Stones fall on a worker climbing the Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kathmandu, Nepal, to renovate it, on Jan. 2. The Boudhanath Stupa is an important pilgrimage site for Buddhists.
Passenger Andrew Peacock took this photo of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, which is stuck in the ice off east Antarctica, on Dec. 30. An Australian icebreaker was battling bad weather to reach the ship this week, which got lodged after a blizzard's whipping winds pushed sea ice around it, freezing it in place. The vessel was carrying a scientific expedition. See more photos
A man watches as the Chaparrastique volcano shoots a a cloud of gas and ash about three miles into the air in the city of San Miguel, El Salvador, on Dec. 29. (Nely Villatoro / AP)
Revelers take part in the Battle of Enfarinats, a flour fight during the annual Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain, on Dec. 28. Residents celebrate using flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between two groups: a group of married men called Els Enfarinats — who take control of the village for one day, pronouncing ridiculous laws and fining those who infringe them — and a group called La Oposicio, whose members try to restore order. At the end of the day, the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes. (David Ramos / Getty Images)
A Tuareg band performs traditional songs Dec. 29 during the 19th Ghat Festival of Culture and Tourism, in Ghat, about 845 miles south of Tripoli, Libya. In the annual event, Tuareg tribes and tourists meet to celebrate Tuareg culture, folklore and heritage. (Esam Omran al-Fetori / Reuters)
Andreas Wellinger of Germany soars through the air Jan. 1 during his final jump for the second stage of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Vierschanzentournee in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (Daniel Karmann / European Pressphoto Agency)
Kamil Stoch of Poland soars during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Vierschanzentournee in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Jan. 1. (Stanko Gruden / Agence Zoom via Getty Images)
A swimmer gestures as he jumps into the icy water of the partially frozen Songhua River in Harbin, China, on Dec. 28. (Sheng Li / Reuters)
Priests in white robes give communion to people at an outdoor Catholic Mass in Madrid. Tens of thousands attended the Dec. 29 Mass celebrating the traditional family unit in Madrid, nine days after the government proposed to change the country’s abortion law to make it more difficult for women to terminate a pregnancy. (Susana Vera / Reuters)
Relatives of those killed when a passenger bus plunged into a valley speak to hospital staff outside a morgue at a government hospital in Otur, India, about 118 miles northeast of Mumbai, on Jan. 2. At least 27 people were killed and 13 injured in the accident, according to local media reports. (Danish Siddiqui / Reuters)
Supporters of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League beat a lawmaker and supporter of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party during a protest in Dhaka on Dec. 29. Security forces and opposition activists clashed in Bangladesh's capital Sunday, leaving at least one person dead, as thousands of police took to the streets to foil a mass rally calling on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to cancel January elections. Read the story. (A.M. Ahad / AP)
A supporter of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League shouts during a clash with the opposition backers in Dhaka. Both sides threw stones at each other Dec. 30 on the second day of sporadic violence in the Bangladeshi capital, after heavy police presence foiled an opposition plan for a rally to pressure the government to scrap January elections. (A.M. Ahad / AP)
A Free Syrian Army fighter jumps from a high window during what activists said were clashes with pro-government forces in the Bab al-Hadid district of Aleppo, Syria, on Dec. 26. See more photos. (Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters)
In the Central African Republic, sectarian conflict is deepening as violence between armed Christian militias and Muslim fighters rages on. Here, Christians armed with rocks and machetes shout taunts and threats at Muslims standing across a traffic circle guarded by Burundian peacekeepers in Bangui, the nation’s capital, on Dec. 31. French troops are taking up positions in the area, provoking protests by Muslim residents. See more photos. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
People displaced by violence attempt to create a semblance of daily life in a sprawling camp at Mpoko Airport, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Doctors Without Borders temporarily suspended all but emergency care at the clinic Jan. 2 and closed other health posts within the camp, after two days of close-by fighting sent stray bullets into the camp and forced medical staff and patients at one post to lay on the ground for an hour as bullets whizzed around them. The makeshift camp houses an estimated 100,000 people in cramped and squalid conditions, with insufficient access to food, water and sanitation. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Ambulances line up a site of a trolley-bus explosion in Volgograd, Russia. A bomb tore through the trolley bus Dec. 30, a day after a suicide attack at the city’s main railway station. The two explosions killed 34 people and injured dozens, raising fears that foreign guests in particular could be frightened away from next month’s Winter Olympics in the politically dicey Caucasus Mountains. Read the story. (Denis Tyrin / AP)
A woman cries after laying flowers outside the main railway station in Volgograd, Russia, on Dec. 31. Although no groups asserted immediately responsibility for suicide attack in Volgograd, officials said they think they were related — and linked to an extremist group in Dagestan. See more photos. (Denis Tyrin / AP)
People evacuate the Nevado de Colima National Park in Zapotitlan de Vadillo, Mexico, on Dec. 30 after it was temporarily closed to visitors following three days of snowfall. (Hector Guerrero / AFP/Getty Images)
Children in Jiujiang, China, pose for pictures with paper-cut works of the Chinese character “horse” on Dec. 31, ahead of the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. (China Daily via Reuters)
Children stand in the snow outside their shelter in Kabul on Dec. 30. (Omar Sobhani / Reuters)
Children gather around a fire to beat the cold, in Lahore, Pakistan, on New Year’s Eve. Many cities in Pakistan were experiencing unusually chilly weather; in parts of the country, daytime temperatures hovered around 5 degrees. (Rahat Dar / European Pressphoto Agency)
A displaced family who fled the fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor, South Sudan, sit under a mosquito net Jan. 2 in nearby Awerial. The International Red Cross said Wednesday that the road from Bor to Awerial “is lined with thousands of people” waiting for boats so they can cross the Nile River, and that the gathering is “the largest single identified concentration of displaced people in the country so far.” South Sudan has been mired in conflict since President Salva Kiir accused his deputy of attempting a coup, triggering widespread fighting between soldiers loyal to each of the men. Hundreds of civilians have been killed. Read the story. (Ben Curtis / AP)
The Hogmanay new year celebration in Edinburgh, Scotland, attracted people from more than 60 countries. Here, torchbearers light up the night on Dec. 30. See more photos of celebrations around the world. (Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Images)
A couple kiss while watching fireworks explode minutes after midnight Jan. 1 along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
People ride a Ferris wheel as fireworks illuminate the sky over Edinburgh, Scotland, late Dec. 31. (David Cheskin / AP)
More than 60 people swim while carrying torches in the Lech River near Fuessen, Germany. The event is a New Year’s Day tradition. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / European Pressphoto Agency)
A barrel jellyfish floats in a blue-lit aquarium at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, on Jan. 2. (Roland Weihrauch / European Pressphoto Agency)
This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy ESO 373-8, located about 25 million light-years away from Earth. This galaxy began life as a huge ball of slowly rotating gas. Collapsing in upon itself, it spun faster and faster, until a disc started to form. (NASA via European Pressphoto Agency)
Isaac Pasette, 14, uses his metal detector to look for, as his father, David Pasette, said, “whatever the ground will offer us” as heavy snow starts to fall in a field near Lake Fairfax on Jan. 2 in Reston, Va. A winter storm overnight shuttered school systems around the D.C. region Jan. 3., as cold temperatures and strong winds swept through the area. Read the story. (Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post)
Biathletes train for the Biathlon World Cup at the DKB ski arena in Oberhof, Germany, on Jan. 2. The competition ends Jan. 5. (Kay Nietfeld / European Pressphoto Agency)
A park crew clears the snow around Anish Kapoor’s stainless-steel “Cloud Gate” sculpture at Millennium Park in Chicago on Jan. 2. Windy City residents, who are used to winter weather, were battling a snowstorm, strong winds and bitter cold this week — wind chills down to minus 12 were possible. See more photos. (Kiichiro Sato / AP)
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