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The week’s best photos

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A raven calls out from a charred tree in Canada’s Jasper National Park. The photograph, taken by Maxime Legare-Vezina after devastating wildfires in the area last year, won the silver award for best portrait in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition

A raven calls out from a charred tree in Jasper National Park, Canada (Image credit: Maxime Legare-Vezina / Bird Photographer of the Year)

Riot police

A Molotov cocktail is thrown at riot police during a protest over the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico (Image credit: Carl de Souza / Getty Images)

Titouan Leduc

French urban climber Titouan Leduc ascends the Varso Tower, one of Europe’s tallest skyscrapers, in Warsaw, Poland (Image credit: Wojtek Radwanski / Getty Images)

A performer from Gratte Ciel

A performer balances on stilts during the FAB International Arts Festival in Bordeaux, France (Image credit: Philippe Lopez / Getty Images)

A camel

A man pets a camel during the Maralal International Camel Derby in Kenya (Image credit: Luis Tato / Getty Images)

Residents gather on a street in Cebu

Residents stand among the rubble in Bogo City after a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake devastated the central Philippines  (Image credit: Daniel Ceng / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Mexico's Ministry of National Defense

Mexico’s Ministry of National Defense performs during a cultural event in Zapopan (Image credit: Ulises Ruiz / Getty Images)

A deer

A red deer stag breathes in the cold dawn air in Richmond Park, London (Image credit: Toby Melville / Reuters)

Soldiers

Soldiers wait to cast their ballots at a polling station in Chișinău, Moldova (Image credit: Vadim Ghirda / AP)

Anti-government protesters in Antsiranana, Madagascar

Protesters call for the resignation of Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina in Antsiranana (Image credit: FITA / AFP / Getty Images)

A bus and car

A man stands beside a sinkhole that formed following heavy rain in Odesa, Ukraine (Image credit: Oleksandr Gimanov / Getty Images)

The flotilla boat in Greece

A civilian boat in the Global Sumud flotilla sets sail from the coast of Crete, Greece (Image credit: Niccolo Celesti / Anadolu / Getty Images)

A perching raven, a fearless climber, and more