• POLAND
  Survivors are overcome with emotion upon their arrival at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim on January 26 to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945 (XINHUA/AFP)
• BRAZIL
  Children play in the water at Madureira Park during a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro on January 25 (XINHUA/AFP)
• THE PHILIPPINES
  Police transport the dead bodies of soldiers killed in a clash with Muslim rebels in the town of Mamasapano on January 26 as renewed violence threatens a peace accord between the government and rebels (XINHUA/AFP)
• SAUDI ARABIA
  U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud after arriving in Riyadh on January 27 to offer his condolences over death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (XINHUA)
• GREECE
  Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras poses for photographers after taking an oath at the Presidential Palace in Athens on January 26 (XINHUA/MARIOS LOLOS)
• THE UNITED STATES
  Workers clear snow at Times Square in New York City on January 26 following an overnight blizzard that swept across the city and surrounding areas (XINHUA)