January 20, 2015

People throw turnips at the Jarramplas, a devil-like character, as he makes his way through the streets while beating his drum during the Jarramplas traditional festival in Piornal, southwestern Spain.

A man crosses the Al-Haj highway, which is closed because of sniper fire by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Aleppo.

A member of an opposition party throws a chair during a meeting inside the Constitution Assembly building in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Swiss special police officers observe the surrounding area from atop the roof of the Davos Congress Hotel in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. More than 1,500 business leaders and 40 heads of state or government will attend the January 21-24 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to network and discuss big themes, from the price of oil to the future of the Internet.

Demonstrators destroy a police patrol vehicle during a protest by relatives of the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College outside the federal court in Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, Jan. 19, 2015.

A hundred humanoid communication robots called Robi perform a dance during a promotional event called 100 Robi, for the weekly Robi magazine, in Tokyo, Japan.

A Palestinian girl, hoping to cross into Egypt with her family, cries as she stands behind a fence at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.

Internally displaced Afghan children stand outside their shelter in the cold at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat city.

Israeli soldiers work on their Merkava tank as they hold a position along the Israeli border with Lebanon two days after an Israeli air strike killed six Hezbollah members in the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights.

An 8-year-old Thai girl proudly shows off caterpillars that she has found on a jasmine bush in Chum Phuang, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Jan 17. 2014. (Photo taken by Matthew Richards/VOA reader/Thailand)