Albuquerque, US: The western edge of the Sandia mountainsPhotograph: Craig Fritz/APMadrid, Spain: A man walks past Christmas lights on a streetPhotograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFPHarare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean women work on a field. The country faces possible floodsPhotograph: Alexander Joe/AFP
Baghdad, Iraq: US Army medical staff change the dressings on eight-month-old Saja Mahdi, who suffered severe burns from a kettlePhotograph: Maya Alleruzzo/APSantiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic: Residents flee from the waters of the Yaque river during floods caused by Tropical Storm OlgaPhotograph: Ramon Espinosa/APAthens, Greece: Demonstrators clash with riot police during a 24-hour strike called over pension reform plansPhotograph: Aris Messinis/AFPNew York, US: Drawings by pioneering graffiti artists Fab Five Freddy, Futura 2000 and - in some traces - Jean-Michel Basquiat. The mural was discovered in a building just as developers were converting it into luxury apartmentsPhotograph: Mary Altaffer/APParis, France: French musician Jean-Michel Jarre performs Oxygene, 30 years after the album's releasePhotograph: Patrick Herzog/AFPMitrovica, Kosovo: Eight-month-old Roma refugee Sabit plays in her family's home in a refugee camp within the Serbian districtPhotograph: Carsten Koall/GettyTokyo, Japan: A Sony employee shows off the world's first battery-less digital camera, using a dynamo which generates the power to take picturesPhotograph: Yoshikazu TSUNO/AFPCottenham, UK: Christmas Lights outside the home of Victor and Margaret Minter, who have put on the display for the past 20 yearsPhotograph: Chris Radburn/PAShinduri beach, South Korea: A South Korean fisherman helps the clean-up of oil spilled from a tanker at an oyster farmPhotograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPANew Delhi, India: Indian construction workers lay the road surface on a flyover during the nightPhotograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFPPickmere, UK: Alpacas graze on a field owned by farmer Khanikhah Guy Photograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyKiev, Ukraine: Braving a blizzard, supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko rally close to the Ukrainian parliamentPhotograph: SERGEY DOLZHENKO/EPANajaf, Iraq: Two Iraqi women inspect traditional good luck charmsPhotograph: Alaa al-Marjani/APCologne, Germany: An employee of the Museum Ludwig measures light levels next to Evolution, a 1911 work by Dutch artist Piet MondrianPhotograph: Henning Kaiser/AFP
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