Jan. 12, 2014. Chickens are seen in the midst of plants covered by ash from Mount Sinabung near Sigarang-Garang village in Karo district, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province.Roni Bintang—Reuters
From Muslims celebrating the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad and Egyptians voting in a contentious referendum to Fashion Week in Berlin and a fluorescent frog in the U.K., TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Jan. 12, 2014. Chickens are seen in the midst of plants covered by ash from Mount Sinabung near Sigarang-Garang village in Karo district, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province.Roni Bintang—Reuters
Jan. 14, 2014. Lightning flashes over the Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro.Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 14, 2014. Kashmiri Muslim women look towards a cleric (not seen in the picture) displaying the holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed at Hazratbal shrine during Eid-e-Milad, or the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India.Yawar Nazir—Getty ImagesJan. 14, 2014. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France serves in his first round match against Filippo Volandri of Italy during day two of the 2014 Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.Cameron Spencer‚Getty ImagesJan. 14, 2014. A male Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) looks defiant at the Madrid Zoo. Jorge Sanz—Demotix/CorbisJan. 15, 2014. Pope Francis arrives in St. Peter's square for his weekly audience in Vatican City.Franco Origlia—Getty ImagesJan. 14, 2014. Pakistani food vendors, prepare rice for customers to be donated for poor people on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad's birthday, in Islamabad. Muhammed Muheisen—APJan. 11, 2014. A bicycle rider waves to friends at the Uyuni Salt Flats in Uyuni, Bolivia.Victor R. Caivano—APJan. 14, 2014. German model Franziska Knuppe gets her hair styled backstage prior to the presentation of Lena Hoschek's Autumn Winter 2014 collection during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin.Markus Schreiber—APJan. 14, 2014. An Egyptian man inks his finger after casting his vote in the country's constitutional referendum in Cairo.Khalil Hamra—APJan. 10, 2014. A market in El Jem, Tunisia. Isa Harsin—SIPAJan. 10, 2014. People walk through puddles during a morning snow mixed with rain shower at Times Square located in the Manhattan borough of New York.Shannon Stapleton—ReutersJan. 10, 2014. An Old man's beard in Bamberg, Germany.David Ebener—DPA/LandovJan. 10, 2014. A priest raises up a Bible during an annual pilgrimage to the Baptism Site in Bethany, Jordan.Khalil Mazraawi—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 12, 2014. The side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is pictured during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbor, Italy. Max Rossi—ReutersJan. 12, 2014. Bride Fatme Inus, her face painted white and decorated with sequins, emerges to present herself to villagers towards the end of her two-day wedding to Mustafa Sirakov in Ribnovo, Bulgaria.Sean Gallup—Getty ImagesJan. 12, 2014. A worker helps to assemble a God of Fortune statue as part of the Chinese New Year decoration in Singapore.Edgar Su—ReutersJan. 12, 2014. FC Barcelona and Ucam Murcia players duel for the ball during the Spanish ACB league basketball match played at the Palau Blaugrana pavilion, in Barcerlona, northeastern Spain. Alberto Estevez—EFE/Sipa USAJan. 13 2014. Indian soldiers march during the rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a cold winter morning in New Delhi.Adnan Abidi—ReutersJan. 13, 2014. A Hindu priest, rotates a traditional oil lamp in circular movements as he performs evening rituals on the eve of the Makar Sankranti festival at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh—APJan. 13, 2014. Disguised revelers hold torches as they take part in the Kukeri Carnival in the village of Batanovci, Bulgaria.Dimitar Dilkoff—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 13, 2014. A local villager wearing a home made costume parades during a carnival celebration marking the Orthodox St. Vasilij Day in the village of Vevcani, about 170 km from the capital of Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.Georgi Licovski—EPAJan. 14, 2014. Mount Sinabung erupts as seen from Jraya village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.Tarmizy Harva—ReutersJan. 14, 2014. Pakistani children reach out their hands to receive sweets at a window of a food distribution center on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad's birthday, at a shrine in Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APJan. 14, 2014. An Indian Muslim boy holds a sleeping child as they ride a horse during a procession to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad in New Delhi, India.Altaf Qadri—APJan. 14, 2014. A frozen crane sculpture fountain with icicles hanging from its wings sprays water into the air at a Tokyo park.Yoshikazu Tsuno—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 14, 2014. An anti-government protester holds a poster of Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, during a demonstration to demand for the government to be dismissed, in Sanaa.Khaled Abdullah—ReutersJan. 14, 2014. A model gets fitted with a blue contact lens to present a creation from Patrick Mohr's Autumn Winter 2014 collection during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin.Markus Schreiber—APJan. 15, 2014. A golden mantella frog at Chester Zoo is implanted with a fluorescent silicone gel on its leg, which allows keepers to identify individuals in their group of 80 frogs, in Chester, UK.Byrne Peter—PA Photos/ABACAJan. 15, 2014. Luxembourg's Fleur Maxwell performs during her Ladies short program at the European Figure Skating Championships in Budapest, Hungary.Darko Bandic—APJan. 15, 2014. The U.S. Capitol is shrouded in a dense morning fog in Washington.Jim Lo Scalzo—EPAJan. 15, 2014. A tree stands in a field covered with a thin layer of snow in Neukirchen, Germany.Armin Weigel—DPA/CorbisJan. 15, 2014. A participant falls while trying to tackle a bull during a bull-taming sport called Jallikattu in Palamedu, about 434 kilometers (269 miles) south of Chennai, India.Arun Sankar K.—APJan. 16, 2014. Brendan Powell falls from Flaming Charmer at the last in The Higos Insurance Services Street Novices' Limited Handicap Steeple Chase at Wincanton racecourse in Wincanton, England.Alan Crowhurst—Getty ImagesJan. 16, 2014. A man works out at a park covered by the first snow of the year in the centre of Warsaw.Kacper Pempel—ReutersJan. 16, 2014. (From L) Arnaud Boloventa of France, Joe Swensson of USA, Victor Oehling Norberg of Sweden and Jouni Mellinen of Finland compete during the last eight round of the FIS men's Skicross World Cup at the Val Thorens ski resort in the French Alps.Philippe Desmazes—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 16, 2014. A Palestinian boy plays on a destroyed wall after rocket fire in northeastern Gaza City.Mohammed Saber—EPAJan. 16, 2014. The Saudi Hawks Display Team performs at the Bahrain International Airshow in Sakhir, Bahrain. Hasan Jamali—APJan. 15, 2014. A Palestinian child holds a candle as he takes part in a rally to show solidarity with Palestinian refugees in Syria's main refugee camp Yarmouk, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.Ashraf Amra—Anadolu Agency/Scanpix Sweden/TT/Sipa USAJan. 16, 2014. Hindu women sit around fires to warm themselves up before taking a holy bath at Saali River during the first day of the Swasthani Brata Katha festival at Sankhu in Kathmandu.Navesh Chitrakar—ReutersJan. 16, 2014. A man rides a horse next to a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Madrid, Spain.Emilio Morenatti—AP
