The best photos from around the world this week

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)