January 15, 2013

A French soldier peers into the barrel of a tank at a Malian air base in Bamako. France hit Islamist rebels in Mali with fresh air strikes and deployed armored cars, stepping up its intervention in the West African state as regional allies struggled to accelerate their plans to send in troops.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (L), accompanied by Portugal's Defence Minister Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco, attends to a news conference at Sao Juliao fortress, on the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal.

Snow covers the historic windmills at Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, January 15, 2013.

Bull tamers try to control a bull during the bull-taming sport called Jallikattu, in Palamedu, about 575 kilometers (359 miles) south of Chennai, India, January 15, 2013.

A local train derails and crashes into a residential building in Saltsjobaden outside Stockholm, Sweden, January 15, 2013.

Waves hit the road along the sea near Cayenne, French Guiana, January 15, 2013.

Firefighters try to douse the flames after a fire broke out in a commercial building at a textile market in Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The cause of the fire is being investigated and no causality have been reported, fire officials said.