Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers at a federal hangar in Mexico City on Friday, January 8. Members of Mexico's navy caught Guzman in an early morning raid in the coastal city of Los Mochis, a senior law enforcement official told CNN. Mexico plans to extradite Guzman to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges connected to his cartel, authorities said. He had been on the run since escaping from a Mexican prison in July.
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A woman with a David Bowie tattoo poses in front of a Bowie mural in London on Monday, January 11. The rock legend died a day earlier after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 69.
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People in their underwear ride the metro in Madrid as part of the "No Pants Subway Ride" on Sunday, January 10. The annual event was started in 2002 by Improv Everywhere in New York. It has spread to many cities across the globe.
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First lady Michelle Obama sits beside an empty chair as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 12. The White House said the chair was left empty to symbolize "the victims of gun violence who no longer have a voice."
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People flee the scene of an attack in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, January 14. The militant group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least two people and wounded 19 in a busy commercial hub.
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Actors Jonah Hill, left, and Channing Tatum present an award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 10. Hill said he was the bear from "The Revenant," which won best motion picture in the drama category. See all the winners
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People line up to buy Powerball tickets near Primm, Nevada, just inside the state of California, on Tuesday, January 12. The $1.5 billion jackpot was the largest lottery prize in history.
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Ten U.S. Navy sailors are detained by Iran in this photo released Wednesday, January 13, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Authorities let the sailors go free after determining that their vessels' entry into Iranian waters was unintentional.
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A satellite image from NASA shows Hurricane Alex in the North Atlantic on Thursday, January 14. It's the first January-born hurricane since 1938. Its strength is surprising because tropical storms thrive most over warm waters -- something that's unexpected in the North Atlantic in the middle of winter.
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Pope Francis embraces a sick child at the Vatican on Wednesday, January 13.
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A tomtit flies past a squirrel running on a fence after a snowfall in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, January 12.
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Police officers investigate the scene of a shooting Friday, January 8, in Philadelphia. Officer Jesse Hartnett was sitting in his police cruiser when he was shot multiple times by a man who ambushed him, authorities said. Hartnett survived despite being hit three times at close range. A suspect was taken into custody.
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A man looks out from the footplate of The Flying Scotsman steam engine as it leaves Bury, England, on Friday, January 8. The Scotsman was recently restored more than 80 years after becoming the first locomotive to reach 100 mph.
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A man carries the body of his 10-year-old daughter before her funeral in Deir al-Asafir, Syria, on Tuesday, January 12. She was reportedly killed in airstrikes that hit a kindergarten. Syria's civil war in pictures
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People fish for trout at a frozen river in Hwacheon, South Korea, on Saturday, January 9.
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Children play in a military vehicle during Children's Day celebrations in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday, January 9.
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Numerous vehicles rest in a ditch in Harborcreek Township, Pennsylvania, after they were involved in a weather-related crash that closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 on Wednesday, January 13.
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Tawfiq Okasha, a television anchorman who was elected to Egypt's Parliament, is reprimanded by a fellow legislator after taping his mouth shut in protest on Tuesday, January 12. Okasha was upset that he had not been given the floor during a parliamentary session.
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People in Amritsar, India, carry an oversized kite on a bicycle during the Lohri festival on Wednesday, January 13.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, top, trains with his country's judo team in Sochi, Russia, on Friday, January 8.
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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a suicide bombing in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square on Tuesday, January 12. Ten people were killed in the attack -- all of them Germans. Officials said the bomber belonged to the ISIS militant group.
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Relatives of Moussa Zuaiter, a 24-year-old Palestinian, weep during his funeral Wednesday, January 13, in a Gaza refugee camp. Zuaiter was killed by an airstrike that the Israeli military said it carried out against a group of Gaza militants placing explosives along the border.
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A child-sized boot lies in the mud of a makeshift migrant camp in Grande-Synthe, France, on Monday, January 11. The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders is building a new camp there for refugees, it said, as more than 2,500 people are sleeping "in the mud, wet and cold and in appalling, unsanitary conditions."
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Ciara sings the national anthem before the championship game of the College Football Playoff on Monday, January 11.
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An overcrowded train leaves Dhaka, Bangladesh, after the final prayer of Bishwa Ijtema on Sunday, January 10. Millions of Muslims attended the three-day religious event.
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A pro-Russian rebel carries a fox that was caught in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Tuesday, January 12.
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Police in Cologne, Germany, use pepper spray during clashes with right-wing protesters on Saturday, January 9. The protesters were angry about a spate of sexual assaults and robberies during New Year's Eve festivities. Thirty-one people, most of them from North African or Middle Eastern countries, have been charged in the attacks, and this has fueled a political firestorm over immigration in Germany. About 500 of the approximately 1,700 protesters supported Pegida, an organization that opposes immigration of Muslims from the Middle East, police said.
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People stand near beached sperm whales on the Dutch island of Texel on Wednesday, January 13. Five whales died, officials said. Experts said they were badly injured.
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Singer Stevie Wonder performs at a memorial service for Natalie Cole on Monday, January 11. Cole, a Grammy-winning singer, died December 31 at the age of 65.
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An ice-covered car is stranded on the Lake Erie waterfront Tuesday, January 12, in Hamburg, New York. The car's owner left it parked outside a restaurant overnight, and by the next day it had been encased in ice from Lake Erie spray.
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A dancer is cheered at the annual voodoo festival in Ouidah, Benin, on Sunday, January 10.
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Brayan Jimenez, the former president of Guatemala's soccer federation, is taken into custody in Guatemala City on Tuesday, January 12. Jimenez has been a fugitive for a month. He faces extradition to the United States, where he could face charges of money laundering and bribery.
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An aerial photograph shows what's left of a fireworks factory that exploded Thursday, January 14, in China's Tongxu County. Several people were killed.
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A passenger bus lies in a ravine after it fell off a road in Atoyac, Mexico, on Sunday, January 10. At least 20 people were killed and 25 were injured in the accident, according to authorities.
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Comedian Jon Stewart applauds Ray Pfeifer, a retired New York firefighter, after Pfeifer was given a key to the city Saturday, January 9. Stewart joined New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in honoring Pfeifer, a September 11 first responder who played a key role in the passing of the Zadroga Act. The Zadroga Act, signed by President Barack Obama in 2011, expanded health coverage and compensation to first responders and those individuals who developed 9/11-related health problems. Pfeifer himself was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer that was linked to his time spent at ground zero. See last week in 35 photos
