

Women offer prayers for a gang rape victim at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi. India's top court says it will decide whether to suspend lawmakers facing sexual assault charges as thousands of women gathered to demand stronger protection for their safety. Dar Yasin/AP
A Syrian rebel plays football in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. The United Nations estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. Andoni Lubacki/AP
A school bus passes angel paintings set up along the route to the Chalk Hill School where the Sandy Hook Elementary School children will begin to attend classes in Monroe, Conn. The repurposed school is having an open house today and will begin hosting classes tomorrow. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
A Filipino trader blows a horn during the first day of trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange in the financial district of Makati, south of Manila. Stock markets in Asia registered relief over the US congressional vote to stop hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that risked plunging the world's biggest economy into recession. Aaron Favila/AP
A young snowy owl looks into the camera at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany. The species is native to northern Eurasia and North America. Roland Weihrauch/dpa/AP
Greek Orthodox clergymen clean the Church of the Nativity, believed by many Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a yoga class at a studio in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. Almost a dozen devout Jewish men meet weekly at the studio, the only one of its kind in a neighborhood where tensions have flared in the past between religious and secular Jews. The studio offers gender-separated classes in accordance with the religious beliefs against mixing of the sexes in public. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
A Florida State Seminoles baton team member holds a flaming baton in her mouth as she twirls two others before her team plays against the Northern Illinois Huskies in the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl NCAA football game in Miami Tuesday. Andrew Innerarity/Reuters
A 'Gun-Free Home' sign is seen in front of a house along the route to the Chalk Hill School where the Sandy Hook Elementary School children will begin to attend classes in Monroe, Conn. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Visitors look at an exhibit on display during the opening of the 'Art Experiment' exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow's Gorky Park. The exhibition is sponsored by the British Council. Mikhail Metzel/AP
Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus serves to Florian Mayer of Germany during their men's singles match at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Australia. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A Chadian soldier wearing reflective sunglasses observes the convoy ahead of him on the road leading to Damara, Central African Republic. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad, who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital. Ben Curtis/AP
Men covered with a roll of cloth stand in line at the Crime Investigation Department (CID) after their arrest in Karachi, Pakistan. The CID has seized weapons and arrested 17 suspected criminals, including four who belong to the Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ, who were involved in killings and other acts of terrorism. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
A Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) catches a fish in his compound at the zoo in Dresden, Germany. Matthias Rietschel/dapd/AP
Mariame Kanfando and her father wait outside the morgue in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in an attempt to get the bodies of her mother and two sisters who were killed in a stampede on New Year's Eve. The stampede killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a fireworks display at a stadium. Survivors said that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Emanuel Ekra/AP
A Bedouin girl swings from a tree as she plays with other children in the Jordan Valley, near West Bank city of Jenin. Ammar Awad/Reuters
A woman and her child walk on the banks of the Yenisey River in minus-22-degree-Fahrenheit weather outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
Pakistani fruit vendors wrap themselves with shawls during a foggy, cold morning as they wait for customers on a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A woman gestures as others run into the English Bay during the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ben Nelms/Reuters
Northern Illinois Huskies fans hold cut-out pictures of ESPN broadcaster Kirk Herbstreit, who earlier called the inclusion of the Huskies in a BCS bowl a 'joke,' as the Huskies play against the Florida State Seminoles in the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl NCAA football game in Miami Tuesday. Jeff Haynes/Reuters
Shoes hang on a power line at Letna park overlooking Prague, Czech Republic. Czech teenagers, who skateboard at the park, throw their damaged and unwanted shoes over the wire at the city's main skating hangout. Petr Josek/Reuters
Boatmen wait for passengers at the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A.M. Ahad/AP
Preschooler Amni Roslan stays in class as he refuses to join his classmates for outdoor activities during his first day of school in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters