Top 10 pictures of the week from around the world

A member of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association displays his balancing skills atop a bamboo ladder during Tokyo Fire Department's New Year's Fire review in Tokyo, Japan January 6, 2023.

Men dressed as "La Befana", an imaginary old woman who is thought to bring gifts to children during the festival of Epiphany, row boats down the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy January 6, 2023.

Tokyo Skytree (R) and Mount Fuji (back L) are seen from the I-link Town observatory during the evening hour in Ichikawa city, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo on January 7, 2023.

Pope Pope Francis pays his respetcs as he touches the coffin of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the end of his funeral mass at St. Peter's square in the Vatican on January 5, 2023. Pope Francis is presiding on January 5 over the funeral of his predecessor Benedict XVI at the Vatican, an unprecedented event in modern times expected to draw tens of thousands of people.

Chinar trees are reflected on the frozen Dal Lake on a cold morning in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Jan. 4 , 2022.

Keeper Jessica Ray poses with a clipboard next to Humboldt penguins during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo in London, Britain, January 3, 2023.

A cornfield features an image of Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi in Cordoba, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on the day it was created. According to the farmer, Pablo Luccero, his planter machine has the technology to imprint images fed to it electronically..

A fish jumps on a frozen river as people fish for trout during the Hwacheon Ice Festival in Hwacheon, south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, January 7, 2023.

People wearing bear fur costumes prepare for a parade in Comanesti, Romania, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil.

Rowing athletes practice on lake Pamvotis in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022.