The week ahead for January 6-12: Figure skating, auditions for ‘The Voice,’ Wake Forest at UM
A look at what’s coming up on the East Coast and around the world. This week, that includes several sporting events, the Orthodox Christians’ celebration of Christmas, the possible start of a hunger strike in India and the release of international trade numbers.
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- Ice dancing: Meryl Davis and Charlie White of Team USA perform in Japan in December. The pair is scheduled to take part in the 2014 US Figure Skating Championship this week in Boston. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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- Orthodox Christmas: People celebrate the New Year in a house in the forest near the Sosnovo village, about 100 km of Saint-Petersburg on January 1, 2014. New Year is the biggest holiday of the year in Russia, and is followed by the Orthodox Christmas on January 7. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Auto debut: The president of Japanese auto maker Suzuki Motor, Osamu Suzuki, is surrounded by the media after introducing the company’s new mini sports utility vehicle, called “Hustler,” at a news conference in Tokyo on December 24, 2013. The Hustler, equipped with a 660cc engine, will go on sale from January 8. (SHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Sledding race: A file picture taken on January 18, 2013 shows a musher competing in Megeve, in the French Alps during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race. The world’s top 30 mushers and 400 dogs will compete over 1,000 km in the French Alps during the 10th anniversary of the Grande Odyssee sledding race, which is scheduled to begin on January 11. (JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Pier restoration starts: Project manager David Spooner surveys the tangled burnt-out remains of the ballroom on Hastings Pier in Hastings, southern England, on December 13, 2013 ahead of the start of a multi-million pound regeneration project. Hastings Pier was originally constructed in opulent style in the late 19th century, seeing its heyday in the 1930s and hosting music concerts by major artists including The Rolling Stones in the 1960s and 70s. After undergoing various additions and re-construction to repair storm and fire damage throughout the 20th century, the Victorian pier finally suffered a devastating fire in 2010 that destroyed much of the superstructure and leaving just a burnt out shell. Following a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant and money from other funds, a 14 million GBP regeneration project is set to begin work on January 6. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Army set to pull out: Bangladesh army personnel prepare their camp in Dhaka on December 26, 2013. The armed forces have commenced their deployment on election duty until January 9, 2014, to assist the country’s law enforcement agencies to keep law and order for the 10th parliamentary polls scheduled for January 5. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Trade numbers: The federal government on Tuesday will release tallies of U.S. international trade in goods and services for November. (Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun)
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- The Voice: CeeLo Green helped make “The Voice” a hit. The show is doing an open round of auditions this weekend in Philadelphia. (Photo Credit: Matthias Clamer)
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- American Experience: Chief Toxicologist Alexander Gettler holds a test tube, while Dr. Charles Norris looks on. Their story is part of the “American Experience: The Poisoner’s Handbook” on PBS, January 7, 2014. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress/MCT)
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- Egyptian hearing planned: People gather around a damaged police vehicle on January 3, 2014 after it was torched by protesters using petrol bombs in the upscale Maadi neighborhood of Cairo, following clashes between supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, police and opponents. The protests came after an Islamist alliance backing Morsi called for demonstrations ahead of a new hearing in Morsi’s trial on January 8. (KHALED KAMEL/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Bridge illumnation ends: A scene from the first-ever lighting ceremony for the Bollman Truss Bridge, an antique iron truss bridge in Savage, on December 7. The bridge will remain lit through January 7. (Photo by Nicole Martyn)
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- Golden Globes: Actor Aziz Ansari speaks during the announcement of nominations for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on December 12, 2013. The awards will be presented on January 12, 2014. (REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn)
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- Hunger strike: People gather on top of a hill overlooking Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport as an Airbus A320 aircraft of Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines comes in to land in a 2012 file photo. Employees of the defaulting company made plans last week to start a hunger strike today after going unpaid for 17 months, according to Indian media site bhaskar.com. (REUTERS/Vivek Prakash)
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- Terps women at home: Brenda Frese and her University of Maryland team will host Wake Forest in a basketball game on Thursday. (Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports)
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- Ukrainian hearing planned: Serhiy Vlasenko, the lawyer of jailed opposition leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, attends a court hearing in Kharkiv December 6, 2013. Unidentified assailants poured green medication over Vlasenko prior to the hearing, the start of new proceedings against Tymoshenko. A new hearing has been postponed to January 10. According to The New York Times, a spokeswoman for Ms. Tymoshenko in November labeled the questioning of Vlasenko over the alleged incident “absurd” and just another example of the government abusing its power to prosecute dissenters. (REUTERS/Dmitry Neymyrok)
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- BJP meeting: Shivraj Singh Chouhan (second from right), chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, greets his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters during Chouhan’s swearing-in ceremony in the central Indian city of Bhopal December14, 2013. A month after the party’s return to power in multiple parts of government, the ruling BJP is set to hold its first state-executive meeting from Jan. 6 to Jan. 8 at its party headquarters, according to The Times of India. (REUTERS/Raj Patidar)
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- Alpine skiing wraps up: Norway’s Anders Bardal takes off from the ski jump during the first practice session of the third jumping of the four-hills tournament in Innsbruck, January 3, 2014. The prestigious four-hills tournament will end in Bischofshofen on January 6. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)
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