24 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week

Medical staffers transfer a patient who has the coronavirus at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, Jan. 22.

Passengers wear protective face masks at the high-speed train station in Hong Kong, Jan. 23.

Excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from a deadly virus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, Jan. 24.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks to reporters at the Capitol building during a break in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Jan. 21.

People participate in the Women's March in New York City, Jan. 18.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence look on at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on MLK Day in Washington, DC, Jan. 20.

Michael Bloomberg, a Democratic presidential candidate and former mayor of New York City, walks offstage after speaking at the US Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, DC, Jan. 22.

Demonstrators march during the fourth annual Women's March in Washington, DC, Jan. 18.

Gun rights advocates and militia members attend a rally in Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 20.

Central American asylum-seekers, mostly Hondurans traveling in a caravan to the US, cross the Suchiate River between Guatemala and Mexico, Jan. 20.

David Xol-Cholom of Guatemala reunites with his son Byron at the Los Angeles International Airport after a year and a half apart. They hadn't seen each other since the Trump administration enforced its wide-scale family separation policy, Jan. 22.

A Syrian woman walks past a US military armored vehicle patrolling the village of Al-Jawadiyah near the Turkish border, Jan. 22.

An Iraqi demonstrator gestures during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Jan. 20.

The ceiling of the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 21.

A bird's-eye view of mud-covered houses at the foot of the Taal volcano in the Philippines, Jan. 21.

Diego, a 6-month-old kangaroo who prematurely lost his mother, sits in a wool bag at the Australian Park in Carcassonne, France, Jan. 20.

Leaves grow from an ash-covered plant following the Taal volcano's eruption, in Laurel, Batangas province, in the Philippines, Jan. 20.

Serena Williams prepares to serve during her second-round match against Tamara Zidansek of Slovenia at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Jan. 22.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a session during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Jan. 21.

Antidrug dogs play next to police officers before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits an anti-drug base in Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 21.

A rider goes through flames during the annual "Luminarias" celebration on the eve of the day of St. Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals, in the village of San Bartolomé de Pinares, Jan. 16.

A local farmer runs through a swarm of desert locusts to chase them away near Enziu, Kenya, Jan. 24. Large swarms of desert locusts have been invading Kenya for weeks after infesting some 70,000 hectares of land in Somalia.

Revelers in carnival costumes parade in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, Jan. 19.

An aerial picture shows the trees of the forest surrounding the castle of Visegrad, Hungary, Jan. 17.