Chinese People's Liberation Army recruits stand in formation in -20C winter temperatures at a military base in Heihe, Heilongjiang province.Reuters
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
Suspected former Islamic State (IS) fighters Ayoub B. (R) und Ebrahim Hadj B. (L) hide their faces in a Calle, Germany courtroom.Reuters
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
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
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
A Japanese Snow Monkey soaks in a hot spring in Yamanouchi town, Nagano prefecture, Japan.Yuya Shino/Reuters
A woman swims in a partially frozen lake at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China.Sheng Li/Reuters
A church in abandoned Simacem village is dwarfed by the active Mount Sinabung volcano in North Sumatra, Indonesia.Binsar Bakkara/The Associated Press
Demonstrators try to free a detained activist in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during a protest against election results.Hector Retamal/AFP / Getty Images