Yuan Hongyan / VCG / GettyPeople wearing protective gear, or “lobster suits,” experience ice floating in winter at Yuehai National Wetland Park on January 11, 2026, in Yinchuan, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China.Wang Jianwei / Xinhua / GettyA child rides sled pulled by a wheeled robot on the frozen surface of the Songhua River in Harbin, in China’s Heilongjiang Province, on January 11, 2026.Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / GettyArgentinian rider Luciano Benavides competes in Stage 9 of the 48th edition of the Dakar Rally, between Wadi ad-Dawasir and Bisha in Saudi Arabia, on January 13, 2026.Ma Chengjun / VCG / GettyKites fly during the 24th Chagan Lake Ice and Snow Fishing and Hunting Cultural Tourism Festival on January 8, 2026, in Songyuan, Jilin Province, China.Xu Changyin / VCG / GettyHorses gallop over snow-covered Ulan Butong Grassland in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, on January 12, 2026.Sergei Gapon / AFP / GettyA person walks through a snow-covered park in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 15, 2026.Christopher Furlong / GettyIn this aerial view, stranded canal boats wait to be lifted from the bed of the Llangollen Canal after a breach in the embankment in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, on January 13, 2026. Investigations are ongoing as to what caused the breach.Ezra Acayan / GettyRescuers search for survivors under the rubble of a waste facility that was buried when a landfill collapsed onto it on January 10, 2026, in Cebu, Philippines.El Tayeb Siddig / ReutersTents display the logo of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in a displaced-persons camp in El Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, on January 12, 2026.AFP / GettyWorkers check solar panels installed on a lake in Tianchang, in China’s Anhui province, on January 12, 2026.Biju Boro / AFP / GettyDancers perform the Bagurumba dance during a rehearsal for the upcoming Bwisagu festival, marking the Bodo New Year, at Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati, India, on January 15, 2026.Mindaugas Kulbis / APPeople watch a bonfire on Independence Square on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the Day of the Defenders of Freedom in Vilnius, Lithuania, on January 12, 2026.Gary Hershorn / GettyThe sun rises along 42nd Street in New York City on January 12, 2026, pictured from Weehawken, New Jersey.Ghaith Alsayed / APA man crosses a street in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, after days of fighting between government forces and Kurdish fighters in the city, on January 13, 2026.Joel Saget / AFP / GettyChinese artist Song Dong poses in one of his works, a hall of mirrors constructed from colored windows and doors, at Le Bon Marché in Paris on January 12, 2026.Arda Kucukkaya / Anadolu / GettySnowflakes, pictured up close after a snowfall in Ankara, Turkey, on January 12, 2026Sergei Gapon / AFP / GettyThis photograph taken on January 13, 2026, shows portraits of fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters covered with snow at the memorial on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine.Marton Monus / ReutersA drone view shows a ferry navigating a channel through the frozen Lake Balaton near Szántód, Hungary, on January 12, 2026.Martin Lelievre / AFP / GettyA Canada goose rests on the melting ice of the frozen Saint-Mandé Lake in Bois de Vincennes park, in eastern Paris, on January 12, 2026.Abhishek Chinnappa / GettyA decorated draft ox and its handler leap over haystacks set on fire as part of the Kicchu Haisodu ritual on January 15, 2026, in Siddalingapura village, on the outskirts of Mysuru, India.Carlos Jasso / AFP / GettyProtestors in London, England, burn images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally held in solidarity with Iran’s uprising, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on January 11, 2026, to protest against the Iranian regime’s recent crackdown on demonstrations.Jeff J Mitchell / GettyThe Clavie is surrounded by the Clavie Crew at Doorie Hill in Burghead, Scotland, on January 10, 2026. The “Burning of the Clavie” features a burning barrel packed with tar-soaked staves fixed to the top of a pole, carried around the town, followed by a large crowd. The tradition, with ancient roots, is celebrated annually as people from Burghead welcome in the New Year.Zhang Jingang / VCG / GettyA humanoid robot is trained to clean a microwave oven at a robot data-training center in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on January 12, 2026.Stephen Maturen / GettyICE agents detain a woman after pulling her from a car on January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has deployed more than 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents to the state in a push to apprehend undocumented immigrants.Ariel Schalit / APMigrating cranes flock at sunrise in Hula Lake conservation area in northern Israel on January 15, 2026.Jack Taylor / GettyPeople in costume take part in the Vevčani Carnival parade on January 13, 2026, in Vevčani, North Macedonia.AFP / GettySupporters of Uganda’s incumbent president and National Resistance Movement presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni carry mascot performers on their motorcycles as they head to rally grounds ahead of the party’s closing campaign rally in Kampala on January 13, 2026.Philip FONG / AFP / GettyParticipants take a dip in cold water to purify their souls and bodies during a New Year ritual at the Teppozu Inari Shrine in Tokyo on January 11, 2026.
