Best Photos of the Week: Mayon Volcano Eruption and Women’s March

Melbourne, Australia

Romania’s Simona Halep returns to Angelique Kerber of Germany during the women’s semi-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament. Top seed Halep edged out the former champion, Angelique Kerber, 6-3, 4-6, 9-7 in a match that had everything, match points saved on both sides, incredible athleticism and shot-making and stunning defence.
Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/EPA

Melbourne, Australia

Kyle Edmund plays a forehand return to Marin Cilic of Croatia during the men’s semi-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament. Cilic won in straight sets.
Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

New York

People hold signs up as they attend the Women’s March. A year after millions of women and men demonstrated in cities around the globe in an extraordinary rebuke of Donald Trump, crowds returned to the streets last weekend. Tens of thousands turned out in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and hundreds of other cities across the US and the world.
Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images

Lansing, Michigan, US

Victim Emily Morales is hugged after speaking at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges. Nassar was sentenced to between 40 and 175 years in prison for abusing athletes in his care.
Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

In the refugee settlement of Balukhali, at least 116 widows and orphans have found shelter within a dense settlement of 50 red tents where no men or boys over the age of ten years old are allowed. Women and girls reportedly make up about 51 per cent of the more than 655,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh. Women face a high risk of being victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse, while adolescent girls aged between 13 and 20 face the prospect of being forced into marriages.
Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Douma, Syria

A girl holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a makeshift hospital following a reported gas attack on the rebel-held besieged town of Douma.
Photograph: Hasan Mohamed/AFP/Getty Images