January 26, 2015

A Jammu and Kashmir state policeman performs a motorcycle stunt during the Republic Day parade in Jammu, India.

Cambodian land rights activist Nget Khun (C), known locally as "Mommy", hugs her daughter (R) through a window of a prison car at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh. A Cambodian court upheld convictions for 10 female land rights activists and a defrocked Buddhist monk and reduced the one-year sentence for most of them.

Bishop Libby Lane (foreground) is applauded as she leaves York Minster in northern England following a service to consecrate her as the new Bishop of Stockport. The Church of England ended centuries of male-only leadership when it consecrated its first female bishop in the face of fierce opposition from traditionalists.

Pastry chef Javier Mercado of the UK competes during the Pastries World Cup final as part of the Catering and Food International Show (SIRHA) in Chassieu, outside Lyon, France.

An elderly woman is assisted after riot policemen fired teargas canisters to disperse protests to oust the Narok county Governor Samuel Tunai in Narok, Kenya.

Villagers gather as wildlife experts attend to an Indian elephant that washed up in a swamp after being caught up in raging floodwaters in Jamalpur district, some 150 kilometers (94 miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets members of the Yazidi minority in Khanke internally displaced person (IDP) Camp in Dohuk, northern Iraq, Jan. 25, 2015.

In this image, an expanding shell of debris called SNR 0519-69.0 is left behind after a massive star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. Multimillion degree gas is seen in X-rays from Chandra in blue. The outer edge of the explosion (red) and stars in the field of view are seen in visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Miss Colombia Paulina Vega is crowned Miss Universe 2014 during the 63rd Annual Miss Universe Pageant at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, Jan. 25, 2015.