Selected by Deputy Picture Editor Brenda Fitzsimons
WINTER’S END Sorb children – Sorbs are a Slavic ethnic minority in Germany – in traditional clothes parade to mark Ptaci Kwas, or Birds’ Wedding, a festival held every January 25th, when birds thank children for feeding them during the winter, marking the season’s end. Photograph: Matthias Schumann/Reuters
BEHIND BARS An Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest outside Leinster House calling for the release from prison of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old activist who has regularly confronted Israeli soldiers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
VOLCANIC ERUPTION Smoke billows from Mount Mayon, near Our Lady of the Gate church in Daraga, south of Manila, in the Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
SNOW PATROL Soldiers stand guard on the roof of a hotel in Davos, the Swiss resort that hosts the World Economic Forum. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM President Donald Trump and the US delegation arrive in Davos. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
BREXIT DEBATE Hilary Benn, chairman of the House of Commons committee on exiting the EU, at Dublin City University’s Brexit, Ireland and the Future of Europe conference. Photograph: Alan Betson
WINGS OF A DOVE An AF Vandevorst design at the label’s spring-summer couture show, in Paris. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty
ADRIAN DONOHOE APPEAL On the fifth anniversary of the detective’s murder, during the armed robbery of a Co Louth credit union, Chief Supt Christy Mangan and Supt Gerry Curley ask the families of his killers to “do the right thing” and come forward with information. Photograph: Deborah McAleese/PA Wire
BORIS JOHNSON’S EUROPEAN ROOTS This 230-year-old mummy found in a Swiss church has reportedly been identified by scientists as the British foreign secretary’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Anna Catharina Bischoff. Photograph: SRF/PA Wire
TOUCHDOWN Dylan Farrelly scores Rockwell College’s second try against Castletroy College in the Clayton Hotels Munster schools senior cup play-off, at Clanwilliam RFC in Co Tipperary. Photograph: Ken Sutton/Inpho
CHILLY COMMUTE Muscovites are silhouetted on their bus on a frosty morning. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
RAIL CRASH Derailed trains in Pioltello, on the outskirts of Milan, in Italy. Photograph: Reuters
