• SWITZERLAND
  UN special envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon (center) welcomes representatives of Libya’s warring factions prior to peace talks in Geneva on January 14 (XINHUA/AFP)
• UKRAINE
  A bus hit by a long-range Grad rocket in Donetsk, east Ukraine, on January 13, leaving 10 civilians dead and nearly 20 injured (XINHUA/AFP)
• THE UNITED KINGDOM
  A man walks between snow-covered houses in Bogside area of Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland on January 14. More than 100 schools and nurseries were shut and many roads closed as wintry weather swept across the United Kingdom (XINHUA/AFP)
• THE UNITED STATES
  Smoke inhalation victims walk past a firefighter toward a medical aid bus after smoke filled the L’Enfant Plaza Metro Station during the evening rush hour on January 12 in Washington, DC. One woman passenger died in the accident, according to local police (XINHUA/AFP)
• JAPAN
  Cosplayers pose at the Cosplay Festa TDC (Tokyo Dome City) in Tokyo on January 10, which drew about 2,500 participants (XINHUA/AFP)
• EGYPT
  Supporters of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak hold aloft portraits of him and shout slogans outside a court in Cairo on January 13. Mubarak will remain in detention while awaiting a retrial of a case concerning embezzlement charges ordered by a high court on the same day (XINHUA/AFP)