The 20 photographs of the week

AP photojournalist Muhammed Muheisen continues to document the daily life of the poor and dispossessed in Pakistan with a compassionate and gentle eye. Here Afghan refugee children play on wooden carts on the outskirts of Islamabad Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Girls sit at a bus stop in a residential estate next to a Ukrainian military base in Simferopol Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Photojournalist Bulent Kilic's work from Ukraine has featured heavily in 20 photos recently. He has now returned to his native Turkey to document the unrest in Istanbul. This image shows a girl wounded during clashes between riot-police and prostesters after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests
Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

In another image by Kilic, a protester waves a black flag during clashes with riot police in Kadikoy, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

A frozen stairwell is seen at the site of a building collapse in Harlem, New York Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

An Indonesian woman collects water for her shower from a well at a slum under a flyover in Jakarta, Indonesia Photograph: Tatan Syuflana/AP

Protests by Tibetan exiles against China, in support of their homeland, have increased in recent years. Nepal's strong links to China mean that Nepalese police are swift to detain activists as seen here, near the Chinese Embassy Consular office in Kathmandu Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Another image from Muhammed Muheisen. A Pakistani health worker, left, checks with a teacher if schoolchildren need a polio vaccine, at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad. 'The largest polio virus reservoir of the world', is in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, according to World Health Organisation Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

'Female' robot Tess pole dances during a demonstration on the Tobit Software stand at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover, Germany Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

A woman sleeps in the RDOT camp where some of the last remaining Seleka fighters are sheltering, guarded by African Union and French peacekeeping forces in Bangui, Central African Republic Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters

German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus has covered conflict in Iraq, Gaza and for some time now Afghanistan. Here, the body of a would-be suicide bomber lies on the street in the centre of Kandahar, after an attack on the former Afghan intelligence headquarters. Police officials said three insurgents died in a gunbattle with security forces Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AP

An Indian Hindu woman at the Nandagram Temple during Lathmar Holi festival in Nandgaon, India Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Darren Sammy leaps in celebration after the West Indies won their second T20 international cricket match against England at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados Photograph: Philip Brown/Reuters

A Crimean Tatar man prays at a mosque in Bakhchysarai, Ukraine Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Anti-government protesters take cover from teargas during a protest at Altamira square in Caracas, Venezuela Photograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performing at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai
Photograph: AFP

Guardian and Observer photographer Tom Jenkins has been producing excellent work from the Cheltenham National Hunt horseracing festival all week. Here, runners in the 2nd race go down the back straight.
You can see more of Tom's work here Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

Photojournalist Andrea Comas continues to document the plight of ordinary Spaniards in the face of economic hardship. Here, in Madrid, two-year-old Samira is photographed prior to hearing that the eviction of her family, from the house in which they have lived in for a year, has been temporarily suspended. Both her parents are currently unemployed and live on subsidies and are trying to negotiate with the bank Santander for a social rent Photograph: Andrea Comas/Reuters

Relatives of the passengers wait for the news of the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370 at their house in Medan, Indonesia Photograph: Dedi Sahputra/EPA

An Indonesian man dressed as a WWII German Waffen-SS soldier plays dead during a battle re-enactment in Cibubur, East Jakarta, Indonesia Photograph: Rodrigo Ordonez/Barcroft India