Pictures of the week

Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.This week's gallery features a Palestinian man inspecting a house demolished by the Israeli army, in Nablus, West Bank; a police officer standing guard near Tiananmen Gate as Beijing grappled with severe air pollution; and Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, background center, leaving jail after posting bond in a case where he was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald.  

This gallery was produced by Patrick Sisson in New York and contains photos published Nov. 28 - Dec. 4, 2015. 

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Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery Russia World AIDS Day

Traffic streaks past a display of red ribbons, the international symbol for AIDS awareness, on buildings on Arbat Street in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. While the rate of HIV infection is on a global decline as World AIDS Day is marked Tuesday, the number of new infections in Russia continues to rise. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery China Pollution

A paramilitary police officer stands guard near Tiananmen Gate shrouded with heavy pollution and fog in Beijing, China on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. Schools in the capital kept students indoors and parents brought their kids to hospitals with breathing ailments Tuesday as Beijing grappled with extremely severe air pollution for the fifth straight day. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery California Shootings

Elda Flores, center, stands with her daughter and grandchildren at the San Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 during a candlelight vigil for victims of Wednesday's shootings. The FBI announced Friday that it is investigating the mass shooting at an office party as an act of terrorism, but the agency's director said there is no indication that the husband and wife suspects were part of a larger plot or members of a terror cell. (Jose Huerta/The Victor Valley Daily Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery France Climate Countdown

Iran's Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar walks past French and United Nations flags after addressing world leaders at the U.N. climate change conference in Le Bourget, France, outside Paris on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery Killings By Police Chicago

Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, background center, leaves the Cook County Jail after posting bond in Chicago on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. Van Dyke has been locked up since Nov. 24, when prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery Kenya Corruption

A police officer hits a demonstrator with his baton during an anti-corruption demonstration in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. Over a hundred demonstrators marched to the supreme court, parliament, and State House on Tuesday to demand the government crack down on graft. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery Italy Etna Eruption

Lightning flashes inside a plume of smoke during an eruption of Mt. Etna near Catania, Italy on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Europe's most active volcano, 3,350 meters (10,990 feet) high, erupts frequently. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery Mideast Israel Palestinians

A Palestinian man inspects the house of Raeb Ahmed Muhammad Alivi which was demolished by the Israeli army, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The military says Alivi led a five-member Hamas cell that shot and killed U.S. citizen Eitam Henkin and his wife, Naama, as they drove in the northern West Bank on Oct. 1. He was arrested days after the attack. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery North Korea Daily Life

A man walks on a road between snow-covered farm fields in Ryongbyon county, North Pyongan, North Korea on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 at the start of the winter season. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Pictures Of The Week Photo Gallery India Monsoon flooding

People receive food packets distributed by navy personnel in Chennai, India, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. The rains that lashed the state for three days eased Friday, but large parts of the main city remain flooded, including the region's biggest airport. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)

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Text from the AP news story, AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week. 

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