A choice of effective news photos taken around the world this week. Image source, Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Image caption, Members of the Maori neighborhood carryout karakia (incantations and prayers) to pay their appreciates to a sperm whale which cleaned up on the coast at New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand. Image source, Mohammad Ponir/Reuters Image caption, Hindu fans sit together in front of candlelights, and pray to Lokenath Brahmachari, a Hindu saint and theorist, as they observe the Rakher Upobash celebration, at a temple in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Image source, Kristian Buus/Getty Images Image caption, Two Just Stop Oil protesters were detained on suspicion of triggering criminal damage, after glass safeguarding the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London, was smashed. The painting, by 17th Century Spanish artist Diego Velazquez, had formerly been slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in1914 Image source,
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