An opposition supporter walks past a fire started in the middle of a road during a protest against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas.
A woman walks past the logo of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the congress centre of the Swiss mountain resort of Davos.
Models present creations by Pepa Castro during the International Flamenco Fashion Show in the Andalusian capital of Seville.
Workers light flares during a march in central Brussels. Some 27,000 workers and unions representatives protested against job cuts after companies such as AB Inbev and GM's Opel Antwerp announced they would lay off hundreds of workers.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France takes abreak during his semi-final match against Switzerland's Roger Federer at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.
An employee of the company EFM, who run aircraft towing and de-icing services at Munich airport, de-ices the wing of a Dash 8 plane from the Lufthansa airline in Munich.
A U.N. police officer unties the hands of a boy who took part in looting in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
A giant puppet known as "Giant Girl" is seen at O'Higgins park as part of a performance of the street theatre company Royal de Luxe in Santiago.
A woman works on an open groundnut field in Charanchi village in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina.
A man passes a row of illuminated advertising posters for the upcoming Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin.
Palestinian protesters and international activists run away from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah.
Cao Wenxia, 75, the owner of a nail house, walks out of his house in Hefei, Anhui, China.
Rescue workers look for survivors in the debris after a five-storey residential building collapsed in Hong Kong.
Workers at GM's Opel Antwerp chant slogans during a march in central Brussels.
Workers from GM's Opel Antwerp carry a coffin during a march in central Brussels. Some 27,000 workers and unions representatives protested against job cuts after companies such as AB Inbev and GM's Opel Antwerp announced they would lay off hundreds of workers.
A martial arts performer wearing a tiger-like costume wrestles with a cow during a show called "oriental bullfighting" to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province.
A pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensi) opens its mouth as it waits to be fed inside its enclosure at the Singapore Zoo.
Customers buy food at a McDonald's restaurant in the southern city of Shenzhen, China. McDonald's Corp, the world's largest hamburger chain, said it expects to boost its capital investment in China by about a quarter this year to tap the growth of the world's third-largest economy. This McDonald's outlet in Shenzhen was the first to be opened in China.
Venus (left) and Serena Williams play in the women's doubles final against Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the U.S. at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.
