Here is the top news photograpy from the first week of the new year: 

ALMATY: Protesters set fire to the city administration building in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, January 5.  Violent protests, triggered by an increase in fuel prices, broke out in cities across Kazakhstan on Tuesday (EyePress News/Reuters).

ASHDOD: Motorists line up for Covid-19 testing in Ashdod, Israel, on Monday, January 3 (Amir Cohen/Reuters).

WASHINGTON DC: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers participate in a prayer vigil outside the US Capitol on Thursday, January 6, to mark the one-year anniversary of the insurrection. "Let us all here join in a moment of silence in memory of those who lost their lives and sacrificed so much for our democracy that day," Pelosi said (Sarah Silbiger for CNN).

ROME: Marco Fois dives into the Tiber river from Rome's Cavour Bridge to celebrate the new year on Saturday, January 1 (Riccardo De Luca/AP).

CAPE TOWN: Archbishop Thabo Makgoba places  Desmond Tutu’s ashes into the high altar of the St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday, January 2. Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his native South Africa, died December 26 at the age of 90 (Benny Gool/AP).