Tu-154 plane crash tragedy, Christmas fires, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visiting Pearl Harbor and other photographs of the week. The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS.
Photos of the week: Tu-154 tragedy, Christmas fires and Japanese leader at Pearl Harbor
The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
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Flowers and candles in memory of the Tupolev Tu-154 crash victims in Sochi, Russia, December 28
© Artur Lebedev/TASS Birds fly over a Russian Emergency Ministry rescue boat searches for wreckage from the crashed plane in the Black Sea, Russia, December 27
© AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin Sea gulls fly at the beach of the Baltic Sea in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, December 27
© AP Photo/Michael Probst President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial, in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, December 27
© AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Pope Francis kisses a statue of Baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 24
© AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino Workers watch fire fighters fight flames in a fuel tank in Oil Refineries Ltd in Haifa bay, Israel, December 25
© AP Photo/Ariel Schalit A forest fire burns in the Misox valley between Mesocco and Soazza, in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland, December 27
© EPA/GABRIELE PUTZU Indians participate in an attempt to create a world record of mass Shirodhara, an Ayurveda therapy that involves gently pouring meditated oil over the forehead, in Ahmadabad, India, December 24
© AP Photo/Ajit Solanki Refugee from al-Hasaka, Syria, looks out the window of his shelter while holding his daughters, at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers north of Athens, Greece, December 28
© AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen A cow trapped within floodwater in the town of Nabua, Camarines Sur province, Philippines, December 27
© EPA/FRANCIS R. MALASIG The sea sprays a woman as she walks on the coast, in Hirtshals, the northern part of Jutland, Denmark, December 26
© Anthon Unger/AP via Polfoto A Christmas tree and skyscrapers illuminated for New Year celebration in downtown Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia, December 28
© AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev An Ultra-Orthodox Jew lights a Hanukkah candle in his house during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Israel, December 28
© EPA/ABIR SULTAN A walrus in a tank at the Primorsky Aquarium on Russky Island, Russia, December 28
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Sails of the yachts seen above the swell during the start of the Sydney Hobart yacht race in Sydney, Australia, December 26
© AP Photo/Rick Rycroft