With tears running down his cheeks, U.S. President Barack Obama talks about the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting during a White House news conference on Tuesday, January 5. "Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad," Obama said, referring to the 2012 massacre that killed 26 people in Connecticut. Obama, calling for a national "sense of urgency," unveiled a series of executive actions on guns, including expanded background checks.
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Medics move a wounded person from the scene of a shooting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday, January 1. A gunman sprayed bullets near a pub, killing two people and injuring at least eight others before fleeing, police said.
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Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed group occupying a federal building in Oregon, carries a copy of the U.S. Constitution in his pocket on Tuesday, January 5. Bundy and other protesters have taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. The group is protesting what it calls government overreach in a recent land-dispute case.
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Smoke comes out of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, January 2. Molotov cocktails were thrown into the building as people protested Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Saudi Arabia and Iran have long been at odds, but al-Nimr's execution sparked a diplomatic rift that analysts say could mark a dangerous shift in an already volatile region.
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A man demonstrates the iDerma light-therapy device at CES Unveiled, a tech event in Las Vegas on Monday, January 4. The device uses low-level light to treat skin conditions.
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A person cools off in a water slide in Adelaide, Australia, on Thursday, January 7.
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A news program in Seoul, South Korea, shows North Korea's announcement of a hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday, January 6. North Korea bragged about the "spectacular success" of the test, which would be a first for the country, but its claims are being treated with skepticism by outside experts. Even if it wasn't an H-bomb, there's little doubt that North Korea did conduct a nuclear test despite persistent calls not to do so, and the U.N. Security Council plans to work on a new resolution with "significant" punitive measures, according to a statement.
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A boy looks through a frozen bus window in Minsk, Belarus, on Tuesday, January 5.
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The casket of Air Force Staff Sgt. Louis Bonacasa is carried past his wife, Deborah, and his 5-year-old daughter, Lilianna, during his funeral service in Coram, New York, on Saturday, January 2. Bonacasa was one of six Americans killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan.
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A local resident stands beside damaged buildings in Imphal, India, after a magnitude-6.7 earthquake on Monday, January 4. At least seven people died and at least 85 were injured as a result of the quake, a police spokeswoman said.
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A child in Thessaloniki, Greece, kisses a wooden cross during a ceremony marking the Epiphany holiday on Wednesday, January 6.
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Starlings fly near Rahat, Israel, on Monday, January 4.
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Soccer fans in Kabul, Afghanistan, cheer for their national team as they watch a broadcast of the team playing India on Sunday, January 3.
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Britain's Prince George attends his first day of nursery school in this photo taken by his mother Wednesday, January 6, in Norfolk, England.
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Residents pass water buckets to help extinguish a fire that razed a slum area in Manila, Philippines, on Friday, January 1. Nearly 300 homes were destroyed, according to local media reports.
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Madhu Radha, daughter of Indian soldier Fateh Singh, cries after seeing his body at his funeral Monday, January 4, in Jhanda Gujjran, India. Singh was killed when an air force base was attacked by suspected Islamic insurgents.
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People enter the Atlantic Ocean during the Coney Island Polar Bear Club's annual New Year's Day swim in New York City.
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A 4-day-old baby elephant is nursed by its mother at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on Monday, January 4.
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People hold sheets with kanji characters during a calligraphy contest in Tokyo on Tuesday, January 5. More than 3,000 wrote resolutions or wishes during the annual contest that marks the start of the new year.
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LaTonya Jones stands over her mother, Bettie, during her funeral in Chicago on Wednesday, January 6. Police said Bettie Jones, 55, was accidentally killed by an officer responding to a domestic dispute in late December.
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Tonya Couch, left, appears in a Los Angeles court for her extradition hearing on Tuesday, January 5. She is set to face a charge of hindering the apprehension of a felon: her 18-year-old son, Ethan. Authorities say Ethan and his mother fled to Mexico for an alleged probation violation in the United States. He was on probation for killing four people in a drunk-driving accident in 2013. At the time, many were outraged that a judge sentenced him to probation instead of jail time, slamming his now-notorious "affluenza" defense. During his trial, a psychologist testified that Couch suffered from "affluenza" -- he was the product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the boy.
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Television personality Sharon Osbourne kicks a stage-crasher while she and other hosts of "The Talk" accept a People's Choice Award on Wednesday, January 6.
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Kiyoshi Kimura, president of a company that runs a sushi restaurant chain, poses with a massive bluefin tuna at the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo on Tuesday, January 5. He bid the highest price -- 14 million yen, or nearly $120,000 -- for the tuna, which weighed nearly 200 kilograms (441 pounds).
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Derci, a Hungarian sheepdog, runs in Munich, Germany, on Monday, January 4.
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Employees of the Inland Regional Center hug before returning to work Monday, January 4, in San Bernardino, California. The building was the site of a mass shooting that killed 14 people and injured 21 in December.
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A migrant carries a child to shore after their dinghy reached the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday, January 3. The island has been overwhelmed by refugees and migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
Police officers stand over a knife-wielding man who was shot as he attempted to enter a police station in the northern Paris neighborhood of Barbes on Thursday, January 7. He was carrying a fake explosive device, and an image of the ISIS flag was found on his body, said a statement from the Paris prosecutor's office.
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Former police officer Michael Slager, who has been charged with murder in the shooting death of unarmed motorist Walter Scott, speaks at a hearing in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, January 4. He was released from jail after posting bail, which a judge set at $500,000. He will be held under house arrest until his trial.
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The Soputan volcano spews lava and ash during an eruption on Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Tuesday, January 5. See other recently active volcanoes
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Members of the Free Syrian Army launch a shell at the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during fighting near Daraa, Syria, on Saturday, January 2.
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Police officers carry a body from the London home of former actress Sian Blake on Tuesday, January 5. Blake's remains and the remains of her two young children were found buried on the property, police said. They had been missing for nearly a month, according to the BBC.
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A giant statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong is seen under construction near Kaifeng, China, on Monday, January 4. The gold-painted statue is 36.6 meters tall (120 feet). Days later, the statue was torn down because it lacked approval from authorities, according to state media.
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The door to Air Force One is opened Sunday, January 3, as President Obama and his family returned to the mainland following a vacation in Hawaii.
