AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

A Palestinian man inspects the house of Raeb Ahmed Muhammad Alivi which was demolished by the Israeli army, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The military says Alivi led a five-member Hamas cell that shot and killed U.S. citizen Eitam Henkin and his wife, Naama, as they drove in the northern West Bank on Oct. 1. He was arrested days after the attack.  

AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, of France, watches a basket by the Los Angeles Clippers during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Los Angeles. The Jazz won 102-91.  

AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

An Afghan boy tries to warm up next to a bonfire at night in Moria village on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. European leaders pressed ahead with efforts to discourage people from heading to Europe to find work and kept seeking ways to send back home thousands who don't qualify for asylum.   

AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

Spectators embrace each other as they stand on the playing field of the Stade de France stadium at the end of a friendly soccer match between France and Germany in Saint Denis, outside Paris, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Hundreds made their way to the pitch after explosions were heard nearby. Multiple fatal attacks throughout the city have prompted President Francois Hollande to announce he was closing the country's borders and declaring a state of emergency.   

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Thousands hold up the glowing displays of their mobile phones during a demonstration initiated by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party against what they call the uncontrolled immigration and asylum abuse in Erfurt, central Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.   

AP Photos: Romania's Orthodox Church is target of protests

Protesters calling for an end to widespread corruption and better governance this week have turned their anger to the powerful and rich Romanian Orthodox Church in the wake of a nightclub fire which left more than 30 dead.

Public discontent with the church is at an all-time high after it failed to address an outpouring of national grief. Pressure is mounting for its financial privileges to be reviewed.

AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

A Brazilian Bororo Indian is seen in front of the moon at the World Indigenous Games in Palmas, Brazil on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. Nearly 2,000 native peoples from around the world participated in the first World Indigenous Games, a kaleidoscopic celebration of first peoples from around the globe.   

AP PHOTOS: Cuba's trains offer fine-grained look at country

From east to the west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see.

Goats graze alongside tracks in the countryside, forcing trains to brake to avoid hitting them. Old American sedans line up at a crossing while locomotives pass. Horse-drawn carts cross the rails after a train has gone by.

AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

A box containing a seized stuffed tiger head sits yet to be unpacked inside a warehouse at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. There are an estimated 3,200 tigers left in the wild.   

AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Asia

In this Oct. 17, 2015 photo, a supporter displays a picture of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stuck in her headband during a campaign rally of the National League for Democracy party in Thandwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Suu Kyi on Friday shifted her election campaign to the region that presents the most formidable challenge - the Rakhine state, which has been a hotbed of sectarian conflict between Rohingya Muslims and hard-line Buddhists.

Hungary shuts Croatian border to migrant flow

A migrant child smiles as she follows her mother down the path that leads to the Serbian-Croatian border crossing, at the village of Berkasovo, near Sid, Serbia, on Thursday, Oct.15, 2015. The migrants and refugees are struggling with the autumn rain and the cold as EU leaders are discussing in Brussels how to deal with the crisis.  

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Syrian army personnel load howitzers near the village of Morek, Syria on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The Syrian army has launched an offensive against rebels earlier in the week in central and northwestern Syria aided by Russian airstrikes.  

AP Photos: Portraits of refugees along Europe migrant trail

In this photo taken on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, Syrian refugee Mahmoud Naoura, 30, who came from Aleppo, Syria, poses for a picture while holding his daughter Huda, 5, who was injured in 2012 by a government bombing on their home which made her lose her sight, shortly after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. Naoura said “I just want to cure my daughter. Huda will see again, inshallah, and when she will open her eyes I want her to see a safe environment around.”   

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Waseem Akram takes a break while working at coal depot in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.   

AP PHOTOS: Memorable Nobel Peace Prize winners of the past

In this Sept. 26, 1944, file photo, Staff Aide Jane Steward, an American Red Cross worker, lights a cigarette for a wounded French gendarme at a U.S. evacuation hospital in Brittany. In 1944, the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time, having also won it in 1917. It then claimed the award for what still is a record third time in 1963.

World Beard And Mustache Championships

A contestant of the World Beard And Mustache Championships poses for a picture during the opening ceremony of the Championships 2015 on October 3, 2015 in Leogang, Austria. Over 300 contestants in teams from across the globe have come to compete in sixteen different categories in three groups: mustache, partial beard and full beard. The event takes place every few years at different locations worldwide.  

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Muslims offer prayers at the Jama Masjid during Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, by sacrificing animals to commemorate the prophet Ibrahim's faith in being willing to sacrifice his son. 

AP PHOTOS: Catalans fly the flag in campaign on independence

In this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 photo, an "estelada" or pro independence flag hangs on a building as people look at human towers or "Castellers" in San Jaime square in Barcelona, Spain. Catalans vote Sunday in regional parliamentary elections that the breakaway camp hopes will give them a mandate to put their region on a path toward independence _ a goal the Madrid central government says would be illegal. 

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Pablo Dona, of Miami pauses while paddleboarding as sheets of rain fall in front of him off the shores of Bal Harbour, Fla., on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015.   

AP PHOTOS: Adoring crowds greet pope in nation's capital

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet Pope Francis upon his arrival for state arrival ceremony, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.