IN PHOTOS | This week's most compelling images

exigency personnel stay fresh a front followers the shot of two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. One member has died and the other was critically wounded.

(Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)

Pope Leo IV meets with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers at the Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, known as the St. Esprit Cathedral, during his first apostolic journey in Istanbul on Friday.

(Yara Nardi/Reuters)

Seniors are pictured at the Gaia Community Care and Wellness Society’s adult day program in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday.

Many Ontario residents woke up to the sights and sounds of Old Man Winter on Friday after the first major blast of a multi-day winter storm, while some areas brace for as much as 70 centimetres of snow. Here, the storm hits the Friday Harbour resort in Innisfil, Ont., on Friday.

(Christopher Drost/The Canadian Press)

A boy, released from Insein prison, is welcomed by a family member in Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday, after the nation's military rulers granted a mass amnesty ahead of elections.

(Thein Zaw/The Associated Press)

An animation gif shows NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev heading to the launch pad; and a Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft taking them to the International Space Station, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Thursday. The three-person crew made it safely to the ISS but the launch site suffered significant damage.

(Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)

Actress Mary Mina, playing the high priestess, carries the Olympic Flame during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games on Wednesday in Olympia, Greece.

(Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

A Martin D-18 guitar — played by Gordon Lightfoot — sits on display at a live auction of memorabilia from the Canadian music legend’s estate, at A.H. Wilkens auction house in Toronto on Wednesday. The guitar went to the highest bidder for $380,000.

A grey seal pup at the Donna Nook National Nature Reserve in north Lincolnshire, England, on Tuesday, where seals come every year to give birth to their pups near the sand dunes, a spectacle that attracts visitors from across the United Kingdom.

(Danny Lawson/PA/The Associated Press)

A person walks between water pipelines on a smoggy morning, amid air pollution, in Mumbai on Thursday.

(Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

Spider-Man by Marvel balloon floats down the street during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday.

(Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

---

---