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2. Ngame, originally from Senegal, thumbs up as
he holds a photocopy of a winning lottery ticket
of the Spanish Christmas' lottery draw on Dec.
22, 2015 in Roquetas de Mar, Spain. Local media
reported that an unemployed Senegalese man
named Ngame who was rescued by the Spanish
coastguard after making a risky journey from
Morocco eight years ago on a packed wooden
boat, won 400,000 euros ($437,000) in Spain's
annual Christmas lottery draw.
AFP - Getty Images
January 12, 2016 2
4. The Washington Monument
stands beyond a heavy fog
clinging to the Potomac River
as a cyclist makes his way
along a riverbank path in
Washington D.C.
Unseasonably warm and
rainy weather has created
foggy conditions along the
eastern seaboard, causing
many holiday travel delays.
KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters-
Dec 23
January 12, 2016 4
5. Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, stand around a
large banner with Arabic writing that
reads,"Muhammed" during the celebration of
Moulid Al-Nabi, the birth of Islam's Prophet
Muhammad in Sanaa, Yemen.
STR / AP- Dec 23
January 12, 2016 5
6. Amritsar, India
Christians pay their respects at the
illuminated St Mary's Catholic
Church on Dec. 23, 2015. Despite
Christians forming a little over two
percent of the billion plus
population in India, with Hindus
comprising the majority, Christmas
is celebrated with fanfare and zeal
throughout the country.
NARINDER NANU / AFP - Getty
Images
January 12, 2016 6
7. Mountainous landscape in
Pamplona is covered in a thick
blanket of smog in northern
Spain.
JESUS DIGES / EPA- Dec 23
January 12, 2016 7
8. Bicyclists and a jogger cross the
Brooklyn Bridge in a heavy fog in New
York. A weather pattern partly linked
with El Nino has turned winter
upside-down across the U.S. during a
week of heavy holiday travel, bringing
spring-like warmth to the Northeast.
Mark Lennihan / AP- Dec 23
January 12, 2016 8
9. A group of lemurs prepare to
open a Christmas package filled
with food at the zoo in La
Fleche, France.
JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP -
Getty Images-Dec 23
January 12, 2016 9
10. The child of Kurdish migrants stands outside a
tent at the Grande Synthe migrant camp near
Dunkerque in northern France. More than
2,000 migrants, mostly Iraqis and Kurds, live in
the camp.- Dec 23
January 12, 2016 10
11. People offer prayers beside the grave
of Mehmet Tekin, 38, who was killed at
his home in Cizre, during his funeral in
Sirnak, Turkey. The number of Kurdish
rebels killed in a massive Turkish
military offensive in the restive
southeast has jumped to 102, a
security source told AFP.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty Images- Dec
23January 12, 2016 11
12. The sun rises by the lighthouse at
Tynemouth, Northeast England as a
storm is expect to hit Britain with rain
and winds up to 70mph in the run-up
to Christmas Day.
Owen Humphreys / AP-Dec 23
January 12, 2016 12
13. Photographer
Andrei Kasprishin
Location
BARNAUL, Russia
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23,
2015
Anita, a 22-year-old female macaque,
performs before children as part of
the New Year and Christmas
celebrations, in Barnaul, Russia,
December 23, 2015. REUTERS/Andrei
Kasprishin
January 12, 2016 13
14. Photographer
Khalid Al Mousily
Location
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Reuters / Wednesday, December
23, 2015
Displaced Christian children who
fled Islamic State carry gifts given
to them at Zayuna camp in
Baghdad December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily
January 12, 2016 14
15. Photographer
Khalid Al Mousily
Location
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Reuters / Wednesday, December
23, 2015
A displaced Christian child, who
fled Islamic State, poses for a
photograph at Zayuna camp in
Baghdad December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily
January 12, 2016 15
16. Photographer
Handout .
Location
Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23,
2015
Service members from several units
at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, pay
their respects during a fallen
comrade ceremony held in honor of
six Airmen December 23, 2015. The
six Airmen lost their lives in an
improvised explosive attack near
Bagram, Afghanistan December 21,
2015. REUTERS/Tech. Sgt. Robert
Cloys/455th Air Expeditionary
Wing/USAF/Handout via Reuters
Mourning in Bagram
January 12, 2016 16
17. A U.S. service member salutes her
fallen comrades during a memorial
ceremony for six Airmen killed in a
suicide attack, at Bagram Air Field,
Afghanistan.
Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys / AP- Dec 23
January 12, 2016 17
18. Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
NEW CASTLE, United States
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
A U.S. Air Force carry team
moves a transfer case with
the remains of fallen Staff
Sgt. Chester J. McBride of
Statesboro, Georgia, during a
dignified transfer at the New
Castle Air National Guard
Base in New Castle,
Delaware, December 23,
2015. McBride was one of
the six U.S. troops killed by a
suicide bomber near Bagram
air base in Afghanistan.
REUTERS/Doug Curran
January 12, 2016 18
19. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Workers remove the carcass of a whale on Strand Beach, near Cape Town,
South Africa December 23, 2015. The South African beach, popular with
Christmas holidaymakers, has been closed until the carcass of the beached
whale is removed amid concerns its blood may attract sharks, the city said
on Wednesday. Local media described it as a humpback whale measuring
over 14 meters (46 feet) in length and said two sharks had been spotted
in...more
January 12, 2016 19
20. Photographer
Vasily Fedosenko
Location
MINSK, BELARUS
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
A driver of a mobile shop
from the Belarussian
Republican Union of
Consumer Societies
dressed as Father Frost,
equivalent of Santa Claus,
helps a woman to carry
products she bought on the
outskirts of Minsk, Belarus,
December 23, 2015.
Belarussian Republican
Union of Consumer
Societies uses mobile shops
to deliver products 2-3
times in a week to villages
without stationary shops.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
January 12, 2016 20
22. Photographer
China Daily China Daily
Information Corp - CDIC
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
The 19-year-old survivor is
carried on a stretcher after
being pulled out by rescuers
more than 60 hours after a
landslide hit an industrial park
on Sunday, in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province, China,
December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/China Daily
January 12, 2016 22
23. Photographer
China Daily China Daily
Information Corp - CDIC
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
The 19-year-old survivor (C) is
carried on a stretcher after
being pulled out by rescuers
more than 60 hours after a
landslide hit an industrial park
on Sunday, in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province, China,
December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/China Daily
January 12, 2016 23
24. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
YUEYANG, CHINA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
A giant inflatable Santa Claus
is set up on a glass bridge
during a promotional event to
celebrate the upcoming
Christmas, at Shiniuzhai tourist
resort in Yueyang, Hunan
province, China, December 23,
2015. REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 24
25. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
Leandro Wendell dos Santos,
14, wearing a Santa Claus
costume, plays with kids as he
walks along the alley of the
Mare slum complex to
distribute presents to children
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Fabio Teixeira
January 12, 2016 25
26. Photographer
Athit Perawongmetha
Location
Koh Samui, Thailand
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Myanmar migrant worker Zaw Lin (L) and Win Zaw Htun
arrive at the Koh Samui provincial court in Koh Samui,
Thailand, December 24, 2015. A Thai judge will announce
the verdict against the two Myanmar migrant workers
accused of killing two British tourists at the end of last year,
following a trial that has been mired in controversy.
REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
January 12, 2016 26
27. Aisha, 15, (R) a refugee from
Raqqa, collects cannabis plants
with other refugees during the
harvest in the Bekaa valley,
Lebanon on Oct. 19, 2015. Syrian
refugees work to harvest and
process spiky-leafed cannabis
plants in neighboring Lebanon.
Since the rise of ISIS, it is now a
task that could put them, and
their family back in Syria, at risk of
harm including death because
working with, getting close to or
consuming drugs and alcohol is
considered a sin in Islam, refugees
say.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 27
28. A Syrian refugee carries a bundle of
cannabis on Oct. 19, 2015. He used to
work with the Syrian government and
fled Raqqa three years ago. He is wanted
by ISIS and "Even when I'm far, I'm
scared of them," he said.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 28
29. Ali, a Lebanese farmer, drives a
pick-up truck stacked with
bundles of cannabis during
harvest on Oct.19, 2015.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 29
30. Cannabis plants grow in a field in the Bekaa
valley on Oct. 4, 2015.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 30
31. A refugee smells a cannabis
bud while resting during the
harvest.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 31
32. A shovel lies on a pile of cannabis inside a garage on Nov. 1, 2015.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 32
33. A woman is covered in dust
while sifting cannabis inside
a garage on Nov. 1, 2015.
The woman fled Raqqa two
months before with her 5-
year-old son; her husband
and other son are still in
Raqqa. She works harvesting
many crops, including
cannabis, to support her
family and is hoping to bring
them to Lebanon.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 33
34. A woman (R), and her 13-
year-old relative work sifting
cannabis inside a garage. They
are Muslim refugees from
Raqqa province, de facto
capital of ISIS fighters in Syria,
and part of an extended
family of about 25 that fled in
the past few years to live in
tents in the relative safety of
this Lebanese village. She
earns $16 a day processing
the plant, which allows her to
send some money back home
to her family still in Raqqa.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 34
35. Refugees rest near their tents in the
Bekaa valley on Oct. 19, 2015. Lebanon
hosts the highest proportion of Syrian
refugees fleeing the civil war as Syrians
seek safety amid escalating air strikes on
their battered homeland.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 35
36. A refugee rests with his family inside his tent after a day's work.
ReutersJanuary 12, 2016 36
37. A woman and two small children are seen
resting near their tents.
Reuters
January 12, 2016 37
38. A cannabis plant grows in the Bekaa valley on Oct. 4, 2015. Growing cannabis can be a
lucrative business for landowners, even if it is illegal in Lebanon. "Any job in Lebanon makes
you $700 per month, but working with drugs can get you $10,000 a day," says Sharif, a
landowner and grower of cannabis.
ReutersJanuary 12, 2016 38
39. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, Yemen
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Houthi militant stands guard as supporters of
the Houthi movement sit during a rally
marking the birth anniversary of the Prophet
Mohammed in Sanaa, Yemen December 23,
2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
January 12, 2016 39
40. Photographer
Handout .
Location
RUSSIA, Russia
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
The two sides of a new 100-
rouble ($1.41) banknote,
depicting a memorial to
sunken ships in the port of
Sevastopol and the
Swallow's Nest, a cliff top
castle near Yalta, are seen in
this handout image
provided by the Russian
central bank December 23,
2015. Russia on Wednesday
issued the new banknote
dedicated to Crimea, the
Ukrainian peninsula it
annexed last year, in a move
likely to anger Kiev which
says it wants the
territory...more
January 12, 2016 40
41. Photographer
Michaela Rehle
Location
EICHENAU, Germany
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
Migrants Sulaiman Touba, 16,
from Syria and his cousin Ali
Khalil, 20, decorate a
Christmas tree in their living
room of a refugee camp in
Eichenau near Munich,
Germany, December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
January 12, 2016 41
42. Photographer
Faisal Nasser
Location
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
Saudi women members of the
Saudi Shura Council attend a
session chaired by Saudi
Arabia's King Salman, in Riyadh
December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser
January 12, 2016 42
43. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
KUNMING, CHINA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
A man wears a monkey mask as
a disguise as he receives a
check of over 110 million yuan
($17 million) after winning a
lottery jackpot in Kunming,
Yunnan province, China,
December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 43
45. Photographer
Antara Photo Agency
Location
WAJO, INDONESIA
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23, 2015
A family member cries as she watches the
arrival of bodies of victims of the sunken
ferry Marina Baru, at the Shiva hospital in
Wajo, in Indonesia's South Sulawesi
province, December 23, 2015 in this photo
taken by Antara Foto. REUTERS/Yusran
Uccang/Antara Foto
January 12, 2016 45
46. Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
LAS VEGAS, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 23, 2015
Lakeisha Nicole Holloway,
24, of Oregon, enters the
courtroom for her initial
appearance at the Regional
Justice Center in Las Vegas,
Nevada December 23, 2015.
The Oregon woman accused
of plowing her car into a
crowd on a Las Vegas Strip
sidewalk, killing one person
and injuring dozens of
others, showed little
emotion as she made her
first court appearance on
Wednesday to face charges
including murder.
REUTERS/Las Vegas
Sun/Steve...more
January 12, 2016 46
47. Photographer
Maxim Shemetov
Location
MOSCOW, Russia
Reuters / Wednesday, December 23,
2015
Russian honour guards march as they
wait for India's Prime Minister Narendra
Modi arrival at Moscow's Vnukovo
Airport, Russia, December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
January 12, 2016 47
49. A man eat fire
performance in a street in
Baclaran, Parañaque city,
Metro Manila,
Philippines.
January 12, 2016 49
50. Faithful Christians attend the Christmas Eve mass in the
city of Surabaya, Indonesia.January 12, 2016 50
51. A person in costume do Santa
Claus holding guns stood on a boat
are those who drag in the water, in
Imperia, near the city of Genoa,
Italy.
January 12, 2016 51
52. Hundreds of volunteers wearing Santa Hat toss in a Christmas charity event when they
gathered to give gifts to the poor at the center of the city of Seoul, South Korea.
January 12, 2016 52
53. The Christmas tree is lit in the
great Palace of Brussels in the
Festival "winter wonders," which
has a Christmas market and other
events, in the Centre of Brussels,
Belgium.
January 12, 2016 53
54. A Christmas Eve mass took place in a Catholic
Church authorities for permission to operate, in
Beijing, China
January 12, 2016 54
55. Photographer
Ilya Naymushin
Location
KRASNOYARSK, Russia
Reuters / Thursday, December 24, 2015
Ivan Timofeenko, co-founder of "Newton Park", a private interactive museum of
science, dressed as Santa Claus, exhales a cloud of liquid nitrogen at a
temperature of about minus 196 degrees Celsius (minus 320.8 degrees
Fahrenheit), during the "Arctic" scientific show for school children at the "Square
of Peace" museum center in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, December
24, 2015. A group of young engineers, scientists and...more
January 12, 2016 55
56. Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Thursday, December 24, 2015
A worker pushes water off the surface of the
skating rink in Bryant Park during unseasonably
warm weather on Christmas Eve in Manhattan,
New York, December 24, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo
Allegri
January 12, 2016 56
57. Vehicles and debris scattered in an area near the city of Linden, Tennessee, Usa. A number of
people were killed in the State of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas when the storm as the
storm into spring with warm weather left triggers rare cyclone season around Christmas in
the South of the United States of America.January 12, 2016 57
58. Diana Davis looks for family
photos after a tornado tore
through Wednesday, as she sifts
through the rubble of her father-
in-law's home in Lutts, Tenn.
READ: Death Toll Rises to 11 After
Tornadoes, Storms Ravage South
Larry McCormack / The
Tennessean via AP
January 12, 2016 58
59. A Lebanese Shiite woman
waits with her daughter to
take a picture with Santa
Claus in front a Christmas
tree in downtown Beirut,
Lebanon.
Hassan Ammar / AP
January 12, 2016 59
60. Photographer
Vasily Fedosenko
Location
MINSK, BELARUS
Reuters / Thursday, December 24,
2015
A man dressed as Father Frost,
equivalent of Santa Claus, gives a
present to a boy on the eve of
Christmas in a burn unit of a
hospital in Minsk, Belarus
December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
January 12, 2016 60
61. Josh Redmyer, a former Marine who
served three tours in Iraq, poses
with Milo, who he calls his "therapy
dog," in Oroville, Calif. on Dec. 17,
2015. Redmyer, who was diagnosed
with post-traumatic stress disorder
in 2009, received a less-than-
honorable discharge in 2012. He is
among the thousands of veterans
who cannot receive veterans' health
benefits because of a less-than-
honorable discharge. Redmyer turns
to Milo, who is a birthday present
from his roommate, when he
becomes despondent.
Rich Pedroncelli / AP
January 12, 2016 61
62. An armed police officer from the Snow Leopard Commando Unit
stands guard next to a police van at the Sanlitun area, a fashionable
location for shopping and dining, in Beijing, China. At least four
Western countries took the unusual step on Thursday of issuing
Christmas security warnings for Westerners in the popular Beijing
diplomatic and entertainment district as police stepped up patrols.
READ: Beijing Tightens Security as Embassies Warn Of Security Threats
Jason Lee / ReutersJanuary 12, 2016 62
63. The Kashmir people Muslim woman praying hands, spread when seeing a relic of Prophet
Mohammad is seen in festivals Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi in Hazratbal Shrine on a cold winter
morning in the city of Srinagar, India.January 12, 2016 63
64. Photographer
Sheng Li
Location
HARBIN, CHINA
Reuters / Thursday, December 24, 2015
Winter swimmers look on as a man (R)
wearing a Santa Claus hat and beard
jumps into a pool carved into thick ice
covering the Songhua River, to celebrate
the upcoming Christmas, in Harbin,
Heilongjiang province, China, December
24, 2015. REUTERS/Sheng Li
January 12, 2016 64
65. Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Reuters / Thursday,
December 24, 2015
Window cleaners dressed as
Santa Claus and a reindeer
pose for photographers as
he cleans a glass window at
an event to celebrate the
upcoming Christmas at a
shopping mall in Tokyo,
Japan December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Issei Kato
January 12, 2016 65
66. Photographer
POOL New
Location
KIEV, Ukraine
Reuters / Thursday, December 24, 2015
People carry a coffin with a pig inside, while walking
through the lines of law enforcement officers during
a protest by farmers and their supporters against
possible changes in the state budget and tax
regulations in the agricultural sector, currently
considered by the authorities, outside the parliament
headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine, December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Andrew Kravchenko/Pool
January 12, 2016 66
67. Photographer
Reuters Staff
Location
POSO, Indonesia
Reuters / Thursday,
December 24, 2015
Suwarni, 34, wife of
Indonesian militant leader
Santoso, poses for a picture
in front of her house in Poso,
Indonesia's Central Sulawesi
province, December 19,
2015. Indonesian forces are
mobilizing for a manhunt in
steamy jungles on the far-
flung island of Sulawesi to
flush Santoso, the country's
most-wanted man, from his
hideout and deal a pre-
emptive blow to Islamic
State. REUTERS/Kan
January 12, 2016 67
68. Photographer
KCNA KCNA
Location
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA
Reuters / Thursday, December 24,
2015
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
watches maneuvers between KPA
large combined units 526 and 671 at
undisclosed location in this undated
photo released by North Korea's
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
in Pyongyang December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/KCNA
January 12, 2016 68
69. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
Reuters / Thursday, December
24, 2015
Rescuers sleep among the debris
of collapsed buildings during a
break of rescue operations after
a landslide hit an industrial park
on Sunday, in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province, China,
December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 69
70. Photographer
Handout .
Location
JAZAN, Saudi Arabia
Reuters / Thursday,
December 24, 2015
Damage is seen at Jazan
General Hospital following a
pre-dawn fire in the port
city of Jazan, Saudi Arabia
December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Saudi Civil
Defense/Handout via
Reuters
January 12, 2016 70
71. Photographer
Handout .
Location
JAZAN, Saudi Arabia
Reuters / Thursday, December 24,
2015
Damage is seen at Jazan General
Hospital following a pre-dawn fire
in the port city of Jazan, Saudi
Arabia December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Saudi Civil
Defense/Handout via Reuters
January 12, 2016 71
72. Photographer
Handout .
Location
JAZAN, Saudi Arabia
Reuters / Thursday, December
24, 2015
Members of Saudi Civil
Defence inspect the damage
at Jazan General Hospital
following a pre-dawn fire in
the port city of Jazan, Saudi
Arabia December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Saudi Civil
Defense/Handout via Reuters
January 12, 2016 72
73. Keeping the Jewish faith in Iran
Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
TEHRAN, Iran
Reuters / Thursday, December 24,
2015
Iranian Jews pray at the Abrishami
synagogue at Palestine Street in
Tehran, Iran December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMA
January 12, 2016 73
74. Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
TEHRAN, Iran
Reuters / Thursday, December 24,
2015
Iranian Jews have breakfast after
their prayers at the Abrishami
synagogue at Palestine street in
Tehran December 24, 2015.
REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMA
January 12, 2016 74
76. Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
LORNE, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Friday, December 25, 2015
A woman tends to horses as children
sleep on fold-out beds in the main street
of Lorne during major bush fires south
of Melbourne, December 25, 2015.
REUTERS/Julian Smith/AAP
January 12, 2016 76
77. Photographer
Eduardo Munoz
Location
NEW YORK, United States
Reuters / Friday, December
25, 2015
A bubble breaks on a child
during a warm day in Central
Park, New York December 25,
2015. Much of the U.S. East
Coast could see record high
temperatures on Christmas
Day and through the weekend
even as a major winter storm
looms for the southern Great
Plains, forecasters said on
Friday. REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz
January 12, 2016 77
78. Photographer
Mohamad Torokman
Location
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories
Reuters / Friday, December 25, 2015
A Palestinian protester kicks a burning tyre
during clashes with Israeli troops, near
Israel's Ofer Prison near the West Bank city
of Ramallah December 25, 2015.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
January 12, 2016 78
79. Photographer
Ognen Teofilovski
Location
Skopje, Macedonia
Reuters / Friday, December
25, 2015
The full moon is pictured
trough Christmas lights
decoration in Skopje,
Macedonia, December 25,
2015. The full moon is the
last of the year, and is the
first to occur on Christmas
Day since 1977 - and there
won't be another until 2034.
REUTERS/Ognen Teofilvovski
January 12, 2016 79
80. Photographer
Andrew Winning
Location
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Reuters / Friday, December 25, 2015
Swimmers prepare to take part in the annual
Christmas Day Peter Pan Cup handicap race
in the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park,
London, December 25, 2015.
REUTERS/Andrew Winning
January 12, 2016 80
82. Photographer
Gene Blevins
Location
VENTURA COUNTY, United States
Reuters / Saturday, December 26,
2015
Fire photographer Tod Sudmeier
gets hit with flying embers from
strong winds at the Solimar brush
fire that started early Saturday
morning in Ventura County,
California December 26, 2015. A
wildfire in Southern California
burned over 1,000 acres of land,
forced the closure of parts of two
major highways and led to
evacuations on Saturday, fire
officials said. REUTERS/Gene
Blevins
January 12, 2016 82
83. Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
Reuters / Saturday,
December 26, 2015
Internally displaced Syrians
stand inside their makeshift
shelter that is an
underground cave in Om al-
Seer, southern Idlib
countryside, Syria
December 26, 2015.
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
January 12, 2016 83
84. RAMADI, IRAQ - DECEMBER 26: Iraqi
forces are seen as the operation aiming
to re-seize the Ramadi from Daesh
terrorist continue in el-Hoz
neighborhood of Ramadi, Iraq on
December 26, 2015. (Photo by Ali
Mohammed/Anadolu Agency/Getty
Images)
January 12, 2016 84
85. Photographer
Ammar Abdullah
Location
ALEPPO, SYRIA
Reuters / Saturday, December
26, 2015
A whirling dervish performs a
traditional Sufi dance on the
occasion of Prophet
Mohammed's birthday in
Aleppo, Syria December 25,
2015. REUTERS/Ammar
Abdullah
January 12, 2016 85
87. Photographer
Rodi Said
Location
KOBANI, SYRIA
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Fighters from the Democratic
Forces of Syria head towards their
positions during what they said
was an offensive against Islamic
State militants to take control of
Tishrin dam, south of Kobani, Syria
December 26, 2015. A U.S.-backed
alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab
rebel groups, supported by U.S.
coalition planes, captured the dam
on Saturday from Islamic State,
cutting one of its main supply
routes across the Euphrates,
an...more
January 12, 2016 87
88. Photographer
Srdjan Zivulovic
Location
DOBOVA, Slovenia
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Members of Red Noses
Clowndoctors entertains migrants
before their departure to Austria
at a registration center in Dobova,
Slovenia, December 27, 2015.
REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic
January 12, 2016 88
89. Photographer
Jorge Adorno
Location
ASUNCION, PARAGUAY
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
A man sits near houses partially
submerged in flood waters in
Asuncion, December 27, 2015. More
than 100,000 people have had to
evacuate from their homes in the
bordering areas of Paraguay,
Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to
severe flooding in the wake of heavy
summer rains brought on by El Nino,
authorities said on Saturday.
REUTERS/Jorge Adorno
January 12, 2016 89
90. Photographer
Edgard Garrido
Location
MEXICO CITY, Mexico
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Goyo, an eight-month-old mini
pig, plays with a dog in Mexico
City, December 21, 2015. Mini
pigs can grow to about 30 kg
(66.1 lbs) in weight and about 35
cm (1.1 ft) in height, according to
the company Mini Pigs Mexico.
The company says that the mini
pigs' popularity as pets is
growing and around 300 are sold
every year in Mexico, with prices
ranging from $350 to $1,600.
Picture taken December 21,
2015. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
January 12, 2016 90
91. Photographer
Dado Ruvic
Location
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA
Reuters / Sunday, December 27, 2015
A Sarajevo TV tower is seen as smog
blankets Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina December 27, 2015.
With severe air pollution affecting
the cities nestled among the
mountains, the authorities have
declared the first level of
preparedness, advising the segment
of the population that is at health
risk to reduce movement in the
mornings and evenings, appealing to
drivers to use motor vehicles less and
ordering heating utilities to
lower...more
January 12, 2016 91
92. Photographer
Osman Orsal
Location
ISTANBUL, Turkey
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Syrian refugee boys pose as his
mother takes part in an interview
with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey,
December 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Osman Orsal
January 12, 2016 92
93. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
RAMADI, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
A member from the Iraqi
security forces holds an Iraqi
flag in the city of Ramadi,
December 27, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 93
94. Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service secure on December 27, 2015 the Hoz neighbourhood
in central Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, during
military operations conducted by Iraqi pro-government forces against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
Jihadist fighters abandoned their last stronghold in Ramadi today, bringing Iraqi federal forces within
sight of their biggest victory since last year's massive offensive by the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO /
AHMAD AL-RUBAYEAHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty ImagesJanuary 12, 2016 94
95. TOPSHOT - Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service search a heavily damaged building on December 27, 2015 in the Hoz
neighbourhood in central Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, during military
operations conducted by Iraqi pro-government forces against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group. Jihadist fighters abandoned their
last stronghold in Ramadi today, bringing Iraqi federal forces within sight of their biggest victory since last year's massive offensive
by the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYEAHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images
January 12, 2016 95
96. Members of Iraq's elite
counter-terrorism search
a building on December
27, 2015 in the Hoz
neighbourhood in
central Ramadi, the
capital of Iraq's Anbar
province, about 110
kilometers west of
Baghdad, during military
operations conducted by
Iraqi pro-government
forces against the
Islamic State (IS) jihadist
group. Jihadist fighters
abandoned their last
stronghold in Ramadi
today, bringing Iraqi
federal forces within
sight of their biggest
victory since last year's
massive offensive by the
Islamic State group. AFP
PHOTO / AHMAD AL-
RUBAYEAHMAD AL-
RUBAYE/AFP/Getty
Images
January 12, 2016 96
97. Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Boys stand at a ground
damaged by what activists said
were air strikes carried out
yesterday by the Russian air
force at a school in Jerjnaz town
in Idlib province, Syria
December 27, 2015.
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
January 12, 2016 97
98. Photographer
Handout .
Location
UNKNOWN, Syria
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
A frame grab taken from footage
released by Russia's Defence
Ministry December 25, 2015,
shows air strikes carried out by
Russia's air force hitting militants'
vehicles, which, according to the
ministry, carried oil, at an
unknown location in Syria. Russian
air forces have not hit civilian
targets since they started a
bombing campaign in Syria nearly
three months ago, a senior Russian
officer said in an interview with
Rossiya 24...more
January 12, 2016 98
99. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
TAIZ, Yemen
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Fighters of the pro-government
Popular Resistance Committees
militia carry a cannon as they
transport it in parts to Yemen's
southwestern war-torn city of Taiz
December 26, 2015. Picture taken
December 26, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 99
100. Photographer
XXSTRINGERXX xxxxx
Location
MYTHOLMROYD, United States
Reuters / Sunday, December 27, 2015
A building that collapsed during
flooding is seen in the town of
Mytholmroyd, northern England,
December 27, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew
Yates
January 12, 2016 100
101. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
ENSHI, China
Reuters / Sunday, December 27,
2015
Tourists react as they walk above a
tea plantation in Enshi, Hubei
province, December 27, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 101
102. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
BEIJING, China
Reuters / Sunday, December
27, 2015
People skate on a lake at
Taoranting Park during a hazy
day, in Beijing, China,
December 26, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 102
104. Iraqi soldiers walk inside the
government complex, that was
recaptured from the Islamic state (IS)
militants, in central Ramadi, west of
Iraq, 28 December 2015. Iraqi troops
recaptured the center of Ramadi,
capital of the flashpoint western
province of Anbar, from Islamic State
militants. The recapture of Ramadi,
which fell to Islamic State in May, is
the most significant advance by
government forces since they took
the northern city of Tikrit at the end
of March. EPA/STR
January 12, 2016 104
105. Members of the Iraqi security forces hold an Iraqi flag with an Islamic State flag which they
had pulled down at a government complex in the city of Ramadi, December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE TPX IMAGES OF THE
DAY
January 12, 2016 105
106. Photographer
Andrew Yates
Location
YORK, United Kingdom
Reuters / Monday, December 28,
2015
Members of the emergency services
ride a boat through floodwater on a
residential street in York after the
river Ouse burst its banks, in
northern England, December 28,
2015. REUTERS/Andrew Yates
January 12, 2016 106
107. Photographer
Sana Sana
Location
HOMS, SYRIA
Reuters / Monday, December 28,
2015
Syrian army soldiers and civilians
inspect the site of two bomb
explosions in the Syrian city of
Homs, Syria, in this handout
picture provided by SANA on
December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/SANA/Handout via
Reuters
January 12, 2016 107
108. Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
Reuters / Monday, December 28, 2015
An injured girl sits in a bus evacuating fighters and civilians from the
two besieged Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya in the mainly rebel-
held northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, as they wait to cross to
Turkey from the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Bab al-Hawa,
December 28, 2015. Under the deal, the fighters from the Islamist
Ahrar al-Sham group and other local Syrian rebel factions holed up in
Zabadani for months have...more
January 12, 2016 108
109. Photographer
Jaime Saldarriaga
Location
CALI, Colombia
Reuters / Monday, December 28,
2015
Picador Diego Ochoa reacts
while being pinned under a
horse as a bull charges at it
during a bullfighting festival at
the Canaveralejo bullring in Cali,
Colombia, December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga
January 12, 2016 109
110. Photographer
Baz Ratner
Location
PETAH TIKVA, Israel
Reuters / Monday,
December 28, 2015
Court security guards
watch as Israeli ultra-
nationalists (R) protest
against interrogation
methods used by Israel's
domestic security service,
against suspects in a fatal
arson attack in a West
Bank village five months
ago, during a court hearing
in the case in Petah Tikva,
Israel December 28, 2015.
With Israel hinting
indictments over the arson
in the village of Duma,
which killed 18-month-old
Ali Dawabshe and his
parents, may be...more
January 12, 2016 110
111. Photographer
Jorge Adorno
Location
ASUNCION, PARAGUAY
Reuters / Monday, December
28, 2015
Inscription on a wall of a
flooded house reading "love"
is seen through a window in
Asuncion, Paraguay
December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Jorge Adorno
January 12, 2016 111
112. Photographer
Kevork Djansezian
Location
PASADENA, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Monday, December
28, 2015
Volunteers work on floats at
the Phoenix Decorating
Company's Rose Palace in
preparations for the Rose
Parade on New Years Day in
Pasadena, California
December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian
January 12, 2016 112
113. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA
Reuters / Monday, December
28, 2015
Nur Elita, an Acehnese woman,
screams during caning as part of
her sentence in the courtyard of
Baiturrahman mosque in Banda
Aceh, Indonesia's Aceh province
December 28, 2015. Nur Elita
received five strokes of the cane
for having pre-marital sex with
her boyfriend, according to local
media. Aceh is the only province
in Indonesia, the world's most
populous Muslim country,
where Islamic law is
implemented, according to local
media....more
January 12, 2016 113
114. Photographer
Jimmy Jeong
Location
VANCOUVER, Canada
Reuters / Monday, December 28, 2015
Tima Kurdi (middle) holds her nephew Sherwan Kurdi as she welcomes her brother Mohammed Kurdi (not
shown) and his family at Vancouver International airport in Vancouver, Canada December 28, 2015. The
Kurdis' brother Abdullah and his family tried to make the crossing from Turkey to Greece on an overcrowded
boat. It capsized, and his wife and children drowned. The horrific image of three-year-old Alan's death
became an iconic symbol...moreJanuary 12, 2016 114
115. Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
NEW YORK, United States
Reuters / Monday,
December 28, 2015
A man tapes messages
related to U.S. Republican
Presidential candidate
Donald Trump onto the side
of a truck before they are
shredded during "Good
Riddance Day" in New York
December 28, 2015. Good
Riddance Day is an event
held in New York just
before New Years Eve for
people to shred pieces of
paper representing their
bad memories or things
they want to get rid of
before the New Year.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson January 12, 2016 115
116. Photographer
Eduardo Munoz
Location
NEW YORK, United States
Reuters / Monday,
December 28, 2015
People take part in a protest
against the police in
Manhattan, New York,
December 28, 2015 after a
grand jury cleared two
Cleveland police officers on
Monday in the November
2014 fatal shooting of 12-
year-old Tamir Rice. Rice
was brandishing a toy gun in
a park, and a prosecutor
said there were a series of
mistakes but no criminal
activity. REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz
January 12, 2016 116
117. Photographer
Vincent West
Location
BERANGO, SPAIN
Reuters / Monday,
December 28, 2015
Firefighters walk through
smoke while fighting a
forest fire near the
Basque town of Berango,
near Bilbao, northern
Spain, December 28,
2015. REUTERS/Vincent
West
January 12, 2016 117
118. Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
GWANGJU, South Korea
Reuters / Monday, December 28,
2015
Former South Korean "comfort
women" watch a news report as they
wait for the result of meeting
between foreign ministers of South
Korea and Japan at the "House of
Sharing," a special shelter for former
"comfort women", in Gwangju,
South Korea, December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Hong Ki-won/Yonhap
January 12, 2016 118
119. Photographer
Darren Staples
Location
YORK, United Kingdom
Reuters / Monday, December 28,
2015
A family are rescued from their
flooded home by a mountain
rescue team in York city center,
Britain December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Darren Staples
January 12, 2016 119
120. Photographer
Jonathan Ernst
Location
KAILUA, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Monday,
December 28, 2015
President Barack Obama
waves to onlookers after his
putt at the 18th green as he
finishes a round of golf with
friends at the Mid-Pacific
Country Club in Kailua,
Hawaii, December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
January 12, 2016 120
121. Victims of a Boko Haram attack wait for treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city
of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and
multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death toll
could go higher. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)January 12, 2016 121
122. A pedestrian walks along the banks of the Neris river as temperatures dipped to -3 degrees
Celsius (26,6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Dec. 28 , 2015. (AP
Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)January 12, 2016 122
123. Two cars are submerged in floodwater in a park Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, in Kimmswick, Mo.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency due to wide spread flooding
around the state that has closed many roads. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
January 12, 2016 123
124. Wind blown waves from Lake
Michigan break around the Shedd
Aquarium as a winter storm moves
across Illinois Monday, Dec. 28, 2015,
in Chicago, bringing high winds, icy
precipitation and waves up to 20-feet
high along the shores of the great
lake. (AP Photo/Charles Rex
Arbogast)
January 12, 2016 124
125. Afghan security personnel are seen through the shattered windshield of a damaged car after
a suicide car bomb attack near the Kabul airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 28,
2015. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, and said
the target of the suicide bomber was a convoy of foreign forces. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)January 12, 2016 125
126. Families of wounded Syrian opposition fighters wait for their release at the Lebanese border
crossing point of Masnaa, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Syrian opposition fighters, some on
wheelchairs, stretchers or crutches left the Syrian mountain resort of Zabadani toward the
Lebanon border, where they will be flown to Turkey. The evacuation is part of a U.N.-backed
truce deal reached in September for two key Syrian battleground areas that will see the
transfer of thousands of Shiite and Sunni civilians and fighters from one area to another.
Arabic on the papers read, "Father, we are waiting for you, I am Mena," right, and "Aglak Al-
Garhy from Al Zabadani." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)January 12, 2016 126
127. Japan's Kento Sakuyama soars through the air during a trial jump at the first stage of the 64.
four hills ski jumping tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. (AP
Photo/Matthias Schrader)
January 12, 2016 127
128. In this photo taken with a slow
shutter speed a cyclist pedals
in downtown Milan, Italy,
Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Milan
has ordered Monday a no-car
day to combat pollution, which
has hit unhealthy levels for
weeks mainly because no rain
has fallen to wash away the
smog. (AP Photo/Antonio
Calanni)
January 12, 2016 128
129. An Indian boy, seeking alms dressed as
Hindu monkey god Hanuman, walks
between two buses halted at a traffic
intersection in Hyderabad, India, Monday,
Dec. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar
A)
January 12, 2016 129
130. A Bangladeshi roadside vendor wears
sunglasses to attract customers to his
shop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday,
Dec. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
January 12, 2016 130
132. A woman throws a piece of bread toward seagulls as she travels over the Bosporus, in
Istanbul, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
January 12, 2016 132
133. Against a gray winter sky, volunteers
use shovels atop a pile of sand as they
help fill sandbags Tuesday, Dec. 29,
2015, in St. Louis. Flooding across
Missouri has forced the closure of
hundreds of roads and threatened
homes. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
January 12, 2016 133
134. A Palestinian girl walks past a wall with an
elephant painting in the Shati refugee camp
in Gaza City. In the dead of night, unknown
people, believed to be Muslim extremists,
sprayed the face of the elephant to hide it to
agree with one of the stricter interpretations
of Islam. A group of two dozen artists has
painted the walls, doorsteps and facades of
all the houses along a one-mile-long (1.5
kilometer-long) edge of the camp, including
in the area where Hamas chief Ismail Haniya
lives. Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. (AP
Photo/Hatem Moussa)
January 12, 2016 134
135. The profile of Milan's Duomo cathedral, Italy, is seen through the smog that hovers over the
city, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. The lack of rain and winds has brought pollution levels in Italyís
business capital to exceed levels considered healthy for more than 30 straight days,
prompting officials to ban private cars from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. from Monday, Dec. 28
through Wednesday Dec. 30. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
January 12, 2016 135
136. A Pakistani child injured in a suicide
attack admits at a local hospital in
Mardan, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 29,
2015. A suicide bomber blew
himself up outside a government
office in a northwestern Pakistani
city on Tuesday, killing more than a
dozen people and wounding tens. A
breakaway Taliban group quickly
claimed responsibility for the attack.
(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
January 12, 2016 136
137. Worshippers gather around a huge incense burner as they offer their prayers at Sensoji
Buddhist temple in the Asakusa district, in Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. Asakusa draws
many tourists from across the world. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
January 12, 2016 137
138. An Indian man selling balloons
awaits customers as a giant wheel
is illuminated behind at the Mahim
fair in Mumbai, India, Tuesday,
Dec. 29, 2015. The ten days-long
fair that is held annually in honor
of 13th century Sufi saint
Makhdoom Ali Mahimi. (AP
Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
January 12, 2016 138
139. A man grieves during their funeral procession of four
militia members of a Shiite group, Nujaba movement of
Islamic Resistance, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100
miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday,
Dec. 29, 2015. The Shiite fighters were killed in the
countryside of Damascus, Syria, two days ago when they
were fighting with the Syrian army against Syrian
opposition, their comrades said. (AP Photo/Anmar
Khalil)
January 12, 2016 139
140. Customers line to stock up for the New
Year in GUM Department Store in Red
Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday,
Dec. 29, 2015. For most Russians, it's
not New Year's without a Salad Olivier,
a dish meant to augur prosperity. This
year, soaring food costs mean the
tradition can also be a painful reminder
of how rapidly many Russians' wealth
is fading amid recession and Western
sanctions. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
January 12, 2016 140
141. Former South Korean sex slave Park Ok-seon,
right, who was forced to serve for the
Japanese Army during World War II, wipes
her tears as she is comforted by South
Korean high school students at the House of
Sharing, the home for the living sex slaves, in
Gwangju, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 29,
2015. A day after trumpeting an
"irreversible" settlement of a decades-long
standoff over Korean women forced into
sexual slavery by Japan's WWII military,
there's relief among South Korean and
Japanese diplomats, fury among activists and
many of the elderly victims and general
public indifference in both countries. (AP
Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
January 12, 2016 141
142. Mother, center, and father, third right wearing
white, of the Indian student who was the
victim of a fatal gang rape on a moving bus in
2012 pay respects at the Mahatma Gandhi
memorial in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec.
29, 2015. The parents of the victim joined by
others have demanded setting up of fast track
courts to offer speedy justice to sexual assault
victims. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
January 12, 2016 142
143. Photographer
Ammar Abdullah
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
Injured Sunni Muslim rebel
fighters who were trapped in
Zabadani, arrive at Bab al-Hawa
near the Syrian-Turkish border
December 29, 2015. A U.N.
operation to evacuate around
450 Syrian fighters and their
families from two besieged
Syrian areas was completed on
Monday with the arrival of
planes carrying them to Beirut
and Hatay airport in Turkey, U.N.
and airport sources said.
REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
January 12, 2016 143
144. Photographer
Henry Romero
Location
MEXICO CITY, Mexico
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
People and children react as
artificial snow falls during an
event called "Snow Parade" along
a street near Mexico City's historic
Zocalo square December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Henry Romero
January 12, 2016 144
146. Photographer
Parwiz Parwiz
Location
JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Taliban militants (R), who were arrested
by Afghan border police, stand during a
presentation of seized weapons and
equipment to the media in Jalalabad,
Afghanistan December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Parwiz
January 12, 2016 146
147. Photographer
Parwiz Parwiz
Location
JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29, 2015
A Taliban militant, who was among those
arrested by Afghan border police, looks on
during a presentation of seized weapons and
equipment to the media in Jalalabad,
Afghanistan December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Parwiz
January 12, 2016 147
148. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
YUNCHENG, China
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
People watch dogs fight during a
dog-fighting competition in
Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China,
December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 148
149. Photographer
Khuram Parvez
Location
PESHAWAR, Pakistan
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
Rescue workers move a man who
sustained injuries in a suicide attack
at a government office, to Lady
Reading Hospital in Peshawar,
Pakistan, December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Khuram Parvez
January 12, 2016 149
150. Photographer
Andrew Yates
Location
YORK, United Kingdom
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
A resident cleans up after
flood waters receded on
Huntington Road in York,
Britain December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Andrew Yates
January 12, 2016 150
151. Photographer
Mark Wessells
Location
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
A white lion named Brutus is
seen at the Drakenstein Lion
Park near Cape Town, South
Africa December 29, 2015.
Brutus, who fathered three
"miracle" cubs despite having
had a vasectomy in his youth,
is going back to the vet to
have the operation a second
time. Brutus and his partner
Nala, who live at the
Drakenstein Lion Park,
stunned staff at the sanctuary
when she gave birth to the
cubs just before Christmas.
REUTERS/Mark Wessels
January 12, 2016 151
152. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc
Kabore sits on stage at his
swearing-in ceremony in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,
December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Sophie Garcia
January 12, 2016 152
153. Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
JINAN, China
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29, 2015
An overpass lit in blue is seen during a
hazy day in Jinan, Shandong province,
China December 28, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 12, 2016 153
154. Photographer
Vincent West
Location
BERANGO, SPAIN
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 29, 2015
A man stands in the
middle of a burnt forest
following a bush fire
near the Basque town of
Berango, near Bilbao,
northern Spain,
December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Vincent West
January 12, 2016 154
155. Photographer
Jaime Saldarriaga
Location
CALI, Colombia
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
Colombian bullfighter Paco
Perlaza performs a pass during
a bullfighting festival at the
Canaveralejo bullring in Cali,
Colombia, December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga
January 12, 2016 155
156. Photographer
Ricardo Moraes
Location
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
A follower of the Afro-Brazilian
religion Umbanda carries
offerings for Iemanja, goddess
of the sea, in Copacabana
Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
December 29, 2015.
Worshipers present gifts to the
sea goddess at the end of
every year, to give thanks and
ask for blessings for the
upcoming new year.
REUTERS/Ricardo Morae
January 12, 2016 156
157. Photographer
Peter Nicholls
Location
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
A cyclist rides through Primrose Hill
in the early evening in London,
Britain, December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
January 12, 2016 157
158. Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
New York Bill de Blasio speaks
to police officers as they take
part in a graduation ceremony
at Madison Square Garden in
Manhattan, New York December
29, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
January 12, 2016 158
159. Photographer
Frank Polich
Location
CHICAGO, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
Janet Cooksey (L), birth
mother of Quintonio LeGrier,
walks away from an
interview while a friend
holds pictures of LeGrier
shortly before a candlelight
vigil in honor of Bettie Jones,
a mother of five, and college
student LeGrier, in front of
Gwendolyn Brooks Academy
in Chicago, Illinois,
December 29, 2015. LeGrier,
an alumnus of Gwendolyn
Brooks, and Jones were
killed early Saturday by an
officer responding to a call
that LeGrier...more
January 12, 2016 159
160. Photographer
Pascal Rossignol
Location
GRANDE-SYNTHE, France
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
A young girl from Kurdistan leaves
her tent in a muddy field called
the Grande-Synthe jungle, a camp
of makeshift shelters where
migrants and asylum seekers from
Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria gather in
Grande-Synthe, France, December
29, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal
Rossignol
January 12, 2016 160
161. Photographer
Pascal Rossignol
Location
GRANDE-SYNTHE, France
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
Mud-covered boots and wood
pallets are seen outside tents
where migrants prepare food in
a muddy field in Grande-
Synthe, France, December 29,
2015. REUTERS/Pascal
Rossignol
January 12, 2016 161
162. Photographer
Pascal Rossignol
Location
GRANDE-SYNTHE, France
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
A 42-year-old man, who identified
himself as Adam, a migrant from
Kurdistan, sits in an abandoned van
that he uses for shelter in Grande-
Synthe, France, December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
January 12, 2016 162
163. Photographer
Pascal Rossignol
Location
GRANDE-SYNTHE, France
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
Migrants stand in the mud near a
tent with the message, "Open the
Border" that is located in a field in
Grande-Synthe, France, December
29, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
January 12, 2016 163
164. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, Yemen
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 29, 2015
People stand around a
crater caused by a Saudi-
led air strike on the
outskirts of Sanaa
December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled
Abdullah
January 12, 2016 164
165. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
UNION, United States
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
Submerged roads and houses are
seen after several days of heavy
rain led to flooding, in an aerial
view over Union, Missouri,
December 29, 2015. A storm
system that triggered deadly
tornadoes and flooding in the
U.S. Midwest and Southwest
pushed north on Tuesday,
bringing snow and ice from Iowa
to Massachusetts and another
day of tangled air travel.
REUTERS/Kate Munsch
January 12, 2016 165
166. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
UNION, United States
Reuters / Tuesday, December 29,
2015
Submerged roads and houses are
seen after several days of heavy
rain led to flooding, in an aerial
view over Union, Missouri
December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Kate Munsch
January 12, 2016 166
167. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
UNION, United States
Reuters / Tuesday, December
29, 2015
Submerged roads and houses
are seen after several days of
heavy rain led to flooding, in an
aerial view over Union,
Missouri December 29, 2015. A
storm system that triggered
deadly tornadoes and flooding
in the U.S. Midwest and
Southwest pushed north on
Tuesday, bringing snow and ice
from Iowa to Massachusetts
and another day of tangled air
travel. REUTERS/Kate Munsch
January 12, 2016 167
169. Photographer
Stephen Lam
Location
SAN QUENTIN, UNITED
STATES
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Robert Galvan, who is on
death row for murder,
exercises at the Adjustment
Center yard during a media
tour of California's Death Row
at San Quentin State Prison in
San Quentin, California
December 29, 2015. Picture
taken December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Stephen Lam TPX
IMAGES OF THE DAY
January 12, 2016 169
170. Photographer
Stephen Lam
Location
SAN QUENTIN, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Douglas Clark, 67, who has been on death row for 33
years for murder, gestures from a cell at the Adjustment
Center during a media tour of California's Death Row at
San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California,
December 29, 2015. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
January 12, 2016 170
171. Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Ryan Lemm, 4, salutes as he is carried by New York
Police Department officer John McCrossen as he
watches the casket of his father, NYPD officer Joseph
Lemm, who was killed on duty in Afghanistan,
following funeral services in the Manhattan borough
of New York, December 30, 2015. McCrossen was
Lemm's partner in the NYPD Warrant Squad. Lemm
was one of six U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber
near Bagram air base in Afghanistan. ...more
January 12, 2016 171
172. Photographer
Pascal Rossignol
Location
CALAIS, France
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
A migrant walks between
makeshift shelters near an
embankment with the message,
"We Have A Dream" below a
fence topped with razor wire in
the "new jungle", a field where
migrants and asylum seekers
gather in Calais, France, December
30, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal
Rossignol TPX IMAGES OF THE
DAY
January 12, 2016 172
173. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A female rebel fighter of the
New People's Army (NPA)
aims a pistol during an event
commemorating the 47th
anniversary of the founding of
the Communist Party of the
Philippines, in Ifugao
province, north of Manila
December 29, 2015.
REUTERS/Harley Palangchao
January 12, 2016 173
174. Photographer
Asmaa Waguih
Location
CAIRO, Egypt
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A boy plays near tombstones
in the Cairo Necropolis Egypt,
October 23, 2015. In the
sprawling Cairo Necropolis,
known as the City of the
Dead, life and death are side
by side. Amid a housing crisis
in Egypt, and with the
population of greater Cairo
estimated at about 20 million,
people count themselves
lucky to have a place to call
home in the graveyards that
date back hundreds of years.
REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
January 12, 2016 174
175. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, Yemen
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Officials inspect damage
at a Coca-Cola beverage
factory after Saudi-led air
strikes destroyed it in
Sanaa, Yemen December
30, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled
Abdullah
January 12, 2016 175
176. Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A man prays outside
the Sensoji temple
ahead of the New Year
holidays in Tokyo,
Japan December 30,
2015.
REUTERS/Thomas
Peter
January 12, 2016 176
177. Photographer
Kim Hong-Ji
Location
SEOUL, South Korea
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Students hold portraits of
deceased former South
Korean "comfort women"
during a weekly anti-Japan
rally in front of Japanese
embassy in Seoul, South
Korea, December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
January 12, 2016 177
178. Photographer
Rupak De Chowdhuri
Location
KOLKATA, India
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A boy bowls while playing
cricket in a public park amid
heavy fog on a cold winter
morning in Kolkata, India,
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Rupak De
Chowdhuri
January 12, 2016 178
179. Photographer
Stringer .
Location
TADCASTER, United
Kingdom
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A collapsed bridge over the
River Wharfe is seen in the
market town of Tadcaster,
North Yorkshire, Britain
December 30, 2015. A
section of the bridge, which
dates back to the 1700s,
collapsed on Tuesday as
heavy rain continues to hit
the north of England.
REUTERS/Craig Brough
January 12, 2016 179
180. Photographer
Baz Ratner
Location
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
An Israel Antiquities Authority
(IAA) employee holds a coin
found during excavations in
Rosh Ha'ayin, east of Tel Aviv,
Israel December 30, 2015. The
IAA said on Wednesday that a
2,700-year-old farmhouse and
a 1,500-year-old church with a
mosaic floor were discovered
during excavations ahead of
the construction of new
neighborhoods in Rosh Ha'ayin.
The silver coin, dating back to
the 4th century and bearing a
likeness to the Greek...more
January 12, 2016 180
181. Photographer
Navesh Chitrakar
Location
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Gurung girls wearing
traditional costumes dance
while taking part in a New
Year parade in Kathmandu,
Nepal December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
January 12, 2016 181
182. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday, December 30,
2015
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL
COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND
INJURYA man carries an injured child in
a site damaged from what activists said
was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in the town of
Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus,
Syria December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh TPX IMAGES
OF THE DAY
January 12, 2016 182
188. A man with Frost clinging on the run along the banks of the river Neris as the temperature
dropped to-18 º C in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania.
January 12, 2016 188
189. People celebrate the new year on the Lan Kwai Fong of Hong Kong.
January 12, 2016 189
190. Peter Prevc athletes of Slovenia unleashed fly in the air in the second stage of the trial jump
tournament ski jumping Four hills far 64th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
January 12, 2016 190
191. These teens play throw snow in Sultanahmet Square of Istanbul, Turkey.January 12, 2016 191
192. People going through
the security
checkpoint at the
venue of activities to
celebrate the new
year at the
Brandenburger Tor
gate in Berlin,
Germany.
January 12, 2016 192
193. The payment for repair of roads to
pump flood waters out of highway 55,
in Arnold, Missouri, Usa. The river rises
in the Midwest have forced hundreds
of people to evacuate, threatening
dozens of levees and caused by traffic
vehicles, boats or trains almost stalled
in the area of the city of St. Louis.
January 12, 2016 193
194. People wearing bear furs
perform during a festival of
New Year ritual dances
attended by hundreds in
Comanesti, northern
Romania, Wednesday, Dec.
30 2015. In pre-Christian
rural traditions, dancers
wearing colored costumes or
animal furs, toured from
house to house in villages
singing and dancing to ward
off evil, in the present the
tradition has moved to
Romania's cities too, where
dancers travel to perform
the ritual for money. (AP
Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
January 12, 2016 194
195. A fireman uses a water hose on a forest fire on a mountain between the Basque villages of
Bakio and Bermeo, northern Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. Spain has suffered forest fires
in the north of the country during the last week with the mild winter season. (AP
Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
January 12, 2016 195
196. Workers sweep confetti on
the floor of the Korea
Exchange after the year's
market closing ceremony
under a screen displaying
stock prices in Seoul, South
Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 30,
2015. Asian shares were
mixed in Wednesday
trading, with only some
markets cheered by an
overseas rally. The screen
reads: "Adieu, 2015."(AP
Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
January 12, 2016 196
197. Paul Dusablon, left, and Richard Kotva row from the Circle K at Springdale Park after helping
the owner move electronics off the floor inside the convenience store, in Fenton, Mo.,
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. A rare winter flood threatened nearly two dozen federal levees in
Missouri and Illinois as rivers rose, prompting evacuations in several places. (Robert
Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON
TELEGRAPH OUTJanuary 12, 2016 197
198. Actor and comedian Bill Cosby, center, is caught in a camera flash as he is helped arriving for
a court appearance, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby was arrested and
charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004. (AP
Photo/Mel Evans)January 12, 2016 198
199. A child sits next to the empty toy displays at the Toys R Us store in New York's Times Square,
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. Fourteen years after it began wowing millions of tourists with its
indoor 60-foot Ferris wheel and a growling 20-foot Tyrannosaurus, the giant Toys R Us
flagship store in Times Square closes its doors Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)January 12, 2016 199
200. Supporters of All
Parties Hurriyat
Conference(APHC)
shout pro-freedom
slogans as Indian
policemen detain
them during a protest
in Srinagar, Indian
controlled Kashmir,
Wednesday, Dec. 30,
2015. The protest was
held against an
alleged killing of a
woman and her four
year old son by a
member of the
Village Defence
Committee (VDC), a
body of civilian
volunteers armed by
the Indian
government to fight
insurgents. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin)
January 12, 2016 200
201. A man waves a flag as a motorcade
carrying President Barack Obama
passes during a family vacation, on
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in
Waialua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Evan
Vucci)
January 12, 2016 201
202. Kashmiri fishermen row their boats on the way to work on a cold morning in Srinagar, Indian
controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec, 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
January 12, 2016 202
203. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Residents move amidst rubble
near a burning vehicle in a site
damaged from what activists
said was shelling by forces
loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in the town of
Douma, eastern Ghouta in
Damascus, Syria December 30,
2015. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
January 12, 2016 203
204. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A man carries an injured child
amidst rubble in a damaged
site from what activists said
was shelling by forces loyal to
Syria's President Bashar al-
Assad in the town of Douma,
eastern Ghouta in Damascus,
Syria December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
January 12, 2016 204
205. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
A man carries an injured child
amidst rubble near a burning
vehicle in a site damaged from
what activists said was shelling by
forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in the town of
Douma, eastern Ghouta in
Damascus, Syria December 30,
2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
January 12, 2016 205
206. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
Residents walk amidst scattered
copybooks in a damaged site
from what activists said was
shelling by forces loyal to Syria's
president Bashar al-Assad in the
town of Douma, eastern Ghouta
in Damascus, Syria December
30, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
January 12, 2016 206
207. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A man carries an injured child
amidst rubble near a burning
vehicle in a site damaged from
what activists said was
shelling by forces loyal to
Syria's President Bashar al-
Assad in the town of Douma,
eastern Ghouta in Damascus,
Syria December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
January 12, 2016 207
208. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
Residents walk amidst scattered
copybooks in a site damaged from
what activists said was shelling by
forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in the town of
Douma, eastern Ghouta in
Damascus, Syria December 30,
2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
January 12, 2016 208
209. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A youth carries a tray of
traditional sweets in a site
damaged from what activists
said was shelling by forces
loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in the town
of Douma, eastern Ghouta in
Damascus, Syria December
30, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
January 12, 2016 209
210. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Men put off a fire in a site
damaged from what activists
said was shelling by forces loyal
to Syria's President Bashar al-
Assad in the town of Douma,
eastern Ghouta in Damascus,
Syria December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
January 12, 2016 210
211. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A man inspects a site
damaged from what activists
said was shelling by forces
loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in the town
of Douma, eastern Ghouta in
Damascus, Syria December
30, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
January 12, 2016 211
212. Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A man carries an injured boy
amidst rubble in a site
damaged from what activists
said was shelling by forces
loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in the town
of Douma, eastern Ghouta in
Damascus, Syria December
30, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
January 12, 2016 212
213. Photographer
Pascal Rossignol
Location
GRANDE-SYNTHE, France
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
Ranj (R) and Hardi, both Kurds,
pose beside a wood fire near
their shelter in a muddy field in
Grande-Synthe, France,
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
January 12, 2016 213
214. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, YEMEN
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A guard walks at a Coca-
Cola beverage factory
after Saudi-led air strikes
destroyed it in Sanaa
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled
Abdullah
January 12, 2016 214
215. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, Yemen
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Officials inspect damage
at a Coca-Cola beverage
factory after Saudi-led air
strikes destroyed it in
Sanaa, Yemen December
30, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled
Abdullah
January 12, 2016 215
216. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, YEMEN
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A view of a Coca-Cola
beverage factory after
Saudi-led air strikes
destroyed it in Sanaa
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled
Abdullah
January 12, 2016 216
217. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, Yemen
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A view of a Coca-Cola beverage
factory, as seen through a
damaged wall, after Saudi-led
air strikes destroyed it in Sanaa
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
January 12, 2016 217
218. Photographer
Khaled Abdullah
Location
SANAA, Yemen
Reuters / Wednesday, December 30,
2015
A worker inspects damage at the
Coca-Cola beverage factory after
Saudi-led air strikes destroyed it in
Sanaa December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
January 12, 2016 218
219. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
ARNOLD, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Volunteers set up a wall of
sandbags and series of pumps
to create a barricade
preventing the rising water
from flooding a home after
several days of heavy rain in
Arnold, Missouri, December
30, 2015. REUTERS/Kate
Munsch
January 12, 2016 219
220. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
ARNOLD, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
Volunteers create a wall of
sandbags to protect homes from
flooding after several days of
heavy rain in Arnold, Missouri,
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Kate Munsch
January 12, 2016 220
221. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
ARNOLD, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
Volunteers prepare to transport
sandbags which will be used to
protect homes from flooding, after
several days of heavy rain in
Arnold, Missouri, December 30,
2015. REUTERS/Kate Munsch
January 12, 2016 221
222. Photographer
Kate Munsch
Location
ARNOLD, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A volunteer sets up a sump
pump in the basement of a
flooded home after several
days of heavy rain in Arnold,
Missouri, December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Kate Munsch
January 12, 2016 222
223. Photographer
Mark Makela
Location
ELKINS PARK, United States
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby
(C) arrives with attorney
Monique Pressley (R) for his
arraignment on sexual assault
charges at the Montgomery
County Courthouse in Elkins
Park, Pennsylvania December
30, 2015. Cosby was charged on
Wednesday with sexually
assaulting a woman in 2004
after plying her with drugs and
alcohol, marking the first
criminal case against a once-
beloved performer whose
father-figure persona was
already left...more
January 12, 2016 223
224. Photographer
Henry Romero
Location
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico
Reuters / Wednesday, December
30, 2015
A resident pointing a building
where Ethan Couch, 18, and his
mother, Tonya Couch stayed in
the Pacific beach resort of Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico December 30,
2015. The wealthy Texas
teenager who fled with his
mother to Mexico avoided an
ostentatious lifestyle in the pair's
last days at a beach getaway full
of hotels, restaurants and bars
popular with American tourists,
according to people who saw
them.The fugitive pair opted for
a...more
January 12, 2016 224
225. Photographer
Rodi Said
Location
QAMISHLI, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Injured people wait to get
treated inside a hospital in
Qamishli, Syria December
31, 2015. Twin suicide
bombings hit two
restaurants in a Kurdish-
controlled city in
northeastern Syria on
Wednesday, killing or
wounding dozens of people,
a Kurdish official and a
group monitoring the war
said. REUTERS/Rodi Said
January 12, 2016 225
226. Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
A woman stands near the
mostly empty shelves of the
Toys "R" Us flagship store
that has closed permanently
in Times Square in
Manhattan, New York
December 30, 2015.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
January 12, 2016 226
227. Photographer
Mark Blinch
Location
Toronto, CANADA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Andrea Constand, who
accuses Bill Cosby of
sexually assaulting her,
walks her dogs in Toronto,
Canada December 30,
2015. Cosby, who
cultivated a father-figure
image over decades, was
charged on Wednesday
with sexually assaulting a
woman at his home in
2004 in the first criminal
case against the comedian
accused of misconduct by
dozens of women. The
accuser in the case,
Constand, a former
basketball team manager
at Temple
University...more
January 12, 2016 227
228. Photographer
Darren Staples
Location
DUMFRIES, United Kingdom
Reuters / Wednesday, December 30,
2015
A flooded street is pictured in
Dumfries, Scotland December 30,
2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples
January 12, 2016 228
229. Photographer
Pichi Chuang
Location
TAIPEI, Taiwan
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 30, 2015
Freddy Lim, a candidate to
the 2016 legislative election
and singer of death metal
band Chthonic, performs
during a concert to boost
his campaign in Taipei,
Taiwan, December 26, 2015.
REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
January 12, 2016 229
230. Photographer
Darley Shen
Location
JIANLI, China
Reuters / Wednesday, December 30, 2015
The Eastern Star, the cruise ship which went
down in the Jianli section of the Yangtze
River in June, is seen in Jianli, Hubei
province, China December 30, 2015. A
formal inquiry has concluded that freak
weather led to the sinking of a Yangtze
River cruise ship in June that killed 442
people and recommended that the captain
be investigated for possible crimes, media
reported. REUTERS/Darley Shen
January 12, 2016 230
232. Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
Reuters / Thursday, December 31, 2015
A fire engulfs The Address Hotel in
downtown Dubai in the United Arab
Emirates December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
January 12, 2016 232
233. Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
People run away as a fire
engulfs The Address Hotel in
downtown Dubai in the United
Arab Emirates December 31,
2015. REUTERS/Ahmed
Jadallah
January 12, 2016 233
234. Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
People run away as a fire
engulfs the nearby The
Address Hotel (not pictured)
in downtown Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates
December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
January 12, 2016 234
235. Photographer
KCNA KCNA
Location
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un reacts as he pays his last
respects to Kim Yang Gon in this
undated photo released by
North Korea's Korean Central
News Agency (KCNA) in
Pyongyang December 31, 2015.
Kim Yang Gon, a senior North
Korean official and a top aide to
leader Kim Jong Un died in a car
accident, state news agency
reported on Wednesday, the
latest dramatic death or
disappearance in the close circle
of deputies to the...more
January 12, 2016 235
236. Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
Reuters / Thursday, December 31, 2015
Shinto priests walk to the main shrine
for a ritual to usher in the New Year at
the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan,
December 31, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas
Peter
January 12, 2016 236
237. Photographer
Darren Staples
Location
NEWTON STEWART, United Kingdom
Reuters / Thursday, December 31, 2015
A footbridge lies littered with debris
following flooding at Newton Stewart in
Scotland, December 31, 2015. Torrential
rain and gale force winds have battered
northern Britain cutting power to
thousands of homes and forcing some to
evacuate flooded streets in the third
major storm in a month.
REUTERS/Darren Staples
January 12, 2016 237
238. Photographer
Sertac Kayar
Location
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
Turkish riot police use tear gas
to disperse Kurdish
demonstrators during a protest
against the curfew in Sur
district and security operations
in the region, in the
southeastern city of Diyarbakir,
Turkey December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Sertac Kayar
January 12, 2016 238
239. Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode over the Sydney
Opera House and Harbour Bridge as
Australia's largest city ushers in the
New Year, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
January 12, 2016 239
240. Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
Fireworks explode over the
Sydney Opera House and
Harbour Bridge as Australia's
largest city ushers in the new
year, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
January 12, 2016 240
241. Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode over the Sydney
Opera House and Harbour Bridge as
Australia's largest city ushers in the
New Year, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
January 12, 2016 241
242. Photographer
Charles Platiau
Location
PARIS, France
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Revelers gather near the Arc de
Triomphe on the Champs Elysees
Avenue in Paris, France, during
New Year celebrations, early
January 1, 2016. REUTERS/Charles
Platiau
January 12, 2016 242
243. Photographer
Toby Melville
Location
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode around the
London Eye wheel to mark the
beginning of the New Year in
London, Britain, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
January 12, 2016 243
244. Photographer
Toby Melville
Location
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode around the
London Eye wheel, the Big Ben clock
tower and the Houses of Parliament
to mark the beginning of the New
Year in London, Britain, January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville
January 12, 2016 244
245. Photographer
Russell Cheyne
Location
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode over the castle
in Edinburgh, Scotland, January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
January 12, 2016 245
246. Photographer
Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Location
CAIRO, Egypt
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
Egyptians celebrate in front of
great pyramids during New
Year's day celebrations on the
outskirts of Cairo, Egypt,
January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El
Ghany
January 12, 2016 246
247. Photographer
Alkis Konstantinidis
Location
ATHENS, Greece
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
Fireworks explode over the
temple of the Parthenon atop
Acropolis hill during New
Year's day celebrations in
Athens, Greece, January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Alkis
Konstantinidis
January 12, 2016 247
248. Photographer
Leonhard Foeger
Location
VIENNA, Austria
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Revellers watch as fireworks
explode in front of Vienna's city
hall as Austria's capital ushers in
the New Year, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
January 12, 2016 248
249. Photographer
Dado Ruvic
Location
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
Fireworks explode
during New Year
celebrations in
Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, January
1, 2016.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
January 12, 2016 249
250. Photographer
Hannibal Hanschke
Location
BERLIN, Germany
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode next to the
Quadriga sculpture atop the
Brandenburg gate during New Year
celebrations in Berlin January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
January 12, 2016 250
251. Photographer
Russell Cheyne
Location
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
People dance in the streets during
the Hogmanay celebrations in
Edinburgh, Scotland, December
31, 2015. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
January 12, 2016 251
252. Photographer
Tatyana Makeyeva
Location
MOSCOW, Russia
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
Fireworks light the sky over
Kremlin during celebrations of
New Year's Day in central
Moscow, Russia, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
January 12, 2016 252
253. Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
BEIJING, China
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Dancers perform to celebrate the
new year during a countdown
event at Tai Miao, the imperial
ancestral temple in the Forbidden
City, in Beijing, China, January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee
January 12, 2016 253
254. Photographer
Edgar Su
Location
Singapore, SINGAPORE
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode in Marina Bay
against the skyline of Singapore
during New Year's Day celebrations
January 1, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
January 12, 2016 254
255. Photographer
Edgar Su
Location
Singapore, SINGAPORE
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Tens of thousands of floating
"wishing spheres" carrying
people's New Year wishes line
the Marina Bay against the
skyline of Singapore December
31, 2015. REUTERS/Edgar Su
January 12, 2016 255
256. Photographer
Juan Medina
Location
MADRID, SPAIN
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
People wait in a line to access
Madrid's landmark Puerta del
Sol square, after it was
cleared to allow controlled
access by New Year's revelers,
December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Juan Medina
January 12, 2016 256
257. Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
People hold balloons to
release them at the turn of
the New Year at a hotel in
front of the landmark Tokyo
Tower in Tokyo, Japan,
December 31, 2016.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
January 12, 2016 257
258. Photographer
Ezra Acayan
Location
BULACAN, PHILIPPINES
Reuters / Thursday, December 31, 2015
Fireworks explode during New Year
celebrations outside the Philippine Arena
in Bocaue town, Bulacan province, north
of Manila January 1, 2016. REUTERS/Ezra
Acayan
January 12, 2016 258
259. Photographer
Ezra Acayan
Location
BULACAN, PHILIPPINES
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
Revelers watch as fireworks
explode during New Year
celebrations outside the
Philippine Arena in Bocaue
town, Bulacan province,
north of Manila January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan
January 12, 2016 259
260. Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, INDIA
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
A man lights firecrackers on
the street during the New Year
celebrations in Mumbai, India,
January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
January 12, 2016 260
262. Photographer
Ilya Naymushin
Location
DIVNOGORSK, Russia
Reuters / Thursday, December 31, 2015
The numbers "2016" are written in the air
with a sparkler on a bank of the Yenisei
River in the Taiga district, near the town of
Divnogorsk outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia,
Russia, December 31, 2015. REUTERS/Ilya
Naymushin
January 12, 2016 262
263. Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
NEW YORK, United States
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
People take a selfie during New
Year celebrations in Times
Square in the Manhattan
borough of New York December
31, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
January 12, 2016 263
264. Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
Fireworks explode over
Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest
building in the world, during
New Year celebrations January
1, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed
Jadallah
January 12, 2016 264
265. Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode over Dubai's Burj
Khalifa, the tallest building in the
world, during the New Year
celebrations January 1, 2016, as the
Address Downtown Dubai hotel and
residential block, which had been
engulfed by a fire, can be seen on
the left. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
January 12, 2016 265
266. Photographer
Kim Hong-Ji
Location
SEOUL, South Korea
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
A woman takes photographs of
balloons released by people in
Seoul, South Korea, January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
January 12, 2016 266
267. Photographer
Kim Hong-Ji
Location
SEOUL, South Korea
Reuters / Thursday, December 31, 2015
A couple kisses inside a giant inflatable
ball during a countdown event in Seoul,
South Korea, December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
January 12, 2016 267
268. Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
HONG KONG, China
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Fireworks explode over Victoria
Harbour during a pyrotechnic
show in Hong Kong, China January
1, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
January 12, 2016 268
271. Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
People release balloons at the
turn of the New Year at a hotel
in front of the landmark Tokyo
Tower in Tokyo, Japan, January
1, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas
Peter
January 12, 2016 271
272. Photographer
Amit Dave
Location
AHMEDABAD, India
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
School students offer prayers
for the world peace in the
upcoming year of 2016 in
Ahmedabad, India,
December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Amit Dave
January 12, 2016 272
273. Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Party-goers wear 2016-themed
hats as they wait to ring in the
new year at the Sydney Harbour
in Australia December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
January 12, 2016 273
274. Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Thursday, December
31, 2015
A woman rides on the
shoulders of her partner as
they watch the first sunrise of
the new year hit the water on
Australia's Bondi Beach in
Sydney, January 1, 2016.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
January 12, 2016 274
275. Photographer
Yuya Shino
Location
ODAWARA, JAPAN
Reuters / Thursday,
December 31, 2015
People look at the sun
during sunrise in Odawara,
Kanagawa prefecture, west
of Tokyo, Japan, January 1,
2016. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
January 12, 2016 275
276. Photographer
Leonhard Foeger
Location
VIENNA, Austria
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Austrian armed police officers
stand in front of Vienna's city hall
as Austria's capital ushers in the
New Year, December 31, 2015.
REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
January 12, 2016 276
277. Photographer
Francois Lenoir
Location
BRUSSELS, Belgium
Reuters / Thursday, December 31,
2015
Belgian police officers patrol on
Brussels' Grand Place, December
31, 2015, after Belgian police held
three people for questioning on
Thursday, as part of an
investigation into an alleged plot to
carry out an attack in the capital on
New Year's Eve. REUTERS/Francois
Lenoir
January 12, 2016 277
278. Tourists take a selfie as Mount
Bromo spews ash during an
eruption in East Java,
Indonesia, Dec. 31.
Indonesia's Mount Bromo is
on the second highest alert
level as its activity has
increased in the last two
months.
Fully Handoko / EPA
January 12, 2016 278
279. A man and his dog enjoy a
snowy day on the Bosphorus
near the Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, on
Dec. 31. Hundreds of flights in
and out of Turkey were canceled
for Thursday and Friday at
Istanbul's two airports after the
city was blanketed by heavy
snow, which also forced the
closure of schools and brought
chaos to the roads.
TOLGA BOZOGLU / EPA
January 12, 2016 279
280. A migrant family walk after receiving
free food as they wait to travel to Greek
islands by dinghies, near Cesme, Izmir,
Turkey, on Dec. 31. More than a million
people hoping to escape war and
poverty have made their way into
Europe this year, according to migration
monitors, but attention has been
focused on two more common routes —
across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to
Greece or across the Mediterranean
from Libya to Italy.
Emre Tazegul / AP
January 12, 2016 280
281. People watch as flames rip
through the hotel on New Year's
Eve. People were already
gathering to watch New Year's
Eve celebrations when the hotel
caught fire. The cause of the
blaze is still unknown.
KARIM SAHIB / AFP - Getty
Images
January 12, 2016 281
282. Kaleo Woods is packed into
a pen with other revelers
while waiting for midnight
in Times Square in New York
on Dec. 31, 2015. Around 1
million people are expected
to converge on Times Square
for the annual New Year's
Eve celebration. This year's
festivities will also be
attended by nearly 6,000
New York City police
officers, including members
of a specialized
counterterrorism unit.
Seth Wenig / AP
January 12, 2016 282
283. A couple watches fireworks just
after the start of the new year at
Copacabana beach in Rio de
Janeiro.
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