Here is the top news photograpy from the past week: 

OSLO: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa  takes a selfie with the Nobel Committee and co-prize winner Dimitri Muratov, a Russian newspaper editor, after a news conference in Oslo on Thursday, December 9, the day before the award ceremony (Torstein Bøe/NTB/AFP/Getty) Images

BERLIN: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds flowers as she hands over the chancellory  to her successor, Olaf Scholz, on Wednesday, December 8, in Berlin. Merkel was Germany's first female chancellor and has dominated European politics for much of this century. But she did not seek a fifth term, and has now been replaced after 16 years in office (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON DC: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, December 7, to discuss the escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia (Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images)

DUBLIN: Rita Sturmane sleeves red poinsettias at the Uniplumo Wyestown Nursery in Dublin, Ireland, on Monday, December 6. The traditional Christmas plants have been growing for six months and will be sold wholesale (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)

VILLEPINTE: French far-right media pundit and 2022 presidential candidate Eric Zemmour delivers a speech to supporters during a campaign rally in Villepinte, France, on Sunday, December 5 (Julien De Rosa/AFP/Getty Images)