People celebrate the pagan rite called "Kolyadki" in the village of Osovo, east of Minsk, Belarus, Jan. 7, 2015. VASILY FEDOSENKO—REUTERS

A Syrian man carries wood for a fire in the rebel-held city of Douma on Jan. 11, 2015. ABD DOUMANY—AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Ultra Orthodox Jews practice Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music, near the port of the Israeli Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv-Jaffo on Jan. 18, 2015. NATI SHOHAT—FLASH90/REDUX

Tommy Caldwell completing the historic free climb to the top of El Capitan's Dawn Wall, a 3,000-foot sheer granite face in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Jan. 14, 2015 BLIGH GILLIES—BIG UP PRODUCTIONS/AURORA PHOTOS

A Syrian refugee girl stands behind a door at a makeshift settlement in the village of Ketermaya, south of Beirut Jan. 8, 2015. ALI HASHISHO—REUTERS

Afghan refugee girls sit in a hole in the ground, playing with a doll in a slum areas on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015. MUHAMMED MUHEISEN—AP

A photo made with a long exposure shows the glow from a Noctiluca scintillans algal bloom along the seashore in Hong Kong on Jan. 22, 2015. The luminescence, also called Sea Sparkle, is triggered by farm pollution that can be devastating to marine life and local fisheries. KIN CHEUNG—AP

A stolen bronze statue of the late Hungarian sculptor Miklos Izso is substituted by a statue made of LEGO bricks, created by Hungarian lego artist Balazs Doczyin Margaret Island of Budapest on Jan. 16, 2015. ATTILA KISBENEDEK—AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Fireworks illuminate the sky above Munich, southern Germany, early Jan. 1 2015 PETER KNEFFEL—EPA

An India's Border Security Force (BSF) "Daredevils" motorcycle rider performs during a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi Jan. 8, 2015. ADNAN ABIDI—REUTERS

A salvage tug lights the hull of the stricken Hoegh Osaka cargo ship after it ran aground on a sand bank in the Solent on Jan.4, 2015 in Cowes, England.

PETER MACDIARMID—GETTY IMAGES

People throw turnips at the Jarramplas as he makes his way through the streets of Piornal beating his drum during the Jarramplas Festival, Spain, Jan. 19, 2015. DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA—AP

The Ara Yevi samba school performs on a float showcasing Pope Francis during carnival in Gualeguaychu, Argentina, early Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Members of the samba school said the Pope doesn't know they chose to honor his life at this year's celebration and look forward for him seeing their performing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A Filipino boy runs amid black smoke billowing from electrical wires being burned by scavengers at a dumpsite in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 8, 2015.

AARON FAVILA—AP

REUTERS

A barn called the Energy Barn, which was built by anti-pipeline activists directly on the route of the Keystone XL pipeline, stands in a snowy corn field near Bradshaw, Neb., Jan. 16, 2015. NATI HARNIK—AP

Children face off against a police dog handler during a protest against alleged land grabbing at Langata Road Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, Jan. 19, 2015.

DAI KUROKAWA—EPA

A reveller dressed up as a "stick man" takes part in New Year's celebrations in Coin, near Malaga, southern Spain, early Jan. 1, 2015. JON NAZCA—REUTERS

Visually impaired students of a school for the blind fight for the ball during a soccer match inside their school in New Delhi

Jan. 5, 2015.

ANINDITO MUKHERJEE—REUTERS

An artist performs in the air with balloons at Cibeles Square during the Three Kings parade in Madrid on Jan. 5, 2015. GERARD JULIEN—AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Snowmen hit by shrapnel and debris are seen in a deserted playground in the Voroshilovsky area, in the center of Donetsk, Ukraine. Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015.

MANU BRABO—AP

Chinese winter swimming enthusiasts warm up before swimming in the half-frozen Houhai lake with a water temperature around two degrees Celsius in Beijing, China, Jan. 12 2015. WU HONG—EPA

South Korea's Amry Special Warfare Command (SWC) soldiers aim their machine guns in a frozen river during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang, South Korea,

Jan. 8, 2015. AHN YOUNG-JOON—AP

Priests take pictures of Pope Francis (far L) as he arrives to lead a mass in Manila on Jan.16, 2015. GIUSEPPE CACACE—AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Members of a traditional firefighting preservation group perform ladder stunts during the annual New Year's Fire Brigade Review in Tokyo, Jan. 6, 2015.EUGENE HOSHIKO—AP

A man rides his horse through flames during the "Luminarias" annual religious celebration, on the night before Saint Anthony's, patron of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares, Spain, Jan.16, 2015. JUAN MEDINA—REUTERS

French president Francois Hollande (L) embraces US Secretary of State John Kerry prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace on Jan. 16, 2015 in Paris.

PATRICK KOVARIK—AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Sumatran tiger cubs and their parents walk around their enclosure at London Zoo in London, Jan. 5, 2015. during the annual stock take and animal count, which is a requirement of London Zoo's license. TOBY MELVILLE—REUTERS

A woman lifts a dog on a leash along the seafront in Panama City Jan. 6, 2015. CARLOS JASSO—REUTERS

Jan. 27, 2015. Seized cages of live cats are transported in a truck in Hanoi. The cats are destined for consumption after being smuggled from China.

STR－AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Roger Federer of Switzerland plays tennis with Lleyton Hewitt of Australia between speedboats on Sydney Harbour ahead of their Fast 4 Exhibition match on Jan. 12, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. CAMERON SPENCER—GETTY IMAGES

So-called Silvesterchlaeuse (New Years Clause) walk in Urnaesch, Switzerland, Jan. 13, 2015, to offer best wishes for the New Year (following the Julian calendar) to the farmers in this region.GIAN EHRENZELLER—EPA

A fox runs past the door of 10 Downing Street in London on Jan.13, 2015. JUSTIN TALLIS—AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Jan. 26, 2015. Swans swim over a lake, with the air temperature at about -31 degrees Fahrenheit as steam ascends above the water during sunset near the village of Urozhainy, Sovetsky district of Altai region, Russia. ANDREI KASPRISHIN－REUTERS

Jan. 24, 2015. Groom Clarence Murvee takes his bride Bindu Quaye by the waist while entering their wedding reception in Monrovia, Liberia. With Ebola cases now in single digits nationwide, people have begun to return to normal life. JOHN MOORE－GETTY IMAGES

Jan. 25, 2015. A girl plays with a curtain of water at Madureira park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. YASUYOSHI CHIBA－AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Jan. 28, 2015. Southern white rhinoceros walk through the Ol Pejeta Conservancy north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as conservationists and scientists met in Kenya to come up with a last ditch plan to save the rhinoceros from extinction. TONY KARUMBA－AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Jan. 27, 2015. A burial team member wearing personal protective equipment stands for decontamination spray at the U.S.-built cemetery for safe burials in Disco Hill, Liberia. The cemetery has buried almost 300 people in its first month of operation, with increasingly fewer of the bodies coming from Ebola

Treatment Units as infection rates decline. JOHN MOORE－GETTY IMAGES

Jan. 29, 2015. A Palestinian boy wearing a military costume arrives at a military-style graduation ceremony for Palestinian youths who were trained at one of the Hamas-run liberation camps in Gaza. Some 17,000 youths graduated from these camps that aim to prepare them to confront Israeli attacks.

SUHAIB SALEM－REUTERS

Jan. 26, 2015. The Statue of Liberty is seen faintly through heavy snow in New York. Millions of people from New Jersey to Maine left work early, rushed off roads and took shelter as a snowstorm bore down on the region. KARSTEN MORAN－THE NEW YORK TIMES

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