Jan. 21
Colombian soldiers stand outside a cocaine laboratory in San Vicente municipality, East Antioquia Department. Soldiers aim to destroy the cocaine laboratory that -- according to authorities -- produced 4 tons of cocaine per month and belonged to criminal gangs.
Raul Arboleda-AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 22, 2009
A Sri Lankan officer stands in the backdrop of election posters for Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo. The Jan. 26 presidential election pits Sri Lanka's former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka against Rajapaksa: two men regarded as the architects of the government's victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels last May.
Eranga Jayawardena-AP
Jan. 22
A wobbegong shark is released off the coast of Sydney as part of a world first scientific study by Macquarie University into the interactions of captive bred and wild sharks. Tagged with a passive acoustic telemetry device, the release of the five 6-year-old wobbegongs born at Sydney Aquarium is intended to help restore a natural balance to Sydney Harbour, Australia.
Jeremy Piper-AP
Jan. 22, 2010
Activists -- following the motto "Rescue the snowmen" -- dance in front of the Berlin Cathedral in Germany, protesting against global warming.
Miguel Villagran-Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2010
An aerial view of the damage after an earthquake struck the Haitian town of Leogane, just nine days after the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. Leogane is 25 miles outside the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Logan Abassi-REUTERS
Jan. 21
A group of men wielding sticks ran off with food and fought each other after storming a food distribution center located on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. The distribution center is run by Eagle Wings Foundation based in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Francois Mori-AP
Jan. 20
Siene Noel stands outside her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after the earthquake killed five of her children. Noel, a grandmother, is left with one surviving daughter to help care for the children of her dead children.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
The U.S. 82nd Airborne distributes food to large lines of people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 22
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the Day of Unity in central Kiev. Ukraine celebrated the 91st anniversary since the western and eastern parts of the country were united to create a single state.
Konstantin Chernichkin-REUTERS
Jan. 22
Lakhpati, 100 -- a leprosy-infected elderly woman -- was treated by the volunteers of Arpan Global Charities (AGC), a U.S. based medical volunteer organization located in Amritsar, India. AGC provides free medical services to the medically under-served populations of the world.
Altaf Qadri-AP
Jan. 21
Bolivians wait for the start of an indigenous ceremony to honor reelected president Evo Morales at Kalasasaya Palace at Tiwanaku, a pre-Inca archaeological site about 37 miles west of La Paz. President Morales will be sworn in for a second term Friday in La Paz.
Mariana Bazo-REUTERS
Jan. 20
A parishioner wearing an El Gueguense mask rests after dancing in the streets of Diriamba, Nicaragua, to mark the Feast of Saint Sebastian. "El Gueguense" is a folk drama performed during the feast.
Oswaldo Rivas-REUTERS
Jan. 18
Protesters attend an anti-government rally in the southern Yemeni town of al-Habileen. Protests have become frequent in the south, with violence often erupting between security forces and demonstrators, many of whom demand independence from President Ali Abdullah Saleh's government in Sanaa. Many southern Yemenis complain of economic and social neglect, a charge the northern-dominated government denies.
Str-REUTERS
Jan. 21
Workers carry sacks of rice at a paddy field in Karawang, in Indonesia's West Java province. The Indonesian state procurement agency will release 300,000 tonnes of rice out of the government stock this week to stabilize domestic prices, its chief said Thursday.
Beawiharta-REUTERS
Jan. 20
A boy talks with members of the 82nd Airborne Division outside General Hospital in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 20
Children shield themselves from dust as a helicopter carrying patients departs the U.N. compound in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents are facing new aftershocks and rising tensions in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 20
A man tries to jump into a moving pickup truck carrying tents for displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The truck, carrying less than 10 tents, moved from its location inside a camp where roughly 200 earthquake survivors had gathered. Logistical problems have hampered the flow of international aid in the country.
Julie Jacobson-AP
Jan. 20
Injured people with broken limbs are transported on a truck to General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 21
A young Swedish tourist puts money into a basket held by an elephant as it walks through a popular tourist area in Bangkok. Several groups, including the Thai Red Cross, organized a parade with three elephants, a brass band and a firetruck to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief.
Nicolas Asfouri-AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 20
A demonstrator stands beside a poster of Geert Wilders during a pro-Wilders rally in Amsterdam. The Dutch lawmaker, who says Islam inspires terrorism,is facing court charges of inciting racial hatred.
Peter Dejong-AP
Jan. 19
Argentina's soccer coach, Diego Maradona, plays with children at a school in Soshanguve, South Africa. Maradona and others were in the country to inspect facilities to be used by his team during the World Cup.
Siphiwe Sibeko-Reuters
Jan. 20
Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala arrives at a hotel in La Paz to attend a swearing-in ceremony for Evo Morales, who last month won a second term as Bolivia's president.
Mariana Bazo-Reuters
Jan. 20
Britain's Prince William fires a machine gun at the Holsworthy Army Barracks rifle range in Sydney.
Rick Stevens-Reuters
Jan. 20
Spectators watch as the superjumbo Airbus A380 lands for the first time at Zurich's airport.
Arnd Wiegmann-Reuters
Jan. 19
A Sudanese worker in a village near Khartoum uses a camel to work a traditional wooden press that helps make sesame oil.
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah-Reuters
Jan. 20
Police operatives in the southern Philippines dig up ammunition during a raid at a warehouse tied to the prime suspect in the massacre of 57 people on Nov. 23, 2009.
Nickee Butlangan-AP
Jan. 19
A Haitian boy who had just been rescued along with his sister after being trapped for seven days in the rubble of their home is treated at an Israeli army field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Uriel Sinai-Getty Images
Jan. 20
Rescue workers and others pray over the body of Charles Benoit , general vicar of the Port-au-Prince diocese. The Haitian cleric's remains were recovered by a team from Mexico that is helping victims of last week's earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Earthquake survivor Hotteline Lozama, 26, smiles as she is pulled out of the rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by a French rescue team.
Francois Mori-AP
Jan. 20
A drum major opens the traditional La Tamborrada festival in the Basque town of San Sebastian in northern Spain. From midnight to midnight, companies of uniformed marchers parade through the streets playing drums and barrels in honor of the city's patron saint.
Alvaro Barrientos-AP
Jan. 19
Christian Orthodox believers jump into a frigid lake in Belgrade, Serbia, to retrieve a cross. Orthodox Serbs celebrate Epiphany on Jan. 19, following the old Julian calendar; the race to retrieve a cross that has been dropped into a lake or river is part of the tradition.
Darko Vojinovic-AP
Jan. 17
German farmers and their horses compete in a traditional sledge race in the Bavarian village of Rottach-Egern, in southern Germany. Every other year, farmers from the region come together for the race.
Michaela Rehle-REUTERS
Jan. 17
Children bathe in Manila Bay, Philippines, before the start of a dragon boat race.
Cheryl Ravelo-REUTERS
Jan. 18
Inmates in Peru's Lurigancho prison in Lima make shoes as part of a program designed to help them rejoin society and contribute to their families' support. About 500 inmates at Lurigancho, with 9,000 inmates South America's largest prison, are working in pottery, carpentry, textiles or shoemaking.
Enrique Castro-mendivil-REUTERS
Jan. 19
Willem Van Gogh, Sylvia Cramer and Josien Van Gogh, descendants of Vincent Van Gogh's brother Theo, attend the press viewing in London of an exhibition of paintings, drawings and letters by the Dutch artist. It is the first major exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh's work in London for over 40 years.
Oli Scarff-Getty Images
Jan. 19
Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh, left, encounters protesters as he arrives in Ahmadabad, India, for a meeting on genetically modified eggplants. The Indian government is organizing public discussions as it decides whether to approve the country's first genetically modified crop.
Ajit Solanki-AP
Jan. 19
Supporters follow the body of Jyoti Basu, a veteran communist leader and former chief minister of India's West Bengal state, during a procession in Kolkata. Basu, the patriarch of Indian communism whose pragmatic politics twice brought him close to becoming prime minister, died Sunday at age 95.
Parth Sanyal-REUTERS
Jan. 18
A shopping center burns in central Kabul in the aftermath of an attack byTaliban militants. Fierce gun battles ensued when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace; more explosions rocked the capital as Afghan troops fought off the attackers.
Musadeq Sadeq-AP
Jan. 19
A Palestinian man carries two children through a flooded street in the central Gaza Strip. Hundreds of people were evacuated from the area as flash floods followed heavy rains.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa-REUTERS
Jan. 18
A child stands beside a soldier after receiving humanitarian aid in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The pace of food and medical aid deliveries picked up in the earthquake-shattered country, providing some hope to desperate survivors, but doctors worried that disease would be the next big challenge for the tens of thousands left injured and homeless a week ago.
Tatyana Makeyeva-REUTERS
Jan. 16
A woman walks past the burning Supreme Court building in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Luslene Alelas holds her injured daughter, 3-year-old Marie Jose Ambrose, at the site of the Cathedral Notre Dame, which was destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/The Washington Post
Jan. 17
Injured survivor Marie France Coartin is driven by the Cathedral Notre Dame in Port-au-Prince, which was destroyed in the earthquake Jan. 12.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/The Washington Post
Jan. 17
Arriving at the Synagogue of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI greets Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni. The pontiff's visit marked Italy's 21st annual Day of Jewish-Christian Reflection. In comments, the pope urged Jews and Christians "to come together to strengthen the bonds which unite us and to continue to travel together along the path of reconciliation and fraternity."
Pool-Getty Images
Jan. 18
Photographs of prisoners are on display during a visit of French secondary school students at the Auschwitz museum near the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland. A delegation of 180 students participated in the day-long event, called "Trip of Memory."
Eric Gaillard-REUTERS
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