A look at the best news photos from around the world.
وێنهی 4 ی مانگی دوازدهی 2014

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Workers collect salt from salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco, Peru, Dec. 3, 2014. Salt has been obtained in Maras since pre-Incan times by evaporating highly salty local subterranean stream water.

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Lazar and his sister Andjelka sit by a candle in their home in the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek. Electricity workers in Serbia struggled through snow, ice and treacherous terrain to restore electricity to an eastern town left shivering without power, heating or running water for a fourth day.

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A NYPD policeman (R) reacts next to people protesting against the Staten Island death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July, at midtown Manhattan in New York, Dec. 3, 2014. A New York City grand jury decision not to charge white police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed unarmed black man Garner with a chokehold, sparked outrage and protests. The Justice Department said it would investigate the incident.

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Taramuni Ray, 62, cries as she sits on the debris from her burned hut after a fire broke out at a slum in Kolkata, India.