CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for January - 2018
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- 2018-01-31French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has designed the central temple for this year's Burning Man, a 10-day festival dedicated to community in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Galaxia represents a giant galaxy. Each spiral that stems from the center is
- 2018-01-31The organizers of Burning Man, an annual event celebrating the end of the summer in the United States, have chosen French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani's design for the 2018 central temple. The Galaxia structure uses the same swirling style of geometry
- 2018-01-31A "super blue blood moon" is seen on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, over Los Angeles. The rare phenomenon occurs when a supermoon, a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse all occur at the same time.
- 2018-01-26People react in the courtroom as Rachael Denhollander, not pictured, speaks during the sentencing hearing of Larry Nassar -- the former osteopathic sports physician with USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University -- in Lansing, Michigan, on Wednesday, J
- 2018-01-19A giant "fatberg" was removed from these London sewers in late 2017. Most of it was converted to biofuel, but a few fragments will soon be exhibited at the Museum of London.
- 2018-01-19A woman joins in an anti-racism rally in New York on Monday, January 15, in response to President Donald Trump's reported comments disparaging Haiti and African nations. The remarks at a closed-door White House meeting on immigration set off a storm
- 2018-01-19A team of Peruvian archaeologists recently unearthed ruins belonging to the Moche civilization. The team discovered two rooms that would have been used by the Moche elite. The walls of the rooms were brightly painted with marine scenes.
- 2018-01-15Disposable plastic straws are not recyclable, therefore they often end up in landfills, oceans, or the environment. Americans throw away half a billion of them every day, according to the National Park Service.
- 2018-01-12North Korea's chief negotiator, Ri Son Gwon, speaks to South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, as they meet in the border town of Panmunjom on Tuesday, January 9. It was the first time the two nations have met face to face in more t
- 2018-01-08Some researchers estimate there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by the year 2050.
- 2018-01-05A team of geologists have discovered 280 million-year-old tree fossils from what is believed to be the oldest polar forest found in Antarctica -- dating back to before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth.
Pictured: Paleoecologist Erik Gulbranson from
- 2018-01-05The hat of firefighter Bobby Lehman is caked in ice after he battled a blaze in Nahant, Massachusetts, on Monday, January 1. Blasts of Arctic air have brought record-low temperatures to much of the United States this past week, and Mother Nature is only t
- 2018-01-04First lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump make phone calls to children around the United States on Christmas Eve from their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
- 2018-01-02Japanese Emperor Akihito turned 84 on December 23, 2017. Akihito is the 125th Emperor of Japan, a direct descendant of Japan's first emperor Jimmu, circa 660 B.C. Here, we take a look at the life of the world's only monarch with the title of emp
- 2018-01-01Fireworks illuminate the sky during New Year's celebrations in San Francisco on January 1.
- 2018-01-01The United States detonates the world's first atomic bomb at a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Less than a month later, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation led to Japan's uncondit