The week’s best photos

Lightning strikes overhead as members of the SOS Mediterranee rescue ship "Ocean Viking" conduct an exercise in the Mediterranean Sea (Image credit: Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP / Getty Images)A boy kicks a ball down an alley near the Balata camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank (Image credit: Zain Jaafar / AFP / Getty Images)Fireworks light up the Opera House and Harbour Bridge during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia (Image credit: Saeed Khan / AFP / Getty Images)Buddhist...