These photos represents what happened around the world this week. A massive mudslide, a building uprooted, airstrikes in Syria, refugee camps, lightning in the first round match, Niagara Falls, in search of gold, a car fire, a traditional horse race and so forth.

Picturing different situations, we’ve selected some photos taken this week to give you a hint of what happened this whole week. Take a look of this selection and remember to always stay well informed. 

Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!

Montecito, California

Firefighters pull a mud-covered 14-year-old girl out of the ruins of a home in Montecito, where she had been trapped for hours after a massive mudslide. She was taken away on a stretcher.
Photograph: Kenneth Song/Santa Barbara News/Reuters

Montecito, California

A building uprooted by a massive mudslide is lodged in a tree. Most of the 15 deaths were believed to have occurred in Montecito, a wealthy enclave of about 9,000 people north-west of Los Angeles that is home to celebrities such as as Oprah Winfrey, Rob Lowe and Ellen DeGeneres.
Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP

Hamouria, Syria

A paramedic carries an injured child after reported airstrikes by Syrian and Russian forces in the rebel-held town of Hamouria.
Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images

Hamouria, Syria

Sisters embrace amid the rubble after finding each other alive following an airstrike on Hamouria in rebel-held eastern Ghouta.
Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Rohingya refugees study the Qur’an at a school in the Balukhali camp. More than 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since last August, fleeing the violence in Rakhine state.
Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Ukhia, Bangladesh

Rohingya refugee children carrying wood at the Kutupalong refugee camp.
Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

Sydney

Lightning stops play in the first round match between Germany’s Angelique Kerber and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic during the 2018 Sydney International tennis tournament.
Photograph: Steve Christo/Corbis/Getty Images

Ontario

An observation point at the base of Niagara Falls is covered in ice as the falls are illuminated.
Photograph: Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza Strip

Palestinian children on a donkey cart during a rainy day in Khan Younis.
Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Caracas, Venezuela

Men sort through the debris they pulled from the bottom of the polluted Guaire river in search of gold or anything of value. Venezuela holds the world’s largest oil reserves, but the global drop in crude prices and plummeting production under nearly two decades of socialist rule has left many in the country of 30 million people struggling to survive.
Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

Pisco, Peru

The Toyota of Alicia Reina and her co-driver, Carlos Dante Pelayo, both from Argentina, burns after catching fire during the third stage of the 2018 Dakar rally. They escaped unhurt.
Photograph: Ricardo Mazalan/AP

Donetsk, Ukraine

Ukrainian servicemen fire a howitzer close to the frontline near the village of Novoluhanske.
Photograph: Markiian Lyseiko/EPA

Tunis

Protesters throw stones at security forces in Tunis. One person died and hundreds of people were arrested in widespread protests, some of which turned violent, across Tunisia, driven by anger over steep price rises resulting from austerity measures.
Photograph: EPA

Burghead, Scotland

The Clavie, a burning barrel packed with tar-soaked sticks fixed on the top of a pole, is surrounded by people at the Doorie Hill, in a New Year fire ceremony which dates to the 1750s, when the Julian calendar was reformed in Britain.
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Pietrosani, Romania

Villagers take part in the traditional Epiphany horse race.
Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Family members of a person killed in protests react as their relative’s coffin arrives from the morgue in Kinshasa. At least five people were killed during clashes on 31 December when police burst into churches, firing teargas and shooting bullets in the air, to break up protests in the capital and in the city of Kananga.
Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images

Florence

A technician lowers himself on ropes as he inspects the 15th century Brunelleschi’s dome of Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence.
Photograph: Claudio Giovannini/AP

Hanover, Germany

A river stingray is measured by zookeeper Teresa Heusmann during the annual inventory at the sealife centre.
Photograph: Holger Hollemann/AP