A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 15, 2015
![A man walks in front of a billboard featuring a globe at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a222cc46-ba68-454c-85dd-61bf05683dd9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks in front of a billboard featuring a globe at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany.
![Awami League party activists try to beat a protester, center, outside the Bangladesh National Mosque during a protest in Dhaka. The protest was against prime minister and leader of the ruling party Sheikh Hasina and former telecommunication minister Abdul Latif Siddique after his alleged anti-Islam comments at a rally.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ab3a4d5e-ab24-44b6-9f28-c8b1ab67114d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Awami League party activists try to beat a protester, center, outside the Bangladesh National Mosque during a protest in Dhaka. The protest was against prime minister and leader of the ruling party Sheikh Hasina and former telecommunication minister Abdul Latif Siddique after his alleged anti-Islam comments at a rally.
![Sculptures by Iraqi artist Ahmad Al-Bahrani are seen outside the Lusail Multipurpose Hall on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2015 men's Handball World Championships in Doha, Qatar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1026b354-2566-45b0-9703-d6237bf4c7b2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Sculptures by Iraqi artist Ahmad Al-Bahrani are seen outside the Lusail Multipurpose Hall on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2015 men's Handball World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
![Devotees prepare ritual rice dishes to offer to the Hindu Sun God as they attend Pongal celebrations at a slum in Mumbai, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/38485937-d979-48a3-866c-46a2365efd92_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Devotees prepare ritual rice dishes to offer to the Hindu Sun God as they attend Pongal celebrations at a slum in Mumbai, India.