Gennaio 01, 2016
1 - A party hat lies on the ground after New Year's celebrations in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York.
2 - Smoke billows from the Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai in the aftermath of a huge fire that engulfed several floors of the building. The fire ripped through the luxury Dubai hotel late on Dec. 31, 2015.
3 - People pray on the first day of the new year at the Shinto Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.
4 - Volunteers from non-governmental organizations (NGO) arrange more than 2,500 discarded lifejackets, used by refugees and migrants, in the shape of the peace symbol on the Greek island of Lesbos.
5 - "Le Jardin" restaurant, popular with foreigners and Afghan officials, is on fire after a suicide attack in Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the explosion Friday.
6 - Cheerleaders from the U.S. prepare to take part in a New Year's Day Parade in central London, England.
7 - Kashmiri Muslims women react upon seeing a relic believed to be hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed, on display on the Friday following the festival of Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, India.
8 - An elderly woman stands outside her house in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 31, 2015.
9 - A runner is dressed in a costume depicting the Rio 2016 Olympic torch, decorated with a figure of Jamaica's Usain Bolt and a pill, before the annual "Sao Silvestre Run" (Saint Silvester Road Race), an international race through the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 31, 2015.
10 - Two deer lock horns during the annual rutting season in Richmond Park in west London, Britain, Jan. 1, 2016.
Gennaio 03, 2016
1 - Visitors look at a 24m x 25m (wide) image of two monkeys displayed to celebrate the "Year of the Monkey" from the Chinese zodiac at the Hitachi Seaside Park in the Japanese city of Hitachinaka in Ibaraki prefecture, some 100 kilometres north of Tokyo, Japan. The display was made of around 15,000 pine cones and plants collected in the park.
2 - Sunset in Ayia Napa resort in southeast part of the Island of Cyprus
3 - A group of migrants walk towards train station to be transferred to Austria, near the border with Croatia, in Dobova, Slovenia.
4 - A man carries a child as they try to reach a shore after falling into the sea while disembarking from a dinghy on which they crossed a part of the Aegean sea with other refugees and migrants, from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
5 - A member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or the National Volunteers Association keeps watch from the top of a tree as others sit on the ground during their daylong camp on the outskirts of Pune, Maharashtra state, India.
6 - Iranian protesters set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran, during a protest against the execution of prominent Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities.
7 - People take pictures of huge waves crash on the Viavelez seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, Spain, Jan. 2, 2016.
8 - Turkish riot police use rubber pellets to disperse pro-Kurdish demonstrators during a protest against security operations in the Kurdish dominated southeast, in central Istanbul, Turkey January 3, 2016.
9 - Peter Prevc of Slovenia soars through the air during his first competition jump at the third stage of the 64th four hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.
10 - Sebastien Loeb of France drives his Peugeot through the water during the Buenos Aires-Rosario prologue stage of Dakar Rally 2016 in Arrecifes, Argentina, Jan. 2, 2016.
11 - Waxwings are seen gathered in a tree in the town of Novogrudok, 150 km (93 miles) west of Minsk, Belarus.
12 - A man walks on the frozen Songhua river beside the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
Gennaio 04, 2016
1 - A van drives past piles of wrapped garbage blocking a newly-opened road in the town of Jdeideh northeast of Beirut, Lebanon.
2 - An Iranian woman in Tehran holds up a poster showing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shi'ite cleric who was executed last week by Saudi Arabia. Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom's lead and began scaling back diplomatic ties to Iran after the ransacking of Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic, violence sparked by the Saudi execution of al-Nimr.
3 - A member of an investigation team holds defused explosives at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up close to a police checkpoint near Kabul airport but caused no other casualties, a police spokesman said.
4 - Villagers ride a motorcycles passing trees covered with volcanic ash of Mount Bromo during eruption at Ngadisari village in Probolinggo, Indonesia, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
5 - Police digging out a car trapped in a snow slide in Altay, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, Jan. 3, 2016.
6 - A television cameraman moves back as a llama investigates his lens during the annual stocktake press preview at London Zoo in Regents Park.
7 - Fans dressed as the late cricket player and commentator Richie Benaud, paying tribute to him while watching the third cricket test between Australia and the West Indies at the SCG in Sydney.
8 - A tourist boat cruises the frozen Moskva River in Moscow, Russia. Temperatures dipped to -18° C (-0.4° F) in Moscow and -20 C (-4° F) in surrounding regions.
Gennaio 05, 2016
1 - His cheek wet with tears, President Barack Obama President Barack Obama recalls the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence.
2 - Policemen walk past “Je suis Ahmed," or "I am Ahmed,” spray painted on the sidewalk, in the red, white and blue colors of the French flag near a plaque commemorating late police officer Ahmed Merabet in Paris, France. President Francois Hollande honored 17 victims killed in Islamic extremist attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher market and police a year ago this week.
3 - The Volcano of Fire releases lava, seen from Escuintla, Guatemala, Jan. 4, 2016.
4 - An Afghan policeman inspects a building used by insurgents after an operation near the Indian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif. Afghan special forces killed a group of insurgents holed up in a house in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, bringing to an end a 24-hour siege following the insurgents' attack on the nearby Indian consulate.
5 - Pupils hold sheets with kanji characters they wrote during a calligraphy contest to celebrate the New Year in Tokyo, Japan.
6 - Kiyoshi Kimura, second from left, president of Kiyomura Co., poses a bluefin tuna at his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
7 - Internally displaced people carry buckets of water as they walk during the cold weather in Jerjnaz camp, in Idlib province, Syria.
8 - Ice formations are seen at the beach near Fakse Ladeplads, south of Copenhagen, Denmark. Daytime temperatures in the area are between zero and -4º C.
9 - Noriaki Kasai of Japan soars through the air during his trial jump at the fourth stage of the 64. four hills ski jumping tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria.
10 - American white pelicans are seen in the waters of Lake Chapala in Cojumatlan de Regules, Michoacan State, Mexico, Jan. 4, 2016.
11 - Fireworks light up the sky behind ice sculptures during the opening day of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.
12 - Robin Roy (C) reacts as U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets her at a campaign rally in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jan. 4, 2016.
13 - Draft horses gallop through a field, with the air temperature at about minus 24º C (-11.2º F), outside Malaya Tumna village south of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Jan. 4, 2016.
14 - The FFZero1 by Faraday Future is displayed at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International in Las Vegas, Navada, Jan. 4, 2016.
15 - A Pakistani Kushti wrestler prepares the ground in the ring while others practice during a training session, in Lahore.
16 - Australian artist Jaimi Luthrmann performs in a giant balloon in the Blanc De Blanc Champagne Circus at the Sydney Opera House.
Gennaio 06, 2016
1 - A woman takes a walk along the river Spree on a cold winter day in Berlin, Germany.
2 - Vehicles move past a graffiti, depicting the provincial chief executive with the message "Fix It!", near an uncovered drain hole along a road in Karachi, Pakistan. According to local media, a group of activists launched an idea to promote a campaign-project to draw the attention of authorities towards civic issues by art, by spray painting stenciled images of lawmakers with messages.
3 - Men jump into the waters of a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia, Bulgaria.
4 - A man with his dog begs for money on the medieval Charles bridge during snowfall in Prague, Czech Republic.
5 - Members of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association display their balancing skills atop bamboo ladders during a New Year demonstration by the fire brigade in Tokyo, Japan.
6 - Greek Orthodox faithful Nikolas Solis, 28, a pilgrim from Agrinio of Greece, kisses a wooden crucifix in the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.
7 - A man dressed as Caspar (C), one of the Three Wise Men, stands on a float as he parades with his entourage during the traditional Epiphany parade in Madrid, Spain, Jan. 5, 2016.
8 - School children cross a makeshift pedestrian bridge over a drain covered with garbage at a slum in Karachi, Pakistan.
9 - People walk on a path along a lake mirrored with clouds after sunset in Yangon, Myanmar.
10 - A driver climbs out of a window of his car after driving onto a flooded road in Van Nuys, California, Jan. 5, 2016.
11 - Eta Carinae's great eruption in the 1840s created the billowing Homunculus Nebula, imaged here by Hubble, and transformed the binary into a unique object in our galaxy. Astronomers cannot yet explain what caused this eruption. The discovery of likely Eta Carinae twins in other galaxies will help scientists better understand this brief phase in the life of a massive star.
Gennaio 07, 2016
1 - Ukrainians wearing traditional costumes sing Kolyadky or Ukrainian Christmas Carols, as a part of Orthodox Christmas in Kyiv.
2 - French police check a pedestrian as they secure the area after a man was shot dead at a police station in the 18th district in Paris. Police shot dead a knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station, police union sources said. The incident took place on the anniversary of last year's deadly Islamist militant attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in the French capital.
3 - A woman walks along a canal in Stockholm, Sweden. After an unusually warm December, Sweden was hit by the coldest January in fifteen years with -42.8º C (-45º F) in the far north and -15º C (5º F) in Stockholm.
4 - ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this photograph over the west coast of Canada from the International Space Station on Dec. 31, 2015, and shared it with his Twitter followers on Jan. 5, 2016. The photograph shows Canada's Coast Range of mountains, with King Island and Burke Channel in the center. The Pacific Ocean is visible at the bottom and north is to the left.
5 - The last of 17 Cargill salt miners emerge after being rescued from an elevator stuck 900 feet below the surface at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, New York. A rescue cage was lowered from a crane to bring them up four at a time.
6 - A mud flow skirts a house protected with sandbags in Monrovia, California, Jan. 6, 2016. A wildfire two years ago stripped away vegetation and loosened soil.
7 - Two armadillos are held by a zookeeper during the annual inventory at the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany.
8 - Mongolian-born grand sumo champion Yokozuna Harumafuji (L) performs the New Year's ring-entering rite at the annual celebration for the New Year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.
9 - Mount Sinabung volcano spews lava and ash during an eruption as seen from Tiga Serangkai village in Karo, Indonesia's North Sumatra province, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
10 - Sharon Osborne kicks at an unidentified man who interrupted the acceptance speech by the cast of her show "The Talk," who won the award for favorite daytimeTV hosting team, at the People's Choice Awards 2016 in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 6, 2016.
11 - A trail of car lights resembling a train seen in a long-exposure photo taken by Diaa Bekheet in a rainy afternoon outside VOA building on Independence Ave., SW in Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2015
Gennaio 08, 2016
1 - A corner store displays a Powerball lottery sign in Encinitas, California. The lottery jackpot, already the largest ever payout in North American history, continued to climb, hitting an estimated $800 million on Friday.
2 - Cowboy Dwane Ehmer, a supporter of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, rides his horse at the refuge near Burns, Oregon. Three sheriffs met with leaders of the armed group to try to persuade them to end their occupation of the refuge after many local residents made it plain that's what they want.
3 - Bahraini protesters carry a banner with images of Saudi Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr that read, "blood of the martyr," during a demonstration in Sitra, Bahrain. Police fired tear gas at protesters throwing stones and petrol bombs during clashes that erupted at the march against Saudi Arabia's execution of al-Nimr.
4 - Job seekers break out to visit corporate employment personnel at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation "Hiring Our Heroes" military job fair in Washington, D.C. U.S. job growth surged in December and employment for the prior two months was revised sharply higher, suggesting that a recent manufacturing-led slowdown in economic growth would be temporary.
5 - Indian Muslims pay tribute to Indian soldiers killed in the recent Pathankot air base attack, outside a mosque in New Delhi, India.
6 - A dune buggy driver trains before competing in a drag racing event, as part of the Liwa 2016 Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, some 250 kilometers southwest of Abu Dhabi. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a variety of races (cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses) or other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore.
7 - Cuban children, one dressed as Fidel Castro, ride in a classic car during a caravan marking the 57th anniversary of the arrival of Castro and his rebel army in Regla, outside Havana, Cuba, Jan. 8, 1959, after toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista.
8 - Driver Jamie Greubel Poser and brakeman Cherelle Garrett, of the United States, celebrate their win in the women's bobsled World Cup race in Lake Placid, New York.
9 - A copy of the book 'Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition' lies on a display table in a bookshop in Munich, Germany. For the first time since Adolf Hitler's death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader's political treatise unleashing a highly charged debate over whether the text is an inflammatory racist diatribe or a useful educational tool.
10 - Chickens stand upon a cart in front of a flooded home in the village of Cerme near the city of Lushnje, Albania. Floods caused by heavy rains over the last days, forcing evacuation of hundreds of villagers after rivers flooded thousands of hectares, hundreds of homes and many roads.
11 - Indian soldiers take part in rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi. India will celebrate its annual Republic Day on January 26.
12 - A Sri Lankan displays a star blue sapphire, claimed to be the world's biggest star blue sapphire, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Gemological institute of Colombo, a local gem industry body, has certified that the gem weighs 1,404.49 carats (281 grams).
13 - Catholics attend a mass at John the Baptist Church during the annual pilgrimage near the baptism site along the Jordan River, Shouneh, Jordan.
14 - A woman walks on the beach at sunset in the Mediterranean resort town of Belek in Antalya, Turkey.
Gennaio 10, 2016
1 - People attend a ceremony at Place de la Republique square in Paris, to pay tribute to the victims of last year's shooting at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
2 - Iraqi forces secure an area in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, after retaking the city from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists.
3 - A woman takes a selfie in a snowy wood on the bank of the Yenisei river, with the air temperature at about minus 21° C (- 5.8° F), outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
4 - Sebastien Loeb of France drives his Peugeot during the seventh stage in the Dakar Rally 2016 near Uyuni, Bolivia, Jan. 9, 2016.
5 - Tears roll down the eyes of a Bangladeshi Muslim pilgrim as she prays on the final day of an Islamic congregations’ first phase in Tongi, 20 kilometers (13 miles) north of Dhaka.
6 - A huge kite is prepared to fly on the opening day of the International Kite Festival in Ahmadabad, India.
7 - Supporters of Taiwan's ruling KMT or Nationalist Party presidential candidate Eric Chu cheer during a campaign rally in Taoyuan City.
8 - Honda rider Paulo Goncalves of Portiugal, races his bike in the 7th stage of the 2016 Dakar Rally, between Uyuni, Bolivia and Salta, Argentina, Jan. 9, 2016.
9 - A man crosses a snow-covered park in Minsk, Belarus.
Gennaio 11, 2016
1 - A wave breaks across a quay in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. High tides and strong winds were forecast for twelve of France's coastal departments in regions on both the Atlantic and Mediteranean coasts.
2 - Bangladeshi Muslim devotees leave on an overcrowded train after taking part in Akheri Munajat, or final prayers, at the Biswa Ijtema, or World Muslim Congregation, at Tongi, some 30 kms north of Dhaka, Jan. 10, 2016.
3 - A man dressed as a Continental Army Officer walks through the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, Jan. 10, 2016.
4 - A woman with a Ziggy Stardust tattoo visits a mural of David Bowie in Brixton, south London.
5 - In this picture taken on Jan. 10, 2016, a woman poses for a photo in front of a beluga whale at a zoo in Beijing, China.
6 - Japanese women wearing kimonos apply make up before their Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony at an amusement park in Tokyo. According to a government announcement, more than 1.2 million men and women who were born in 1995 marked the coming of age this year, a decrease of approximately 50,000 from last year.
7 - An elderly couple walk past along public park of the city during a mild winter day in Pamplona, northern Spain.
8 - People take part in the 'No Pants Subway Ride' in Vienna, Austria, Jan. 10, 2016. The 'No Pants Subway Ride' is an annual event that has become a global celebration of bare thighs.
Gennaio 12, 2016
1 - Young women take selfie photographs in front of the New Mosque by the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. A Syrian suicide bomber is thought to be responsible for an attack which killed at least ten people including foreigners in the heart of Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet tourist district on Tuesday.
2 - Former Afghan Taliban fighters carry their weapons before handing them over as part of a government peace and reconciliation process at a ceremony in Jalalabad. More than a dozen former Taliban fighters from Ghani district of Nangarhar province handed over their weapons as part of the program.
3 - A girl poses for photographs inside a shark-shaped sculpture at an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.
4 - Actor Jude Law holds up an umbrella to block a photographer on the set of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's TV series "The Young Pope", in St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy.
5 - People collect their belongings from a heavily damaged building in the aftermath of a car bomb explosion in a commercial area of New Baghdad, Iraq. Gunmen stormed into a Baghdad mall on Monday after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance in the city’s mainly Shiite east.
6 - Third - placed members of the Hungarian power lifting group the 'Trio Power Line' perform at the Capital Circus during the 11th edition of the International Circus Festival on Jan. 11, 2016 in Budapest.
7 - A man dries handmade noodles in the sunlight in Fuxing town, Changhua County, Taiwan.
8 - A squirrel runs on a fence after a snowfall in a park in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
9 - People look at one of the dozens of whales that have washed ashore on the Bay of Bengal coast's Manapad beach in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu state, India. More than 80 whales have washed ashore on India's southern coast.
Gennaio 13, 2016
1 - U.S. photographer Annie Leibovitz gestures during a press preview of her exhibition 'Women: New Portraits' at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in London, Britain.
2 - A Pakistani farmer drives a tractor loaded with radishes on the way to a vegetable market in Lahore.
3 - A woman and her daughter walk away after a blast near the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad after a suicide bomber blew himself up, officials said.
4 - The jerseys of the national soccer teams of all FIFA's member countries are shown in the rainbow room at the future FIFA World Football Museum during a media preview in Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 12, 2016. The FIFA World Football Museum will be open to the public on Feb. 28.
5 - A Swiss Guard, who fell ill, is helped as Pope Francis leads the weekly audience at Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall.
6 - Revelers participate in a parade on the street during a carnival in the village of Vevcani, south of the Macedonian capital of Skopje. Vevcani village marks the annual Orthodox St. Vasilij Day with a carnival that features a 1,400-year-old celebration with pagan roots.
7 - Tawfiq Okasha, a pro-government TV anchorman who was elected to parliament, is reprimanded by a fellow legislator after he taped his mouth shut in protest for not being given the floor during a parliamentary session in Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 12, 2016.
8 - Former ballerina Luke Willis plays on a sand berm after sunset in Encinitas, California, USA, Jan. 12, 2016.
9 - Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men, smeared with ash, pass on a chillum to smoke inside their makeshift camps near the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, ahead of the "Makar Sankranti" festival at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, India.
10 - Honda rider Ricky Brabek, top, from the USA is followed by Sherco TVS rider Juan Pedrero Garcia, center, from Spain, and Yamaha rider France's Adrien Van Beveren, during the ninth stage of the 2016 Dakar Rally, in Belen, Argentina, Jan. 12, 2016.
11 - Participants take a "selfie" at a sunflower field in Bangkok, Thailand.
12 - A car covered with ice remains stranded on the waterfront in Hamburg, New York, Jan. 12, 2016. The owner left his Mitsubushi Lancer parked overnight outside a restaurant on Sunday and the next day, spray from Lake Erie had encased it in ice.
Gennaio 14, 2016
1 - Fossilized whale bones are on display outside the Wati El Hitan Fossils and Climate Change Museum, a UNESCO natural World Heritage site, on the opening day, in the Fayoum oasis, Egypt.
2 - Police officers take a position behind a vehicle near the site of a blast in Jakarta, Indonesia. Several explosions went off and gunfire broke out in the center of the capital, leaving seven people dead, including all five attackers. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for coordinated bomb and gun attack.
3 - An villager prepares a fishing net during community fishing as part of the Bhogali Bihu celebrations at the Goroimari Lake in Panbari village, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Gauhati, India.
4 - A mourner cries at the funeral of Lokman Acikgoz and his two sons in Cinar, in the mostly-Kurdish Diyarbakir province in southeastern Turkey. The members of the family were among several people killed when Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb at a police station in Cinar.
5 - Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah, Jan. 13, 2016.
6 - Tributes lie around a mural of British singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London. Bowie, 69, died of cancer on Jan. 10.
7 - A murmuration of starlings performing their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern Israeli village of Tidhar, in the northern Negev desert.
8 - 7-Eleven store clerk M. Faroqui celebrates after learning that his store sold a winning Powerball ticket, in Chino Hills, California, Jan. 13, 2016.
9 - The sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea as seen at the Rawcheh Sea Rock in Beirut, Lebanon.
10 - Norway's Anders Fannemel during the official training at the Ski Flying World Championship at Kulm, Bad Mitterndorf, Austria.
Gennaio 15, 2016
1 - People hold placards reading "We are not afraid" during a rally at the scene of Thursday's deadly gun and bomb attack in central Jakarta, Indonesia.
2 - A supporter of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party cheers for presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, during the final rally before polling day in Taipei. Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Saturday.
3 - Israeli and Palestinian peace activists walk behind cardboard cut-outs depicting the controversial Israeli separation barrier during a peace march at an Israeli road, near a checkpoint between the West Bank city of Beit Jala and Jerusalem.
4 - The father and mother of Ashley Olsen leave a church after their daughter's funeral in Florence. Police arrested a Senegalese illegal immigrant who prosecutors believe killed the U.S. woman, who was found dead in her apartment in the Italian city last weekend.
5 - A Hindu devotee lights oil lamps as part of "Laksha Deepotsava" (celebration of a hundred thousand lights), during the Makara Sanranti Festival in Bangalore. Makar Sankranti is a festival celebrated in almost all parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh in many cultural forms.
6 - Latvia's Andrejs Rastorgujevs (22) and Germany's Erik Lesser (5) lead a field during the men's 4x7.5 km relay competition at the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany.
7 - Two Afghan young women wait to be registered in the Tabakika registration center. Thousand of refugees and migrants continue to reach Greece's shores despite the winter weather.
8 - Soldiers march beside their dogs during India's Army Day parade in New Delhi. India celebrated the 68th anniversary of the formation of its national army with soldiers from various regiments, and artillery on display.
9 - Visitors drink beer at the opening day of the "Gruene Woche" (Green Week) agricultural fair in Berlin. Since April 23, 1516 a "purity decree" rules the composition of German beers.
10 - A mural depicting David Bowie is reflected in a shop window in Brixton, south London. Fans continue to leave flowers and light candles at what has become a makeshift shrine to Bowie, who died of cancer this week.
11 - A horse-drawn carriage with tourists drives through the snow-covered Thuringian Forest during heavy snowfall in Oberhof, Germany. Weather forecasts predict winter weather and snow for the next several days in Germany.
12 - An illuminated section of "The Travellers" by Cedric Le Borgne is seen suspended above St. James's Square as part of the "Lumiere" festival in London, Jan. 14, 2016. The event, which takes place over four evenings, displays the illumination of famous landmarks and artworks by international artists.
Gennaio 17, 2016
1 - A sledding dog is covered in ice after spending the night in the open air with his musher at the polar base of Val-Cenis, as they ready for the next stage of the 12th edition of "La Grande Odyssee" sledding race across the Alps in Val Cenis Lanslevillard, France.
2 - Turkish riot police use a water cannon to disperse Kurdish demonstrators during a protest in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, against a curfew in Sur district and security operations in the region.
3 - Children look for recyclable plastic in a canal in Peshawar, Pakistan.
4 - A boy aims an RPG at a weapons exhibition during a military show in St.Petersburg, Russia.
5 - Muslim devotees pray after boarding over-crowded trains on the last day of an Islamic congregations’ second and final phase in Tongi, 20 kilometers (13 miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
6 - A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Jan. 16, 2016.
7 - A man walks with a child after snowfall at Bradgate Park in Newtown Linford, central England.
8 - A laborer carries a bundle of red roses at a wholesale flower market in Lahore, Pakistan.
9 - Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway crashes into the barrier after winning the men's Alpine Skiing World Cup slalom in Wengen, Switzerland.
10 - A jay picks kernels in the forest on outskirts of Novogrudok, 150 km (93 miles) west of the capital Minsk, Belarus.
11 - A woman dressed up as "The Milkmaid" by Johannes Vermeer picks tulips that were placed in front of the Royal Palace at the Dam Square to celebrate the beginning of the tulip season in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jan. 16, 2016.
12 - Driver Nico Walther, foreground, with Marko Huebenbecker, Christian Poser and Eric Franke, of Germany, celebrates after winning the four-man bobsled World Cup race, in Park City, Utah, USA, Jan. 16, 2016.
Gennaio 18, 2016
1 - Soldiers stand guard in an armored vehicle outside the Splendid Hotel after al-Qaida militants killed at least 28 people in an attack on the hotel and a restaurant in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
2 - Migrants and refugees use their sleeping blankets to keep warm as they walk along snow covered fields after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia, near the village of Miratovac.
3 - Charlene of Monaco (C) walks past the Papal Swiss Guard upon her arrival at the Vatican for a private audience with Pope Francis.
4 - Flames from the engines of the Falcon 9 are visible as NASA's Jason-3 satellite blasts off through the thick fog aboard a SpaceX rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, Jan. 17, 2016.
5 - A supporter of Hillary Clinton walks through a maze of political signs for Clinton and Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders outside the Gaillard Center before the start of the NBC News-YouTube Democratic Debate in Charleston, South Carolina, Jan. 17, 2016.
6 - Tourists sail along the island of Boracay, central Philippines, at sunset, Jan. 17, 2016.
7 - Confiscated weapons are destroyed at a foundry in Santiago, Chile. Nearly 13,000 firearms were destroyed as part of a government arms control program.
8 - A man splashes into the icy waters of a lake as part of celebrations for Orthodox Epiphany on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.
9 - Japan's Kei Nishikori signs autographs after winning his first round match against Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia.
10 - An exiled Tibetan monk participates in a dialectics debate with another monk at the Kirti monastery in Dharmsala, India.
11 - Taxis drivers block traffic as they protest, demanding a ban on Uber in downtown Budapest, Hungary.
12 - Two cross-country skiers in Lofer, Austrian province of Salzburg
13 - Tennis fans stand before cool water mist to cool down at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia.
14 - A climber ascends a silo covered in ice in Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA, Jan. 17, 2016.
15 - People watch a police force showcase during the debut of new patrolling police vehicles in Chongqing Municipality, China.
Gennaio 19, 2016
1 - Chile's President Michelle Bachelet talks to a Geminoid HI-2 robot, which is made in likeness of its creator, Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (not pictured), during the opening ceremony of the Congress of the Future event in Santiago.
2 - On Jan. 16, 2016, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly shared photographs of a blooming zinnia in the Veggie plant growth system aboard the International Space Station. Kelly wrote, "Yes, there are other life forms in space! #SpaceFlower #YearInSpaceFlower.
3 - A women and her children stand in the ruins of a damaged house in the Kurdish town of Silopi, in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq. Turkey is waging an all-out offensive against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), with military operations backed by curfews aimed at flushing out rebels from several southeastern urban centers.
4 - People walk through the snowstorm to immerse themselves in icy waters during celebrations for the Orthodox Epiphany on the ice-covered lake near the village of Dubrovichi outside Ryazan, Russia.
5 - Swiss special police forces take position at the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
6 - Christian Orthodox believers swim across cold water for a cross in the river Ribnica, in Podgorica, Montenegro, marking Orthodox Epiphany.
7 - A man on a motorcycle passes next to a car that was set afire by protesters during a demonstration against the electoral process in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 18, 2016.
8 - A man makes traditional candy "Matang" in preparation for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Yuqing County, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China, Jan. 18, 2016.
9 - Serbia's Viktor Troicki watches a bird fly away after it landed on the court during the first round match against Spain's Daniel Munoz de la Nava at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia.
10 - People take 'selfies' on the seafront at the Corniche, or waterfront promenade, in Beirut, Lebanon.
11 - A model presents makeup creations during a show by Maybelline New York at the Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016 in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 18, 2016.
12 - An Afghan boy wields a stick as his flock of domesticated pigeons flies atop the roof of his house in Kabul.
13 - Models are silhouetted during the Dsquared2 men's Fall-Winter 2016-2017 show collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, Italy.
14 - A car half-covered in nails, created by artist Rachel Ducker is displayed during a press preview at the London Art Fair in north London.
Gennaio 20, 2016
1 - HUBO, a multifunctional walking humanoid robot performs a demonstration of its capacities next to its developer Oh Jun-Ho, Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
2 - This illustration obtained from NASA shows that 2015 was the warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
3 - A young girl sits on a bench and enjoys the sunny winter weather with temperatures close to the freezing point in a snowy landscape near the small Bavarian village of Irschenberg, southern Germany.
4 - Nasir, a resident of Herat, Afghanistan stands below his pigeons flying from the rooftop of his home.
5 - A police officer has her face and uniform splattered with red paint thrown by protesters during a rally at the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest the recent Philippine Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of the Enhanced Defense Agreement or EDCA in the Philippines. The highest court's ruling effectively allows American forces, ships and planes to temporarily station in local military camps.
6 - A Zimbabwean subsistence farmer holds a stunted maize cob in his field outside Harare.
7 - U.S. journalist Jason Rezaian gestures next to his wife Yeganeh Salehi as he poses for the media in front of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Rezaian was released from an Iranian prison last Saturday.
8 - Firefighters and residents try to put out a fire that swept over several houses in an informal settlers area in Manila, Philippines.
9 - A pelican rests at the frozen pond of St. James Park in London. Temperatures in London dropped below zero, the lowest this winter.
10 - Chinese traditional dance teams perform during the inauguration ceremony of the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (YASREF) project in Riyadh.
11 - An Israeli soldier stands guard during the demolition of a Palestinian house at the order of the Israeli army, in the West Bank town of Dura, south of Hebron. The owners of the house said they were informed by the Israeli army that the demolition was carried out because they did not have an Israeli-issued construction permit.
12 - An ashtray filled with cigarette butts in front of a board showing currency exchange rates of the U.S. dollar and euro against the ruble in Moscow, Russia. The Russian ruble weakened to a new record low against the dollar on Wednesday as the mood on global markets was torrid and oil prices slumped.
Gennaio 21, 2016
1 - Belarusians wearing folk costumes celebrate a Pull the Kolyada Up the Oak rite in the village of Martsiyanauka, some 77 km (48 miles) east of capital Minsk.
2 - Participants attend the 'Collisions. A Virtual Reality World Premiere' event at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
3 - A Kashmiri Muslim demonstrator throws a stone towards Indian police (unseen) during a protest in Srinagar. Clashes between Indian police and Kashmir Muslim demonstrators broke out after a protest which was organized by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a Kashmiri separatist party, to mark the anniversary of the killings of at around 50 people allegedly by Indian security forces during a protest on January 21, 1990, demonstrators said.
4 - UAE's Al-Fursan display team performs during the opening of the Bahrain International Airshow 2016, in Sakhir, south of the capital Manama.
5 - Sri Lankan fireball dancers are seen performing during the inauguration of the annual 'Duruthu Perahera' festival at Kelani Buddhist temple, in the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 20, 2016.
6 - Cross-country skiers make their way through the snowy landscape on the Grosser Arber mountain in Bayerisch Eisenstein east of Regensburg, southern Germany.
7 - A woman wearing traditional opera make-up performs pole dance by the side of a lake under sub-zero temperatures, in Handan, Hebei province, China, Jan. 20, 2016.
8 - A lantern installation of a dragon is displayed during a lighting test ahead of the park's lantern festival, in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China.
9 - Traditional "Parachicos" dancers wearing wooden masks perform on the street during a Catholic celebration in Chiapas De Corzo, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2016.
10 - The dancing lights of the Aurora Borealis is shown over the Pacific northwest taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Scott Kelly in this handout provided by NASA, Jan. 20, 2016.
11 - Icicles hang on a statue at the Fountain of the Place de la Concorde on a cold winter day in Paris, France, Jan. 20, 2016.
Gennaio 22, 2016
1 - A man walks through heavy snow in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Much of downtown was deserted as state and city government offices were closed for the day. A major winter storm is hitting much of the Eastern part of the U.S. and also affecting the Midwest and South.
2 - Activists of the Ukrainian nationalist parties take part in a rally during celebrations for Unity Day in Kyiv. Ukraine has been celebrating the anniversary since the western and eastern parts of the country were unified to create a single state in 1919.
3 - A Somali soldier looks at Lido Beach from the terrace of the Lido restaurant, following Thursday's overnight attack in Mogadishu. Islamist al-Shabab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming the popular seaside restaurant.
4 - Alleged Filipino "comfort women" Narcisa Claveria, 85, left, and Hilaria Bustamante, 90, display Origami paper cranes to symbolize peace during a forum in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. The forum was held to demand justice, compensation and apology from the Japanese government for their alleged WWII ordeal.
5 - Farmers block the RN12 road near Guingamp, western France as part of a protest against the government. Farmers want more help, saying they cannot pay off their expenses because prices have stagnated or fallen while they face higher expenses than their competitors elsewhere in the European Union.
6 - Rescued dogs sit inside their doghouse at Animal Lives Lebanon dog shelter in Naqura, southern Lebanon. The shelter was started by German national Laura Steinbach to house, feed and care for stray dogs and now houses over 140.
7 - Students hold earthen pitchers filled with water as they take a holy bath ahead of the Magh Mela festival during a ceremony in Ahmedabad, India. The ceremony was organized to resemble the annual month-long religious festival, when thousands of Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the waters of the Sangam.
8 - Players' bags sit abandoned on the practice range as fog delayed the start of the second round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
9 - Bolivian indigenous women sit in front of coca leaves during a ceremony that marks 10 years of President Evo Morales' administration in La Paz. Morales delivered his State of the Nation address at the National Congress.
10 - Kristina Mladenovic of France bites the net in frustration after missing a shot against Daria Gavrilova of Australia during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne.
11 - Rose hips are covered in frost in Weschnitz near Reichelsheim, western Germany.
12 - A worker paints the hand of a huge clay model of a tribal woman on the Indian state of Karnataka's tableau for the upcoming Republic Day parade, in New Delhi.
13 - Israeli and Russian members of a knights club perform during a cold weapons show in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva.
14 - A Muslim bride watches during a mass wedding ceremony in Ahmedabad, India. A total of 111 Muslim couples took their vows during the ceremony.
15 - A mare attempts to reach the lock of a stable in the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon.
Gennaio 24, 2016
1 - Cars are buried in snow in Union City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Midtown Manhattan, after the second-biggest winter storm in New York history.
2 - A winter storm affecting the U.S. East Coast is seen in a NASA picture taken from the International Space Station, Jan. 23, 2016. The storm dumped nearly 2 feet (58 cm) of snow on the suburbs of Washington, D.C., before moving on to Philadelphia and New York, paralyzing road, rail and airline travel along the U.S. East Coast.
3 - A boy crashes his sled on a hill at the U.S. Capitol after a major winter storm swept over Washington, D.C. The National Weather Service said 17.8 inches (45.2 cm) fell in Washington, tying as the fourth-largest snowfall in the city's history.
4 - Soldiers of India's Central Reserve Police Force march during a full dress rehearsal of the Republic Day parade, in Kolkata.
5 - Displaced children, who fled with their families the violence from Islamic State-controlled area of al-Bab, wait as they are stuck in the Syrian village of Akda to cross into Turkey, Jan. 23, 2016. Turkey's border guards prevented the displaced people from approaching their country's border, activists said.
6 - Thai army soldier inspects a piece of suspected plane wreckage which has been found off the coast of southern Thailand in Nakhon Si Thammarat province.
7 - Dogs pull a musher in the 33rd Aviemore Sled Dog Rally in Aviemore, Scotland, Jan. 23, 2016.
8 - A masked reveler hangs from an inflatable balloon during the first day of the carnival in Venice, Italy, Jan. 23, 2016.
9 - A man climbs an artificial wall of ice in the city of Liberec, Czech Republic, Jan. 23, 2016.
10 - The moon rises over the Toronto city skyline as seen from Milton, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 23, 2016.
11 - Fiorentina's Khouma Babacar keeps his eyes on the ball during a Serie A soccer match against Torino, at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence, Italy.
12 - Sri Lankans fishing on the sea front are silhoutted against the setting sun in Colombo.
13 - A protester with a red nose poses in front of a police cordon at the Greek-Turkish border at the Greek village of Kastanies. The demonstrators held two days of rallies in the border area to demand that the government ease border transit restrictions after dozens more refugees and migrants drowned this week which crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands.
14 - A person takes photos of ice on the rocks by the seaside in Penglai, in eastern China's Shandong province.
15 - Nepalese Hindu women warm themselves beside fires after taking a bath in the holy Shali River on the outskirts of Kathmandu.
Gennaio 25, 2016
1 - Confetti rain on newly crowned Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach during a victory parade in Manila, the Philippines.
2 - Workers clear snow off the tracks at the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Railroad in Port Washington, New York.
3 - People try to navigate a snowbank in the middle of Park Avenue as New Yorkers return to work after the city was hit with a record-setting snowfall.
4 - Young ladies wear animal onesie pajamas during an organized snowball fight at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2016.
5 - Ice covers the branches of a tree in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Snow, sleet and icy winds across Asia caused deaths, flight cancellations and chaos over the weekend as areas used to basking in balmier climates struggled with record-low temperatures.
6 - Ma Jiaqi, 5, and her mother arrive at Beijing Railway Station for their train to Changchun of Jilin province, in Beijing, China. According to traffic police, over 2.9 billion trips will be made around China during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which started on Jan. 24.
7 - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from the Belz Hasidic dynasty attend celebrations for Tu Bishvat, the Jewish Arbor day in Jerusalem.
8 - Tourists watch high waves of the Pacific Ocean pounding the coast in Vina del Mar city, Chile.
9 - A Palestinian woman and her daughter, wrapped with a blanket, sit by a fire as they make tea inside their dwelling during a winter storm in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
10 - A young migrant pulls a fire extinguisher in a muddy field at a camp of makeshift shelters for migrants and asylum-seekers from Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran and Syria, called the Grande Synthe jungle, near Dunkirk, France.
11 - Yemeni men inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike, killing a judge and his entire family - eight people in all - in Sanaa's neighborhood of Nahda, Yemeni security officials said. The judge was a known Houthi supporter.
12 - A gull stands on the ice of the Maschsee lake in Hanover, Germany.
13 - Commuters take photos on their phones of an artwork by British artist Banksy opposite the French Embassy in London.
14 - A model presents a creation by Bulgarian designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov as part of their Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016 fashion show for fashion house On Aura Tout Vu in Paris, France.
Gennaio 26, 2016
1 - The Capitol in Washington at sunrise
2 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, leafs through a book he gave to Pope Francis as a gift, during their private audience at the Vatican.
3 - Children sit near their demolished home as authorities clear out a slum area on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Hundreds of families were left destitute after government workers used mechanical diggers to flatten the slum as the bitter competition for land intensifies in the fast-industrializing city.
4 - Law enforcement personnel converge on an area near a parking garage adjacent to Building 26 at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California. An active shooter situation was reported, according to a post on the medical center's Facebook page.
5 - Anti-riot police arrive as taxi drivers block the traffic with a fire during a demonstration against the VTC (transport vehicle with chauffeur) on the ring road (peripherique) at porte Maillot in Paris, France.
6 - A sloth holds on to the post of a traffic barrier on a highway, in this handout photo provided by Ecuador's Transit Commission, in Quevedo, Ecuador. Transit police officers, who were patrolling the new highway found the sloth after it had apparently tried to cross the street and returned the animal to its natural habitat after a veterinarian found it to be in perfect condition, according to a press release.
7 - A contingent of camel mounted soldiers of Indian Border Security Force (BSF), march down Rajpath during Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India.
8 - A man carries a television while a fire ranges over a slum area next to railway tracks in Kampung Bandan, North Jakarta, Indonesia.
9 - Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld poses with models at the end of Chanel's Spring-Summer 2016 Haute Couture fashion collection presented in Paris, France.
10 - A model presents a creation of Yiqing Yin during the 2016 spring/summer Haute Couture collection in Paris, France.
11 - Taiwan's "frogmen" Marines perform covert landing drills just a few kilometers from mainland China on the outlying island of Kinmen.
12 - Men work on a 5-meter-high snowman at a park in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
13 - The moon is seen next to the Messeturm (fair tower) in Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 25, 2016.
Gennaio 27, 2016
1 - Flares are set off from a Taiwan navy missile ship in a military drill outside a naval base in Kaohsiung port, southern Taiwan.
2 - A man grasps a bag of tangerines as people receive free produce, handed out by farmers, during a protest over the government's proposal to overhaul the country's ailing pension system in Athens, Greece.
3 - Lutricia Bock of Germany takes a fall during ladies short program at the European Figure Skating Championship in Bratislava, Slovakia.
4 - A truck driver gets a haircut from a roadside barber at an industrial area in Mumbai, India.
5 - Yosri Adjili, 25, who is unemployed, goes on a hunger strike with his mouth sewed shut during a sit-in protest to get jobs, at the local government office courtyard in Kasserine, Tunisia.
6 - Uninhabitable apartments, in danger of collapsing into the Pacific Ocean, line Esplanade Ave. in Pacifica, California, Jan. 26, 2016. The city has marked three apartment complexes uninhabitable as El Nino storm erosion eats away at the coastal bluff beneath them.
7 - A tourist lies on the floor cast with shadows of traditional Chinese lanterns ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
8 - The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany, seen in the early evening
9 - A devotee dresses up her "child angel" doll near Wat Bua Khwan temple in Nonthaburi, Thailand, Jan. 26, 2016. A craze for lifelike dolls thought to bring good luck is sweeping Thailand, reflecting widespread anxiety as the economy struggles and political uncertainty persists nearly two years after a coup.
10 - A big heart, made of red roses is on display at the international trade fair for plants in Essen, Germany. More than 1,600 exhibitors from 50 countries present the latest trends at the world’s leading trade fair for horticulture.
11 - A woman wearing a costume of the Virgin Mary is helped by two men as part of the arrangements welcoming the heads of state to the IV Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, in Quito, Ecuador.
12 - A Russian Presidential Regiment soldier guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in central Moscow.
Gennaio 28, 2016
1 - Racehorses galloping in the early morning at Upper Lambourn, southern England
2 - Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev of Russia perform during the ice dance short dance program at the ISU European Figure Skating Championship in Bratislava, Slovakia.
3 - A monkey shouts to a trainer at a monkey training school in a zoo in Dongying, eastern China's Shandong province. A dozen monkeys are being trained at the school as part of festivities for the upcoming Year of the Monkey which begins on Feb. 8.
4 - Egyptian fishermen cover their boats with blankets due to cold weather on the Nile River, in Cairo.
5 - Farmers clash with Greek anti-riot police during a protest in Thessaloniki, against a controversial pension reform that is part of the country's tough economic bailout.
6 - Skyscrapers Oriental Pearl Tower and Jin Mao Tower (L) are seen from the Shanghai World Financial Center during rain at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China.
7 - South Korean and U.S. Marines hurl snow during a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea, January 28, 2016.
8 - Super Etendard fighter jets dump fuel before landing on France's flagship Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier on mission in the Gulf.
Gennaio 29, 2016
1 - Workers carry out fumigation in Buenos Aires. Argentina has confirmed its first case of the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus after a Colombian woman living in Buenos Aires tested positive. In the city and its densely populated outskirts, workers have been fumigating parks to try to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits Zika as well as dengue fever and yellow fever.
2 - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center right, meets with attendees during a campaign stop at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshrie.
3 - A journalist interviews a local politician after two beech trees were bought down by a storm near Ballymoney. Two of the 200-year-old trees featured in the TV series "Game of Thrones" as the Dark Hedges, were uprooted and toppled by 80 mph winds which swept across Northern Ireland.
4 - The first miner, is lifted from a collapsed mine in Pingyi, east China's Shandong Province. Chinese state media say two miners have been rescued from a collapsed mine after spending 36 days trapped underground. The gypsum mine collapsed on Christmas Day, killing one and leaving 13 others missing.
5 - Painted property fronts are seen in a residential street in London, Britain.
6 - Martina Hingis, right, of Switzerland and Sania Mirza, left, of India hold their trophy aloft after defeating Czech Republic’s Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in the women's doubles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne.
7 - Egyptians browse secondhand books at the 47th annual Cairo International Book Fair.
8 - A women takes photographs under traditional Chinese lanterns decorated at the Thean Hou temple ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur.
9 - An immobilized ferry is reflected in the sea as a small boat sails in the Athens' main port of Piraeus. Greek seamen have extended an anti-austerity 48-hour strike for a further 48 hours, halting island ferry services, as bailout-reliant Greece is planning to drastically overhaul its troubled pension and social security system, among other reforms.
10 - A small dog is reflected in a puddle formed by melting ice while eating a fish it snatched from a fisherman on a lake in Cimiseni, Moldova. Moldovans took advantage of the little time left before the ice becomes too thin, due to warmer than usual weather, to ice fish.
11 - Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine, where the head priest displays the relics of the Sufi Saint.
12 - The town hall with the Mangia tower is seen in Siena, central Italy.
13 - Visitors stand in front of lacquer and digital print on aluminum 'Yet sometimes what is read successfully, stops us with its meaning, no' by Luxembourg's Michel Majerus during the press preview at the exhibition 'Images' in the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany.
14 - A fishing boat is seen in front of the city skyline which is covered by a smoggy haze in Mumbai, India.
Gennaio 31, 2016
1 - A car tows a snowboarder along the frozen surface of the Yenisei River in Taiga district, with the air temperature at about - 25° C (-13° F), outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia.
2 - People carry their belongings at the main railway station in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, as travel for the annual Chinese Lunar New Year and Spring Festival holidays continues.
3 - This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover's activities included scuffing into the dune with a wheel and scooping samples of sand for laboratory analysis.
4 - A masked reveler poses in San Marco Piazza during the Venice Carnival, Italy, Jan. 30, 2016.
5 - A general view of a giant tent city built for pilgrims attending the Magh Mela, a month-long Hindu festival, in Allahabad, India.
6 - Israeli security forces inspect the body of a Palestinian identified as Amjad Sukkari, at the checkpoint between the city of Ramallah and Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank. Sukkari opened fire at a West Bank checkpoint and wounded three people, the Israeli military said.
7 - An Afghan woman sits with a girl begging for money, in front of a wall written in Persian that reads,"Child is life, do not exchange her/him with money", in Mazar-i Sharif, northern of Kabul.
8 - Men pull as a boy stands on a soap cutter in a soap factory in Idlib province, Syria, Jan. 30, 2016.
9 - The cast of Downton Abbey pose in the press room with their awards for outstanding ensemble in a drama series at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles, Jan. 30, 2016.
10 - Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia skate Pairs’ Free Program at the European figure skating championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, Jan. 30, 2016.
