Central American migrants in New Mexico, yellow vest protests in Paris, New York fashion week and the escape from the Islamic States’s besieged enclave in Syria – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists. Read on to find out more!
Pyongyang, North Korea
An ice skater reflected in a glass panel at the 26th Paektusan prize figure skating festival, in celebration of the day of the shining star, part of celebrations marking the birthday of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Paris, France
A car vandalised during scuffles with riot police as the yellow vest protesters demonstrate for the 13th consecutive weekend.
Photograph: Kamil Zihnioglu/AP
Pyongyang, North Korea
A synchronised swimming gala in honour of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A woman walks past a tyre barricade set ablaze by demonstrators on the fourth day of protests against Haitian president Jovenel Moise and the misuse of Petrocaribe funds arising from an oil deal with Venezuela.
Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
Texico, New Mexico
Rachel, daughter of Orfa, a migrant from Honduras, plays with the family’s dog Scott outside the trailer the family moved to in Texico. The town provides her with something that she did not have in her former home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras – safety. Here, at least, she can go out. ‘There are many gang members [in San Pedro Sula] and they are basically in charge, the streets are really dangerous,’ her mother, Orfa, said in an interview earlier this month. ‘I almost never went out, I stayed at home with the children.’
Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters
Caracas, Venezuela
A volunteer waits for children to arrive for lunch in the San Antonio de Padua dining room in the slum of Petare.
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
Melbourne, Australia
Competitors during the six-day track cycling series at Melbourne Arena.
Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
Raqa, Syria
A young man carries a bag of bread on his head as he walks along a beam in the northern Syrian city of Raqa.
Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images
Lagos, Nigeria
A woman with a large plastic bucket filled with drinks and food passes by a wall covered with posters of presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, the official opposition party, in Lagos. Nigerians took part in national elections on 16 February when current president Muhammadu Buhari sought re-election for the ruling party, All Progressives Congress.
Photograph: Stefan Heunis/AFP/Getty Images
Lagos, Nigeria
Police detain an alleged thief in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, where the official People’s Democratic Party opposition was holding a rally. Nigerians voted on 16 February in presidential and legislative elections.
Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images
Sana’a, Yemen
Students crowd at a gap in the gate of a school to buy ice cream in Sana’a.
Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA
Guatemala City
Wrestlers and relatives carry the coffin of 18-year-old female wrestler Laisha Cameros, known as ‘La Hija del Zorro’, the Daughter of Zorro, who was shot dead during an attack. The attack took place in the neighbourhood of Limon, where the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs operate.
Photograph: Johan Ordóñez/AFP/Getty Images
West Bank
Palestinians search through the remains of a house after Israeli forces demolished it in the village of Al-Walaja near Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Photograph: Mussa Issa Qawasma/Reuters
Pooncarie, Australia
An aerial view shows sheep moving across the barren grazing land of sheep farmer Wayne Smith’s property near Pooncarie. The Darling River and the Menindee Lakes are under pressure from low water flow as a result of the continuing drought affecting more than 98 per cent of New South Wales.
Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPA
New York
A model walks the runway for the Michael Kors autumn 2019 runway show at Cipriani Wall Street during New York fashion week.
Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images