January 25, 2022

Staff members stand by in a mostly empty departures hall at Tokyo's Haneda international airport. More than 370,000 people are in left in limbo by Japan's coronavirus border rules, which bar almost all new arrivals.

Business owners have their heads shaved during a protest near the National Assembly in Seoul, against the government's new social-distancing rules that went into effect earlier this month.

Migrants are rescued off the coast of Lampedusa. Seven migrants have died and some 280 have been rescued by the Italian Coast Guard after they were discovered in a packed wooden boat off the coast of the island. 

Onlookers gather as Yemenis pray during a mass funeral in Saada for those killed last weekend in airstrikes on a prison in the northern Yemeni province. The attack on the prison in rebel-held Saada, which was blamed on the Saudi-led coalition, left at least 70 people dead and more than 100 were wounded.

A woman walks past a the Runner, sculptured by Kostas Varotsos, after a snowstorm, in Athens, Greece.

Plumes are pictured from the SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship's Draco engines as they fire following its undocking from the International Space Station's Harmony module's space-facing port.

Syrian workers cut laurel soap at the Jbaili soap factory, an 800-year-old artisanal soap manufacturer, in the old city of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, Jan. 24, 2022. The factory, which was heavily damaged during the war, has been renovated and resumed work after government forces took back the old city. 

Models wear creations for the Stephane Rolland Spring-Summer 2022 Haute Couture fashion collection, in Paris, France.

A winter swimming enthusiast dives into a partly frozen lake in Shenyang, in northeastern China's Liaoning province.

People dance in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom in Blackpool, England, after it was restored for its annual re-opening today.

Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund competes in the first run of the Women's Giant Slalom event as part of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Kronplatz, Italian Alps.

People walk in a snow-covered park, with the iconic Haghia Sophia in the background, in Istanbul, Turkey.