Photos of the week: The Pope’s new Lamborghini to the Mugabe drama

Pope Francis blesses a Lamborghini Huracan received as a gift from the Italian car company on November 15, 2017 at the Vatican. (Osservatore Romano / AFP)

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Pope Francis blesses a Lamborghini Huracan received as a gift from the Italian car company on November 15, 2017 at the Vatican. (Osservatore Romano / AFP)

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Filipino student dancers are sprayed with cold water before performing during the arrival of leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and related meetings in Clark, Pampanga, northern Philippines on November 12, 2017. (Erik De Castro / REUTERS)

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Supporters of the same-sex marriage ‘Yes’ vote gathered to celebrate the announcement in a Sydney park on November 15, 2017. Australians voted in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry, official results showed on November 15, sending the task of legalising marriage equality to a deeply divided parliament. (WIlliam West / AFP)

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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends a university graduation ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe on November 17, 2017. The 93-year old president made his first public appearance after days of speculation over his future, following a military takeover claiming to purge corruption had him under house arrest. (Philimon Bulawayo / REUTERS)

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A man waits for customers while selling umbrellas along a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan on November 16, 2017. (Faisal Mahmood / REUTERS)

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Mercedes British driver Lewis Hamilton is reflected on windows as he powers through a Brazilian F1 Grand Prix practice session in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 11, 2017. Hamilton tweeted that members of his Mercedes team had guns held to their heads as they were robbed leaving the Interlagos circuit on Friday. (Nelson Almeida / AFP)

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An installation made up of three upright buses, titled ‘Monument’ by Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni is displayed in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. On view till November 26 it recreates a picture taken in the rebel-held side of Aleppo in 2015 where three buses were upturned vertically to obstruct snipers and to keep people safe. (John Macdougall / AFP)

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Antonio Leal of Venezuela (R) competes against Chilean Ruben Silva in their men's individual foil round as part of the fencing event during the XVIII Bolivarian Games 2017 in Santa Marta, Colombia on November 12, 2017. (David Sanchez / AFP)

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Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L), US President Donald Trump (C) and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte join hands for the family photo during the 31st ASEAN Summit in Manila on November 13, 2017. (Jim Watson / AFP)

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(From L) Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, French President Emmanuel Macron, his wife Brigitte, former French President Francois Hollande and former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve release balloons at Paris 11th district town hall on November 13, 2017, during a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the Paris attacks of November 2015. (Philippe Wojazer / AFP)

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An Iranian man rests as he lies atop salvaged mattresses and items outside damaged buildings in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah province near the border with Iraq on November 14, 2017, following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that left hundreds killed and thousands homeless two days before. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

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An aerial picture shows villagers looking at two dead sperm whales on a beach in Aceh Besar on November 14, 2017. Four sperm whales stranded on a beach in Indonesia died despite frantic efforts to push the massive mammals back into the sea. (Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP)

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Britain's Mo Farah holds his medal and poses for a photograph for his wife Tania, after being knighted as a Knights Bachelor during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, in London on November 14, 2017. (Jonathan Brady / PA / AFP)

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A walker passes a alley of trees near the village Marktoberdorf, southern Germany after the first onset of winter in Bavaria with temperatures at freezing point on November 13, 2017. (Christof Stache / AFP)

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Myanmar border police patrol the beach near a makeshift camp in Rakhine state in Myanmar, where hundreds of Rohingya wait in makeshift camps before crossing over to Bangladesh, on November 12, 2017. (Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP)

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Building cranes and the top of the new Munch Museum under construction emerge above heavy fog covering central Oslo, Norway on November 15, 2017. (Cornelius Poppe / NTB scanpix / AFP)

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Women holding umbrellas stand next to a damaged shop, in a flooded street of Mandra, northwest of Athens on November 15, 2017. At least seven people died and more were missing after a strong overnight downpour flooded three towns in Greece, officials said. (Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)

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A replica of the Statue of Liberty emits smoke from the torch created by Danish artist Jens Galschiot and displayed at the Rheinaue park during the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany on November 16, 2017. (Patrik Stollarz / AFP)

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People hold their mobile phones while standing to create the shape of a giant ribbon in front of the 'Generalitat' palace, the Catalan government headquarters at the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona on November 16, 2017 during a demonstration calling for the release of jailed Catalan separatist leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart. (Pau Barena / AFP)

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Indonesian youths sit on a table while playing games at a game centre surrounded by floodwaters after seasonal rains hit the area around Bandung, West Java province on November 17, 2017. (Timur Matahari / AFP)

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He Yiyi kicks the ball during a football match with a local team in Guangzhou, Guangdong province on November 12, 2017. The exploits of 21-year-old He Yiyi, who lost his leg to childhood cancer and uses crutches when playing, have earned him several nicknames including ‘Angel with Broken Wings’, ‘Ball King with One Leg’ and ‘Magic Boy’. (AFP)