January 12, 2016

Young women take selfie photographs in front of the New Mosque by the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. A Syrian suicide bomber is thought to be responsible for an attack which killed at least ten people including foreigners in the heart of Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet tourist district on Tuesday.

Former Afghan Taliban fighters carry their weapons before handing them over as part of a government peace and reconciliation process at a ceremony in Jalalabad. More than a dozen former Taliban fighters from Ghani district of Nangarhar province handed over their weapons as part of the  program.

A girl poses for photographs inside a shark-shaped sculpture at an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.

Actor Jude Law holds up an umbrella to block a photographer on the set of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's TV series "The Young Pope", in St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy.

People collect their belongings from a heavily damaged building in the aftermath of a car bomb explosion in a commercial area of New Baghdad, Iraq. Gunmen stormed into a Baghdad mall on Monday after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance in the city’s mainly Shiite east.

Third - placed members of the Hungarian power lifting group the 'Trio Power Line' perform at the Capital Circus during the 11th edition of the International Circus Festival on Jan. 11, 2016 in Budapest.

A man dries handmade noodles in the sunlight in Fuxing town, Changhua County, Taiwan.

A squirrel runs on a fence after a snowfall in a park in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

People look at one of the dozens of whales that have washed ashore on the Bay of Bengal coast's Manapad beach in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu state, India. More than 80 whales have washed ashore on India's southern coast.