Oxford Circus in London on Sunday. London remains under lockdown as it confronts a new variant of the coronavirus.

Corine Fesseau feeding her rooster Maurice in Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, France, in 2019. His crowing prompted a court case.

Supporters of President Donald J. Trump standing off with the police outside the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.

One of the rescued miners on Sunday in Qixia, a city in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong.

The police in Russia arrested thousands of people during a nationwide protest against the jailing of opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny.

Ramiro, a 38-year-old diver. returning to the surface with his catch: sea cucumbers, star fish and lobsters. “There are no other income opportunities here at the coast,” he said.

A meth lab inside a compound in Thailand linked to The Company, a sprawling drug syndicate that has flooded countries in Asia with methamphetamine, in 2019. The syndicate’s alleged leader, Tse Chi Lop, was arrested Friday.

The Michigan Wolverines playing against the Wisconsin Badgers in Ann Arbor, Mich., this month.

A migrant worker on a break from harvesting lettuce in Somerton, Ariz.

The official U.S. coronavirus case tally works out to about one in every 13 people in the country.

Demonstrators clashing with the police on Saturday in Moscow.

Sofia Bekatorou in Athens on Wednesday. She won a gold medal in her discipline at the 2004 Athens Olympics and bronze four years later in Beijing.

The restricted area in the Jordan district of Hong Kong on Saturday.

Hundreds of Thousands protested in Tahrir Square in 2011. Buildings visible in the background include the Arab League headquarters, top left, and the Egyptian Museum, right center.

A pharmacy worker preparing a coronavirus vaccine dose in England this week.

Getting a coronavirus test in Ahmedabad, India. A new study calls attention to the pandemic’s damage to supply chains that even wealthy nations depend on.

A protest in New York in 2017 in opposition to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order preventing people from several majority Muslim countries from entering the country.

Buds of dried cannabis flowers at a growing facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario.

Thousands of people in the Philippines have been killed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have a warm relationship, in part from Mr. Biden’s eight years as vice president.

Beny Steinmetz was sentenced to a five-year jail term after being convicted of corruption charges involving mining deals in Guinea.

Waiting to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots in London on Friday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke about the virus variant at a news conference on Friday in London.

An exhibition in Wuhan, China, commemorating the city’s struggle with the coronavirus.

A hospital last month in Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of the coronavirus was initially concealed. In the government’s telling, Wuhan stands not as a testament to China’s weaknesses but to its strengths.

Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and anticorruption activist, being taken from a police station outside Moscow on Monday. He remains in detention.

A screener checks in patients at a Covid-19 vaccination site in Jones Beach last week. Vaccine manufacturers are having difficulty meeting demand.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arriving to a press conference on Friday where he addressed his future relationship with President Biden.

A member of the Ethiopian military near the city of Alamata in the Tigray region last month.

A photograph released by Russian state news media showed President Vladimir V. Putin during a video conference on Thursday. The nuclear disarmament treaty expires on Feb. 6.

The truck where 39 people were found dead, being guarded by a police officer in 2019.

The textile conservationist Julia Brennan putting on gloves to inspect clothing from victims of the Khmer Rouge stored in crates at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Supporters of India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party demonstrated against the Amazon series “Tandav” on Monday in Mumbai.

Melanie Silva, the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, appearing via a video link during an Australian Senate inquiry on Friday.

Dave Chappelle had been hosting socially distanced shows since June.

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Drugmakers including Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have insisted that many of the terms of their deals with governments must be kept confidential.

Waiting to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots in London on Friday.

Margaret Court at the Australian Open last year, during a ceremony marking 50 years since she won the Grand Slam.

A patient being moved into a nursing home in Hollywood, Calif., last month. Residents of long-term care facilities are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, and a drug could prevent infections, the manufacturer says.

Julie Payette, Canada’s Governor General, in September last year.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last February. America’s first known coronavirus patient had passed through the previous month, on his way home from Wuhan, China.

A picture of Peter Nygard in a Nygard store in New York.

Kylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival in 2019, the last time the event took place. 

The headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, in a photograph released by Russian state media.