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The Week in Pictures: January 18, 2015

From Pakistan’s violent Charlie Hebdo protests to Mexico City’s ‘No Pants Subway Ride,’ the most compelling images from the past seven days.

Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

By William BootJan 18, 2015

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo1_x6ckal — Karachi, Pakistan
January 16, 2015
Asif Hassan (L), a photographer for Agence France-Press, is helped to safety after he was shot during a protest against satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which featured a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as the cover of its first edition since an attack by Islamist gunmen. Pakistan police fired tear gas and water cannons at about 200 protesters outside the French consulate.

Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo2_s3d697 — Chongqing, China
January 14, 2015
The 22-story Yixin Mansion collapses after demolition by explosives as part of a urbanization project.
China Daily/Reuters

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo3_g7hhqv — Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
January 14, 2015
Demonstrators pull a barrier as federal policemen try to stop them during a protest against the visit of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo4_t7xhys — Lalitpur, Nepal
January 12, 2015
A worker stack bricks on his head at a brick factory.
Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo5_yzc0ah — Ankara, Turkey
January 12, 2015
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace.
Pool photo by Adem Altan

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo6_ax62cf — Tacloban, Philippines
January 15, 2015
A man walks under a ship standed after typhoon Haiyan. Pope Francis is touring venues across Leyte and Manila during his visit to the Philippines. The visit is expected to attract crowds in the millions as Filipino Catholics flock to catch a glimpse of the leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines for the first time since 1995.

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo7_hky6ax — Colombo, Sri Lanka
January 14, 2015
A Catholic devotee takes a picture with a mobile phone before Pope Francis arrives to lead Mass. Hundreds of thousands of people packed the capital’s oceanfront to see the pontiff give Sri Lanka its first saint, a climax to a 300-year campaign to recognise the holiness of Indian-born missionary Joseph Vaz.

Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo8_ayemdg — Mexico City
January 11, 2015
A passenger without pants waits for the subway train during “The No Pants Subway Ride.” The event, the fifth organized in Mexico, is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world, according to its organizers.

Edgard Garrido/Reuters

galleries/2015/01/18/the-week-in-pictures-january-18-2015/150115-week-photo9_rzqpvc — San Diego
January 13, 2015
A hippopotamus swims in its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty

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