Photos Of The Week

(Eagle Pass, Texas, US) A man carries a young girl on his shoulders as he and a group of several hundred people wade across the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass from Piedras Negras in Mexico || Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

(Racova, Romania) Members of the Sipoteni pack, wearing bear costumes, perform for villagers in Racova. The tradition originates from the pre-Christian era, when dancers wearing coloured costumes or animal furs toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil || Photograph: Vadim Ghirdă/AP

(Essen, Germany) A swimming pool surrounded by flood waters from the river Ruhr in Essen || Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images