Today’s top pics: Texas church shooting and more
APTOPIX Church Shooting Texas
In this still frame from livestreamed video provided by law enforcement, churchgoers take cover while a congregant armed with a handgun, top left, engages a man who opened fire, near top center just right of windows, during a service at West Freeway Church of Christ, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in White Settlement, Texas. The footage was broadcast online by the church according to a law enforcement official, who provided the image to The Associated Press on condition on anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. (West Freeway Church of Christ/Courtesy of Law Enforcement via AP)
APTOPIX Ireland Daily Life
Horses are ridden along the beach in Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
APTOPIX Britain Carnaval del Pueblo
Members of Carnaval del Pueblo, a group of performers from Latin and South America, gesture during a preview of their London New Year's Day Parade show, at the Covent Garden Piazza in London, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
APTOPIX Nicaragua Prisoners Released
Ivania Alvarez holds up an open jug of water to celebrate with Neyma Hernandez after their release from prison, at her home in Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The two belonged to the "aguadores," a group of people who took water to protesters amid anti-government demonstrations starting in April 2018 over a social security overhaul which broadened to include demands for President Daniel Ortega's exit from office and early elections. (AP Photo/Oscar Navarrete)
APTOPIX Music City Bowl Football
Mississippi State quarterback Tommy Stevens (7) dives into the end zone past Louisville defensive back Khane Pass for a touchdown in the first half of the Music City Bowl NCAA college football game Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
APTOPIX California Storms
The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean as the most recent in a series of storms passes through Southern California, seen from Palisades Park in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
APTOPIX Mexico Baby Giraffe
A two-month-old giraffe sits in her enclosure at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. The city zoo is celebrating its second baby giraffe of the year. Giraffes are considered “vulnerable” because the species faces significant habitat loss in the 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where they reside. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
APTOPIX Russia New Year
Performers gesture, at Holiday's Market near Red Square, decorated for New Year and Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
APTOPIX Deputy Memorial
Pierce County Sheriff's deputies fold the U.S. flag that draped the casket of Pierce County Sheriff's Deputy Cooper Dyson, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, during a memorial service in Tacoma, Wash. Dyson died on Dec. 21 after his patrol car crashed into a building while he was on his way to back up two fellow officers who were responding to an urgent domestic violence call. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
APTOPIX Florida Daily Life
A young man enjoys the last minutes of light as he tosses a football during sunset in Key Largo, Fla., Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
APTOPIX Music City Bowl Football
Louisville head coach Scott Satterfield gets dunked with water by offensive lineman Tyler Haycraft (60) in the final moments of the fourth quarter of Louisville's win over Mississippi State in the Music City Bowl NCAA college football game Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Louisville won 38-28. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
APTOPIX Libya Migrant Business
In this Sept. 23, 2019 photo, Prudence Aimee, 30, from Cameroon poses for a photo with her children, from left Ange, Wifrid, 1, and William, 3, aboard the humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking in Italian waters off the Sicilian town of Messina, southern Italy, hours before disembarking. Aimee left Cameroon in 2015, and when her family heard nothing from her for two years, they thought she was dead. But she was in detention and incommunicado. In nine months at Libya's Abu Salim detention center, she saw “European Union milk” and diapers delivered by UN staff pilfered before they could reach migrant children, including her toddler son. Aimee herself would spend two days at a time without food or drink. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)
APTOPIX Mexico Zapatista Women
A female Zapatista member, masked to protect her identity, drives a Volkswagen with a Spanish decal "Rural Production Society," as she arrives to the Second International Meeting of Women Who Fight, organized by the women of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), in Caracol Morelia, Altamirano municipality, Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. Women who attended spoke before crowds of hundreds at a time about the violence they had faced in their communities, including childhood abuse and forced migration. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)
APTOPIX France Strikes
Railways are pictured outside the Saint Lazare train station, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019 in Paris. The strikes over the French government's plan to revamp the retirement system have disrupted transport across France and beyond, hobbling Paris Metros and trains across the country as well as businesses. The strikes have been especially felt over the holiday season. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
APTOPIX Britain Daily Life
Deer are seen grazing on a cold bright morning in Bradgate Park, Leicester, England, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. (Jacob King/PA via AP)
APTOPIX Church Shooting Texas
Church and community members, including Matt Pacholczyk, left, and his wife, Faith Pacholczyk, stand outside West Freeway Church of Christ for a candlelight vigil, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in White Settlement, Texas. A gunman shot and killed two people before an armed security officer returned fire, killing him during a service at the church on Sunday. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
APTOPIX Germany Weather
Only the television tower looks out of the thick fog over Frankfurt, Germany, early Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
APTOPIX Germany Ski Jumping Four Hills
Filip Sakala of the Czech Republik starts a jump during the official practice at the second stage of the 68th four hills ski jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
APTOPIX Japan Boxing Ioka Cintron
Japanese champion Kazuto Ioka, left, avoids a left from Puerto Rican challenger Jeyvier Cintron in the fifth round of their WBO super flyweight world boxing title match in Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. Ioka defended his title by a unanimous decision. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)
APTOPIX Iraq US Airstrikes
Protesters burn property in front of the U.S. embassy compound, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
