TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: December 27, 2013 – January 3, 2014

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Mohammed Elshamy—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Dec. 27, 2013. Egyptian pro-democracy protestors and police clash during a demonstration against Muslim Brotherhood's 'terrorist label' in the Alf Maskan district of Cairo, Egypt.





Gregory Bull—AP
Dec. 30, 2013. United States Marines support a 100-yard American flag during pre-game ceremonies at the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game in San Diego.





Giampiero Sposito—Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. Pope Francis kisses a baby Jesus statue as he leads a mass at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Italy.





Kim Kyung-Hoon—Reuters
Dec. 31, 2013. Lights and lasers illuminate the Great Wall of China to celebrate the new year at the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Beijing, China.





Yonhap/Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sits on a ski lift during a visit to a newly built ski resort in the Masik Pass region, in this undated picture published in the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun, and released by Yonhap on Dec. 31, 2013.





Filip Singer—EPA
Jan. 1, 2014. Fireworks illuminate the sky over Prague Castle in central Prague, Czech Republic.





Bogdan Cristel—Reuters
Dec. 30, 2013. A dancer from Romania's northeastern region of Moldova performs the "bear" dance, a ritual for good luck in the New Year, during a traditional parade in Comanesti, 300 km northeast of Bucharest, Romania.





Sergei Chuzavkov—AP
Dec. 30, 2013. A pro-European demonstrator holds a mirror which reflects a group of riot police officers standing guard in Kiev, Ukraine.





Ben Curtis—AP
Jan. 2, 2014. One of the few to have a mosquito net, a displaced child who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, lies under it after waking up in the morning in the town of Awerial, South Sudan.





Andreea Campeanu—Reuters
Dec. 27, 2013. Friends and relatives of Yanguere Richard, 21, carry his remains to the burial grounds in Bangui. Richard was killed in the inter-religious fighting in Bangui, Central African Republic.

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Amir Cohen—Reuters
Dec. 27, 2013. Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli border fence with Gaza as Israeli army shoots tear gas.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Dec. 30, 2013. Maria Jesus Navarro, 48, holds her grandchildren as they warm up next to an electric heater in the suburbs of Madrid, Spain, as the family waits to be evicted from the home they have lived in for the past ten years.





SANA/Reuters
Dec. 27, 2013. Dead bodies are seen in the Qalamoun mountains, north of Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. Syria's army ambushed Islamist fighters in the Qalamoun mountains north of the capital Damascus, leaving as many as 60 people dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.





Dar Yasin—AP
Dec. 27, 2013. Kashmiri Muslim women pray inside the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom, commonly known as Sultan-Ul-Arifeen, on the eve of the saint's Urs, in Srinagar, India.





Ben Curtis—AP
Dec. 27, 2013. A displaced boy lies down against a fence inside a United Nations compound, home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting in Juba, South Sudan.





Ben Curtis—AP
Dec. 28, 2013. A man walks in a ward of mainly soldiers with gunshot wounds inside the Juba Military Hospital in Juba, South Sudan.





Prakash Mathema—AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 28, 2013. Nepalese mahouts guide their elephants across the Rapati river at Sauraha in Chitwan, some 150 km southwest of Kathmandu, during the Chitwan Elephant Festival.





Aijaz Rahi—AP
Dec. 28, 2013. An Indian woman watches with folded hands as hospital staff and volunteers carry charred bodies of passengers near the site of a train accident at Kothacheruvu, about 155 kilometers (96 miles) north of Bangalore, India.





David Gray—Reuters
Dec. 28, 2013. Australia's team celebrates after the dismissal of England's Joe Root during the third day of the fourth Ashes cricket test at the Melbourne cricket ground, Australia.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Dec. 29, 2013. A member of the church shakes a censer during a mass honoring the family in Madrid, Spain.

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Max Rossi— Reuters
Dec. 29, 2013. Faithful are pictured through the water of a fountain as Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic palace in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, Italy.





Andrew Peacock—Reuters
Dec. 29, 2013. The Russia ship, MV Akademik Shokalskiy, is pictured stranded in ice in Antarctica.





David Ramos—Getty Images
Dec. 28, 2013. A reveler takes part in the battle of 'Enfarinats', a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain.





Abir Abdullah—EPA
Dec. 29, 2013. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supported lawyers are hit by a police water cannon in front of the main gate of the Supreme Court during the March For Democracy protest rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh.





Dave Arntson—Zuma Press
Dec. 30, 2013. A massive fireball from an exploding train car rises into the air just west of Casselton, North Dakota.





Alvaro Barrientos—AP
Dec. 30, 2013. The fog covers the landscape while a train crosses an ancient aqueduct, bottom right, in Noain, northern Spain.





Raminder Pal Singh—EPA
Dec. 30, 2013. An Indian daily wage laborer wrapped in a blanket warms himself near a fire (unseen) on a cold morning in Amritsar, India.





Ibraheem Abu Mustafa—Reuters
Dec. 30, 2013. Relatives of Palestinian prisoner Rami Barbakh, who has been held by Israel since 1994, celebrate ahead of his expected release in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.





Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 31, 2013. Palestinians wave their national flag as they await the release of Palestinian prisoners to Jerusalem December 31, 2013. Israel has freed 26 Palestinian prisoners under peace talks brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who returned to the region to boost the faltering negotiations.





Abed Rahim Khatib—NurPhoto
Dec. 31, 2013. Rami Barbakh, a released Palestinian prisoner, (C), is reunited with his family upon arriving at his home in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Farooq Khan—EPA
Dec. 31, 2013. A Kashmiri family crosses Dal Lake in a Shikara (gondola) in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.





Sergei Karpov—Reuters
Dec. 31, 2013. A woman places flowers at the site of an explosion on a trolleybus that climed the lives of 33 people, in Volgograd, Russia.





Sajjad Hussain—AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 31, 2013. Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anurag Thakur (C) tries to cross a police barricade during a protest outside Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's residence in New Delhi, India.





Yuya Shino—Reuters
Dec. 31, 2013. A shrine attendant cleans up after a ritual to bid farewell to 2013 and prepare for the new year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo.





Anindito Mukherjee—Reuters
Dec. 31, 2013. A migrant laborer, his face covered with facial cream, smokes as he waits for the cream to dry at a barber shop in New Delhi, India.





Craig Ruttle—AP
Dec. 31, 2013. Miley Cyrus leaves the stage after her performance in New York's Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations.





Seth Wenig—AP
Jan. 1, 2014. Bill de Blasio blows a kiss and waves as he exits his house with his family for his swearing in ceremony as New York mayor at the start of the new year, in New York.





Dubai World Record 2014/Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. Fireworks explode in the sky over Dubai, during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the ëLargest Firework Display in this handout provided by the Dubai World Record 2014.





Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. A Buddhist man splashes coloured water on the dome of Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.





Kazuhiro Nogi—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 1, 2014. People release balloons to celebrate the New Year during the annual countdown ceremony by the Prince Park Tower Tokyo.

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John Wark—AP
Jan. 1, 2014. A long line of buyers trails from a store selling marijuana in Pueblo West, Colo.





Wong Maye-E—AP
Jan. 1, 2014. A balloon floats amidst fireworks exploding over the financial district at midnight in Singapore.





Rogan Ward—Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. A man received a sand bath from friends as thousands of people took to the beaches on New Year's Day in Durban, South Africa.





Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. Ice covers an apartment building which was destroyed by an explosion and a fire in Minneapolis.





Carmine Marinelli—Zuma Press
Jan. 1, 2014. Two participants wearing a polar bear costume take part in the 94th annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.





Andrew Chin—Zuma Press
Jan. 1, 2014 Crowds rush towards the frigid waters of English Bay during the 2014 Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.





Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. Flying pigeons cast shadows on the wall an old house built in front of the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.





Andreea Campeanu—Reuters
Jan. 1, 2014. A woman, displaced as a result of religious violence, plaits the hair of her daughter who is nursing an injury at a hospital in Bossangao, Central African Republic.





Ropi/Zuma Press
Jan. 2, 2013. Panda Li Li plays on a tree in the sunshine in a zoo in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province.





Ben Curtis—AP
Jan. 1, 2014. Displaced people who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor, prepare to sleep in the open at night in the town of Awerial, South Sudan.

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Mohamad Torokman—Reuters
Jan. 2, 2014. Relatives mourn before the funeral of Palestinian Saeed Jaser Ali, 85, in the West Bank village of Kufr Kadum near Nablus. Ali died after inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli army to disperse protesters in the occupied West Bank, witnesses said.





Yuya Shino—Reuters
Jan. 2, 2014. Japan's Empress Michiko (R) and Crown Prince Masako make a public appearance as well-wishers wave Japan's national flags during New Year celebrations at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.





Wang Zhao—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2014. A Chinese ice swimmer (R) washes with water after his daily swim in Beijing, China.





Karim Sahib—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2014. Jockeys compete in a race for purebred Arab horses during the Liwa 2014 Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, 250 kilometres west of the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi.





Alex Ogle—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2014. Apartment blocks form a symmetrical pattern in Hong Kong.





Money Sharma—EPA
Jan. 2, 2014. An Indian daily worker is seen in an open area during a cold winter morning at the old quarters of Delhi, India.





Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Jan. 2, 2014. The fingers of Rahul Maji, 12, who lives and works with his family at a brick factory, is pictured as he works in Kathmandu, Nepal.





Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 3, 2014. A Bangladeshi boatman tidies up his bedding after waking up in the early morning in Dhaka, Bangladesh.





Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 3, 2014. A Bangladesh resident of a shanty town looks out of a window of her home at a street filled with political posters in Dhaka, Bangladesh.





Luc Forsyth—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 3, 2014. Cambodian police stand guard during a garment workers' protest to demand higher wages in front of a factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.





Alessandro Bianchi—Reuters
Jan. 3, 2013. Pope Francis conducts a mass at the Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in downtown Rome, Italy. January 3, 2014.





Kevin Dietsch —UPI /Landov
Jan. 2, 2013. The Washington Monument is seen as snow falls in Washington, D.C.