A beam of sunlight shines on pro-democracy protesters as they march on a street in Hong Kong on Sunday. Thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong in a march seen as a test of the enduring appeal of an anti-government movement about to mark a half year of demonstrations.
A man carries a rug at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday. A new budget designed to resist crippling US trade embargoes was presented to the Iranian parliament on Sunday, as the country aims to depend less on oil revenue next year.
Children pray as a priest displays a relic of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani outside his shrine in Srinagar on Monday. Devotees gathered at the shrine for the 11-day festival that marks the death anniversary of the Sufi saint.
A US Marine stands in front of the USS Missouri during a ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on Saturday. Survivors and members of the public gathered to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed the naval base 78 years ago and launched the US into World War II. About a dozen survivors of the attack attended the annual ceremony, the youngest of whom are now in their late 90s.
An anti-government demonstrator is sprayed by a police water cannon during a protest in Santiago, Chile, on Monday. Student protests have become a nationwide call for socio-economic equality and better social services, so far forcing Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to increase benefits for the poor and disadvantaged and start a process of constitutional reform.
A migrant carries water to the Vucjak refugee camp outside Bihac, northwestern Bosnia, on Sunday. It has been reported that Bosnian officials will close the makeshift tent camp in northwestern Bosnia where hundreds of migrants remain stranded despite snow and freezing weather.
Starlings sit on the backs of fallow deer standing in the high grass of a nature reserve during drizzle in Moenchbruch near Frankfurt on Sunday.
Boys play at a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Tens of thousands of internally displaced Afghans live in camps, which lack basic facilities, across Afghanistan.
Shoppers at a retail district pass by the American lingerie company Victoria's Secrets store in Beijing on Friday. China deputy trade envoy says China and the US have reached a trade deal, will reduce punitive tariffs on each other's goods.
Women carry sacks of firewood on their heads in the Bagram road in Parwan province of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.