Today’s top pics: Australia Wildfires and more
APTOPIX Malawi Malaria Vaccine
In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, residents of the Malawi village of Tomali wait to have their young children become test subjects for the world's first vaccine against malaria. Babies in three African nations are getting the first and only vaccine for malaria in a pilot program. World health officials want to see how well the vaccine works in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya before recommending its wider use.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
APTOPIX Argentina Elephant
In this Monday Jan. 13, 2020 photo, Asian elephant Mara dusts herself inside the former city zoo now known as Ecopark in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mara will leave her enclosure and be moved to a special sanctuary in Brazil, but before her trip to the neighboring country expected to take place in March, the 55-year-old is undergoing a training process to prepare her for confinement during the 2,500 kilometers road trip, that will last two or three days. (AP Photo/Daniel Jayo)
APTOPIX Immigration Courts Remote Location
Maria Campos, 52, fights back tears while approaching the Stewart Detention Center with her grandkids to visit her son, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. Campos' son was deported a year ago from the same ICE facility where another son is now detained. "My first son, my heart is broken because he's not here. I don't want the same for the second one," said Campos. "This place is a horrible place because not all the lawyers want to go there and fight for our family members." Immigrants being held in the rural detention center face a host of challenges in fighting their cases. The town has few available resources, only three immigration lawyers work there full time. In the vacuum, a small network has sprung up to help the immigrants. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
APTOPIX Russia Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Tax Service chief Mikhail Mishustin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Putin has named Tax Service chief Mikhail Mishustin as Russia's new prime minister Wednesday Jan. 15. The 53-year-old Mishustin has worked in the government since 1998, keeping a low profile while serving as the head of the Federal Tax Service since 2010. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
APTOPIX Election 2020 Buttigieg
Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks with members of the audience at a campaign stop at the North Iowa Events Center, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in Mason City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
APTOPIX Australia Wildfires
A plant sprouts from the blackened ground near Nattai, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. The fires have claimed dozens of lives since September, destroyed thousands of homes and razed more than 10.3 million hectares (25.5 million acres), but the fire danger has been diminished by rain this week in several areas. The first green buds of regrowth have already emerged in some blacked forests following the rain. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
APTOPIX Central America Guatemala Migrants
Migrants from Honduras shield themselves from the rain as they begin another day's journey in the hopes of reaching the distant United States, in Entre Rios, Guatemala, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Hundreds of migrants arrived at the Guatemala border after walking and hitching rides from San Pedro Sula, Honduras in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
APTOPIX Italy Violence Against Women
A woman walks past posters showing manipulated pictures of women political leaders with bruises and scars, during the street art campaign "Just Because I am a Woman" by Italian artist a aleXsandro Palombo, in downtown Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. The poster is part of a series of works depicting some of the women leading world politics as victims of gender violence. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
APTOPIX India Buffalo Fight
A pair of buffalos lock horns during a traditional buffalo fight held as part of Magh Bihu festivities at Boidyabori village, east of Gauhati, India, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Magh Bihu is the harvest festival of the northeastern Indian state of Assam and is observed in the Assamese month of Magh, that coincides with January. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
APTOPIX Russia Prime Minister Resigns
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands prior to a cabinet meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. The Tass news agency reports Wednesday that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin. Russian news agencies said Putin thanked Medvedev for his service but noted that the prime minister's Cabinet failed to fulfil all the objectives set for it. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)
APTOPIX Puerto Rico Earthquake Housing
In this Friday, Jan. 10 photo, children play on a hay farm where residents from the Indios neighborhood of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, have set up shelter after earthquakes and amid aftershocks in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. A 6.4 magnitude quake that toppled or damaged hundreds of homes in southwestern Puerto Rico is raising concerns about where displaced families will live, while the island still struggles to rebuild from Hurricane Maria two years ago. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
APTOPIX France Strikes
Protesters march during a demonstration in Lyon, central France, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Protesters denounced French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to overhaul the pension system. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
APTOPIX Germany Fashion
A model shows fashion of the label "Hoermanseder" at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in the Berlin power plant in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Jan. 16, 2020. (Jordan Raza/dpa via AP)
APTOPIX France Macron Military
French President Emmanuel Macron reviews the troops at an army base in Orleans, central France, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver the new year's speech to military, amid new tensions in the Mideast and Africa. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
APTOPIX Netherlands Holocaust Memorial
The monument Levenslicht, or Light of Life, by artist Daan Roosegaarde, consisting of 104,000 light-emitting stones for the number of Dutch Holocaust victims is unveiled in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, to mark the 75th anniversary, later this month, of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
APTOPIX Trump Impeachment
In this image from video, presiding officer Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swears in members of the Senate for the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
APTOPIX Guatemala Migrant Caravan
Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Less-organized migrants, tighter immigration control by Guatemalan authorities and the presence of U.S. advisers have reduced the likelihood that the hundreds of migrants who departed Honduras will form anything like the cohesive procession the term “caravan” now conjures. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)
APTOPIX Canada Winter Weather Skiing
A mogul skier practices at Calabogie Peaks in Calabogie, Ontario, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, prior to this weekends Canada Cup Moguls event. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
APTOPIX Australian Open Tennis
United States' Serena Williams prepares to serve during a practice session ahead of the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
APTOPIX Japan Earthquake Anniversary
Candles are lit to form the date when a powerful earthquake that struck this western port city of Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, at a park in Kobe, Japan, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 as people pray for the victims of the quake. Japan marks the 25th anniversary of Kobe earthquake which killed more than six thousand people and destroyed much of their city.(Nobuki Ito/Kyodo News via AP)
APTOPIX Spain Saint Anthony Bonfire Festival
A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, dozens ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the "Luminarias," a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
APTOPIX Olympics Tokyo 2020 Olympic Rings
A worker installs scaffolding on the Statue of Liberty replica as a barge carrying the Olympic Rings floats in the water Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, in the Odaiba district of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
APTOPIX Flames Maple Leafs Hockey
Toronto Maple Leafs center John Tavares (91) looks to wrap the puck around the net as Calgary Flames defenseman Oliver Kylington (58) and goaltender David Rittich (33) defend during the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
APTOPIX Celtics Bucks Basketball
Boston Celtics' Enes Kanter fouls Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
APTOPIX Stanford Oregon Basketball
Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu celebrates a 3-point shot against Stanford during the third quarter of an NCAA college basketball game in Eugene, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Chris Pietsch)
APTOPIX Philippines Volcano
A horse eats portions of the grass that was not covered in volcanic ash at a village near the Taal volcano at Talisay, Batangas province, southern Philippines on Friday Jan. 17, 2020. Taal volcano remains life-threatening despite weaker emissions and fewer tremors, an official said Friday and advised thousands of displaced villagers not to return to the danger zone. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
APTOPIX Pakistan Weather
People walk during a foggy morning in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. People of Lahore and adjacent area are suffering from respiratory problems because of poor air quality related to thick smog hanging over the region. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
APTOPIX Germany Daily Life
The sun rises over the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
APTOPIX Saudi Dakar Rally
Driver Carlos Sainz, of Spain, celebrates at the end of stage twelve of the Dakar Rally between Haradth and Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Sainz, 57, won a third Dakar Rally (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
APTOPIX China Travel Rush
Passengers wait for their trains at the Hangzhou East Railway Station in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. As the Lunar New Year approached, Chinese travelers flocked to train stations and airports Friday to take part in a nationwide ritual: the world's biggest annual human migration. (Chinatopix via AP)
APTOPIX Myanmar China
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
APTOPIX Iran
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Iran's supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will "push a poisonous dagger" into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
APTOPIX Germany Climate
A Uniper coal-fired power plant and a BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. The German government says officials have agreed on a plan to shut down the nation's coal-fired power plants by the mid to late 2030s. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
APTOPIX India Jonbeel Festival
Men run with their traditional fishing tools to participate in a community fishing event during Jonbeel festival near Jagiroad, about 75 kilometers (47 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Tribal communities like Tiwa, Karbi, Khasi, and Jaintia participate in large numbers in this Jonbeel, a festival that signifies harmony and brotherhood among the tribes, and exchange goods through an established barter system. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
APTOPIX Africa Locust Outbreak
In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, a Samburu boy uses a wooden stick to try to swat a swarm of desert locusts filling the air, as he herds his camel near the village of Sissia, in Samburu county, Kenya. The most serious outbreak of desert locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world's most vulnerable countries, authorities say, with unusual climate conditions partly to blame. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi)
APTOPIX 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games
Lukas Frischhut, of Austria, takes part in practice for the Snowboarding Slopestyle competition of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games at Leysin Park in Leysin, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (Joel Marklund for OIS via AP).