The best photos of the week: from white-tailed eagles to Indian Runner ducks

Striking pictures from around the world

White-tailed eagles attack some prey in the Hortobagy National Park in Hungary. EPA

Members of the US dance company Bandaloop present the aerial dance piece 'Bird Strike', during the Santiago a Mil festival, in Santiago, Chile. EPA

Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel walks on stage after being crowned Miss Universe in New Orleans. AP

Palestinian youth show their fire breathing skills in Gaza city. AFP

Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket hit a building in Dnipro, Ukraine. AP

The Al Forsan aerobatic team performs a flyby in Abu Dhabi to mark the arrival of South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol. UAE Presidential Court

Devotees return home after attending the final prayer of Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi, Bangladesh. Reuters

A woman holds a picture of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican teenager who disappeared in 1983 aged 15, during a rally in Rome. EPA

Palau-flagged ship MKK1 is towed free after running aground in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait. Reuters

'Artificial Realities: Coral', a data sculpture by Turkish-born artist Refik Anadol, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Reuters

Pigeons in the snow at Tajrish Square in northern Tehran, Iran, after rare snowfall. AP

The heads of mannequins are covered in a women's dress shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. AP

Rescuers at the site of a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara. AFP

A train at a railroad crossing between flooded fields near Frankfurt in Germany. AP

Iraq supporters gather in a designated fan zone to watch the Arabian Gulf Cup semi-final football match between Iraq and Qatar. AFP

Bullets, part of a large arsenal confiscated from alleged dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), are shown at a press conference in Bogota. AFP

Singer Pierre Fontaine spontaneously sings 'We Shall Overcome' for the crowd gathered to view the Martin Luther King memorial statue, 'The Embrace,' on Martin Luther King Day in Boston. EPA

A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honour of St Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain. AP Photo

A helicopter carrying bodies of plane crash victims arrives in Kathmandu, Nepal. AP Photo

An oil tanker burning after an explosion at a dockyard on the Mae Klong river in Samut Songkram province, Thailand. EPA

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, the chief executive of Philippine online news site Rappler, speaks outside a court in Manila, after being acquitted of tax evasion charges. EPA

The wreckage of the helicopter that crashed in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, killing 16 people, including Ukraine's interior minister and two children. AP

A man carries a photo of the late Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida for the installation of her lying in state, to allow the public to pay their respects, at Rome's Capitoline Hill. Lollobrigida, one of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95. AFP

Internally displaced people carry charcoal from the forest at the foot of Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After the resurgence of the M23 rebellion in the region, tens of thousands of people have crowded into makeshift camps. AFP

A helicopter of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps takes part in a military drill, in the south of the country. AFP

Priests celebrate Timkat (the Ethiopian epiphany) with the Ark of the Covenant on a lake near Batu, Ethiopia. AFP

Health workers visit homes during a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. EPA

Police block a street after a day of clashes with anti-government protesters in Lima, Peru. AP Photo

Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark on the 18th hole on day one of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links in Abu Dhabi. Getty Images

A flock of Indian Runner ducks, which assist as a natural form of pest control, by eating snails and bugs, do their daily patrol around the Vergenoegd Wine Estate, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Reuters

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