Eclipse, fire and snow: Top pictures of the week

A woman plays with snow in Times Square during a Nor'easter, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., Dec. 16, 2020.

A total solar eclipse, visible in parts of Chile and Argentina, is seen in Las Grutas, in the Rio Negro province, Argentina, Dec. 14, 2020.

Volcanic lightning over Mount Sakurajima is pictured from Tarumizu city, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan on Dec. 17, 2020.

A firefighter uses his cellphone as he stands on a water tank during a fire in a scrap metal recycling plant of Deacero company in Guadalupe, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico on Dec. 16, 2020.

A Palestinian demonstrator reacts to tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a protest against illegal Jewish settlements, in Beit Dajan in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Dec. 18, 2020.

Ethiopians, who fled the ongoing fighting in the Tigray region, walk at dawn within Hamdayet village on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in the eastern Kassala state, Sudan on Dec. 16, 2020.

Ukrainian law enforcement officers restrain a demonstrator during a rally of entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec. 15, 2020.

Tourists walk amongst beach foam in the wake of cyclonic conditions at Currumbin Beach on Dec. 15, 2020.

People party on a street as pubs shut for the night due to tier 3 restrictions in Soho, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in London, Britain, Dec. 15, 2020.

Trees covered in ice and snow in Ovacık in Turkey's Tunceli province.

A box of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is delivered from a UPS truck past news photographers to the Maimonides long-term care home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Dec. 14, 2020.

A zookeeper feeds a pair of giraffes at a zoo in Peshawar, Pakistan on Dec. 16, 2020.

People wearing face masks and face shields as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease attend the first of the nine-day novena mass outside the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Dec. 16, 2020.

Freed Nigerian schoolboys walk after they were rescued by security forces in Katsina, Nigeria, Dec. 18, 2020.

Women, including widows and relatives of farmers who were believed to have killed themselves over debt attend a protest against farm bills passed by India's parliament, at Tikri border near Delhi, India, Dec. 16, 2020.