Boiling milk, waving hands, seeing Pope Francis

Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman pauses while delivering a statement to the press in which he called Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman a liar and ineffective, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 15. Nisman, who is investigating the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association community center, accused President Cristina Fernandez of reaching a deal with Iran to avoid punishing those responsible. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A reflection shows a member of La Fura dels Baus performing during a general rehearsal for Carl Orff’s opera “Carmina Burana” at the Canal theatre in Madrid on January 15.

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An Afghan shopkeeper boils milk as he waits for customers at dawn in Jalalabad in Nangarhar province on January 16. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance. Despite significant improvement in the last decade the country is still extremely poor and remains highly dependent on foreign aid.

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A television employee films a mascot during the 24th Men’s Handball World Championships preliminary round Group B match between Macedonia and Tunisia at the Lusail Sports Arena in Doha on January 16. CREDIT: KARIM JAAFAR – AFP/Getty Images

Protesters block the morning commute Thursday, Jan. 15, in Milton, Mass. Activists protesting what they call “police and state violence against black people” chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels and blocked a busy Boston area highway in two places at the height of the morning commute. The protest reflected others around the nation, including demonstrations in Annapolis and Baltimore. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel)

French Research and Intervention Brigades (BRI) policemen officers prepare near the post office where an armed man is holed up with two hostages, on January 16, in Colombes, outside Paris, though there is no known link with last week’s jihadist attacks. Police cordoned off the area in Colombes, a city northwest of Paris, and a helicopter was flying overhead.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, greets members of education tech company EdClub, including Cassandra Collins, front left, and Tommy Luginbill, as he tours 1776, a hub for tech startups in Washington, Friday, Jan. 16. Standing at back are Evan Burfield, standing at left, and Donna Harris, the founders of 1776. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In this Monday, Jan. 12 photo, an Iraqi girl from the Yazidi minority carries firewood on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Thousands of Yazidis fled up the rocky slopes of Mount Sinjar to escape the Islamic State group during its rampage across northern Iraq last summer. Many still remain on the mountain despite gains by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces against the militant group. (AP Photo/Seivan Selim)

Assistant starter Cash Vaughan, front, and jockey Alex Birzer take a premature ride out of the gate as Ecleto Red bursts from the gate before the start of the third race on the opening day of horse racing for the season at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., Thursday, Jan. 15. No one was injured and the horse reset and ran the race. (AP Photo/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)

Kuwaiti Air Force pilots show their skills during the launching of the Hala shopping festival on January 16, in Kuwait city. Some 80,000 tourists are expected to enjoy the cultural activities and shopping carnivals offering discounted articles during the festival that runs until February 1.

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A pedicab (“bicitaxi” in Cuba) with a US flag drives along a street of Havana, on January 16. The United States will ease travel and trade restrictions with Cuba on Friday, marking the first concrete steps towards restoring normal ties with the Cold War-era foe since announcing a historic rapprochement.

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Lebanese billionaire businesswoman Mouna Ayoub stands among luxury fashion pieces displayed during the presentation of objects to be auctioned at the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house on January 16 in Paris. Some 3000 pieces acquired since 1985 belonging to the personal collection of Lebanese billionaire businesswoman Ayoub, will be auctioned at the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house in Paris from January 30 to February 2.

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Pope Francis is greeted by a pack of the faithful with mobile cameras upon his arrival for a meeting with families at the Mall of Asia arena, in Manila, Philippines, Friday, Jan. 16. Pope Francis arrived Thursday for a five-day apostolic visit in this predominantly Catholic nation in Asia. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

A man stands on a breakwater facing to the Mediterranean sea in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Jan. 16. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Maria Veloz, 36, a Mexican citizen living in the U.S., checks her face in a mirror before taking a photograph to obtain her Mexican passport at the Mexican consulate in Santa Ana, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15. On Thursday, the Mexican government began issuing birth certificates to its citizens at its consulates in the United States. That will make it a little easier for Mexicans hoping to obtain U.S. work permits, driver’s licenses and protection from deportation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Malian Soccer supporters cheers Malian National Soccer team upon arrival at the Malabo International Airport in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Friday Jan, 16. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Spectators watch a buffalo fight in Ahatguri, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Friday, Jan. 16. Despite a Supreme Court ban on animal fights in India, villagers organized the buffalo fight as part of festivities to celebrate the Annual Magh Bihu, a harvest festival. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A house photographed at the Buchenwald concentration camp’s satellite camp near Schwerte, Germany Friday Jan. 16 . The town in western Germany is being criticized for a plan to house asylum-seekers on a site where slave-laborers from a Nazi concentration camp were once held. The town of Schwerte intends to house 21 refugees in a building built after the war, in the 1950s, on the site where slave laborers from the Buchenwald concentration camp were held as they were forced to repair trains during the war. Germany currently has a relatively low incarceration rate, jailing a lower percentage of its citizens than many other large western countries, accoding to the International Centre for Prison Studies.(AP Photo/dpa, Bernd Thissen)

Carlo Janka speeds down the course on his way to win an alpine ski, men’s World Cup Super Combined, in Wengen, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 16. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

This August 21, 2013 file photo shows an oil well near Tioga, North Dakota. Falling oil prices pushed US consumer prices into their sharpest monthly drop in six years in December, according to government data released on January 16.The Labor Department said its consumer price index fell 0.4 percent last month, in line with analyst expectations. The CPI declined 0.3 percent in November. Energy accounted for all of the decline, the steepest monthly fall since December 2008 amid the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession.

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