Here are some of the most striking images from around the world over the past week.
Workers arrange a fragment from the marble frieze of the Parthenon temple atop Acropolis hill at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, on Jan 10, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]
The Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on Jan 11, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]
Fruit shopping at a Target store in New York on Jan 12, 2022. US consumer prices in December continued to rise at the fastest annual pace in almost 40 years, which could push the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates earlier, the US Labor Department reported on Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI) last month rose 0.5 percent from the previous month and 7 percent from a year earlier, the largest 12-month increase since June 1982, according to the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Photo/Xinhua]
An exhibition of artworks created with waste materials at Istanbul Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan 12, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]
Photo taken on Jan 13, 2022, shows the National COVID Memorial Wall on the south bank of the Thames River in London. [Photo/Xinhua]
People in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, watch the news reporting projectiles launched by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on Jan 14, 2022. The DPRK fired two short-range projectiles into eastern waters, the third launch in less than two weeks, ROK's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Friday. [Photo/Xinhua]
Photo taken on Jan 15, 2022, shows the frozen Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Extreme cold weather with temperatures as low as 20 C below zero covered Toronto from Friday to Saturday. [Photo/Xinhua]
A handout satellite image made available by the Tonga Meteorological Services, Government of Tonga, shows an explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, located in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, on Jan 15, 2022. [Photo/IC]
Lanterns are hung for the upcoming Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, in Klang of Selangor states, Malaysia, on Jan 16, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]
A boy wades through a flooded street following heavy rain in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Jan 16, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]
