The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists
FILE - A woman shows her t-shirt as she arrives for a Mass led by Pope Leo XIV in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Dilara Acikgoz, File)
Nov. 28 – Dec. 4, 2025
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FILE – Italy’s Sofia Goggia competes in the World Cup women’s giant slalom skiing race in Copper Mountain, Colorado, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)FILE – A visitor looks at a robot in the likeness of Elon Musk at the installation “Regular Animals” by artist Beeple at Art Basel Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Florida, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)FILE – A child rides a merry-go-round at a Christmas fair in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)FILE – A mother cries by the coffin of her son Oleh Borovyk, a Ukrainian serviceman who was killed in fighting with Russian forces near Pokrovsk, during his funeral in Boiarka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)FILE – A man wounded in a fight smokes next to his friend, also injured, while waiting for an ambulance after a fight in a shopping arcade in Santiago, Chile, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)FILE – A goldsmith arranges necklaces at the window of a gold shop at a gold market in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, Iran, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)FILE – A worried parent of abducted school children looks on at St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community of Nigeria, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo, File)FILE – Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants carry a body bag that is believed to hold the remains of a deceased hostage through the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)FILE – Bullet holes pierce a surface where a mass shooting took place days before at a banquet hall in Stockton, Calif., Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)FILE – Dr. Toussaint Selemani checks a child with measles at the Kachehembe Health Center in Rubaya, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)FILE – Carolina Panthers cornerback Mike Jackson, left, celebrates his touchdown against the Los Angeles Rams with cornerback Akayleb Evans in the first half of an NFL football game, Nov. 30, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Rusty Jones, File)FILE – Palestinian couples get married at a mass wedding ceremony in Hamad City in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)FILE – People wade through floodwaters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)FILE – A snow-covered sign hangs on a shop in Northbrook, Ill., Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)FILE – People protest against austerity measures in next year’s draft budget, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova, File)FILE – Women dressed as Santa Claus sit before the annual Christmas parade in La Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)FILE – The mother of a newly graduated soldier of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JKLI) Regiment kisses her son during a passing out parade at a training center on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)FILE – Germany’s Rebecca Knaak kicks the ball during the Women’s Nations League final soccer match against Spain in Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)FILE – A supermoon, the last full moon of the year, rises in the sky as seen from Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)
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