CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for January - 2016
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- 2016-01-31Amie Sultan is Egypt's rising belly dance star. The former professional ballerina wants to revive the golden age of the dance. But she struggles with Egyptian society's perception of her newfound profession.
- 2016-01-31The remains of a boat that was carrying migrants are seen on the shoreline near the Aegean town of Ayvacik, Canakkale, Turkey, Saturday, January 30. At least 33 migrants died after the boat capsized in the Aegean Sea.
- 2016-01-30David Henrique Ferreira, a 5-month-old who has microcephaly, is watched by his older brother in Recife, Brazil, on Monday, January 25. The neurological disorder has been linked to the Zika virus and results in newborns with small heads and abnormal brain
- 2016-01-29An Israeli Hermes 500 UAV flies over the Hatzerim air force base near Beersheva, Israel, during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots on June 30, 2011.
- 2016-01-29On a freezing cold morning, with temperatures below zero Celsius, large groups of refugees were coming to Serbia from the direction of Macedonia and Greece. A train leaving from Gevgelija, Macedonia, brought them close to the border crossing, from where t
- 2016-01-29Refugees and migrants onboard a dinghy approach the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on Sunday, January 3.
- 2016-01-28Jennifer Teege was 38 when by chance she discovered she was the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, the sadistic Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland.
- 2016-01-28This restored World War II-era Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane performed a rare feat over the island of Kanoya, Japan, on Wednesday, January 27. It became one of the first of its kind to fly since Japan surrendered more than 70 years ago. During the war
- 2016-01-25A sparkler is held during a birthday party in Cairo in 2011. Photographer Emine Gozde Sevim visited Egypt after the fall of longtime President Hosni Mubarak. The photos in her book "Embed in Egypt" show what life was like during that time of tra
- 2016-01-25Taeyang is a proud descendent of the Kanolu and Wakka Wakka people of Central Queensland, who is also proud of his Italian and Welsh heritage. Daniel and Josiah are Djabugay, Wakka Wakka and Torres Strait Islander. They are all cousins.
- 2016-01-22Detroit resident Jaiden Ellis, 8, looks at stacks of free bottled water while the Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday, January 17. High levels of lead have plagued Flint's municipal water supply for more than a
- 2016-01-21Former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium, his tea spiked during a meeting with two former Russian security servicemen. He had said the Russian Federal Security Service orchestrated a series of bombing
- 2016-01-20Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman stands in his cell at the Altiplano Federal Prison in Mexico. Increased security measures are being used by authorities to make sure the cartel kingpin doesn't break out of prison for a third time. His most recent
- 2016-01-20Amal, 14, left Syria with her family three years ago. Her future husband is 28-year-old Ahmad, right. The family wants to marry her off, and she agrees with this decision, said photographer Laura Aggio Caldon. Many Syrian refugees are marrying off their c
- 2016-01-15Drug 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
- 2016-01-15Beijing resident Xu Jin poses with a sign saying "#DStrong" on the Great Wall, on the city's outskirts.
- 2016-01-13Police investigate the scene of an explosion in central Istanbul on Tuesday, January 12. A suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others in a popular tourist area.
- 2016-01-13Who were the Amazons, these legendary horsewomen-archers depicted across ancient Greece, Egypt, and China?
Stanford University historian Adrienne Mayor looks at the truth behind the myth, in her book: "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women
- 2016-01-12Painters in Mexico have taken up their brushes to raise awareness of 43 missing students from Iguala.
- 2016-01-12Kate del Castillo arrives at Guadalajara International Airport on September 25, 2015, from Los Angeles. (El Universal)
- 2016-01-11People in New York City participate in the "No Pants Subway Ride" on Sunday, January 10. The annual event, started in 2002 by Improv Everywhere in New York, has spread to other cities across the globe. People ride the subway dressed in normal wi
- 2016-01-09With 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 sa
- 2016-01-08Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was considered the world's most powerful drug lord until his arrest in Mexico in February 2014. He escaped from a maximum-security prison on July 11, 2015.
- 2016-01-06U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on February 23, 1945. Only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most infamous battles of World War II. Th
- 2016-01-051960s photojournalists showed the world some of the most dramatic moments of the Vietnam War through their camera lenses. LIFE magazine's Larry Burrows photographed wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie, center, reaching toward a stricken soldi
- 2016-01-05Charlie Hebdo editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, was among the 12 people killed in a terror attack Wednesday, January 7, at the magazine's offices in Paris. On January 9, four hostages were killed when a gunman seized a Jewi
- 2016-01-04A young man named Alejandro is photographed at his home north of Monterrey, Mexico, in June 2014. He is not affiliated with any gangs, photographer Tom King said, but he has lost a number of friends to violence. King spent two and a half years in the Mont
- 2016-01-03Iranian protesters hold portraits of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr as they confront riot police during a demonstration against his execution by Saudi authorities on Sunday, January 3, outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Iran. Saudi Foreign
- 2016-01-01Look back at people who died in 2015.
- 2016-01-01Firefighters continue to work at the Address hotel in downtown Dubai on Friday, January 1. A massive fire broke out Thursday night at the high-end hotel in the United Arab Emirates' most populous city.
- 2016-01-01Comedian Bill Cosby leaves a courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, after he was arraigned on charges of sexual assault on Wednesday, December 30. Cosby, whose legacy has been tarnished by multiple accusations of sexual assault, faces three felony charg
- 2016-01-01A reveler tosses rice in the air on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.