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Chinese People's Liberation Army recruits stand in formation in -20C winter temperatures at a military base in Heihe, Heilongjiang province.Reuters

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Sydney, Australia’s ferry system has been its lifeblood since the 1800s, transporting 15 million passengers each year, more than 40,000 trips daily.Jason Reed/Reuters

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Suspected former Islamic State (IS) fighters Ayoub B. (R) und Ebrahim Hadj B. (L) hide their faces in a Calle, Germany courtroom.Reuters

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Members of Kosovo’s Parliament in Pristina leave after tear gas was launched by opposition lawmakers to protest agreements made with Serbia.Driton Vitia/AFP / Getty Images

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Turkish plainclothes police point their guns after Kurdish rights lawyer, Tahir Elci, and two police officers were killed in a gunfight in Diyarbakir.Ilyas Akengin/AFP / Getty Images

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The coffin of the Russian pilot killed when Turkey shot down his jet is carried by Turkish soldiers to a Russian aircraft at Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey,Reuters

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A Japanese Snow Monkey soaks in a hot spring in Yamanouchi town, Nagano prefecture, Japan.Yuya Shino/Reuters

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A woman swims in a partially frozen lake at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China.Sheng Li/Reuters

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A church in abandoned Simacem village is dwarfed by the active Mount Sinabung volcano in North Sumatra, Indonesia.Binsar Bakkara/The Associated Press

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Demonstrators try to free a detained activist in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during a protest against election results.Hector Retamal/AFP / Getty Images

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