2012-01-09 Photo gallery

Photo by PP YOONUS

Photo by PP YOONUS

In this zoom effect photo taken with a slow shutter speed, barefoot Catholic devotees jostle to kiss the cross being borne by the wooden statue of the Black Nazarene as they gather at the Rizal Park Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 during it's annual festival...

Fireworks light up the sky during a dawn mass at the Rizal Park Monday Jan. 9, 2012 to celebrate the feast of the Black Nazarene in Manila, Philippines. More than 3 million devotees paraded the charred Christ statue, believed to have healing power...

Young Japanese women, who'll be 20 years old this year, have a light moment with Disney characters Goofy, left, and Donald Duck, second right, during a coming-of-age ceremony at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, near Tokyo, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. M...

Young Japanese women, who'll be 20 years old this year, are all dressed in Japanese kimono and flash V-signs during a coming-of-age ceremony at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, near Tokyo, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. More than 1,200 new adults came to t...

A woman touches a frozen fountain in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. AP Photo

India's Leander Paes, left, lifts his partner Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic to celebrate their win in the doubles final match against Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram at the ATP Chennai Open 2012 tennis tournament in Chennai, India, Sunday, Jan. 8, ...

Israel's Jonathan Erlich, right, and Andy Ram react as they hold the runners-up trophies after their loss in the doubles final match against India's Leander Paes and Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic at the ATP Chennai Open 2012 tennis tournament in Chennai,...

India's Leander Paes, left, and his partner Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic laugh during presentation ceremony after their win in the doubles final match against Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram at the ATP Chennai Open 2012 tennis tournament in Chenna...

Canadian tennis player Milos Raonic celebrates after winning the final against his Serbian opponent Janko Tipsarevic at the ATP Chennai Open 2012, in Chennai on Sunday. Milos Raonic won the match by 7-6, 6-7, 6-7. PTI

India's Leander Paes, left, and his partner Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic pose with the trophies after their win in the doubles final match against Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram at the ATP Chennai Open 2012 tennis tournament in Chennai, India,...

Serbian tennis player Janko Tipsarevic (L) kisses his wife Biljana Tipsarevic after winning the doubles final match pairing with Indian Leander Paes against the Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram at the ATP Chennai Open 2012, in Chennai on ...

Protestors march on January 9, 2012 in Lagos during a demonstration against the more than doubling of petrol prices after government abolished fuel subsidies. Thousands of people heeded the unions' call to stage protest rallies across Africa's most p...

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, center, escorted by his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, inspects an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.

An Egyptian anti- Mubarak protester demonstrates outside a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. A lawyer for the victims in the trial of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has accused the head of Egypt's ruling military council and the ex-vice p...

In this Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011 image made from video by Australia's Channel 9, Erin Langworthy, 22, of Perth, Australia, does bungee jumping to the Zambezi River in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on the border with Zambia. The Australian tourist bungee j...

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar (L) touches the feet of Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil after being awarded with the Pravasi Bharatiya award during the closing ceremony of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2012 (...

3D mapping projections display the Indian tricolor national flag on the India Gate as part of the Clean India campaign in New Delhi on January 9, 2012. The Ministry of Tourism organzised a 3-D Projection Animation show to promote the message of Clean...

Elderly devotees pray while taking holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, on the occasion of Purnima, the first auspicious bathing day of Magh Mela, in Allahabad on Monday.