TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: January 3 – January 10, 2014

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Bassam Khabieh—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. Men hold up a baby who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus.





Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Jan. 4, 2014. A boy wears a plastic bag to cover his face from ash following a further eruption of the Mount Sinabung in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.





Charles Dharapak—AP
Jan. 6, 2014. Bao Bao, the four and a half month old giant panda, makes her public debut at an indoor habitat at the National Zoo in Washington.





Michael Bunel—NurPhoto
Jan. 6, 2014. Workers occupy the Goodyear factory in Amiens, France.





Jorge Guerrero—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 5, 2014. A man dressed as King Melchior meets children upon his arrival with men dressed as Kings Balthazar and Caspar, otherwise known as the three wise men or Kings, in Fuengirola, southern Spain, during an Epiphany street parade.





James Akena—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. Displaced people rest on the floor as they wait for medical attention at an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSN) at Tomping camp in Juba, where some 15,000 displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the United Nations.





Peter Kollanyi—i-Images/Zuma Press
Jan. 6, 2014. The Haxey Hood. Locals fight for the Hood (a leather tube) during the Haxey Hood game. Haxey Hood is described as a kind of rugby game with unlimited participants and few rules, where a leather tube is slowly walked by a large unorganised rugby scrum to 1 of 4 pubs, Haxey, United Kingdom.





Ahmad Massoud—Xinhua Kabul/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Jan. 5, 2014. An Afghan woman sits with her children at a displaced camp in Kabul.





Alaa Badarneh—EPA
Jun. 7, 2014. Detained Israeli settlers are pictured after confrontations with Palestinians in the village of Qusra, near the West Bank City of Nablus.





Mohamad Torokman—Reuters
Jan. 3, 2014. A man wearing a large puppet head and Palestinian stone-throwing protesters run as tear gas is fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes at a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah.

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Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Jan. 3, 2014. People watch as Mount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.





Michal Cizek—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 4, 2014. Coin-offerings are seen on one of the bone pyramids in the Sedlec Ossuary chapel beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, suburb of Kutna Hora, Czech Republic.





Rick Friedman—Corbis
Jan. 3, 2014. Water runs down the flooded streets as homes and power lines are covered in ice from the ocean spray during the a Nor'easter winter storm in Scituate, MA.





Jacquelyn Martin—AP
Jan. 4, 2014. Nicholas Simmons, 20, of Greece, N.Y., warms himself on a steam grate with three homeless men by the Federal Trade Commission, just blocks from the Capitol, during frigid temperatures in Washington.





Carlo Allegri—Reuters
Jan. 4, 2014. A single engine plane is seen amid vehicle traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx borough of New York.





Samuel Hanryon—MSF/EPA
Jan. 4, 2014. A mother waits with her sick children at the MSF clinic at the international airport in Bangui, Central African Republic.





Eric Gay—AP
Jan. 4, 2014. Soldiers attend the U.S. Army All-American Bowl football game in San Antonio.





Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 4, 2014. A Bangladeshi resident of a depressed neighborhood washes clothing in the waters of the Buriganga river in Dhaka.





NurPhoto
Jan. 5, 2014. Palestinian children play in front of their family's house in Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza Strip.





Mohd Rasfan—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 5, 2014. A Catholic priest, Michael Chua (C) holds roses as he poses for pictures with Malaysian activists in front of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes during a rally in solidarity after Malaysian Islamic authorities seized hundreds of Bibles from a Christian group over the use of the word "Allah" in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur.

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Eloy Alonso—Reuters
Jan. 5, 2014. People role playing as members of the royal entourage await the arrival of the Three Wise Men by helicopter, at San Lorenzo beach in Gijon.





Amir Cohen—Reuters
Jan. 5, 2014. Jewish worshippers pray behind a curtain at the gravesite of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, a Moroccan-born sage and kabbalist also known as the Baba Sali, during an annual pilgrimage held on the anniversary of his death in the southern Israeli town of Netivot.





Jeon Heon Kyun—EPA
Jan. 5, 2014. Visitors are seen fishing at a frozen river during the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon province, South Korea.





Olivier Morin—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 5, 2014. Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States competes during the 1st leg of the FIS Alpine World Cup Women's Slalom in Bormio.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Jan. 5, 2014. Activists handle belongings after occupying an empty building in Madrid.





AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 5, 2014. A Bangladeshi resident (L) wanting to vote is attacked by protestors in a field in Rajshahi, near Dhaka.





Rebecca Blackwell—AP
Jan. 5, 2014. Family members grieve after identifying the body of a man killed in sectarian violence a day earlier, at the morgue in Bangui, Central African Republic.





Vincenzo Pinto—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. Pope Francis waves to children as he visits the parish of the Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori during the Epiphany celebrations in Rome.





Barcroft Media/Landov
Jan. 6, 2014. Staff work in a factory making toys of the mascot for the 2014 Brazil World Cup "Fuleco" in Tianchang, China.





Reuters
Jan. 6, 2014. A girl covers herself with sackcloth due to a shortage of blankets in eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.

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Narendra Shrestha—EPA
Jan. 6, 2014. Nepalese laborer Bhusan Bahadur Gurung, 26, climbs in with a support of nylon rope while digging a 2 feet wider and 36 feet deep well for a water source in Kathmandu, Nepal.





Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. Shoes is seen covered by ash at the fields following a further eruption of the Mount Sinabung in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.





Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. A villager carries a basket of tomatoes as harvest at their fields covered by ash following a further eruption of the Mount Sinabung in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.





Miguel Riopa—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. Officials carry the coffin of Benfica football legend Eusebio da Silva Ferreira on the pitch of the Luz stadium, in Lisbon.





Nikolay Doychinov—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. Men perform a traditional dance in the icy winter waters of the Tundzha river in the town of Kalofer as part of the Epiphany Day celebrations.





Jim Young—Reuters
Jan. 6, 2014. A woman walks through a gust of blowing snow in frigid cold temperatures though downtown Chicago.





Dolores Ochoa—AP
Jan. 6, 2014. A woman dressed up in male character waits for the beginning of La Diablada in Pillaro, Ecuador.





Peter Macdiarmid—Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. A lone tree stands in flood water from the river Arun near Arundel, England.





Ben Birchall—PA Photos/Landov
Jan. 6, 2014. People watch and photograph enormous waves as they break on Porthcawl harbour, South Wales, where very strong winds and high seas create dangerous weather conditions.





Petros Giannakouris—AP
Jan. 6, 2014. A wooden cross is on the air as swimmers jump to retrieve it during a ceremony to bless the water in Greece's Flisvos beach, at Paleo Faliro near Athens.

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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. This handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis (L) carrying a lamb on his shoulders as he visits the parish of the Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori during the Epiphany day in Rome.





Wally Santana—AP
Jan. 6, 2014. Taiwan's six-month-old panda cub Yuan Zai hangs precariously from logs as she is viewed by the public for the first time at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan.





Lintao Zhang—Getty Images
Jan. 7, 2014. White whales and their trainers present a show for visitors at Harbin Pole Aquarium in Harbin, China.





Oliver Weiken—EPA
Jan. 7, 2014. African asylum seekers attend a protest rally in Levinsky park, southern Tel Aviv.





James Akena—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. Displaced people are seen at Tomping camp in Juba, where some 15,000 displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the United Nations.





Bassam Khabieh—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. People inspect a site hit by what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus.





Bassam Khabieh—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. Men help a wounded boy who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus.





Nasser Ishtayeh—AP
Jan. 7, 2014. An injured Israeli settler grabs an Israeli soldier's leg to get his attention after the settler was detained by Palestinian villagers in a building under construction near the West Bank village of Qusra, southeast of the city of Nablus.





Altaf Qadri—AP
Jan. 7, 2014. Pakistani Hindu children study under a makeshift tent where they are staging a protest to demand permanent residency in New Delhi, India.





James Akena—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. Medical workers tend to a sick child from a displaced family at United Nations hospital at Tomping camp, where some 15,000 displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the UN near South Sudan's capital Juba.

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Markus Schreiber—AP
Jan. 7, 2014. The Chief Of Staff At The Chancellery Peter Altmaier, center left, looks at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center right, as she arrives with crutches at the annual reception for Carolers at the chancellery in Berlin.





Ivan Alvarado—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2014. Workers from Chile's National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) inspect a burned area during a forest fire in the rural town of Melipilla at Bollenar area, about 71 km (44 miles) southwest of Santiago.





Mohammed Salem—Reuters
Jan. 8, 2014. A Palestinian boy covers his ears as a militant fires a weapon in the air during the funeral of 32-year-old Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant Mohammed Salama al-Ijla in Gaza City.





Nichole Sobecki—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2014. People go about their daily life in Minkammen, 16 miles south of Bor, South Sudan.





Rebecca Blackwell—AP
Jan. 8, 2014. A boy rides a child's bike through a new settlement area of an informal camp housing an estimated 100,000 displaced people, at Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic.





Rebecca Blackwell—AP
Jan. 8, 2014. A baby is passed over a high fence surrounding an aid distribution point, inside a makeshift camp housing an estimated 100,000 displaced people, at Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic.





Nichole Sobecki—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2014. Women and children crowd around a water point at dusk, in Minkammen, 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Bor, due to lack of water available for the thousands who have fled to Awerial region, leaving many to collect water from the Nile River, South Sudan.





Ulet Ifansasti—Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2014. A girl stands in the foreground as Mount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.





Boris Grdanoski—AP
Jan. 9, 2014. A man with a child walks towards the top of Vodno Mountain in Skopje, Macedonia.





Nichole Sobecki—AFP / Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2014. People unload their few belongings that they were able to bring with them to refugee camps, Minkammen, South Sudan





Ricardo Moraes—Reuters
Jan. 9, 2014. A boy takes a shower at a demolished area in Metro slum, near Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.





Rebecca Blackwell—AP
Oct. 10, 2013. Aida Diallo, whose ten-year-old son Bamba was killed when a fire struck the Dakar shack where he was sleeping along with other Quranic students, sits in her one-room home in the village of Ndame, Senegal.





Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2014. Giant panda bear cub Bao Bao moves around inside the David M. Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington.