Ashley Olsen Murder Suspect Arrested by Italian Police
The Blue Mosque and the empty Sultanahmet square after a blast in Istanbul"s tourist hub. At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected terrorist attack in the main tourist hub of Turkey"s largest city Istanbul. A powerful blast rocked the Sultanahmet neighbourhood which is home to Istanbul"s biggest concentration of monuments and and is visited by tens of thousands of tourists every day
Indian school girls prepare to fly kites during celebrations on the eve of the Lohri festival in Amritsar. The Lohri harvest festival, which falls on January 13 this year, commemorates the winter solstice and is marked in northern India by the lighting of bonfires and the flying and battling of kites
Indian wildlife officials measure one among the dozens of whales that have washed ashore on the Bay of Bengal coast"s Manapad beach in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu state, India
A wave crashes on the protecting wall at the fishing harbour in Pornic, France as stormy weather with high winds hits the French Atlanitic coast
Local residents watch as a helicopter, known as "Elvis", drops water onto a pile of burning tyres in Melbourne, Australia. A large pile of truck tyres caught alight at an industrial area located on the outskirts of Melbourne
A woman with a tatoo of David Bowie reacts as she pays her respects in front of the British singer, painted by Australian street artist James Cochran, aka Jimmy C, following the announcement of Bowie"s death
A man holds a bottle containing what is believed to be sacred medicine during the annual Voodoo Day celebration in Ouidah, Benin. Benin"s voodoo festival is held every year and is the west African country"s most vibrant and colourful event. Officially declared a religion in Benin in 1996, Voodoo and the Voodoo festival attracts thousands of devotees and tourists for a day filled with ritual dances, goat slaughtering and gin drinking
A man puts a snake on his head as supporters of presidential candidate Jovenel Moise of PHTK political party attend a rally in support of the candidate in the commune of Petion Ville, Port-au-Prince, during the first rally of Jovenel Moise as he campaigns for the second round of the presidential elections. Haiti"s presidential election will go to a runoff on 24 January, between ruling party candidate Jovenel Moise and Jude Celestin
Herders ride horses on snow-covered field in Zhaosu County, Yili, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China
A Kosovo government building is set on fire by protesters during clashes in Pristina, Kosovo. Demonstrators in Kosovo fought running battles with police and briefly set fire to government headquarters in the latest violence in the young Balkan country over an accord with its former ruler Serbia
Farmer Sindulfo Fernandez inspects a dried watering hole for llamas in Orinoca, Oruro Department, Bolivia. The water dried due to a drought
Soldiers of People"s Liberation Army (PLA) Lanzhou Military Region jump through a burning obstacle during a training session at a military base in Tianshui, Gansu province, China
Firefighters battling a fire near Yarloop in Western Australia. The out-of-control blaze 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Perth more than doubled in size in 24 hours and has now burned through 53,000 hectares (130,000 acres), with a third of the town of Yarloop destroyed
Indian Muslims pay tribute to Indian soldiers killed in the recent Pathankot air base attack, outside a mosque in New Delhi, India
Duane Ehmer rides his horse Hellboy at the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on the sixth day of the occupation of the federal building in Burns, Oregon. The leader of a small group of armed activists who have occupied a remote wildlife refuge in Oregon hinted that the standoff may be nearing its end
A coin-operated viewfinder is covered in ice near the Kyffhaeuser monument in Bad Frankenhausen, central Germany
Armed French police patrol near the Boulevard de Barbes in the north of Paris. French police have shot dead a man as he attempted to gain access to a Paris police station whilst brandishing a knife. It is believed that the man was wearing a fake suicide vest and bomb disposal experts were brought in to investigate. The incident comes on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks
Members of the Shia Muslim community of Greece hold up placards and banners bearing images of prominent Shiite cleric and activist Nimr al-Nimr during a demonstration near the Saudi Arabian embassy in Athens, as they condemn Nimr"s execution by Saudi authorities
Men dance in the icy winter waters of the Tundzha river in the town of Kalofer as part of the Epiphany Day celebrations. As a tradition, an Eastern Orthodox priest throws a cross in the river and it is believed that the one who retrieves it will be healthy through the year as well as all those who dance in the icy waters
A bride and groom take part in a wedding ceremony as part of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, northeast China"s Heilongjiang province
Mount Soputan spews ash into the air during an eruption seen from Silian village, Southeast Minahasa district in Northern Sulawesi. Mount Soputan is one of the most active volcanoes in North Sulawesi and last erupted in March 2015
An American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) feeds in the waters of Lake Chapala in Cojumatlan de Regules, Michoacan State, Mexico. Thousands of white pelicans migrate from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico during winter
Participants wear colofur costumes during the day of the "Castaneda Family" parade held as part of the "Carnaval de Negros y Blancos" (Carnival of Blacks and Whites) in Pasto, Colombia. The Blacks and Whites Carnival that runs from 2 to 7 January every year, was included in the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2009
Wearing ancient Japanese costumes, members of the Kemari Preservation Society play "kemari," an ancient Japanese ball-lifting game using only the right leg, at the Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto, western Japan. The annual New Year football-like game came from China almost 1,400 years ago
A man looks at a giant statue of Chinese late chairman Mao Zedong under construction near crop fields in a village of Tongxu county, Henan province, China. According to local villagers, several entrepreneurs spent nearly 3 million yuan (460,000 USD) to build the 36.6-metre-high statue covered in golden paint, local media reported
A man walks on the frozen Songhua river beside the Harbin international ice and snow festival in Harbin, northeast China"s Heilongjiang province
Police try to release a car trapped in a snow slide in Altay, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China
An Indian right wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteer climbs atop a tree as he listens to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat speak at a rally in Pune some 135 kms from Mumbai. Over 150,000 RSS voluntreers are attending a day long congregation"Shivashakti Sangam", the largest in recent years
Iranian protesters gather outside the Saudi Embassy in Tehran during a demonstration against the execution of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities. Nimr was a driving force of the protests that broke out in 2011 in Saudi Arabia"s east, an oil-rich region where the Shiite minority of an estimated two million people complains of marginalisation
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Gordini"s US driver Robby Gordon and co-driver Kellon Walch compete during the 11km Prologue of the 2016 Dakar Rally, in the province of Buenos Aires. The Dakar Rally, which officially starts on January 3, will see participants race across Argentina and Bolivia in a two-week test of endurance
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