Jan. 23 Photo Brief: Paris fashion, Chicago fire and ice, Blessing of the guns, Hillary Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill

Huskies pant during a training session at Feshiebridge, in Aviemore, Scotland. The Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain will hold its annual sled dog rally this weekend. (David Moir/Reuters)

Ella Sugars aged three years old from Kinloss, enjoys a ride on a sled pulled by a husky during practice for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally in Feshiebridge, Scotland. Huskies and sledders prepare ahead of the Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain 30th anniversary race taking place this weekend near Aviemore. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

A visitor looks at “Figure with Arms Crossed” (L) by Daniel Arsham of the U.S. next to “Inside Out sculpture #2” by French artist J.R. during media preview at Art Stage Singapore in Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition center in Singapore. (Edgar Su/Reuters)

Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Charley De Jesus walks around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night in Chicago. Fire department officials said it is the biggest fire the department has had to battle in years and one-third of all Chicago firefighters were on the scene at one point or another trying to put out the flames. An Arctic blast continues to gripped the U.S. Midwest and Northeast Wednesday, with at least three deaths linked to the frigid weather, and fierce winds made some locations feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. (minus 46 degrees Celsius) (John Gress/Reuters)

Firefighters work to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago, Illinois. More than 200 firefighters battled a five-alarm fire as temperatures were in the single digits. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Indian Hindu pilgrims travel on boats to take a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)

Indian soldiers march down Rajpath during the final full dress rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 23, 2013. India will celebrate the 64th Republic Day with a large military parade. (New Delhi/Getty Images)

Afghan laborers add coal to the fire and adjust smoke stacks in a traditional brick factory in Kholm, a district of Mazar-i Sharif. Afghanistan is having trouble keeping hard-earned development gains due to looming security challenges when NATO military forces withdraw in 2014, an internal World Bank audit reported. (Qais Usyan/Getty Images)

A thermal power plant discharging heavy smog into the air in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin province. China has cleaned up its air before but experts say that if it wants to avoid the kind of smog that choked the country this week, it must overhaul an economy fuelled by heavily polluting coal and car use. (Getty Images)

Models present creations by French designer Franck Sorbier during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection shows in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/Getty Images)

A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection shows in Paris. (Pierre Verdy/Getty Images)

A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of his Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 fashion show in Paris. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

A model presents a creation by Lebanese designer Elie Saab as part of his Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 fashion show in Paris. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)

French designer Zahia Dehar arrives on a horse cart at the end of her show on the sidelines of the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection presentations in Paris. (Pierre Verdy/Getty Images)

An Orthodox priest blesses rifles during a ceremony where new recruits receive their weapons at a military base of the Belarussian Interior Ministry in Minsk. The traditional ceremony was attended by 325 Belarussian recruits, and it is held a month after the recruits take their military oath. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

Rocket-propelled grenades believed to belong to Islamist rebels are stockpiled next to a donkey in a courtyard in Diabaly. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

A girl walks past buildings destroyed by Syrian air force air strikes in Duma neighborhood, Damascus. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

A workman moves a barrel in front of stow of casks at the Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie in Speyside, Scotland. The cooperage, operating since 1947, repairs and makes over 100,000 oak whisky casks and barrels per year. The Scotch whisky industry said it exported 40 bottles per second in 2011 and it is now Scotland’s largest international export ahead of refined petroleum (£3.0 billion) and business services (£2.5 billion). (David Moir/Reuters)

Cameras from news photographers surround a table before the arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify on the September attack on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds forcefully to intense questioniing on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pounds her fists as she responds to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the September 11, 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Clinton warned of the challenges posed by rising militancy after the Arab Spring as she appeared before US lawmakers Wednesday to be grilled about a deadly attack. “Benghazi didn’t happen in a vacuum,” Clinton said at the start of a Senate hearing into the September 11 assault on a US mission in eastern Libya. “The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region.” (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)