Photos of the week: Christmas in Mosul and a Martian pool

Christmas in Mosul and a view from Mars --photos of the week from across the world.

Updated on: Dec 29, 2018 4:52 PM IST

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Iraqi youths dressed in Father Christmas suits walk through the streets of the old city of Mosul as they distribute gifts. (Ahmad Al-rubaye / AFP)

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The moon shines behind decorative Christmas ornaments as an aircraft prepares for landing at the airport in the southern coastal city of Larnaca In the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. (Petros Karadjias / AP)

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Sea gulls fly at the beach of the Baltic Sea in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany. (Michael Probst / AP)

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Contestants dressed as characters from the movie "Avatar" take part in a tightrope walking contest in Wulingyuan Scenic Area of Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China. (REUTERS)

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Light illuminates a girl as she blows bubbles along an alley in Lalitpur, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS)

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A man pulls a cart with barrels in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Baz Ratner / REUTERS)

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Tijuana, Mexico (L), and San Diego, California (R), are seen separated by the US border fence. The US federal government is expected to remain partially closed past Christmas Day in a protracted standoff over President Donald Trump's demand for money to build a border wall with Mexico. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP)

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The US Capitol dome is seen past the base of the Washington Monument just before sunrise in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / AP)

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A ‘lechonero’ worker prepares pigs to be roasted in a pit in Manila. Row upon row of pigs on bamboo spits sizzle slowly over orange embers in Manila just days before Christmas, peak season for the Philippines' pig roasting "lechoneros". (Noel Celis / AFP)

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A member of the Catalan regional police force Mossos d’Esquadra scuffles with a man as police try to keep protesters behind crowd control barricades during a Catalan pro-independence demonstration in Barcelona as the Spanish cabinet held a meeting in the city. (Pau Barrena / AFP)

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Palestinian protesters use slingshots to hurl stones during a demonstration near the border between Israel and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Said Khatib / AFP)

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A dog barks at sea lions in Valparaiso, Chile. The hunting of sea lions is prohibited in Chile until 2021, but their proliferation in the last decades has become a huge problem for fishermen, since they attack their nets and rob the fish, putting their work in risk. (Martin Bernetti / AFP)

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Supporters of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Union pour la Democratie et le Progres Social - UDPS) gather outside the party headquarter as they wait for declaration of their leader, in Kinshasa. (John Wessels / AFP)

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A greyhound chases a hare during a hare coursing meeting in Abbeyfeale, Ireland. (Clodagh Kilcoyne / REUTERS)

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A murmuration of starlings dances before landing to sleep on electricity poles near the southern Israeli city of Beersheva in the Negev desert. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

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The Anak (Child) Krakatua volcano erupts in the Sunda Straits off the coast of southern Sumatra and the western tip of Java in Indonesia. (Nurul Hidayat / Bisnis Indonesia / AFP)

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A Bangladeshi man sits on his rickshaw van as posters of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League election candidates hang above him at a market in Dhaka. (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)

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People visit the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province. The Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival will kick off in the city on January 4, 2019, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. (AFP)

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People stand inside a kaleidoscope installation, erected as part of Christmas festivities, at a shopping arcade in Hong Kong. (Philip Fong / AFP)

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Lighting bolts striking along the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra in Rajabasa, in Lampung province, three days after a tsunami. (Mohd Rasfan / AFP)

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Malian children have fun in a pile of cotton during the harvest in southern Mali. (Michele Cattani / AFP)

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A child looks at African penguins during the opening of a new area reserved for them at bioparco in Rome, Italy. (Tiziani Fabi / AFP)

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An Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet performs during a graduation ceremony of Israeli air force pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force base in Israel's Negev desert . (Jack Guez / AFP)

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Korolev crater, in the northern lowlands of Mars. The crater is an especially well-preserved example of a martian crater and is filled not by snow but ice, with its centre hosting a mound of water ice some 1.8 kilometres thick all year round. (ESA Handout / AFP)

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A girl skates across a frozen pond in Freeport, Maine. Last week's rain washed away much of the snow in southern Maine, but the return of cold temperatures helped create ideal outdoor skating conditions. (Robert F. Bukaty / AP)