• Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is made to face the press as he is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced that Guzman had been recaptured six months after escaping from a maximum-security prison. Eduardo Verdugo / AP Photo
    Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is made to face the press as he is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced that Guzman had been recaptured six months after escaping from a maximum-security prison. Eduardo Verdugo / AP Photo
  • A man fishes on the bank of the Yenisei river, with the air temperature at about minus 29 degrees Celsius, in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk near Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
    A man fishes on the bank of the Yenisei river, with the air temperature at about minus 29 degrees Celsius, in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk near Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
  • San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker scores against the New York Knicks during the second half of an NBA basketball game in San Antonio. San Antonio won 100-99. Eric Gay / AP Photo
    San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker scores against the New York Knicks during the second half of an NBA basketball game in San Antonio. San Antonio won 100-99. Eric Gay / AP Photo
  • A surfer enters the water at El Porto Beach as big waves from El Nino storms continue to affect Los Angeles, California. Drought affected California is bracing for more El Nino storm weather over the next three months. Mark Ralston / AFP Photo
    A surfer enters the water at El Porto Beach as big waves from El Nino storms continue to affect Los Angeles, California. Drought affected California is bracing for more El Nino storm weather over the next three months. Mark Ralston / AFP Photo
  • Devotees climbs at the carriage to touch the image of the Black Nazarene during the annual procession in Manila. Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
    Devotees climbs at the carriage to touch the image of the Black Nazarene during the annual procession in Manila. Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
  • British pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor flying her restored 1942 Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis over Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in Australia, flying three months over 23 countries from Great Britain. Bird in a Biplane / EPA
    British pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor flying her restored 1942 Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis over Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in Australia, flying three months over 23 countries from Great Britain. Bird in a Biplane / EPA
  • Movie goers pose with a life size Stormtrooper figure as they arrive for the first screening of the latest Star Wars movie ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at a cinema in Beijing, China. The seventh instalment in the Star Wars movie franchise opened throughout China. How Hwee Young / EPA
    Movie goers pose with a life size Stormtrooper figure as they arrive for the first screening of the latest Star Wars movie ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at a cinema in Beijing, China. The seventh instalment in the Star Wars movie franchise opened throughout China. How Hwee Young / EPA
  • Iraqi SWAT policemen take part in a ceremony marking the 94th anniversary of the creation of the Iraqi police, in the central Iraqi Shiite shrine city of Najaf. Haidar Hamdani / AFP Photo
    Iraqi SWAT policemen take part in a ceremony marking the 94th anniversary of the creation of the Iraqi police, in the central Iraqi Shiite shrine city of Najaf. Haidar Hamdani / AFP Photo

World in focus — best photos for January 9, 2016


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A look at the best photos from around the world.