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13 Amazing Photos You Missed This Week

(Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Amid the ever-changing news cycle, it’s easy to miss great images that fly under the radar. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered.

We’re highlighting exceptional photos from around the world for the week that just ended. Check them out below.

Above: The dome of the U.S. Capitol building is visible through an American flag placed on the surrounding fencing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

(Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
(Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

A cook in a face mask is seen through a window decorated for Christmas at a city pizzeria in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.

(Photo: Gary Hershorn via Getty Images)
(Photo: Gary Hershorn via Getty Images)

A pigeon flies past the skyline of lower Manhattan as the sun rises, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

(Photo: JOSEPH PREZIOSO via Getty Images)
(Photo: JOSEPH PREZIOSO via Getty Images)

People explore the ice walls, tunnels and lights at Ice Castles in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, on Thursday.

(Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP)
(Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP)

A bus in New York City that careened off a road in the Bronx is left dangling from an overpass on Friday, after a crash late Thursday left the driver in serious condition, according to police.

(Photo: Andres Pina/Aton Chile/AP)
(Photo: Andres Pina/Aton Chile/AP)

Residents watch a forest fire move closer in Quilpue, Chile, on Friday. Thousands of people have been asked to evacuate after six homes and 120 hectares (about 296 acres) have burned since the fire started on Thursday, according to Chile’s National Forest Corporation.

(Photo: Andrea Comas/AP)
(Photo: Andrea Comas/AP)

People walk along “El Paseo de la Castellana” avenue during a heavy snowfall in Madrid on Saturday, Jan. 9. A persistent blizzard blanketed large parts of Spain with levels of snow that broke 50-year-old records.

(Photo: Darrian Traynor via Getty Images)
(Photo: Darrian Traynor via Getty Images)

Young people jump off St. Kilda Pier on Monday in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne was forecast to record its hottest day in a year, with temperatures expected to reach 38 degrees Celsius (more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit).

(Photo: VCG via Getty Images)
(Photo: VCG via Getty Images)

A total of 1,100 drones form the shape of a policeman to celebrate the first Chinese People’s Police Day on Sunday, Jan. 10 in Shanghai.

(Photo: Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
(Photo: Joe Raedle via Getty Images)

A driver gives a thumbs up as his passenger is given a COVID-19 vaccination at a drive-thru site on Wednesday at Tropical Park in Miami.

(Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
(Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

A penguin swims in an enclosure at Inbursa Aquarium in Mexico City on Wednesday.

(Photo: Rajanish Kakade/AP)
(Photo: Rajanish Kakade/AP)

Ibrahim Khan rides a unicycle to raises awareness about the dangers that kite flying — a popular way to mark the Makkar Sankranti festival — poses to birds, in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday.

(Photo: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press/AP)
(Photo: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press/AP)

An empty Turcot Interchange is shown in Montreal on Saturday, Jan. 9, after the Quebec government imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.