The best photos from around the world this week

Saudi youth entertainment, protests in New York, a Stegosaurus skeleton at the Natural History Museum in London, a "military taxi" in St. Petersburg, a NASA satellite image of Typhoon Hagupit - see these and many other photos in our selection of the best photos from week.

(Total 20 photos)

1. The consequences of the counter-terrorist operation in the city of Grozny, Chechnya. (© Musa Sadulaev / AP Photo)

2. The reaction of the New York police officer to the demonstrators protesting in midtown Manhattan because of the decision of the jury not to prosecute white police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who in July of this year killed unarmed African American Eric Garner. (© Eric Thayer / Reuters)

3. Saudi youth perform a trick known as "side sliding", in the northern part of the city of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. (© Reuters)

4. Snow-covered trees on top of Grosser Feldberg, Germany. (© EPA)

5. A museum employee poses for a photograph next to the world's most complete Stegosaurus skeleton at the Natural History Museum in London. (© Reuters)

6. The Japanese H-IIA disposable carrier rocket with the Hayabusa-2 space probe was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. The space probe will be delivered to a distant asteroid. (© Reuters)

7. Clashes between local residents and the Israeli military, which began after demonstrations against Jewish settlements in the village of Bilin, Palestine. (© Mohamad Torokman / Reuters)

8. 48-year-old owner of a single-engine plane, Danny Hall, landed on a roadway in West Hartford, Connecticut. The pilot made this decision due to back pain. And earlier, in 2008, due to engine failure, he made an emergency landing on the surface of the river. (© Gregg Monte / AP Photo)

9. A woman tries to get into an unusual taxi in St. Petersburg. (© Dmitry Lovetsky / AP Photo)

10. 14-year-old Nepalese students swim down the river to school in Dading district, about 90 km from the capital Kathmandu, Nepal. (© Narendra Shrestha / EPA)

11. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani during a press conference at the Office of the Federal Chancellor in Berlin, Germany. (© Wolfgang Kumm / EPA)

NASA satellite image of Typhoon Hagupit on Thursday, December 4, 2014. (© AP Photo / NASA)

13. Naval Band of India during the celebration of Navy Day in Mumbai. (© Reuters)

14. Activists marched under a stretched red cloth during a protest demanding to find and punish those responsible for the kidnapping (and, most likely, murder) of 43 Mexican students in Mexico City. (© Reuters)

15. Prominent student protest leader Joshua Wong, 17, makes a phone call during a hunger strike outside government headquarters in Hong Kong. (© Reuters)

16. Marine paratroopers of the Indian Navy demonstrated their skills during the celebration of the Day of the Navy. (© Reuters)

17. Firefighters in Vanden-le-Vieil, France. (© AFP / Getty Images)

18. More than a million Christmas lights lit up the business district of the Australian capital and officially broke the Guinness World Record for the largest LED installation. (© Stefan Postles / Getty Images)

19. Freight train rides on snow-covered rails in Alberta, Canada. (© Frank Gunn / AP)

20. Salt mines of Salinas de Maras in Peru. (© Reuters)