January 28, 2021

Corazzieri of the Italian military Presidential Honor Guards stand at their posts at the Quirinale Palace in Rome prior to political leaders arriving for meetings with the president about forming a new government.

A Shariah Law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia.

A worker wearing a face mask carries red lanterns in Hong Kong ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Some of the 1,200 Cape Cormorant chicks are seen after being rescued from Robben Island at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), in Cape Town, South Africa.

Bullet trains are seen parked at a station in preparation for the upcoming Lunar New Year travel peak in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, Jan. 27, 2021.

Palestinian children wait to receive a meal from donors in an impoverished neighborhood in Gaza City.

A man walks along Rajpath, a ceremonial boulevard, amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi, India.

Somali women whose sons are missing after they were taken for military training, pray after a Reuters interview in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Tug of War champion and farmer James Kehoe of Boley Tug of War Club trains in his barn with teammates after being nominated as the "greatest athlete of all time" for the World Games awards, in County Tipperary village of Boley, Ireland, Jan. 27, 2021.

Devotees offer prayers by rolling on the ground during the first day of the month-long Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Swiss concept artists Frank and his twin-brother Patrik Riklin perform during the presentation of their "Fondation Riklin" project in Regensdorf, Switzerland.