January 20, 2016

HUBO, a multifunctional walking humanoid robot performs a demonstration of its capacities next to its developer Oh Jun-Ho, Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

This illustration obtained from NASA shows that 2015 was the warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

A young girl sits on a bench and enjoys the sunny winter weather with temperatures close to the freezing point in a snowy landscape near the small Bavarian village of Irschenberg, southern Germany.

Nasir, a resident of Herat, Afghanistan stands below his pigeons flying from the rooftop of his home.

A police officer has her face and uniform splattered with red paint thrown by protesters during a rally at the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest the recent Philippine Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of the Enhanced Defense Agreement or EDCA in the Philippines. The highest court's ruling effectively allows American forces, ships and planes to temporarily station in local military camps. 

A Zimbabwean subsistence farmer holds a stunted maize cob in his field outside Harare.

U.S. journalist Jason Rezaian gestures next to his wife Yeganeh Salehi as he poses for the media in front of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Rezaian was released from an Iranian prison last Saturday.

Firefighters and residents try to put out a fire that swept over several houses in an informal settlers area in Manila, Philippines.

A pelican rests at the frozen pond of St. James Park in London. Temperatures in London dropped below zero, the lowest this winter.

Chinese traditional dance teams perform during the inauguration ceremony of the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (YASREF) project in Riyadh.

An Israeli soldier stands guard during the demolition of a Palestinian house at the order of the Israeli army, in the West Bank town of Dura, south of Hebron. The owners of the house said they were informed by the Israeli army that the demolition was carried out because they did not have an Israeli-issued construction permit.

An ashtray filled with cigarette butts in front of a board showing currency exchange rates of the U.S. dollar and euro against the ruble in Moscow, Russia. The Russian ruble weakened to a new record low against the dollar on Wednesday as the mood on global markets was torrid and oil prices slumped.