Pictures of January 24, 2011

1. A rescue worker (bottom R) reacts after throwing water on his face as search for bodies continue after a landslide in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, January 17, 2011.

2. Defendant Hisham Mohammed Assem reacts to a verdict sentencing him to death at a state security court in Sanaa January 17, 2011. A judge in Yemen sentenced to death a man convicted of shooting and killing a French engineer, and also sentenced in absentia the radical U.S.-born preacher Anwar al-Awlaki to 10 years in prison for aiding the gunman. Assem, a 22 year-old Yemeni, opened fire in October at a compound of the Austrian-owned oil and gas firm OMV, killing the Frenchman.

3. Cambodian women react during a protest near the Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh January 17, 2011. About 60 residents of Boeung Kak Lake appealed to the Chinese embassy for help in getting fair compensation from a Chinese firm involved in a real estate development at the lake. The protesters were representatives of at least 2,000 remaining families, who are facing eviction from the lake, a local rights group said.

4. Poetess Armine Arjona stands near the site where human rights activist and poetess Susana Chavez was found murdered two weeks ago in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, January 16, 2011. Chavez was the creator of the phrase "Not one more," used widely in a campaign to end a wave of killings aimed specifically at women since 1993.

5. A woman uses a stick to rinse her laundry in an ice hole at Siverskoye lake in the town of Kirillov, some 500 km (311 miles) north of Moscow, January 17, 2011.

6. William Chavarriaga, 49-year-old cleaner at the Olaya Herrera Airport, poses as a cartoon character "Popeye the Sailor" during an interview with local media in Medellin, Colombia, January 17, 2011. Chavarriaga, who looks like the character Popeye, said he has been entertaining his friends and colleagues from the past 30 years. He said he continues playing Popeye because he likes the attention.

7. Boston Celtics center Shaquille O'Neal looks on before the tip-off against the Orlando Magic in their NBA game in Boston, Massachusetts January 17, 2011.

8. Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco poses beside 'La DS' at the Tate Modern gallery in central London January 17, 2011.

9. A soldier stands on top of a tank while watching a demonstration in downtown Tunis, Tunisia, January 17, 2011.

10. Postman Gerhard Beck wades through the flooded streets as he delivers letters and postcards in the old part of Wertheim, 100km south of Frankfurt, January 17, 2011. The old part of Wertheim is completely flooded by rivers Tauber and Main.

11. The shadow of a snowboarder is cast over a tree on the half pipe as he takes part in a half pipe practice session at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain, January 17, 2011.

12. (L-R) Family members Christine King Farris, Alveda King, Bernice King, Martin Luther King III, his wife Arndrea and daughter Yolanda King say a prayer at the crypt of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King on the 25th anniversary of the King Holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, January 17, 2011.

13. Jordan's Bashar Bani Yaseen (L) kicks Syria's Sanharib Malki in the face whilst attempting a scissor kick during their 2011 Asian Cup Group B match at Qatar Sports Club stadium in Doha January 17, 2011.

14. New Zealand's Kendall Brown goes airborne as she takes part in a half pipe practice session at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in La Molina January 17, 2011.

15. Casualties

The victims of landslides in Brazil are buried at a cemetery in Nova Friburgo.

16. Rest In Peace

Two Frenchmen, Antoine de Leocour and Vincent Delory, who were apparently executed by their kidnappers in Niger, are memorialized at a ceremony in a funeral parlor in Linselles.

17. Ousted

A poster of former Tunisian president Sine El Abidine Ben Ali is torn in the center of Tunis. The former president fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14 when his iron-fisted control of the government collapsed.

18. Bearing Arms

A man with his gun stands outside the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona.

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