Four days after powerful winds gave fuel to what began as small fires, strong emotions took hold of evacuees returning to what was left of their homes.

Kids playing amid rubble in war-torn Syria, firefighters sprinting into action, and more images from an eventful week across the globe.

The region’s annual ice sculpture festival is a major tourist draw that still boasts of its proximity to, and influence from, neighboring Russia.

Catholics in the rural area outside Brazil’s capital celebrate the Epiphany festival.

Mourners paid their respects to the former president, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, from the U.S. Capitol to his home state of Georgia.