Caroline Thanh Hương
Photos of the Week: 12/13-12/19
This week we have Santa Claus on a zip line in Brazil, a replica White House in Erbil, Iraq, freezing weather in Asia, the Taliban attack in Peshawar, Reindeer in Scotland, and the hostage crisis in Sydney, and much more. [35 photos]
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One of the hostages runs towards police from a cafe in the central
business district of Sydney on December 15, 2014. Iranian-born Muslim
cleric Man Haron Monis walked into the cafe and held a number of patrons
and employees hostage, making demands of the Australian government. The
standoff ended hours later in gunfire, with two hostages killed, and
Monis shot by police. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images) 
A view from the roof of Commercial Travellers Club building in Martin
Place of the thousands of floral tributes for deceased hostages Tori
Johnson and Katrina Dawson on December 18, 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis, was shot dead by police in the
early hours of Tuesday morning after taking hostages at the Lindt
Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place. Two other people died, 33-year-old cafe
manager Tori Johnson and 38-year-old Sydney barrister Katrina Dawson. (Cole Bennetts/Getty Images) #
Indian Space Research Organization's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch
Vehicle (GSLV Mark-III) rocket lifts off carrying the Crew Module
Atmospheeric Re-entry Experiment from the east coast island of
Sriharikota, India, on December 18, 2014. India successfully launched
its heaviest rocket carrying an experimental crew module from
Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, according to ISRO. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K) #
Reindeer at the Cairgorm Herd wait to be fed on December 14, 2014 in
The Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. Reindeer were introduced to
Scotland in 1952 by Swedish Sami reindeer herder, Mikel Utsi. Starting
with just a few reindeer, the herd has now grown in numbers over the
years and is currently at about 130 by controlling the breeding. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #
Workers remove a banner for "The Interview" from a billboard in
Hollywood, California, on December 18, 2014, a day after Sony announced
was cancelling the movie's Christmas release due to a terrorist threat.
Sony defended itself against a flood of criticism for canceling the
movie which angered North Korea and triggered a massive cyber-attack, as
the crisis took a wider diplomatic turn. (Michael Thurston/AFP/Getty Images) #
Villagers hold torches during the Divina Pastora procession, as part of
a festival to honor the Virgin of Los Rondeles, in the southern Spanish
village of Casarabonela late December 12, 2014. Villagers celebrate the
festival on the eve of St. Lucia's Day and hold torches during the
procession to represent light and vision. (Reuters/Jon Nazca) #
Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims reach out to touch the tomb of Imam al-Abbas
located inside the Imam al-Abbas shrine to mark Arbain in the holy city
of Kerbala, southwest of Baghdad, on December 13, 2014. Iraqi officials
say millions of Shi'ite pilgrims from across Iraq and neighboring
countries are expected in Kerbala for Saturday's Arbain ritual, which
marks the last of 40 days mourning for the death 1,300 years ago of Imam
Hussein. (Reuters/Stringer) #
A Pakistani army officer stands in front of a wall riddled with bullet
marks, inside the Army Public School attacked on Tuesday by Taliban
gunmen, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 18, 2014. The Taliban
massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, at a
military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of
heart-wrenching devastation, pools of blood and young lives snuffed out
as the nation mourned and mass funerals for the victims got underway. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #
Nagoya Castle is seen covered with snow in Nagoya, central Japan, on
December 18, 2014. Japan's Meteorological Agency called on people to
exercise more caution after three people died across the nation as a low
pressure system dumped heavy snows in parts of Japan and triggered a
tidal surge flood in other parts. (Reuters/Kyodo) #
Workers remove a symbol left by pro-democracy protesters in the shape
of an umbrella, a symbol of the Occupy Central civil disobedience
movement, during a clearance at the last "Occupy" protest site blocking a
main road at Causeway Bay shopping district in Hong Kong on December
15, 2014. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu) #
Buddhist monks look at the Thai navy police boat which was swept almost
2 km (1.2 miles) inland during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami as they
visit a memorial in Khao Lak, in Thailand's Phang Nga province, about
110 km (68 miles) north of the resort island of Phuket, on December 14,
2014. On the day of tsunami, Thai navy boat 813 was on patrol about one
nautical mile offshore serving as a guard to members of royal family
staying at one of the resorts near-by. Thailand prepares to mark the
tenth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami, the deadliest on the record, that
killed at least 226,000 people in 13 Asian and African countries. (Reuters/Damir Sagolj) #
Bystanders stand around the body of a suspected Ebola victim lying in a
street in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone, on
December 18, 2014. Sierra Leone, neighboring Guinea and Liberia are at
the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak of Ebola. Rates of
infection are rising fastest in Sierra Leone, which now accounts for
more than half of the 18,603 confirmed cases of the virus. (Reuters/Baz Ratner) #
Xie Xiaoming, 26-year-old owner of a yoga club, practices yoga near
trees covered by frosty fog on the snow-covered banks of Songhua River
in Jilin, Jilin province, China, on December 17, 2014. Xie has been
practicing yoga for over six years. The temperature near the river
reached -30 degrees C (-22 F) on Wednesday, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer) #
In Olympia, Washington, the best man in a wedding party holds an AR-10
rifle he was handed while the party was having their pre-wedding
portraits taken on the steps of the state capitol building before a
rally nearby by gun-rights advocates on December 13, 2014. The rally was
held to protest a new expanded gun background check law in Washington
state. The wedding party was not part of the protest, but posed for
pictures with it after being handed it by gun activist Brandon Lyons,
who said "we've all just broken the law," by handing the gun over.
Saturday's protest was called the "I Will Not Comply" rally, and those
attending said they will openly exchange firearms in opposition to the
state's new voter-approved universal background check law, Initiative
594. The law, which took effect on December 4, requires background
checks on all sales and transfers, including private transactions and
many loans and gifts. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) #
In Erbil, Iraq, a construction worker walks up the staircase inside the
replica White House, a $20 million villa being built inside Dream City,
a new exclusive residential suburb that is being developed in Erbil on
December 15, 2014. Dream City, is one of several high value residential
areas that have been built in the Kurdistan capital since 2003 and are
complete with their own mosque, shopping areas and schools. Property
values vary, but many villas in the gated and walled development are now
valued at over $1 million. Despite insecurity in the rest of Iraq, the
semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has been seen by some investors as
the new Dubai and although the advance of Islamic State and a budget row
with Baghdad has dampened some of the enthusiasm, the city skyline is
still changing at a rapid pace. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) #
A TV news crew files a report behind damaged homes after a mudslide
overtook at least 18 homes during heavy rains in Camarillo Springs,
California, on December 12, 2014. A major storm pummeled California and
the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and high winds on Thursday,
killing one man, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes,
disrupting flights and prompting schools to close. (Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn) #
Wearing bear fur, Florin Bors, age 8, from Bacau, northern Romania,
takes a break from performing a holiday season ritual in Bucharest,
Romania, on December 16, 2014. In pre-Christian rural traditions,
dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, touring house to house
in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In recent years
following the economic downturn in Romania, a European Union member
since 2007, the tradition has moved to Romania's cities where dancers
travel to perform the ritual for money. (AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax) #
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