A passenger without pants waits for the subway train during "The No Pants Subway Ride" in Mexico City on January 11. The event, the fifth organized in Mexico, is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world, according to its organizers. #

Villagers with their fishing nets participate in a community fishing event at a lake on the eve of Bhogali Bihu festival at Sonapur area in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on January 14. The annual festival marks the end of the winter harvesting season. #

A woman takes pictures as she views an exhibition called "Oh! Future Sensation" as part of Saint-Gobain's 350th anniversary celebrations in Shanghai on January 13. #

A man controls a ball during his soccer practice in a public park on a foggy morning in Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, on January 12. #

A memorial for the victims of a former Nazi concentration sub-camp is pictured on January 13 in Schwerte, Germany. Asylum-seekers in Germany may be housed in the warden's barracks of the former Nazi concentration sub-camp under plans being mulled by the town of Schwerte that have sparked criticism. Town authorities in Schwerte are considering moving around 20 asylum-seekers into a former satellite camp of Buchenwald, according to several German media outlets. Faced with an influx of refugees fleeing war-torn places such as Syria, Germany is scrambling to accommodate new arrivals, resorting to converted schools and makeshift villages of freight containers. #

A man rides a horse with a child through the flames during the "Luminarias" annual religious celebration on the night before Saint Anthony's, patron of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares, about a hundred kilometers (62 miles) northwest of Madrid, on January 16. According to tradition that dates back 500 years, people ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of this small village to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires. #

A woman gestures as she walks past a traffic patrol vehicle set ablaze by angry demonstrators during a protest demanding justice and clarification for the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, in Chilpancingo, Guerrero State, Mexico, on January 15. Mexico's government Wednesday slammed as "baseless" military wrongdoing alleged by the parents of 43 college students missing and feared dead, rejecting the possibility of an investigation. Authorities say the young men who were studying at a teacher's college were abducted by Iguala police officers on September 26 and delivered to the Guerreros Unidos drug gang, whose henchmen confessed to killing them. #

French President Francois Hollande embraces German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as she arrives at the Elysee Palace, Paris, on January 11. A rally of defiance and sorrow, protected by an unparalleled level of security, honored the 17 victims of three days of bloodshed in Paris that left France on alert for more violence. #

People gather to see workers collecting fish inside an abandoned department store in Bangkok on January 13. Staff from Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) office were catching fish on Tuesday at the ground floor of the roofless New World department store that was closed down in 1997. Thousands of fish such as catfishes, fancy carps as well as black and red tilapias were released into the ground floor of the building, flooded with rainwater, as local vendors tried to control mosquitoes in the area, local media reported. BMA recently decided to remove the fish and release the water. #

A Harris Hawk lands on an airplane near Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport on January 15. Belgrade's airport maintenance services area decided to use falconers to scare away pigeons and other birds from aircraft hangar buildings, according to officials. #

Pope Francis waves to people waiting on the road after crossing a row of decorated elephants standing to welcome him in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on January 13. Pope Francis arrived in Sri Lanka Tuesday at the start of a week-long Asian tour saying the island nation can't fully heal from a quarter-century of ethnic civil war without pursuing truth for the injustices committed. #

Villagers wearing hay bale costumes celebrate the winter festival of Malanka on January 14 in Krasnoilsk, Ukraine. The holiday, which involves dressing in elaborate costumes and going from house to house as a group singing traditional songs, is celebrated on New Year's Day of the Orthodox calendar, a week after Orthodox Christmas. #

An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) commando runs from thick smoke during an exercise at the Kharkan Training Camp at Hoshiarpur, around 60 km from Jalandhar on January 13. #

Juri Mitomi, 20, holds a cigarette after a Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony at an amusement park in Tokyo on January 12. According to a government announcement, more than 1.2 million men and women who were born in 1994 marked the coming of age this year, an increase of approximately 50,000 from last year. The increase is also the first since 1995. #

A hairdresser uses a knife to carve a snow sculpture in front of his shop in Basour village, east of Beirut, on January 9. A storm buffeted the Middle East with blizzards, rain and strong winds on Wednesday, keeping people at home across the region and raising concerns for Syrian refugees facing freezing temperatures in flimsy shelters. #

Demonstrators flip a car to block off a street during a protest demanding the resignation of President Michel Martelly in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 11. At the same time, Martelly and opposition officials were locked again in negotiations at a hotel, trying to forge a last-minute deal to resolve a standoff that's stalling elections. #

Belgian police inspect the entrance of an apartment in central Verviers, a town between Liege and the German border, in the east of Belgium, on January 15. At least two people were killed when Belgian counter-terrorist police raided an apartment used by suspected Islamist radicals on Thursday, local media said, describing a coordinated, national operation related to last week's attacks in Paris. #

Pro surfer Alastair Mennie makes his way towards the beach at Portrush on January 14 in Antrim, Northern Ireland. The province experienced heavy snowfall as a cold weather front hit the northern part of the United Kingdom, causing major traffic disruption and school closures. #

Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia and Maria Sharapova of Russia pose for a photo with the ball kids of the Australian Open ahead of the 2015 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 13. #