The National View blog looks at some of the best images from around the world over the past 24 hours.
Updated: January 22, 2014, 12:00 AM
Rehabilitation began this week on the sculpture Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The monument was damaged by lightning strikes the week before. Antonio Lacerda / EPA
Rafael Nadal of Spain relishes a point against Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria during a men’s singles match on Day 10 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2014. Saeed Khan /AFP photo
A Palestinian looks out a window framed in bloods tains after an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip on January 22, 2014. The strike killed two Gaza gunmen, one of whom Israel blamed for firing rockets across the border during former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral last week. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
Protesters clash with the Ukrainian police in the centre of Kiev on January 22, 2014. The heightened tensions come after two months of protests over President Viktor Yanukovych’s failure to sign a deal for closer ties with the European Union. Sergei Supinsky / AFP photo
Palestinian relatives of gunman Ahmed Al-Za’anin mourn during his funeral in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip on January 22, 2014. Al-Za’anin and another man were killed Wednesday in an air strike by Israel, which claims one of them fired rockets across the border during former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral last week. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
A woman walks outside of an office building on January 21, 2104, as snow falls in Baltimore., Md. Thousands of flights were cancelled, students got an extra day off from school or were sent home early, and the federal government closed its offices Tuesday in the Washington, DC area as another winter storm bore down on the mid-atlantic and northeastern United States. Patrick Semansky / AP photo