Our best photos from the past week.

Our best photos from the past week.

Our best photos from the past week.

A winter storm hits the areas devastated by Sandy.

Images of the devastation up and down the coast following Hurricane Sandy.

Our best photos from the past week.

Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children, are crossing Orontes, a narrow river marking the border with Turkey, to flee the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents on the other side of the river, from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, help pull them across in small metal boats.

By Mario Anzuoni

I was assigned to cover the unveiling ceremony of a star on the Walk of Fame for actress Scarlett Johansson. The Walk of Fame, which stretches for more than a mile, has become one of the backbones for Hollywood tourism. Hundreds of brass stars are embedded on the Hollywood Blvd sidewalks to celebrate people who distinguished themselves in the world of entertainment.

The unveiling generally offers a good photo opportunity, in this case, besides a high caliber name like Johansson, the location was in the epicenter of Hollywood, a few steps from the Chinese theater and right in front of Madame Tussauds wax museum. With that in mind I decided to step up my traditional front and center coverage and set up a remote camera from the side since I wanted to immortalize Scarlett in the full Hollywood atmosphere.

Reuters photographers have won three awards at the 54th annual World Press Photo contest. Feisal Omar from Somalia won first prize in Daily Life Singles, Mike Hutchings, South Africa, won first prize Sport Singles and Andrew Biraj from Bangladesh won third prize in Daily Life Singles.

1st prize in the Daily Life Singles category:

A man carries a shark through Mogadishu, September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Surf culture has always been a fairly close-knit community, and competitive surfing even more so.

In surfing there are no billion-dollar franchises, huge television contracts, or teams of agents and lawyers. There’s barely any press at even the biggest surf events, no monster stadiums, or multi-year contracts. No trades. No playoffs. No paparazzi or rumor mills.