January 2, 2015

A member of the Indonesia Red Cross prepares coffins for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 at the main hospital in Pangkalan Bun.  More ships arrived Friday with sensitive equipment to hunt for the fuselage of the flight and the more than 145 people still missing since it crashed into the sea five days ago.

A boy, who lost his home in a huge fire on New Year's day, carries a burnt bicycle at suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines. The fire, believed to have been ignited by firecrackers, razed hundreds of homes Thursday in one of more than a dozen fires reported across the country as Filipinos welcomed the New Year.

A man prays a day before Moulid, which commemorates the birth of Prophet Muhammad, the central figure of the Islamic religion, at a mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Every year, Egyptians celebrate Moulid by performing ritual dances and prayers and spending time with their families.

A security guard watches as mourners place flowers and burn incense at the site of a New Year's Eve stampede at the Bund in Shanghai, China. The New Year's Eve stampede shortly before midnight on the city's historic waterfront killed at least 36 revelers.

A Syrian man stands on top of rubble following an overnight rocket attack on the contested Bab al-Hadid neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo. Once Syria's economic hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by fighting that began there in mid-2012 and the city is now divided with government forces controlling the western part and rebels controlling the east.

Local residents dressed as Father Frost, an equivalent of Santa Claus, and his granddaughter Snegurochka (Snow-Maiden), walk with servicemen as they visit checkpoints of the Ukrainian army and self-defense units to congratulate the military with the coming of a New Year, near Lysychansk, Luhansk region.

A woman holds a placard showing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a soccer player during an anti-government protest called by civil groups in Budapest. The protest follows a number of other rallies against Orban's government, which has seen a plunge in popularity over the past months.

Firefighters stand on a ladder to inspect the Norman Atlantic multi-deck car-and-truck ferry docked at Brindisi harbor. Tugboats hauled the burnt-out hulk of the ferry that caught fire on Sunday off the coast of Greece into a southern Italian port on Friday, opening the way for an investigation into the cause of the blaze that killed at least 11 people.

A Pakistani Hindu bride gets final make-up applications from a relative at a mass-wedding ceremony in Karachi. Some 50 Hindu couples participated in the mass-marriage ceremony organized by the Pakistan Hindu Council.

A man takes a photo of his friends posing on a windswept pier in Malmo as a winter storm hit western and southern Sweden.

A girl plays badminton along the street outside the old houses of the ancient city of Bhaktapur, near Nepal's capital Kathmandu.

Amateur contestants (L-R) Phil Bailey, John Hindle and Eren Emir pose in telephone booths during the annual European Elvis Tribute Artist Contest and Convention in Birmingham, central England.