January 17, 2017

Impoverished Indian children watch a performance that's part of advocacy against child labor, in Allahabad.

Preparations continue at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. (Photo: B. Allen/VOA)

Police officers remove an activist during an anti-death-penalty protest at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives to deliver a speech about leaving the European Union, at Lancaster House in London.

Spain's Rafael Nadal prepares to serve during his Men's singles first-round match against Germany's Florian Mayer at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne.

A Kuwaiti military helicopter takes part in a live-ammunition military exercise at Udaira military range, 140 kilometers north of Kuwait City.

A spectator cools herself at a water-spraying fan at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia.

Palestinian man Nabeel Mussa, who keeps scorpions and snakes as a hobby and eats them, has his face surrounded by a snake at his house in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A man rides a horse through the flames during the "Luminarias" annual religious celebration on the eve of Saint Anthony's day, Spain's patron saint of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares, northwest of Madrid, Jan. 16, 2017.

A great grey shrike grabs a mouse in from a field near the village of Vasilkova, Belarus, Jan. 16, 2017.