Easton police officer J. Sollazzo clasps hands with a young student returning to Hawley School in Newtown, Conn. Classes resumed today for Newtown schools except those at Sandy Hook. Buses ferrying students to schools were festooned with large green and white ribbons on the front grills, the colors of Sandy Hook. Jason DeCrow/AP
Hindu holy men, or Sadhus, take part in a procession to attend the Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. During the festival, hundreds of thousands of Hindus take part in a religious gathering at the banks of the river Ganges. The festival is held every 12 years in different Indian cities. Jitendra Prakash/Reuters
Afghan displaced children warm themselves at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. A German-run charity, Johanniter, distributed winter relief assistance to some 279 internally displaced families in Kabul. Musadeq Sadeq/AP
A girl looks out of the door of a temple as her mother offers daily prayers inside in Lalitpur, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, escorted by British Foreign Secretary William Hague (l.), looks up as she tours The Foreign and Commonwealth Office during an official visit which is part of her Jubilee celebrations in London. Alastair Grant/AP
Tennessee Titans' cheerleaders in Christmas outfits perform during their NFL Monday Night football game with the New York Jets in Nashville, Tenn. Harrison McClary/Reuters
A chimpanzee reacts after receiving a Christmas basket at Rio de Janeiro's zoo. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
Children look out through condensation on the windows of a school bus as it pulls into Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn. The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of their own, will again ring with the sounds of students and teachers as the bucolic Connecticut town struggles to return to normal. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
A fisherman carries a swordfish from the Indian Ocean waters to the market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Ismail Taxta/Reuters
A street vendor sells mushrooms to a customer at Ashon, one of the busiest market places, in central Kathmandu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Taliban insurgents and their weapons, confiscated by Afghan joint forces during an operation, are presented to the media in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan. Parwiz/Reuters
Australia's Peter Siddle (2nd l.) appeals with team mates to successfully dismiss Sri Lanka's Thilan Samaraweera (c.) LBW for 49 runs during the fifth days play in the first cricket test at Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Australia. David Gray/Reuters
South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye of the conservative and right wing ruling Saenuri Party waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in front of a railway station in Busan. Park is the daughter of late South Korean military dictator Park Chung-hee who took power in a military coup in 1961 and ruled until his assassination in 1979. The country's presidential election will be held on Wednesday. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Indian women activists in New Delhi shout slogans demanding safety for women as they stage a protest condemning the gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a city bus late Sunday. Manish Swarup/AP
Syrian rebel fighter Ayman Alhashim, formerly a farmer, poses for a picture following a training session in Maarret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Congolese warlord Ngudjolo Chui (c.) sits in the courtroom during his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The ICC acquitted Ngudjolo of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ngudjolo had been accused by prosecutors of directing militias to kill, pillage and rape during a conflict in the northeastern Ituri province of Congo in 2003. Robin van Lonkhuijsen/Reuters
Qatari Heritage policemen ride camels during National Day celebrations in Doha, Qatar. Fadi Al-Assaad/Reuters
Female Afghan National Police (ANP) trainees unload their weapons at the shooting range at a training center near the German Bundeswehr army camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. German police are mentoring the training program for ANP as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
A stray dog walks along an embankment where the temperature is minus 22 Fahrenheit in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
Jackson Alvarado, 3, looks at his lit candle Monday night in Flint, Mich., during a candlelight vigil in honor of the victims of the school shootings last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Lauren Justice/The Flint Journal/AP
Children learn to ski on a ski run in Mexico City's historic Zocalo square. The hill was built by the local city government and is free of charge. Edgard Garrido/Reuters
German President Joachim Gauck holds a tray of breakfast during his visit to soldiers of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) contingent of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Camp Marmal, near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
A performer dunks the ball during a timeout in the first half of the NBA basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York Monday. Adam Hunger/Reuters
Children play in a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched a $2.2 billion initiative to stamp out cholera over the next decade in impoverished Haiti, where an epidemic has killed thousands of people and been blamed on UN peacekeepers. Swoan Parker/Reuters
A pine grosbeak chews on a berry in a tree in Montpelier, Vt. Toby Talbot/AP
The stable staff run the horses after the last day of horse racing at Folkestone Racecourse in Kent, England. Olivia Harris/Reuters
Paul Seyfried (r.) talks with staff members Troy Schiff (l.) and Dave Cox about a bunker they are constructing for a client at Utah Shelter Systems in North Salt Lake, Utah. The price of the shelters ranges from $51,800 to $64,900. While most 'preppers' discount the Mayan calendar prophecy, many are preparing to be self-sufficient for threats like nuclear war, natural disaster, famine and economic collapse. Jim Urquhart/Reuters
Naoki Yuasa of Japan clears a gate during the first run in the men's World Cup slalom race in Madonna di Campiglio, northern Italy. Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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