Photo of the Day: January 2015
A mannequin is pictured at a damaged building in the northern Syrian town of Kobani. Sheets meant to shield residents from the snipers' sights still hang over the streets of this Syrian border town, and its shattered buildings and cratered roads suggest those who fled are unlikely to return any time soon. Kurdish forces said this week they had taken full control of Kobani, a mainly Kurdish town near the Turkish border, after months of bombardment by Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has spread across Syria and Iraq.
REUTERS/Osman Orsal
Ukrainian servicemen patrol Orekhovo village in Luhansk region. Russia said on Wednesday military action by Ukrainian government forces would lead to an "inevitable further escalation of the conflict" in eastern Ukraine and undermine peace efforts.
REUTERS/Maksim Levin
A model presents a creation by French designer Julien Fournie as part of his Haute Couture Spring Summer 2015 fashion show in Paris.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
A man stands in falling snow on West 42nd street in Times Square in New York. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a blizzard warning for New York City and surrounding areas on Monday, and warned of two days of winter storms across the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine.
REUTERS/Mike Segar
Om Mohamad, a woman who fled her home in Al-Bayada neighbourhood of Homs to live in her daughter's house in Bsida, works on building a house from debris and metal of her daughter's collapsed house after it was destroyed in Bsida village, southern Idlib countryside. All the houses of Marahtat village (about 60 houses), Bsida village and the villages around them were destroyed by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, according to activists. This was to prevent rebel fighters from crossing through the area to Wadi al-Deif, before rebel fighters took control of the area more than a month ago.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The unmanned rocket blasted off with a next-generation communications satellite designed to provide cellular-like voice and data services to U.S. military forces around the world. Picture taken using long exposure, looking over the campus of Florida Institute of Technologies in Melbourne, about 40 miles from the launch pad.
REUTERS/Michael Brown
Men on camels cross the water as a woman washes clothes in Lake Chad in Ngouboua, January 19, 2015. Refugees fleeing attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram continued to cross the border into neighbouring Chad on Monday. According to United Nations and government figures, some 20,000 Nigerians had fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the two weeks prior to January 13 after their towns and villages were attacked. Picture taken January 19, 2015.
REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
Black rights protesters gather near illuminated letters spelling "DREAM" outside a house which they identified as the residence of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, in Oakland, California January 19, 2015. The group, of about 30, projected images of Martin Luther King, Jr. onto the home's garage,as they called on the mayor to fire police officers with violent records.
REUTERS/Noah Berger
A demonstrator participates in a "Die-In" during a protest against police violence towards minorities in New York. The protests were organized to coincide with Martin Luther King's birthday and have been ongoing in New York since last year's shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner's chokehold death in Staten Island, New York. Both deaths were at the hands of local police forces and in both instances, charges were not laid for the deaths.
REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
A Catholic faithful takes a picture with a mobile phone before Pope Francis arrives to lead mass in Colombo. Hundreds of thousands of people packed a Colombo oceanfront on Wednesday to see Pope Francis give Sri Lanka its first saint, a climax to a 300-year campaign to recognise the holiness of Indian-born missionary Joseph Vaz.
REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
A man holds the new issue of satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo entitled "Tout est pardonne" ("All is forgiven"), which shows a caricature of Prophet Mohammad, at a kiosk in Nice January 14, 2015. The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after the deadly attacks by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France on Wednesday, with people queuing up to buy copies to support the satirical weekly. A print run of up to three million copies has been set for what has been called "the survivors' edition," dwarfing the usual 60,000 run.
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
An activist kicks the shields of the military police officers during a demonstration in the military zone of the 27th infantry battalion in Iguala, Guerrero, January 12, 2015. Activists and relatives of the 43 missing trainee teachers from Ayotzinapa's teacher training college broke into the military zone, located less than a mile from where the students went missing, in an attempt to look for the missing students.The remains of only one of the 43 students has been identified so far.
A man holds a giant pencil as he takes part in a Hundreds of thousands of French citizens solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris January 11, 2015. French citizens will be joined by dozens of foreign leaders, among them Arab and Muslim representatives, in a march on Sunday in an unprecedented tribute to this week's victims following the shootings by gunmen at the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the killing of a police woman in Montrouge, and the hostage taking at a kosher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes.
REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
A crew member stands in the door of Air Force One waiting for the passenger stairs, upon the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama at Joint Base Andrews in Washington. Obama returned from a two-day trip to Michigan and Arizona.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Amandine Marbach from Strasbourg, France, takes part in a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting, by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, in the Manhattan borough of New York. Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the weekly satirical magazine known for lampooning Islam and other religions, shooting dead at least 12 people, including two police officers, in the worst militant attack on French soil in decades. Sign reads "I am Charlie".
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
A bullet's impact is seen on a window at the scene after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper. Eleven people were killed and 10 injured in shooting at the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, already the target of a firebombing in 2011 after publishing cartoons deriding Prophet Mohammad on its cover, police spokesman said. Five of the injured were in a critical condition, said the spokesman. Separately, the government said it was raising France's national security level to the highest notch.
REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
Men jump into the waters of a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia. Orthodox priests throughout the country bless the waters by throwing a cross into it as worshippers try to retrieve it. It is strongly believed that catching the cross brings health and prosperity to the person who captures it.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
People visit ice sculptures illuminated by coloured lights during the opening day of the 31st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, January 5, 2015. The annual Ice and Snow Festival, organized by China National Tourism Administration and local governments, kicked off on Monday in Harbin, one of the coldest cities in China.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon