. (© AP Photo / Alex Brandon)

The best photos from around the world this week

14. A surfer catches a wave on Praia do Norte in Portugal. (© Reuters / Rafael Marchante)

The best photos from around the world this week

15. Part of the water in the Cantareira reservoir evaporated during a severe drought in Braganca Paulista, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. The state authorities said that the reservoirs that serve Sao Paulo, the most populated city in South America, could dry up by February if the situation does not change with the arrival of the rainy season. (© Reuters/Nacho Doce)

The best photos from around the world this week

16. Indian and Chinese soldiers held a joint exercise called "Hand in Hand" at the Aundh military camp in Pune. The 10-day exercise with Asian neighbors in the western Indian state of Maharashtra is designed to exchange strategic know-how for counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations. (© SRT / AFP / Getty Images)

The best photos from around the world this week

17. The satellite recorded a plume of smoke from the Pavlov volcano near the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. On November 15, the height of ash emissions from the Pavlov volcano reached 9 kilometers, as a result of which the routes of flights of commercial airlines were changed. (© Reuters / NASA)

The best photos from around the world this week

18. A sinkhole caused by flooding at the Solikamsk-2 mine in the Perm region. (© Reuters / Press office of Uralkali)

The best photos from around the world this week

19. Solar power plant company Abengoa in the vicinity of Seville, Spain. (© Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters)

The best photos from around the world this week

20. The platform at the level of the 50th floor of the World Trade Center 1 in New York, on which window cleaners worked, tilted at an angle of almost 80 degrees after one of the lift cables broke. Firefighters cut through the thick glass of the skyscraper and dragged them inside. (© Mike Segar / Reuters)

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