A main road in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong is pictured on December 13 and two days later, when the latest protest camp had been cleared (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
Members of the public stand behind thousands of floral tributes that have been placed near the cafe where hostages were held for more than 16 hours, in SydneyDavid Gray/ReutersPassengers on a cruise ship look towards the Sydney Opera House sails at sunriseMark Metcalfe/Getty ImagesA swan glides across the waters of Eastchester Bay as the sun sets behind Manhattan, New YorkDon Emmert/AFPAn actor takes part in a re-enactment of the Battle of the Ardennes, also known as the Battle of the Bulge, in Recogne, Belgium, to mark the battle's 70th anniversaryAnthony Dehez/AFPA dog stands at the site where MH17, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane, crashed near the village of Hrabove in Donetsk region, UkraineMaxim Shemetov/ReutersA sculpture called All Together Now, created by artist Andrew Edwards, is seen after being unveiled in the remains of St Luke's Church in LiverpoolPhil Noble/ReutersA youth is rescued by a lifeguard after he was caught in a rip tide on the Windward side of Oahu at Waimanalo Beach, HawaiiCarlo Allegri/ReutersVillagers help a wild elephant calf that was separated from its herd in a rice paddy field at Borbhugia near Koliabor in India's northeastern Assam stateAFPAlexander Herzog, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Society, pushes Athena, the first humanoid robot to fly as a passenger on a commercial airline, onto a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt at Los Angeles International Airport,Jonathan Alcorn/ReutersA camera drone films Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan as he addresses an anti-government protest in LahoreArif Ali/AFPChildren cross a road as they move away from a military-run school attacked by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, PakistanKhuram Parvez/Reuters
