It’s never been easier to keep up with what’s going on in the world. The news is everywhere – in our Facebook feeds, on the morning commute, during that lazy half hour before you switch off the TV and go to bed. But the tide of global affairs is often more upsetting than uplifting and it can be tempting to bury our heads in the sand. As the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words, so to offer a different perspective we've rounded up some of the most memorable images of the week's events, captured by the best photojournalists on the planet.
Full moon and the stars illuminate the sky over the Mount Artos on a cold autumn night after a heavy snowfall in Gevas District of Van province of Turkey on November 26, 2017.
Photo: Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Rohingya Muslim refugees react as police and officials attempt to control a surging crowd as they wait to be called to receive food aid of rice, water, and cooking oil in a relief centre at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on November 28, 2017. Rohingya are still fleeing into Bangladesh even after an agreement was signed with Myanmar to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority displaced along the border, officials said on November 27.
Photo: ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images
People mourn in front of the journalist's syndicate for Al-Rawda mosque victims in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Friday's assault was Egypt's deadliest attack by Islamic extremists in the country's modern history, a grim milestone in a long-running fight against an insurgency led by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group.
Photo: Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Riders Nizam Ansari and Deepak Nayak ride their cars inside a "well of death" to entertain people at Sonepur Mela, at Konhara Ghat, on November 28, 2017 in Bihar, India. The Sonepur Cattle Fair is held on Kartik Poornima (the full moon day) in the month of November in Sonpur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges and Gandak. It is also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela and it attracts visitors from all over Asia. Even though the state has banned bird and elephant trading, the festival continues to bring in the numbers with horse trading and several human entertainment acts.
Photo: Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
A winter swimming enthusiast jumps into the Songhua River to start his winter swimming season on November 27, 2017 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China.
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Shirtless soldiers take part in winter military drill on November 28, 2017 in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. Soldiers take off their clothes to take part in military training even though the temperature outside is as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius.
Photo: VCG/Getty Images
Aerial view of tens of thousands of abandoned shared bikes piled up at a parking lot at Jiangning District on November 28, 2017 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China.
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A Pakistani policeman looks a blood-stained floor of an Agriculture Training Institute following an attack by Taliban militants in Peshawar on December 1, 2017. Nine people were killed and dozens injured on December 1 when Taliban militants stormed a training institute in the northwestern city of Peshawar as Pakistan marked the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, officials said.
Photo: Abdul Majeed/AFP/Getty Images
A female giant panda called Mu Yun eats carrots in the bucket at Dujiangyan base of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda on November 29, 2017 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China.
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A herdsman lights a fire to melt ice for water during the winter migration on November 28, 2017 in Altay, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Kazak herdsmen begin the winter migration in Altay. They have to break and melt ice for water for their animals since there's been no snowfall during the migration so far.
Photo: Qian Han/VCG/Getty Images
A sea otter snacks on a frozen holiday treat during the Aquarium of the Pacific's Holiday Treats for the Animals festival in Long Beach, California on November 30, 2017. The Aquarium of the Pacific is home to more than 11,000 animals and includes an Ocean Science Center and the Molina Animal Care Centre.
Photo: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Getty Images
A Soyuz 2.1b rocket booster with a Frigate upper stage block, the Meteor-M 2-1 meteorological satellite and 18 small satellites launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Yuri Smityuk/TASS
Photo: Yuri Smityuk/TASS/Getty Images
A Man walk try to catch fishes on a frozen lake as it is zero celsius degree in Van, Turkey on November 30, 2017.
Photo: Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Little girls smile as lighting candles around the symbol of RED AIDS during Eve of World AIDS Day celebrated in Kathmandu, Nepal on 1st Dec, 2017. World AIDS Day is celebrated worldwide on December 1st of every year to raise the awareness in the fight against HIV. According to the end of 2014 statistics of National Center for AIDS and STD Control, a total no. of 39,249 estimates affected patients identified in Nepal.
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