A selection of photos from the U.S. and the world from the Associated Press and Getty Images.
Diana Depaz, St. Petersburg touches the hand of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on a poster on the groups bus as it drives along Central Avenue, IN St. Petersburg, Fla., during the 30th annual MLK Drum Major for Justice Parade, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Tampa Bay Times, Scott Keeler)
Lebanese Hezbollah supporters carry the coffin of militant Jihad Mughniyeh during his funeral in a southern Beirut suburb on January 19, 2015. JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images
Nepalese riot police stand guard near the Constitutional Assembly building in Kathmandu during a nationwide general strike led by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in Kathmandu on January 20, 2015. PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images
A man suffering from Kala azar (C) assisted by his wife (R) and a relative at an MSF hospital in Lankien. The conflict that erupted in South Sudan little more than a year ago has left people more vulnerable to a deadly tropical disease known as kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis). KAREL PRINSLOO/AFP/Getty Images
Police, fire and rescue workers respond to an overpass collapse on I-75 just north of the new Hopple Street bridge Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. A construction worker was killed and a tractor-trailer driver injured when an interstate overpass undergoing demolition collapsed in Cincinnati.(AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cameron Knight)
A Ukrainian woman takes a bath in the waters of lake of Sherbakova Park during the celebration of the Orthodox Epiphany in Donetsk, Ukraine. Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
People look at a large TV screen in Tokyo on January 20, 2015 showing news reports about two Japanese men who have been kidnapped by the Islamic State group. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images
Pakistan women demonstrators wear burqas and hold a sword in protest against the printing of satirical sketches of the Prophet Muhammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore on January 20, 2015. Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images
Vladimir Bovrichev, 30, cries next to the body of his son Artiam, 4, killed in a Ukrainian army artillery strike, during his funeral in Kuivisevsky district on the outskirts of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
Mourners gather around a coffin bearing Artiam, 4, who was killed in a Ukrainian army artillery strike, during his funeral in Kuivisevsky district on the outskirts of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
A horse rider drinks wine next to a bonfire during a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. On the eve of Saint Anthony’s Day, hundreds ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the “Luminarias,” a tradition that dates back 500 years. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, about 100 km west of Madrid, Spain on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. On the eve of Saint Anthony’s Day, hundreds ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the “Luminarias,” a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
People throw turnips at the Jarramplas as he makes his way through the streets beating his drum during the Jarramplas Festival in Piornal, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Jarramplas is a character that wears a costume made from colorful strips of fabric, and a devil-like mask and beats a drum through the streets of Piornal while residents throw turnips as a punishment for stealing cattle. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
”Tamborilleros” wearing their uniforms march in the traditional ‘ La Tamborrada’, during ‘El Dia Grande’, the main day of San Sebastian feasts, in the Basque city of San Sebastian, northern Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
US Lindsey Vonn sprays champagne as she celebrates on the podium after winning the women’s World Cup Super G event of the FIS Ski World Cup in Cortina D’Ampezzo on January 19, 2015. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images
Serena Williams of the US celebrates during her women’s singles match against Belgium’s Alison Van Uytvanck on day two of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 20, 2015. WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images
Hungary’s Timea Babos serves against Czech Republic’s Barbora Zahlavova Strycova during their women’s singles match on day two of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament. PAUL CROCK/AFP/Getty Images
A model wears a creation for Rebekka Ruetz’s Fall – Winter 2015-2016 collection, as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A selection of photos from the U.S. and the world from the Associated Press and Getty Images.
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