WORLD IN PICTURES
1. SNOWY RIDE
Austria’s Matthias Mayer in action during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Sweden.
2. TESTING TIMES
Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi in the pits during a pre-season test session at Sepang International Circuit, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
3. WHEN PIGS FLY
Children in pig costumes as they take part in the annual Lunar New Year parade in Hong Kong, to mark the Year of the Pig.
4. WAKEY-WAKEY
A blanket of fog covers the landscape below the rising sun near Salgotarjan, about 110km northeast of Budapest, Hungary.
5. CHOOSING PEACE
Former Taliban militants surrender their weapons at a reconciliation ceremony in Herat, Afghanistan on Wednesday. Hundreds have surrendered under an amnesty launched in 2004.
6. AT THE READY
Riot police stand guard after clashes with protesters during a rally in support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro outside the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina this week.
7. MESMERISING
A visitor looks at the painting Vega 222 (1969 –1970) at the exhibition Vasarely Sharing Forms, dedicated to Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris this week.
8. HORNING IN
Model Megan Pormer attends the amfAR New York Gala 2019 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on Wednesday. The event benefits the foundation’s Aids research programmes.
9. LOOKING FROSTY
An aerial view of the Vosges forest in Oderen in eastern France this week.