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IN PHOTOS | This week’s most compelling images

Posted on December 14, 2025

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Photographers from CBC News, The Canadian Press, Reuters and others document our changing world every day. Here’s a selection of the week’s top images.

After more than a year mostly spent in hiding and in defiance of a decade-long travel ban, Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, pictured on the left with her face illuminated, greets supporters gathered outside the Grand Hotel in Oslo early Friday. The Venezuelan opposition leader arrived in Norway hours after her award was collected on her behalf by her daughter.

People taking pictures with their cellphones of a beaming woman outside a hotel.

(Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

Displaced Palestinians sit by a fire as a storm approaches the Al-Bureij camp in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

Group of people huddled around a makeshift fire surrounded by destroyed buildings and rubble with storm clouds in the sky.

(Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raises the hand of Michael Ma, MP for Markham-Unionville — who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals hours earlier — at the Liberal caucus holiday party in Ottawa on Thursday. This leaves Carney’s government just one seat shy of a majority.

Two men clasping hands in the air and smiling behind a podium, with Canadian flags in the background.

(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Lindsey Vonn en route to winning the women’s downhill skiing World Cup opener in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Friday. It was Vonn’s first victory in over seven years and, at the age of 41, made her the oldest woman ever to win an alpine World Cup race — by six years.

A female downhill skier on the slopes during a race.

(Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images)

Following three years of negotiations, 62 Indigenous cultural objects held in Vatican museums and vaults for a century are unloaded in crates at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Saturday.

Indigenous people watching crates being unloaded from the side of a plane on the tarmac as it's snowing.

(Christine Tremblay/Radio-Canada)

An aerial view shows people carrying images of the Virgin of Guadalupe during the pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe through Paso de Cortés, near Amecameca, Mexico, on Tuesday.

A bird's-eye view of people carrying large images on their backs on a hiking path, surrounded by wild grass.

(Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)

A worker plucks roses at a field amid dense smog in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday.

A person walking in a roses field amid dense pink smog.

(Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

A photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on Tuesday shows a collapsed road in Tohoku in Aomori prefecture, northeastern Japan, following a strong quake that struck the region the previous night.

A white van in a part of a road that's sunken into the earth due to a quake, with pilons on one side keeping people away.

(Kyodo/Reuters)

Kilmar Ábrego García, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies, waits Friday with his supporters in front of a courthouse, as he appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office — a day after his release from criminal custody in Pennsylvania.