The best photos from around the world
Gallery: The best photos from around the world
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The best photos from the international Wire agencies, selected by our photo editors.
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1/11
A quiet night for a bookmaker at Kempton Park in Sunbury, England.Credit:Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
2/11
A yellow car passes snow covered trees near Oberhof, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Matthias Schrader
3/11
Demonstrators stand in front of flaming tires they set on fire outside the central bank building where anti-government protesters are demonstrating against Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh and the deepening financial crisis in Beirut, Lebanon. Dozens protested outside the central bank denouncing the Lebanese pound’s plunge that began in 2019. The pound hit a new low of 50,000 to the dollar last Thursday as the country’s deeply divided parliament failed to hold an election for the 11th president.Credit:AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
4/11
Street vendors wait for customers with idols of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, ahead of her worship scheduled for Thursday in Kolkata, India.Credit:AP Photo/Bikas Das
5/11
A view of tombstones at the Old Jewish Cemetery “Heiliger Sand”, the oldest in situ preserved Jewish cemetery in Europe, in Worms, Germany. In a ceremony on February 1, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will present the cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz with their official UNESCO World Heritage certification in recognition of their importance as historical Jewish centers. The three cities, named Spira, Warmaisa and Magenza in Hebrew, all on the Rhine, were home to German-Jewish communities as early as the 10th and 11th centuries. ShUM sites include unique, exemplary meetinghouses, monuments and cemeteries. Shum is an acronym composed of the first letters of the medieval Hebrew city names. They became important sites of Jewish learning and had a profound impact on Ashkenazi Jewish tradition. Their history is also shaped by oppression, from massacres by Christian crusaders in 1096 to a devastating pogrom in 1349 and persecution and subsequent annihilation by the Nazis in the 1930s. Today, small Jewish communities exist in all three cities, particularly as a result of Russian-Jewish immigration after 1989. UNESCO added the cities to its World Heritage List for the first time in 2021.Credit:Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
6/11
A general view as runners pass through the grandstands on Circuit 1 during The Follow RacingTV On Twitter classified stakes at Kempton Park in Sunbury, England.Credit:Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
7/11
Philadelphia 76ers’ PJ Tucker (left) and Joel Embiid (right) jump for a rebound against Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Harris (second from left) and Ben Simmons during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Philadelphia. Credit:AP Photo/Matt Slocum
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The sun sets as people enjoy a ride at an amusement park in Basra, Iraq.Credit:AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani
9/11
Locals sell a baby Jesus figurine in Mexico City. As Mexicans prepare to celebrate “Dia de la Candelaria,” or Candlemas, people buy baby Jesus figurines as part of the celebration.Credit:AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
10/11
A French soldier steps onto a Leclerc main battle tank during an exercise at a training ground in Smardan, eastern Romania. Some 600 French soldiers deployed to Romania as part of a NATO battle group on the alliance’s eastern flank conducted live combat exercises on Wednesday to test their readiness amid Russia’s ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine.Credit:AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
11/11
Chicago firefighter Mose Demasi looks over the Harper Square co-op housing development after he and others fought a multi-story high-rise fire in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood.Credit:AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
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